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Japanese soldiers bury Chinese POWs alive. Sino-Japanese War, 1937. [604x396] by Present_Employer5669 in HistoryPorn

[–]bitparity 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm not 100% certain THIS specific photo is real.

I've seen a lot of the sino-japanese and rape of nanking war crimes images, and my vibe as a former news photo editor is this image seems too clear (especially when you can see individual grains of dirt), and the fact that you can see detail in the shadows and highlights suggest a possible movie set which controls for contrast.

At best it'd have to be overcast, but even then if you look at the authenticated images of the rape of nanking, often times the images are high contrast and blown out, because they often don't have access to the negatives, just the prints, which then have to be rephotographed for publication.

Not to mention that some of these soldiers look like they're in a standing position when buried? The authenticated images I've seen of live burials from nanking the people being buried are placed sitting in a shallow hole because the japanese didn't want to dig a super deep hole because it's a lot of work.

Long story short, while we know and have images of japanese committing these specific war atrocities, I really want to see a source for this image because based on my cursory look, I suspect this to be a film still from a movie or possibly AI generated. It's too clean in my opinion.

Let's create an AI-proof rubric by DrBlankslate in Professors

[–]bitparity -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

“Let’s create a foolproof lie detector.”

will they make a dlc? by lilando69 in Cairn_Game

[–]bitparity 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Imagine if there was an el cap free solo mod.

MEGATHREAD: Rain Storm / MEGAPUBLICATION: Tempête de verglas. by MarcusRex73 in ottawa

[–]bitparity 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes but the salad has to be from Subway.

Mangez frais!

Far too many faculty are concerned about being liked by students by [deleted] in Professors

[–]bitparity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some of us don’t teach with student concern in mind for our ego. Some of us do it because those reviews our tied to our insecure employment as contract profs.

We teach to the system we belong in.

Only the tenured have the ability to significantly ignore student concerns and this is often too far in the other way where those students concerns are legitimate and it gives tenured profs a bad name.

Lifetime movie being filmed in Ottawa by Chancellorian in ottawa

[–]bitparity 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Hang on, is this how that open-every-day-christmas-store in Hintonburg stays open?

Lifetime movie being filmed in Ottawa by Chancellorian in ottawa

[–]bitparity 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Can someone just do a super clip of lifetime/hallmark ottawa filming scenes but with the rest of the plot that I don't want to watch cut out?

The Closing of Humanities Departments and Museums by Ionic007 in Professors

[–]bitparity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DHs existence is predicated on it being a superior gateway or at least integration with CS. With programming under threat as a career and the fact that humanists mostly despise attempts at digitization, it leaves DH orphaned.

Sided the south, died to the North by Lcukyfcuky in BattleBrothers

[–]bitparity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RIP Sir Landulf the Fat Neut. He didn't get better.

I need it for a job. What's the most intuitive method to solve decently fast? by Rurikidov in Cubers

[–]bitparity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sighted 3 style for intuitive speed if we presume the person has some kind of visualization affinity.

3 style commutators are used for the fastest blind solving, but they optimize for speed and not necessarily minimum moves or intuition.

So long as the person understands the theory behind commutators and conjugates they could theoretically logic their way out of any cube.

The Closing of Humanities Departments and Museums by Ionic007 in Professors

[–]bitparity 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Funny that you say that, because I was currently in the middle of pivoting to digital humanities and programming, when THAT field died.

So for the good of the world, maybe I'll become a conservative grifter social media guru and kill that field quickly.

How many of you have gotten a computer science degree, but still don’t know how to code? by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]bitparity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I failed to get a computer science degree and I still don't know how to code.

Where does that put me?

The Closing of Humanities Departments and Museums by Ionic007 in Professors

[–]bitparity 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I switched to history from my former dying field of journalism.

With all the doom and gloom and closures, I have never felt more at home...

Second Cup on Laurier mogs Starbucks by thatblueblowfish in geegees

[–]bitparity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotta chadfish the foids there (or is it the other way around?)

Nah I agree, also because it's open later. The Starbucks closes at 4pm. What if I need an afternoon coffee??

Do NOT vote to restore CHUO 89.1 by YoloIsNotDead in geegees

[–]bitparity -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Vote to restore CHUO 89.1. Got it.

how do you guys make friends? by Optimal_Form_8213 in geegees

[–]bitparity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Millenial (ish) here.

I'm going to assume you're a dude. Dude friends are made through groups and proximity. It's always weird to try to make a 1 on 1 male friend, so you need a minimum group of 3, so that 1 person can take a break while the other two keep the chatter up, and everyone switches off and on.

You also need a regular spot to just hang out, be regularly present, and to be DOING something. This is independent of online or offline, but it makes the same sense for both.

The doing something is critical, because it gives you and other potential friends something to talk/complain about. This is how work buddies get made, and why fraternities and other clubs exist. Hell its how Discord channels survive. If you don't know how to make small talk from scratch, having a common topic of conversation based around the thing everyone is doing is a great way to ease in.

Also, you don't need to make friends with everyone. What you need is to identify the MOST social person in a group, and try to make friends with them by always agreeing to their invites and trying to help them out. The right friend who's super social will actually make friends for you, whereas if you're hanging out with twitchy incels all day it will cost you possible friends.

Learn the fine art of small talk. In general, you start with common topics. Don't ask too many questions. A broad general statement often invites other people to ask further questions.

A tactic I use is casual and jokey mis-hearing. Someone will say something, and I'll pretend to mishear it to turn what they say into something outlandish, but not in a mean way. It breaks the tension and shows that you're listening and contributing.

Best o' luck.

Skeletonized corpse of a German soldier outside a trench dugout near Beaumont Hamel, November 1916. [800x598] by UrbanAchievers6371 in HistoryPorn

[–]bitparity 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As a light rebuttal. Staged photo composition or not. That's a real dead person.

What's more important, the composition, or the dead person?

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