• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    18 days ago

    The Israeli ambassador came to visit Belgian parliament today for some reason and one of our MPs went off on her saying they are a genocidale state and that their lies to everyone will not prevent a Free Palestine and that their leaders will end up where they belong: in jail

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    19 days ago

    1 in 4 Dutch people are now afraid to wear sun screen because they think it gives them cancer. Instead they just bake in the giant ball of radiation in the sky without protection.

    I guess this is Darwinism but the stupidity of so many people is frightening.

    • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      18 days ago

      Tell me Dutchman, is it true that Dutch people are among the least likely in all of Europe to wash their hands after they use the bathroom?

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
        8·
        18 days ago

        Yes I think that is correct unfortunately. I wouldn’t even be surprised if that was somehow rooted in white supremacy or something.

    • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      Many, if not most, sunscreens use certain ingredients that breakdown in UV light and produce carcinogens that can be absorbed by the skin. It was a relatively large exposé a few years ago. My doctor has equally told me that the sun isn’t the primary factor in whether you get cancer and people without the genetic predisposition for skin cancer aren’t going to get it from sun exposure.

      Not that I don’t wear sunscreen, but I select my sunscreen very very carefully and review the latest consumer research on cancer-causing ingredients.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    17 days ago

    Currently having a sticker war with some nazi shit in my hood. They keep placing stickers that say stuff like: hand in hand back to your own land. The weird thing is that these are Dutch org stickers for some reason.

    Anyway they are very unfortunate that I have probably a thousand commie and antifascist stickers that I can keep placing on top of it. I just hope to catch the person in the act one day.

    • She Was Speaking@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      13 days ago

      Guy’s name is Bob Vylan and he puts out some bangers.

      “White folks love quoting Martin Luther / 'Cause he held hands and prayed while they bombed his building / Good for him but the times have changed / And don’t forget, white folks still killed him”

      (Song is “Pretty Songs”)

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    17 days ago

    Maybe the only upside of this NATO meeting is that the world is now able to see the walking clown show that is Mark Rutte

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    16 days ago

    I often wonder what life in the DPRK is like and today I figured: someone must have uploaded some google maps pictures. And there are indeed some photos from ground level DPRK and it’s really cool to see.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        Probably not too difficult from satellite. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a delay between reported weather and actual weather if it’s just satellite with no ground telemetry.

        I wouldn’t be surprised if NK offered weather data publicly either. That kind of thing is important for shipping/trade.

      • Yiazmat@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        15 days ago

        libs will look at pictures of the DPRK with its clean streets, people riding bicycles, no ugly ads plastered all over, etc. and think “this is hell”

    • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
      71·
      19 days ago

      I said we were in a post truth society, then post irony society (when reality became more absurd than the onion), now we are in a post reality society, when there’s practically no way for anyone to know what’s going on, as photos, and videos can be believable faked. we will quickly jump to a postpast society, where the past itself can be believably faked.

      was the holocaust real? here is a documentary from 1945 about it made when it was liberated, but here is another documentary that claims to be from 1945 showing it with “prisoners” happy, with a dance hall, and partying with the guards, and how they sang while working… all claim to be real, all with articles about them how theybare real, all with articles about the other one being fake.

      There will be no past, objective reality will be an unreachable goal.

      based on echo bubbles your neighbour will live in a very different reality than you.

      things like this have been going on for a while, but it’ll be so common it’ll be the new normal to not have reality.

      • haui@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        18 days ago

        Chilling prediction but likely.

        The answer to that most likely is physical media and carbon dating. Back to the roots. Physical pictures with a carbon date certificate in a vacuum chamber in a museum, etc.

      • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
        2·
        17 days ago

        You could build cameras that crypto-graphically sign photos individually. And that capture a lightfield at least partially (maybe possible with autofocus pixels already), then you know someone isn’t just capturing a monitor. This could be implemented into reputable smartphones too. If someone cracks (physically) the camera sensor/chip assembly, the certificate can be revoked after it’s been found out.

        Then you could design an image format where any editing step (like cropping, color mapping) is reversible and signed too.

        Most of this is because we don’t have a free press anymore. There are only 3 international newspapers and they have all been infiltrated or captured.

          • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
            1·
            16 days ago

            Any fake picture could be traced to the individual camera and it’s registered owner, and the certificate revoked. It would be cumbersome and not foolproof, but it would reduce fake pictures and make it possible to verify photo and video evidence. A browser could then tag or even block any image in an article that hasn’t been signed.

            My point is that it’s theoretically possible to avoid a “post-truth world”, although it is practically impossible to get done currently.

            • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
              3·
              16 days ago

              even if you were to do that.

              at best, only some news can be verified.

              but what about the past? if there are dozens of contradicting versions of history (including the actual history). all with their corresponding pictures of artifacts, documentation, literature… the history of and conspiracy theory will be as valid as any other, and might have as much evidence as the truth.

              • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
                2·
                16 days ago

                Fundamentally, web-archive or just signed hashes of existing documents to verify they haven’t been changed. Like this which the NED deleted. That also does require an institution dedicated to journalism or truthfulness or education.

                The main problem is the immense power imbalance. The rich get richer has this inevitable outcome. We need a purge and restore a democratic government. It’s more a physics problem than an ideological one, a question of quantity of energy and forces. They have corrupted a large part of the population in one way or another, but they haven’t convinced the majority that truth is bad.

      • pinguinu [any]@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        19 days ago

        The fact that the afterburner is on after the crash, the wing is actually backwards, and also how this was shown wherever some news said “F35 down” despite not having anything in common with an actual F35. Even if it was an F16 the first points still stand.

        Same with the “Soroka Hospital map” that was clearly AI generated going by the letters alone, and it didn’t have anything to do with the actual Soroka Hospital that you can find on any map service (seriously, it’s like Google Maps or OSM don’t exist).

        I don’t really care whether they downed F35s, I just wish people stopped posting AI slop and passing it as proof, it really damages any kind of credibility they have.

        • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
          9·
          19 days ago

          Believe me, I am not fond of AI generated images, I am probably more A.I paranoid than you, but I think this image, if it is fake, is likely just a regular old doctored picture. Tools which are pretty reliably able to detect this sort of thing are not coming up with anything in this case.

          • pinguinu [any]@lemmygrad.ml
            6·
            19 days ago

            Idk, with how some parts of the image appear very clear and others are indistinguishable, I thought immediately of AI. You could be right too.

        • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
          7·
          19 days ago

          Also, there’s absolutely no vegetation or rocks on the ground. It’s all the same texture and same evenness. There’s no burn or skid marks on the ground. There’s no other debris or wreckage strewn about the area. The afterburner colours look exactly like the first image on a Google search for “F35”. The plane’s surface looks rough and matte, sort of like an F16, whereas F35s have a really slick, almost shiny surface. The fuselage of an F35 is much less cylindrical and more ellipsoid (again reminds me more of an F16 or F15).

          Probably some news website made the image to accompany their article. Maybe they even mentioned in the caption that it was AI generated. Then other websites picked up the picture hastily and used it without question.