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    18 minutes ago

    The colours make me dubious, but I’m just unsure how the bloke’s name is supposed to be spelled? Stanislva seems strange.

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    8 hours ago

    I really have much more trouble parsing the different colored text than should technically be the case.

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      7 hours ago

      Who is making these? This is like me in university reading a text and highlighting every second word because “THATS the important part!!”. I only use one highlighter color though…

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        7 hours ago

        It’s a great example proving that CONTRAST is what you use to make certain words more important. For example, if all the text on that black background were in light gray or light blue or light any color, you could emphasize the important words by making them pure white.

        I laugh whenever I see mostly black text headlines on white backgrounds with certain words in red (therefore having less contrast than black), as those words become less noticeable, not more so.

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      6 hours ago

      I always assume these are AI generated. I see this excessive color text shit on YouTube shorts all the time.

      • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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        3 hours ago

        on YouTube

        I hadn’t used YouTube for like six years but recently got back into it a little bit in an Apple TV, and god damn is there a lot of slop in the thumbnails (videos too!).

        Is that what corporate social media looks like in general these days? I’ve been running ad blockers for years too so maybe this is just everywhere and I haven’t noticed.

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      7 hours ago

      Here’s how I read it:

      In 1983, Soviet officer likely prevented a and saved when he nuclear alerts from the U.S. as a and it is an

      Nuclear war attack

      Millions of lives system error

      Correctly identified

      Missile launch.

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    6 hours ago

    Yeah this guy is probably definitively the biggest hero of mankind’s history. Who else saw annihilation coming and stopped it? Arguably other people would’ve done the same but this dude is the one who did it.

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    7 hours ago

    In an interview for the film The Man Who Saved the World, Petrov says, “All that happened didn’t matter to me—it was my job. I was simply doing my job, and I was the right person at the right time, that’s all. My late wife for 10 years knew nothing about it. ‘So what did you do?’ she asked me. ‘Nothing. I did nothing.’”

    If you absolutely need to have a bit of nuclear nightmare fuel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls

    Makes me almost believe that somebody’s watching over us.

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      7 hours ago

      Ultimately most people are decent folk who do not seek to annihilate humanity.

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        5 hours ago

        Most, but the number of people growing up to be sociopaths or psychopaths is sadly increasing. Thanks to corporate social media and smart phones and capitalism.

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      6 hours ago

      Makes me almost believe that somebody’s watching over us.

      Yeah, but, not to be that guy, but we wouldn’t be here to talk about it if we didn’t get lucky all those times.

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    6 hours ago

    Sequel: You are right John, those signals were not ballistic missiles, and we narrowly prevented the end of the world, would you like me to list other possible world ending scenarios?