They’re angry and sent me a DM suggesting I was either paid $7000 and/or am a nazi if I saw anything to do with politics in this meme. You be the judge.

Haha, someone forwarded it to me and I thought it was hilarious! I’ve been taking a short mental health break from Lemmy (was feeling disillusioned by some stuff I was seeing), but will be back to my normal posting soon.

I am fully into Linux now though. No more Windows installs in my house.

(Oh! I thought I responded to your post yesterday, but it was the crosspost to Linuxmemes, so it wouldn’t have gone to your inbox.)

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You heard the cookie.

If I try to play bullet, I could probably find out for you.

It could be a bit of both, but in general I recognized after a certain point that the only one affected by my stress level is me, not the thing in the news. I’d also credit having a career where you have to get really good at controlling what you let affect you.

He’s famous as a really good geo-guesser (a game where people get random google streetview images and try to drop a pin as close to the coordinates as possible).

People give him challenges all the time, and it’s really impressive.

Here he is finding someone’s location based on a picture taken from a plane.

Found a scan of the article for anyone curious:

It would be funny to contact them about this…

https://helpcenter.washingtonpost.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

They’re not mine. There’s a popular poster on IG, Reddit, and X called “IRL Loading Screens” (the watermark in the image), and they make these and a bunch of others. I reposted a couple of the states that I saw maybe a month ago here, and people seemed to like them, so I’ve been saving them for Lemmy as I see them.

There are a lot of fakes claiming to be from that screen test, unfortunately.

But we do see him in a wig in “I, Claudius” from the 70s.

Is it an actual photoshop then? This isn’t mine, and I assumed whoever did the original edit used some sort of faceswap or AI app to do it because it looked so smooth.

Yeah, I still think the criticisms of Bush were valid, but I’m so much more cool-headed as a person now that the difference in my response feels incongruent. Political news doesn’t take an emotional toll on me like it used to, even though I objectively disagree with modern politicians more.

I can read this as either: AI allows anyone to code their own stuff.

Or

AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

Seriously. I was at the right age to be much more politically intense back then and absolutely despised Bush.

Now, I almost feel bad about it after witnessing the last 20 years of politics.

Hmm, it sort of shares the page, so sure thing.

It has its own Wikipedia page, so it checks out.

Yes, but unfortunately the credits won’t transfer out.

It was for brevity and clarity. People are very familiar with hearing “OCD” used casually, but “NPD” would have sounded too specific and clinical compared to “narcissistic” as a character trait.