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This thread is actually readable without the usual biological spambots clogging it up, who woulda thought? Before they rise up to ruin things for all the other normal people, allow me to promote a few select cuts from the Pride Month thread.

 
I hate it. He's just giving these has-beens more oxygen to survive longer. It goes back to the NFL flag thing for me, Colin Kaepernick would've faded into obscurity if Trump hadn't done this same thing but instead he had to turn him into a martyr so we still have to hear about him to this day.
No, these retarded lefty talking points can and will be discussed for decades with or without Trump's involvement. Take Gamergate for instance. Despite Trump never mentioning it (to the chagrin of Applebee's waiters everywhere), it is still a cornerstone of the libtard mythology to this day.
Trump doesn't give these things more credibility. If anything, he gives boomers and non-online rightoids permission to speak sensibly about them. I remember my parents both being Ukraine sympathizers after a few days of Fox News coverage about the conflict, eager to send billions of dollars there to fight Russian Imperialism or some such nonsense. As soon as Trump started pointing out the counter productive nature of sending billions of dollars to some corrupt shithole around the world to stoke a war with a nuclear power, they suddenly began to hate the idea. The post you were replying to is spot on IMO
 
This does bring up one interesting topic, that you can always tell the era a video or picture was made based on its quality before digitized. And then again on how well digitized things are. You can tell when a pic/vid was made fairly accurately to decades usually. Then secondary is when/if it was digitized and the quality of that. Film degrades quick, usually colors. Tape with fidelity overall. Digital stays the same.

At some point I think we're getting to where it'll be hard to tell. 4k/8k/Xk high def probably won't, in theory, look that much better than 2d 2025-era pics in the future, video is getting there or is there too now.. We're hitting the era of fast dimishing returns and endless same retention of quality.

Maybe there will be some breakthrough that'll make 2020+ images look dated but it's hard to see how now. Kinda sick of this derailing on here, but oh well. There are some older movies that had well maintained film stock and digitzed well that look fairly modern. But you can certainly see the difference between Attack of the Clones which was pretty much the first digital movie shot, and it looks awful, and just a few years later with Revenge of the Sith and it looks much better.

AI cleaning up though might mitigate a lot of the lousier versions shot/stored to look a lot better over time too.
Not sure, Avengers came out in 2010,2011? The CGI is that is very visible. Hell the CGI in the first Dune looks dated now if watched at home. The images with CGI continue to improve and using it heavily dates your movie in a similar way you've mentioned with film.
 
Chuck “Schmuck” Schumer was the top Democrat in the Senate while his party was flagrantly wasting $trillions of American taxpayer money on looting sprees like the Orwellian Inflation Reduction Act. Yet he accuses Trump of waste for building a ballroom in the White House.
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Ever farther out on a creaking limb he wandered:


Karoline Leavitt answers Schmuck’s question regarding where the money came from:


Schmuck, that slimy substance running down your face is egg.
https://xcancel.com/RichSementa/status/1919226981943496727
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How does a 200 million dollar ballroom help us?
 
Dawg this was the ONLY war in the US where columns of massed men just formed up and slowly marched at the enemy and your saying not 1 cameraman decided "people might wanna see a shot of this" but we have countless photos of them sitting around smoking and shit.

The whole point of having a low IQ is your not smart enough to do things like remind yourself not to do dumb things, if it was as easy as you say no one would be retarded, retard.

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check out the nigga with the extendo pipe cuh.
Buy a DSLR, set your exposure time to 2 seconds, go take a picture of anything that's moving, even at a snail's pace. All you get are unusable smudged out blurs. Now. Imagine your exposure time isn't 2 seconds, but 20, if you're lucky and have the absolute best of the best camera technology in the world. If you don't have the 1860s equivalent of a Phantom TMX 7510 you're probably looking at an exposure time upwards of a minute. This was a time where people didn't bother trying to take pictures of kids unless they were dead because kids literally can't hold still long enough for the picture to not look like Slenderman. You can already see this effect in the picture in your example. The leftmost guy in the background, in the center in front of the wagon, while he's out of focus the bigger problem is that his face is completely washed out because he either jumped in after the picture had already started exposure or he slightly tilted his head head for a second and the sun shining on the wagon just immediately blew out the exposure on the film.

If you wanted a picture of the battle lines you'd have to ask everyone on both sides to stop fighting and pose for a minute, otherwise all you get is opposing walls of blue and grey on top of whatever terrain they were fighting on. It wasn't just muskets that took a long time to reload, cameras did too, and nobody wanted to waste a shot. It's not like today where you can easily snap 50-60 high res photos a second, toss out 99% of them, and then spend hours in post fixing the colors and lighting on the 1% that were usable

The question you're basically asking is the equivalent of some retard in the year 2200 saying "Why don't we have Trump's Butler Rally recorded in 75,000 FPS so we can see the bullet clip through his ear frame by frame? They have 75,000 FPS videos of people shooting watermelons with shotguns. Obviously that means it didn't happen," Because it's completely infeasible to capture every detail of every facet of existence. They weren't thinking "150 years from now retards on the Internet are going to try and say the Civil War didn't happen because we couldn't capture pictures of us shooting each other, only the brutal aftermath."
 
Didn't realize this was an issue before Trump wanted to build a ballroom, but okay.
We're the greatest nation on the planet and yet we host official state dinners in a stupid fucking tent on a lawn. It's embarrassing. Also spending money on cool shit like this is far better than blowing it on Iraqi Sesame Street or whatever the fuck else Biden was doing.
 
Tbf his name was Michael King on his birth certificate because his dad's a retard.

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To elaborate on this some more as its been a slow news day, this comes from a Snopes article refuting 4 myths about Martin Luther King Jr. which they deem "Mostly False" even though by their own estimation, nearly all are more true than false. Its a fun read and really good for redpilling anyone that uses Snopes as a source:

Snopes bullshit
 
My nigga mark is back
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here is where they were, there are gates.

I've been not down that street (it's private) but around it. it's the obscenely rich fart sniffing lib section of the city.
I'll have to see if there is a pedestrian entrance around there so I can see what all the fuss is about, there usually are. (there are a few neighborhoods similar I like to walk around)
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This is what the restoration of human civilization looks like:
https://xcancel.com/mccloskeyusa/status/1951377902152372376
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During the Democrat-enabled Black Lives Matter riots, a roving mob of feral apes broke through the gate to menace the home of Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who defended their property by standing armed in their own yard. The neoliberal establishment came down on the innocent couple full force, including absurd felony charges brought by Soros-installed St Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner that required a pardon from the governor.

To the delight of CNN, one of the sheboons involved went on to become a member of Congress:
https://xcancel.com/tomselliott/status/1422890656956141574
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Now Cori Bush and Kim Gardner are out of office — and we read this:
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“It only took 3 lawsuits, 2 trips to the Court of Appeals and 1,847 days, but I got my AR15 back!” Mark McCloskey posted to his X account on Friday, along with several photos of him carrying the gun.

Here’s why he went to such trouble:
“That gun may have only been worth $1,500 or something, and it cost me a lot of time and a lot of effort to get it back, but you have to do that,” Mark McCloskey told Fox News Digital, adding he owns other weapons. “You have to let them know that you will never back down, you’ll never give up.”

This goes beyond personal safety:
“Each and every one of us owns a personal responsibility for our freedom and our democratic republic,” Mark McCloskey said.

Patricia McCloskey is expected to get her pistol back next week.

“If you’ve been wronged, if you’ve been overreached by the leftist government — you can’t give up,” Mark McCloskey told Fox News Digital. “You can’t let them get an inch.”

Amen.
 
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