They can have a 4th of July but never a July 4th
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Okay if you’re going to count things from the past then you still count past queens.
It’s racism in the sense I mentioned. It was tested and built around white people. It didn’t work as well on black people (requires more work, gear, and technique to get similar results). No one was in any real hurry to fix that.
I might have been hyperbolic with features void. But yeah it was a problem. That should have taught us that this problem would come in ai.
Here’s a quick picture with a squirming white child (moving) and a still black woman. You can still make out more features in the white child. I’m assuming as well this was done by a professional who did his best to make both people clear.
Maybe it’s just my eyesight tho.

Silver iodide plates don’t respond to red light. They respond better to blue and violet. That alone doesn’t cause the problem but it’s part of it. I can’t remember where I read that tho
Without special lighting black people became a dark void. You could photograph them with special lighting and different techniques but that mostly wasn’t done.
So I think it’s fair to say it didn’t work well for darker skin tones because in order to get a picture with similar quality you had to work a lot harder.
I do agree in the later days it was more a specific caused by racism but from the beginning it was more difficult to photograph darker skin tones and no one really cared because of racism. I wasn’t caused by the racism tho. It was caused by the technology at that time… that no one cared enough to fix it.
That mentality carried on until I believe the Kodachrome made all the world a sunny day. I’m not an expert tho.
The early days cameras were less sensitive to red light needed for darker skin tones. Some of this could be overcome with lighting that wasn’t readily available.
It possible to do it sure, you could make a picture that was close to the clarity of lighter skin tone. If you have to put in a lot of extra effort and time (that often wasn’t done at all) to take the same picture you could of a white person, I’d say that means the film doesn’t work well with black people. It clearly wasn’t particle because people rarely put in the effort to properly light them.
Why argue with something we have facts about? I didn’t make this up in a shower. I read it in articles written by professionals.
To give an example. I don’t drive a Ferrari . With a new engine and modifications I could make it as fast as a Ferrari . Or I could slash the tires of the Ferrari. However I can’t go around saying “my car is as fast as a Ferrari because if I put the effort in it would be as fast”
I didn’t, and it isn’t.
If you have to put a lot of extra work into something to make it equal, then it isn’t equal.
What’s funny is this was all predictable. We had the same problem when we started with photography in general. It worked well on white people but made every black person a featureless black void.
Turns out we test these things mainly on white men then call it a success when it works exclusively for us white men.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How come killing a cat or dog is not more of an upgraded crime to murder? Alot of people consider their "pets" family members and such. Details inside
11·6 days agoWhat you consider family is not how law works. You’re personal emotions don’t matter at all. They aren’t people, they are property.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump Tells Cheering Crowd: ‘I Could Say the Stupidest Things and You’d Clap’
10·10 days agoHe does and they do
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•'Stain' on Norway for not awarding me Nobel Prize - TrumpEnglish
3·10 days agoIsn’t he banned from getting the prize because he made that women give him hers?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it?
91·11 days agoLive out of a laundry basket. If anyone questions it just curl yourself around the laundry basic and scream like a possum protecting its nest of young. Maintain solid eye contact throughout. Defecate if necessary.
They’ll never mention it again and probably warn others. you can then live out of that laundry basket free of judgement.
Follow me for more info about living life with the freedom of a possum .
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memes@lemmy.world•Movie execs after years of being bashed for inaccurate game adaptations watching Resident Evil (2026) be a critical and commercial hit despite having nothing to do with the games: (confused unga bung…
101·11 days agoI think fallout handled that great with thier show. They were just like “it’s not going to be close enough for anyone to be happy anyway so we’ll just do our own thing”
It’s been pretty good despite some stuff like cold fusion being a pill for some reason.
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memes@lemmy.world•Movie execs after years of being bashed for inaccurate game adaptations watching Resident Evil (2026) be a critical and commercial hit despite having nothing to do with the games: (confused unga bung…
2·11 days agoWait did two movies try to kill you or something?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I’m watching something on tv and a dude strangled another dude with rattle snake. Is that possible? What’s the tensile strength of a snake?
2·11 days agoWhen I wrote it I was thinking “this is the new airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.”
I was actually waiting for someone to ask me “western or eastern?”
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politics @lemmy.world•Republicans don’t have a clear boogeyman for this year’s midterms
0·11 days agoNormally when that happens to countries in history they just default to “the Jews”
Walking really helps my mental health. To be fair I live near the beach so it very relaxing.
And that person can call you an ass for laughing. The freedom knife cuts both ways.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can you open up an unmanned store in the US and will it stay in business or close down?
1·24 days agoI’m a retail manager. I’ve managed a lot of places.
One thing I’ve always said is “we could probably leave a bucket here for everyone to pay as they left. 9 out of ten people would be honest, the tenth tho would take the whole bucket.”
I don’t think it would work in America. Also with current events I no longer feel 9 of the ten would be trustworthy anymore.


Anything with Robert Evan’s is great. I also like “stuff you should know” very chill podcast.
Also “hp pod craft” I think it’s called strange studies of strange stories now. It’s from witch house media