Sure it could, you just wouldn’t be very likely to finish your list.

Markwayne bought a local plumbing business and a did exactly what a private equity firm would have done an now it’s one of the largest and most advertised plumbing businesses in the area and yet for decades it constantly has shit reviews.

Maybe he just got lucky, but it sure seems like there’s a lot of these dumbasses who have successful businesses and have successfully navigated the capitalist hellscape in the background.

I wouldn’t underestimate their ability to funnel money to the top while looking like they have no idea what they’re doing.

I’ll say it again… Lemmy does not need to be a copy of Reddit. If you disagree with that then disagree with it. But acting like it’s not a valid point is just ignoring my argument.

I also already made my point here. Zoom requires a zoom lens not just a focusing lens and not less pixels. No matter what tricks you played 35mm is never going to be zoomed in full format and the same is true for digital.

This is the last time I repeat myself for you.

No you won’t. Just like you didn’t read it in the other thread.

If you are going to split hairs on it not being a lie then I am going to split hairs on it not being magnification.

I get what you are saying but zoom is a function of the lens. Calling anything else zoom is a lie.

Most states have some form of protections. There are only a handful of states that are truly at will with no exceptions.

The lie is the same regardless of the resolution.

That’s going to depend on if you live in an ‘at will’ state or not.

Using less of the sensor to take a picture and calling it zoom is a lie. That’s just cropping the picture to be smaller not zooming.

It’s always been funny to me that people are totally OK with the idea that punch noises and other cracks and crunches and grunts are made by the Foley team but think sounds like this are totally realistic…

I was specifically excluding the people I know who were too young to remember it from my statement as they can’t have forgotten something they didn’t experience to remember in the first place.

But even including the group you are talking about I still don’t know anybody who wants to be at war in the Middle East.

I’m not saying they don’t exist, but it does make me feel like we are being ruled by a tiny minority especially when you keep seeing polls that say that 70+% want universal healthcare and we still have representatives on the “left” who won’t support it just as one example.

I don’t know anybody who doesn’t remember it and doesn’t care or who wants to be at war in the Middle East.

Local newspapers are pretty much dead so in a lot of places local tv news is the only way to know what’s going on in the area.

In typical white colonizer fashion it’s “I got mine now fuck you.”

Even if that one isn’t, there have been similar verifiably real instances.

I really hate that the only local channel I have that isn’t a Scripps or Sinclair owned station is a CBS affiliate.

We do… But what else are we supposed to do about it? For me Washington DC is 20 hours away by car, assuming that my 15-year-old car could make it that far and that I could afford the gas right now. I’m only halfway to the other coast too.

Okay… but are there concepts of a plan?

They genuinely believe that “the other side” is doing it too, so if they don’t do it then they will lose and they will have failed the “majority”.