ImplyingImplications

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[–] ImplyingImplications 4 points 5 hours ago

There's two lampposts growing out of each other and everything in the photo casts a shadow in a different direction.

[–] ImplyingImplications 64 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

She was likely against the somewhat liberal views of Pope Francis, like how Christians should be kind to gay people and refugees.

[–] ImplyingImplications 51 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I feel like there's always been a culture of boys and young men who didn't respect women, there's just never been podcasters actively promoting it.

The internet allows idiots to broadcast their message worldwide and social media promotes the most controversial stuff in order to drive engagement and, more recently, to promote a culture war that keeps the populus divided.

[–] ImplyingImplications 32 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Appropriate that you used tea bags because it's a popular legend that tea bags were created after customers misused the product. Some tea sellers started selling their tea in silk bags with the intention that customers would remove the leaves from the bag before use. Instead, customers dipped the bag of leaves directly into water.

[–] ImplyingImplications 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

66% correct! I did better than expected! It's interesting that most people taking the test do better than 50/50. People aren't just guessing, they can actually tell the difference, though that might be because there's a few obvious ones with 6 fingers.

Also interesting are the couple photos that are picked wrong often. One is wrong 84% of the time. It's a landscape in oil on canvas style most believed is human made. I guess both the style and subject are rigid enough that it's hard to tell. Ask 10 artists to draw the same landscape with oil on canvas and they'd all end up coming out similar making it easy for AI to replicate.

[–] ImplyingImplications 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Couldn't they just rate limit requests like every other API?

[–] ImplyingImplications 5 points 16 hours ago

I had to look it up. It's what the Conservative party is calling the budget deficit. Carney's proposed budget has more spending than income and they're calling it "inflation tax" now. Probably because "axe" and "deficit" don't rhyme.

[–] ImplyingImplications 5 points 16 hours ago

Easy, just name the second kid Nadir.

[–] ImplyingImplications 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That&#39s cruel!

[–] ImplyingImplications 64 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

All four gospels in the Bible recount a story of Jesus being brought to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, by Jewish leaders who accused Jesus of crimes and requested his execution. The story goes that Pilate had to do what the leaders asked but was not convinced Jesus was guilty of anything and decided to give him a chance at freedom. The Jewish holiday of Passover was happening and it was a tradition for Roman leaders to release a Jewish prisoner. Pilate offered a crowd of Jewish people the choice between freeing Jesus or a man named Barabbas (who is described as an insurrectionist against Rome and a murderer, not a thief). The Jewish leaders in the crowd turned them against Jesus and had them call for Barabbas to be released. Pilate is then said to wash his hands to symbolize the crowd is responsible for Jesus' fate and not him.

Historically, there's no evidence Romans ever released Jewish prisoners for Passover and Pilate himself is described as a ruthless tyrant who did not hesitate to execute Jewish people who did not recognize the authority of Caesar. There's no chance he would have freed someone who killed Romans, nor would he have been forced to execute someone he didn't want to execute because Jewish leaders requested it.

The Bible story was probably meant as an exaggeration of how much Jewish leaders didn't like Jesus and his message and how people followed corrupt leaders over the actual son of God. The meme is pointing out people seem to have missed the point of the story and would do the same thing today.

[–] ImplyingImplications 8 points 23 hours ago

Bill is short for Lizardman

[–] ImplyingImplications 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My guess is to maintain plausible disability. A foreign government assisting you win an election isn't illegal if you aren't aware of it. It becomes illegal when you know it's happening and do nothing to stop it.

 
 

I've recently started using the Boost for Lemmy app on my phone and it's amazing. I was using Liftoff before but I'm switching over. However, I've noticed an issue. When I browse through communities using Liftoff I see a lot more posts and comments than when I use Boost.

I figured this was an issue with Boost at first, but when I used my computer to edit these screenshots I noticed the same thing happens in my browser!

Opening up https://lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy I see all the posts that Liftoff shows. Of course I'm not logged in since my account is on Lemmy.ca.

When I log into Lemmy.ca and view the community though: https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected] I only see the posts that Boost shows! Many posts are now missing!

I figured this is an issue with Lemmy.ca blocking stuff. But wait! The most recent post (titled "Bug: Hiding all read posts also hides...") has the URL https://lemmy.world/post/6954944 which, of course, does not allow me to comment on since I'm not logged in. If I search for that post through Lemmy.ca I find the equivalent post with the URL: https://lemmy.ca/post/7377534 which now allows me to comment on it through my Lemmy.ca account.

Does any one know what's going on here? Clearly Lemmy.ca can "see" all the posts in the BoostForLemmy community on Lemmy.world. Even Liftoff manages to show all of them! So why does my browser and Boost for Lemmy not show everything unless I specifically search it out?

 

I made this a while back to use as a background for my phone. What do you think?

 
 

Shuba shuba

 
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