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Ah I’m certain that is the case. They should probably tweak their layout some and use bold borders or clip art for the eye-catching part. Or perhaps certain words colored for emphasis to draw a reader in. The quick shift to black and white (ish) was more to make a point about legibility… They’d probably have less people reading it if it stayed as it was.

Took 5 seconds with basic filters. 100% more legible. Eyes need contrast to work. That color selection is effectively like whispering in a crowd.

Dispatched spiritually. Much faster and the angels don’t cost our government a dime! Check mate socialists!

Initially I did as well - but we are fast approaching a point where simply ignoring this further will be unacceptable.

I feel that sometime soon we may be called to do more than be a voice of reason. Americans are being tested right now. Will you quietly look away because you fear discomfort as your freedoms are stripped away? As your neighbors are assailed?

I’m not fond of the sting of teargas and pepper spray… but it’s probably about time to develop a taste for it again. Find a group, know your community, and stop hiding.

Oh, and if you see a Nazi? Punch it.

All threats. Foreign and domestic.

Scared? The journalists shouldn’t be. They’ll never have to write about it.

Every major news organization is owned by a small handful of people playing for the same team. Internet exposure? Maybe for a few minutes before your site is delisted/deranked and/or taken down by a barrage of nonsense DCMA takedown notices that are effective immediately (with no evidence) but to reverse them you need to painstakingly disprove each: to both your provider and the claimant.

Time to accept that we’re juuuust at the tipping point of freedom of speech and expression. Slip a bit more and we’re sliding right into an identical situation as seen in China, North Korea, and Russia. Remind me… who does the head apricot idolize? Neat.

No, see it’s like a chameleon: it’s for blending into their surroundings. Their natural habitat is most likely… uh … a faux leather seat from the 60s? Or some old slightly off color wood paneling. Get them in their hunting ground and all you will see is a telltale shimmer against the backdrop…

Tragically we have a dried apricot ceding power to the highest bidder. There isn’t much for other countries to do directly unless they are paying for “sock puppet time” or getting in a pissing match with a clown that makes a juggalo look smart.

This is more about controlling (collateral) damage: in this case megacorps “kissing the ring” via stupid shit like Google is doing presently. Countries can fuck with corporations far easier than we can (guess who paid for sock puppet time…)

Google is clearly attempting to make themselves more “saleable” to the ruling party by dropping things like month names or renaming universally accepted names of global features. Right now their -baseline- is where we are at currently. A lawsuit does next to nothing. It’s an operating cost. A country threatening to blacklist their service will hit them cleanly in the only thing that matters: their shareholders. Our biggest corporations have time and again rolled over for this tactic. They may have elevated themselves to a godlike status within the states but they are vulnerable outside our shores.

Don’t sue- just threaten to block some of googles services in your country and they’ll come around real quick. Hit em where it hurts. Google isn’t hurting for lawyers.

Sure. There are absolutely people in that photo who have a normal skin tone. If the saturation were being brutally jacked up to make RFK look orange then they too would be off color completely (most likely beet red.) The point I was getting at is this doesn’t take much modification (even to fairly benign levels like my example shows) to land him firmly in the topic’s question.

Yes - the observation is being made because it’s funny; but if we’re being honest - the pictures don’t really need all that much assistance to make OPs point, though.

I touched on this above but did a very quick modification on mobile and only adjusted black levels. Not warmth, hue, saturation etc. The man is, unquestionably, of the “fake tan / orange” variety - and the woman, while more “natural,” is effectively leather. I left our head dried apricot in charge out of the picture because he is easily the worst one in the image. The painting is catching some bad light - but it’s still a bit too washed out regardless.

Original:

Black levels eyeballed:

While I won’t disagree that someone upped the saturation on the above photo slightly - and slightly is the key here: it easily could have been auto corrected to that level on a simple photo editor automatically. I wouldn’t be comfortable with malice being the underlying reason for what appears to be an attempt to make the photo look less washed out - which your example appears to be.

The problem is a lot of these people are positively off of an actual human color. Spray / fake tan or years of sun exposure and subsequent damage. Take your pick. Either way: correcting color without intentionally distorting the spectrum to make them look ‘normal’ is not kind to most of the people in the original photo… and not drastically far off from what it appears to be.

Disclaimer: I’m not looking at this at the office where I have a display that has been properly calibrated - but I’m reasonably certain of my assessment.

It might be worth looking into what the affected serial # range is. From what I’ve seen / read (anecdotal) batteries are under the most stress when fast charging: you could reduce risk using lower wattage chargers in all likelihood… but I’d definitely explore all your options.

I miss what.cd

This is purely conjecture on my part but if I were a gambling man I’d say that this is an attempt to insulate a potential issue with a bad batch of cells. A bad battery charge that forces you onto another phone is probably better than a repeat of the Samsung battery issue. In essence it’s a sneaky recall without the bad press.

I can’t really come up with another reason that they’d be doing that.

…That are built into the generation pipeline in a way that pads numbers instead of augmenting real frames. It’s dogshit.

40 series Nvidia was still humoring the raster crowd. 50 they are literally providing tools to tell you what your “real” frame rate should be. It’s the same thing companies got burned at the stake for gaming benchmarks. This is what happens when you don’t have enough competition. The industry leader starts selling bullshit quality dives off a cliff.

enthusiastic walks

Exactly. It’s a tired argument that’s been made in a lot of different mediums. It’s not worked in any of them.

The people who did the VO for this clearly were having a lot of fun. I remember watching it ages ago and genuinely laughing at parts. A lot of the sass we see in this and other abridged series probably paved the way for the dialogue in shows like Castlevania.

Damn. Hats off to the developers there. It’s immersive and well thought out.