Check out Affinity Photo. Doesn't do everything Photoshop does, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper and lighter.
Marx believed in the natural progression of economic systems, from feudalism to mercantilism, mercantilism to capitalism, and capitalism to... well, something else anyway. Socialism, communism, fascism, and really any of the other isms that came about in the late 19th and 20ths centuries were meant as post-capitalist systems. Marx of course was a proponent of socialism or communism, but it's not a foregone conclusion that one of those will be the preeminent system after capitalism.
Anyway, my point is that the USSR et. al. were too early to the game. Capitalism hasn't yet run its course naturally.
Yer mum is a meme.
Oh, nice. I didn't see the effect at the bottom of the picture so I thought it might have been masked. Good stuff.
A double exposure is literally one picture exposed on top of another, usually a completely different subject and composition. The "ghost" effect in this case is intentional.
What you and the guy above you are talking about is a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, where you take two or more exposures of the same scene with bright and dark areas that couldn't both be properly exposed in the same exposure, and combine them to achieve the desired exposure throughout.
OP's photo looks like a more traditional double exposure of two different cityscapes at night, but it's also only double exposed in certain areas. Probably post-processing, rather than done in-camera.
🤷♂️ It all depends on how the individual district & teacher implement it, of course. I'm not sure I trust Florida public schools to discuss that in a balanced way...
Personally I think the criticisms are valid if a bit overstated. Diamond perhaps didn't qualify his claims adequately and purported to explain more than he actually could. However, it's certainly worth considering the effect that environment has on societies. I think if you want to argue that European societies broadly had agency in their exploitation of the world, you have to explain how you would expect them to overcome millennia of violence and greed, develop guns and transcontinental sailing ships, then look at Asia and Africa and say "nah, let's leave them alone". So, individuals certainly had agency in whether or not they partook in the rape or bought into the post-facto rationalizations of scientific racism and the like, but societies amalgamate the competing interests of their component parts, and often the worst impulses win out (incidentally, this is the same reason societies "choose" to fail). And then, ask yourself if you think the Han Chinese would have handled it much differently if it had been them instead of the British. Consider the Han Chinese today. People are people, and people are racist.
None of that changes the fact that white people did, in fact, do those things, and in many (all?) cases owe reparations where none have yet been given. Chances are we'll be on to the next atrocious global hegemon long before those reparations ever happen. Maybe we'll figure it out someday.
Heh, I beat that one a few years ago finally and I mentioned it to a friend of mine and he said, slightly confused "dude that game's like 6 years old."
Being Russian, he is not represented by the Israeli government, so it is not, in fact, a twofer.
because I can “claim” the land as mine as my ancestors resided there a thousand years ago
Actually, the Jewish National Fund purchased land from subjects of the Ottoman Empire. Often when the Jews showed up to claim their purchase, they found that there were Palestinian Arabs living there. That's a result of misappropriations under the Ottoman Land Act of 1858.
That doesn't make the situation any less horrible, but it's a far cry from the way you describe it.
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Mostly true, but also the excessive use of antibiotics in animals reduces the efficacy of antibiotics in humans over time via resistance. So, kind of a distinction without a difference. I'm not a vegan, by the way, or even a vegetarian, but I do try to limit my meat intake for a number of reasons - ethical, environmental, nutritional, and medical.