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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This is what AI is for

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That fat fuck can't swim, come on. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Trump.... just rebuild! I'll help you call my guy who does buildings for me. Problem solved!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

yea. no dip

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I find it funny how MAGAts spend all this effort creating photos of Trump looking and acting how they envision him in their heads - because he's never going to do or be any of them.

  • Naked with chiseled abs? Nope
  • Interacting with his followers? Nope
  • Wading through the floodwaters? Nope
  • Slender? Nope
  • Cradling or caring for children? Nope. Well, not released yet anyway
  • Leading a charge into battle? Nope
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

You can tell it's AI because it tried to make his hands normal sized.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah, no shit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Love how all of the sudden, Facebook is now the expert at identifying AI pictures, despite constantly falling for them almost every time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t think Trump has ever worn jeans.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

On the other hand, wearing jeans in water is just the sort of stupid thing he might do, like looking at the sun during an eclipse.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

You know what is a real photo? This one.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If it were real, that'd be an incredibly dangerous thing to do--even with a life preserver vest--and a physically taxing one, as well. Neither of which Trump would be doing.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, drowning is kind of the least of your worries in those situations.

NEVER walk through even suburban flood waters unless it is life or death. Because you know those things called "sewers"? Yeah, they are under there. And if the water has reached the point where it is even a foot off the ground? Then those sewers are entirely(-ish) full and that "water" contains significant amounts of poo, medical waste, chemicals, and so forth. Let alone corpses of animals... and people.

So that is basically liquid hepatitis and Erastil knows what else.

It is also why you NEVER buy a car that has been in a flood area and houses really should be basically demolished at that point (but aren't because Capitalism).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Where do you live where people flush corpses?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A sealed casket is buoyant. If a cemetery is flooded, caskets, especially of the recently deceased with disturbed soil, are known to rise through the soil and then dump their contents (bodies) into the floodwaters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It’s not about flushing them but I would imagine that graveyards that are below sea level have the bodies in mausoleums and many of those you can walk into so it would not surprise me that places near the ocean might have a rotted corpse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Places that flood bad enough that people and animals die in them?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  1. You would be amazed what people flush down their toilets
  2. You do realize there are other people in that flooded area too, right? Those "missing" folk? Hopefully all of them show up at a Waffle House two counties over. The reality is... many of them are still there in that horrific soup.
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If a good percentage of Americans can fall for Turnip

... a good percentage of them will fall for this image.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It wouldn't surprise me if some of them still thought that the mission accomplished press release was a big win for W.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I mean what would even be the purpose of intentionally wading through water? Don't they usually do fly overs to view the aftermath?

Even if this was true, it would just be evidence that he did a stupid PR stunt for votes...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Gotta downvote this link to a horrible site. So many ads and pop-ups, and I never saw the picture in question

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Haha they think he would be caught dead wearing jeans. Jeans are poor people's clothes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s amazing how many glitches people are able to spot. I don’t really have an eye for that level of detail but usually just get a vague unnaturallness

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

At this point they're long-standing bugs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's nothing wrong with those hands. There's ~15-18 fingers between the two of them and the joints are totally in the right place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah why are the hands such a dead giveaway. If AI fixes that it will be so much harder to prove. Now there is always something that just seems wrong with the pics but the hands are so much easier to quantify.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh gosh I looked at the hand and think I lost 2d4 sanity points.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It’s like an eldritch horror.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And the other hand is giant. Trump is well known for his giant manly hands

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You don't use ad-blockers?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I use Android (Samsung) and I've never been able to find one that works. Sometimes I use Chrome, but many apps, like Connect for Lemmy have a builtin web viewer that I think is using the native web browser (so I need something that covers both). I would appreciate any suggestions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Firefox with ublock origin (like the others said) works and for other "entertainment" apps there are apps you can use outside of the Google play store to get around ads

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm on a Galaxy S-10e. Firefox + ublock origin.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Firefox+ublock origin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Generally “Reader Mode” is sufficient and I have my browser set to that by default. However sometimes sites are not functional in reader mode and those are usually the same ones that are most toxic.

It also drives home the point of how poor the internet is with accessibility. Imagine having to rely on reader mode to get through the toxic sludge that makes up most of the internet, but yet we have to rely on every day

Edit: yes, I was also using an adblocker but iPhone adblockers are limited and in this case useless

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