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  • Bertuccio@lemmy.worldtoHistoryPorn@lemmy.world•A staged propaganda photo of Italy's facist leader, Benito Mussolini "harvesting" wheat, 1938English
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    26 days ago

    It’s staged in that every element is fake.

    When they take photos of Obama playing basketball, Trump golfing, etc. the subjects are still actually doing those things and actually do them off-camera as pastimes. The comms people are taking real interests and skills of their clients and casting them in the best possible light. The circumstances are staged, but the pastimes are not.

    Mussolini never harvested any wheat and Trump never worked at McDonald’s. The comms people are completely fabricating their client’s interests and skills.

    It’s not even Dirty Jobs levels of slumming it where they actually do the job but get paid thousands of times more and go to a fancy hotel at the end of the day. They’re just models.

  • Bertuccio@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are there any occupations you uniquely oppose the existence of?
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    2 months ago

    Apparently it’s not just an American thing, but maybe other countries have more sense not to do it anymore.

    They’re usually in “high end” restaurants in big cities like Las Vegas. The ones I recall usually have the sinks somewhat separated from the stalls with a partition or turn, but they’re not wholly separate rooms. The motivations are probably more needing money, access to a fancy place, and being an extrovert than perversion - more windshield wiper gig than peeping Tom.

    I think it’s a combination of a holdover from another time that maybe was useful when they had an expanded role - they probably actually used to keep the bathroom clean, and some guys will shine shoes etc. - and tip-based service jobs they gave to poor people. I think they do get an hourly rate, but it’s probably below minimum wage for the same reasons waiting tables is.

  • Bertuccio@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are there any occupations you uniquely oppose the existence of?
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    2 months ago

    Bathroom attendants - since people got all the high value stuff.

    I don’t mean people that clean the bathroom etc.

    I mean the guy that stands at the sink and makes awkward small talk before handing you a towel you could have got yourself and expects a tip.

    EDIT: Y’all I’m pretty sure no one’s having sex or shooting up in the bathroom at the fucking Eiffel Tower restaurant in Las Vegas … Coke - probably. I don’t know where anyone else has seen a bathroom attendant, but every place I’ve seen one at I’ve been wearing a suit…

  • Bertuccio@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    2 months ago

    “Now Jimmy, make sure you wait for a full year of bombing and spend a few thousand dollars adjusting the timing of this satellite to get exactly comparable images so someone on the internet who vaguely heard about manipulative photo techniques, but is fine with ignoring the realities of actually taking the photos, can’t nitpick an image of very clear destruction.”

    EDIT: And let’s just drive this home: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/08/27/satellite-imagery-shows-vast-destruction-in-rafah/

    The differences between 2023 November and 2024 April are due to lighting, and it’s plain to see the buildings are still there even with lighting differences.

    Between 2024 April and August nearly everything left of the red line is gone. It’s not some trick of the light or sand - you can clearly see the other buildings right of the line.

    You’ve tried to deflect by saying people are missing the point and you agreed there is destruction - but no one said that. They said that your two points, that the destruction was not as bad as the images suggest, and that the images are intentionally misleading are both false.

    And they are both false.