Be more skeptical.
https://gizmodo.com/69-viral-images-from-2016-that-were-totally-fake-1789400518
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
I cannot be more skeptical. I don't even think that is how you spell "sceptical."
ReplyDeleteCan we trust Gizmodo?
ReplyDeleteChad Haney Maybe.
ReplyDeleteIn the 100's of hours I spent as a submarine OOD at periscope depth or on the bridge in several oceans and seas over 20 years, I never once saw the ocean and horizon look anything close to the picture above, with or without the shark.
ReplyDeletePhotoshop needs to be fixed so it puts a faint 'PS' watermark on every image it is used to modify.
ReplyDeleteActually, it does, in the meta-data. Problem: every photo that goes through PS, is 'modified', even if only the exposure or white-point is changed.
ReplyDeleteWalter Hawn You're right. I knew my suggestion was impractical. Still, if only.
ReplyDeleteIf there has been anything learned from the past year. It is that Thomas Jefferson may have been right, about his skepticism concerning the voting abilities of the average citizen. They are just too damn stupid.
ReplyDeleteJohn Bailey
ReplyDeletePeople tend to act in their economic self-interest however they perceive it. We have now learned how easy it is to manipulate perception by a campaign that ran on "let's go back to the 50's and 60's" and "science is fraud" and "smog is good". Economic illiteracy is formidable barrier when people fail to comprehend that job skills must evolve with technological progress, that their father's job they inherited is not coming back. One's economic altitude and range is limited only by education and skills. I do not believe that people are necessarily stupid, just in denial that their world is changing more rapidly than they are. We have a shortage of 6 million STEM workers.
Mac Baird Perhaps my disgust with the capability of the electorate, caused me to use a term not quite appropiate. But the consequences of a poor voting choice may well be very serious indeed.
ReplyDeleteJohn Bailey
ReplyDeleteStrategic thought or the ability to see the consequences of our actions has always been Mankind's greatest weakness.
To use a metaphor, few people play chess any more. Most play checkers, and some are relegated to tic-tac-toe.