There’s lots of stories about pouring molten gold down people’s throats. We should do that.

There’s gold leaf. I don’t think it handles rain well

They’d have to assume fault first. Taking a pardon means you’re implied agreement you are guilty.

The guy that lies all the time and never pays anyone says he going to pay you? Good luck with that

Oh yeah definitely. If anyone is curious how you can make that work (voting but not staying informed on politics) it’s actually simple and you can do it today.

Find someone you trust, someone you think is smart and educated, if you’re a man maybe pick a woman ( I don’t know much about women’s bodies which is why I’m pro choice even though I don’t agree with abortion, it’s good for me to listen to women about those kind of things)

Anyway find that person and just be like “hey, who are we voting for?”

Speaking of voting by proxy there’s a cute story before my dad died and my grandad was still around.

My dad was a trump supporter (he was a good man he just got brainwashed when he got older by Fox News. He was a technology teacher and would notice the kids that didn’t want to go home because their home life was a mess. He’d let them stay after school and learn computers “you get good enough at this and you’ll never have to go home again”. Steve Jobs gave my dad an award. Alot of those kids have successful careers in tech now. Good man lost to Fox News)

Anyway my grandad was a Democrat but at over 100 years old he just couldn’t go out and vote. He was very upset he couldn’t vote because it was the Biden election and my grandad… well we had to pull him from the nursing home because he bullied the younger old people with “I killed the Nazis once, I’ll kill ‘em again if I have to”

My dad respected my mothers father so much he asked my grandad who he planned to vote for and my dad voted that way. A die hard trump supporter voted for Biden out of pure respect for my grandfather.

They both died before trump came back to office. So atleast my grandfather died thinking the Nazis were defeated again.

I agree now

Until we have ranked choice voting third party isn’t going to get above 5 percent.

Nope. I don’t feel that way because I did vote against trump and voted Democrat every time and it didn’t come close to fixing the problem.

So no, I’m not a big part of anything.

I used to just… not vote. Didn’t like the people running but they were all mostly the same in my eyes. “Do I want this rich old white dude or that rich old white dude”

I didn’t even bother.

Then a rich old white dude came around that was actually measurably worse than the other rich old white dudes. So I had to start voting against him.

It sucks. I want to go back to not caring.

Well that escalated quickly

It’s racism in the sense I mentioned. It was tested and built around white people. It didn’t work as well on black people (requires more work, gear, and technique to get similar results). No one was in any real hurry to fix that.

I might have been hyperbolic with features void. But yeah it was a problem. That should have taught us that this problem would come in ai.

Here’s a quick picture with a squirming white child (moving) and a still black woman. You can still make out more features in the white child. I’m assuming as well this was done by a professional who did his best to make both people clear.

Maybe it’s just my eyesight tho.

Silver iodide plates don’t respond to red light. They respond better to blue and violet. That alone doesn’t cause the problem but it’s part of it. I can’t remember where I read that tho

Without special lighting black people became a dark void. You could photograph them with special lighting and different techniques but that mostly wasn’t done.

So I think it’s fair to say it didn’t work well for darker skin tones because in order to get a picture with similar quality you had to work a lot harder.

I do agree in the later days it was more a specific caused by racism but from the beginning it was more difficult to photograph darker skin tones and no one really cared because of racism. I wasn’t caused by the racism tho. It was caused by the technology at that time… that no one cared enough to fix it.

That mentality carried on until I believe the Kodachrome made all the world a sunny day. I’m not an expert tho.

The early days cameras were less sensitive to red light needed for darker skin tones. Some of this could be overcome with lighting that wasn’t readily available.

It possible to do it sure, you could make a picture that was close to the clarity of lighter skin tone. If you have to put in a lot of extra effort and time (that often wasn’t done at all) to take the same picture you could of a white person, I’d say that means the film doesn’t work well with black people. It clearly wasn’t particle because people rarely put in the effort to properly light them.

Why argue with something we have facts about? I didn’t make this up in a shower. I read it in articles written by professionals.

To give an example. I don’t drive a Ferrari . With a new engine and modifications I could make it as fast as a Ferrari . Or I could slash the tires of the Ferrari. However I can’t go around saying “my car is as fast as a Ferrari because if I put the effort in it would be as fast”

I didn’t, and it isn’t.

If you have to put a lot of extra work into something to make it equal, then it isn’t equal.

What’s funny is this was all predictable. We had the same problem when we started with photography in general. It worked well on white people but made every black person a featureless black void.

Turns out we test these things mainly on white men then call it a success when it works exclusively for us white men.

He does and they do

Love that he changed his middle name lol

I think fallout handled that great with thier show. They were just like “it’s not going to be close enough for anyone to be happy anyway so we’ll just do our own thing”

It’s been pretty good despite some stuff like cold fusion being a pill for some reason.

Wait did two movies try to kill you or something?

Normally when that happens to countries in history they just default to “the Jews”