hell, taking a picture of the screen with a phone would have been better. this is literally the only way to have fucked this up that i can come up with. like maybe if they used too thin of a sharpie on physical paper, but even that probably would have blocked parts of the text.

that said, i can see the average technologically inept person making this mistake. if it wasn’t on purpose, it would have to be someone that didn’t grow up with computers. either someone trump’s age, or someone who grew up with only smart phones. Iwould bet the latter knowing trump and his cheapness. this can’t have been done by an existing professional in the system, they’re too experienced normally. I know this is a lot of assumptions, but i bet it would have had to be a young intern from trump’s camp. and i do bet that over intentional malice towards trump. anyone that did this on purpose would be smart enough to see far enough ahead to predict themselves get arrested or killed as soon as people figured it out. also, hanlon’s razor.

i think i actually made almost this exact mistake once. difference is mine was for an assignment in high school 20 years ago and the consequence was getting snickered at by my peers. it’s a genuinely easy thing to overlook if you’re not used to using tools in a word editor or most other software. it’s also entirely unsurprising that trump’s camp would botch a project. he doesn’t pay people and is a menace to his employees. no one compitent wants to work for him unless they’re true believers.

so yeah, jumping to conclusions about this being intentional is conspiracy nut thinking. if someone’s reasoning includes bits like “it just makes too much sense” and “think about how much they have to gain/lose” they’re just jumping to conclusions without evidence. remember that correlation does not imply causation. just because something happened near a powerful person that affects the world or that person significantly doesn’t mean there’s a conspiracy. just because the motive for an action exists or makes sense that doesn’t mean it happened. i have a motive to want to kill Trump, but if he dies while I’m near d.c. that doesn’t make me a suspect. 90% of the people near d.c. at any given moment have motive to kill trump.

yeah, $500 is tough to get into astro with.

plenty for general photography, but astro can get gear heavy fast. astro landscapes are becoming more accessible as more fast lenses get cheaper, but the kind of astro that needs a tracker is just pricy.

i need to switch but am being lazy. i joined world because when i first joined every other instance had major uptime issues. after like 2 weeks of jumping around and only getting it to load half the time i decided to say screw it and just join the biggest one.

I’m sure it’s better now.

the promoun discussion blew up on that community because of a user that many accused of being a troll.

they (drag) said that they(drag) had no personal pronouns and should be referred to as dragon (technically they [drag] wanted to be called dragonrider because their [drag’s] partner was a dragon.) this meant that saying words like “you” or “they” or “your” was incorrect. to address them (drag) one would need to talk like “what is drag’s opinion on dragselve’s pronouns?”. instead of “what are your pronouns?”

i genuinely can’t tell if they’re (drag is) a troll, i just think that’s too much to ask of people. it’s legitimately hard to talk without using personal pronouns at all. that said, I’ll still try when addressing drag or anyone else. i just think drag is setting dragself up for disappointment if that’s how drag wants others to address drag.

i can’t get the ada post to open right now, and can’t actually remember what their final stance was. i just remember when that all blew up. i had no real skin in the game, it wasn’t terribly relevant or important to me, but i did try to talk it through with drag and see if i could understand it all better. the conclusion i came to was that drag and i should probably just hang in different circles haha. you don’t have to get on well with everyone. I’m not trans or anything like that. my opinions shouldn’t matter for the rules of trans focused community. i just found the whole situation interesting to see unfold.

(case and point: i just went through to try and re-proofread this to make sure i didn’t misgrender drag and realized that i still had on my 4th sweep. then i realized that to change all of the personal pronouns in this comment that should be drag into drag would make it unreadable to anyone who doesn’t already know the situation. i put those in brackets to maintain readability)

oh wow, i thought for sure it came later. i should stop making snap comments when m waking up.

no one cares about the plights of those living in backwater stone age dictatorships. the modern world must move forward on its own.

we Americans have to get used to being left behind and left out of conversations by real adults now.

there were very very very few platforms where you could post and share streaming video online when YouTube was new.

it was certainly the only free option. the internet was quite young then if you don’t remember.

other platforms rose up around their success, but I’m pretty sure YouTube was more or less unique when it started.

yeah, you certainly can spend more and get better, but most media consumers don’t actually care about long term storage like that.

i only know the pricing on those drives because i just had to replace one in a nas device. i only spent money on a nas device because i work in media and need to keep large files for clients. i follow a 3-2-1 backup system because my job depends on it, but it’s not at all necessary to enjoy media.

lmao, buddy you can get a 10tb hard drive for like $200 and fit all the pirated media you want on it. that’s less money than two mainline subscriptions for a year.

the VAST majority of data hoarders are pirates. very very few actual spend fortunes on their media collections. that’s why everyone is dogpilling you. it felt like you were attacking a strawman of the average user here and they feel the need to correct you about their nature.

it’s not about pirates feeling moral or superior. it’s about you being wrong about data hoarders.

there’s nothing about negatively affecting others lives?

so successful sociopaths and narcissists don’t have a disorder?

i don’t think that’s quite right.

ok, did you read the body of the post?

did you try clicking the link? titles aren’t meant to convey all relevant info.

haha, we have the exact same phrase in the states. not even just similar, it’s literally called an elephant race here too.

makes me wonder what country started it. or maybe they just look so much like elephants racing that multiple languages have like convergent linguistics.

like carcinification but for the phrase “elephant race”

show a map of the land area it takes up and you might actuality convince some people it’s not lol.

it could be like milk lovers trying to call almond milk bad for the environment due to water usage. despite cow milk being infinitely worse. the propaganda machine did its job well. if you bring up non dairy milks to an American conservative in 2025, nine times out of ten they’ll feel the need to smugly tell you how terrible almond milk is and how we shouldn’t be allowed to waste all that water on it. if you try to tell them that cow milk is worse they’ll just tell you you’re wrong and that the data is lying.

i straight to showed one of them the hard numbers on how much cows are putting out greenhouse gasses and she just said “that can’t be right”. it didn’t FEEL right to her so she just didn’t believe it…

no no, it just needs your location data every second to make sure it’s set to the correct time zone. Microsoft and their 1.8 million partners decided that the clock can’t work without your location data.

(I’m joking, for the inevitable person that’s going to try to disagree)

sure, but if the us doesn’t china will.

yeah, they are the lower level atronach. you basically blew past them.

if you go to the atronach forge at frostcrag spire you can still spawn one with some fire salts.

some additional relevant statistics

united states barely saw 1% growth year over year and are projecting that growth to continue to slow.

India has nearly 3x the users of the United States. the u.s. is still second because it’s the country it started in, but it’s not far ahead of the 3rd and 4th place countries. India is an extreme outlier.

unfortunately they don’t break down the age demographic by region, but I’d bet that if we specifically look at daily active users in the United States the age demo would skew much older.

so, it seems like it’s similar to what many fast food restaurants have been experiencing lately. the growth opportunities in the United States dried up so the decided to push like hell everywhere else. i bet the growth they saw in India over the last decade was explosive. probably bigger than anything they had ever seen before. bigger than when it was still growing in the u.s… meanwhile they project that over the next decade in the u.s. they’ll see maybe 8% user growth and that’s pretty optimistic.

so we probably won’t actually see much Facebook marketing in the u.s… the only way they can capture more u.s users is by buying more apps, like when they bought Instagram.

this does seem to imply that the part of the world where Facebook has become a fact of life is very specifically India. I’m sorry to hear that for them.

i primarily use lemmy these days, but still have to use a few other things.

I still browse reddit for this like episode discussion threads for amine and other tv. lemmy will have maybe 5 responses in the threads for the 3 biggest shows of a season. it’s just not there yet.

I’m also a videographer, in our modern age that means i NEED to be on Instagram, YouTube, and tiktok because those are the platforms everyone wants me to make things for. can’t know how to make things for a platform I don’t use, sadly. especially since “just make something good” doesn’t work on any of them. in fact making something that looks good is often more of a hinderence these days and it kills me.

i hate short form video. i hate every mainstream social media platform. i just want to make pretty videos and not have to deal with tiktok trends. I learned 10 ways to attach a lav mic secure and tidy in school. I must now hold the lav mic in my fingers because that’s what’s trendy and following the trends is the ONE thing that DEFINITELY works.

I hate what has come of my profession. at this point I’m just ready for the ai to take my job so i can blow my head off in peace.