Yeah, I mentioned yesterday that it seemed intentional to me, somebody intimately familiar with Photoshop. If not, it was so woefully incompetent that somebody should have known better. I broke down the tools I suspect they used to get there in this comment.

I’m fairly certain the manipulation of the nose has nothing to do with the ridges. Without having a bigger image to look at, I can’t tell if those are the result of a filter or if the image was just cut lazily or erased around the edges give it a blocky faux-pixelated look. If it’s the former, the filter is…

Alright let’s break this down, despite your rude tone:

At the risk of exposing my own idiotic tendencies, I’d probably plant them. I’d do it in a pot, indoors and I’d incinerate the remains if they did prove to be something that could be invasive. I’m sure there’s a reason why this is still a terrible idea, but I can’t abide a mystery like unsolicited seeds.

Just be careful not to get a camera from a company that will share your footage with the cops without your permission. Frankly, any camera that sends data anywhere other than my own computer would be a nonstarter for me.

Damn. You’d think a history teacher would at least know that that’s actually what happened before the Trail of Tears. Also, that’s some “sweet summer child” grade naivete for an adult in the Bush-era. It’s not like all this authoritarianism fell out of the sky in 2016.

I thought that was the case. Thanks for helping sort that out.

Ain’t that the truth.

Totally agree that they should try and find the caller. It definitely seems to me like someone wanted to weaponize the cops against this guy. Unfortunately, it could be hard to do if the caller even had a google-search-level knowledge of how to hide their information. Spoofing has become really easy lately, which is…

I posted this below, but Jason’s Stanley’s recent remark about our institutions applies, “Our institutions aren’t robots that walk around the country independently of us. We are our Institutions.” Nobody, not the Congress, the press, or, despite a couple small rebukes, the courts seem seriously interested in checking…

Purdue’s “We accidentally a Photoshop. Is that bad?” explanation was equally ridiculous. As someone who knows my way around a few digital art programs, there’s definitely no Nazi propaganda filter to accidentally click on, much less a way to fuck up resizing the image if you weren’t intending to give him a bigger nose.

Robinson countered charges that his tool was unethical by saying that exploiting legal vacuums is “what entrepreneurs do, duh,” and named AirBnB, Apple, and Uber.

You say: Don’t use us as a publicity stunt, please!

They sold out of those Fauci cards so fast! I used to collect baseball cards when I was younger, so I thought about blowing some money on that kinda dumb purchase. They were gone by the time I found out, the same evening they released it.

It’s wannabe Putins all the way down, I’m afraid.

Fighting astral sex-demons is so 20th century. Us evil secular humanists are onto teaching a safe extraplanar sex curriculum and passing out psionic condoms.

“Deliverance minister,” you say?

That’s why you always wear an astral condom. If only we had a safe extraplanar sex curriculum!

That’s also the reason I scratch my head whenever folks start talking about a second civil war. We’re sorted along ideological, but not territorial lines, like we were back in the 19th century. That, plus the fact the US has a giant standing army that’s trained to fight insurgents and nuclear weapons makes “the Boogalo…

Quite. It’d be one thing if triangulation had given the Democrats a series of uninterrupted victories from Clinton onward and we had a super-majority in both houses of Congress and control of the Supreme Court. In theory, incremental improvements would be acceptable if provided in an unbroken succession with no…