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[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It appears to be a 1970s bike (I would take a stab at a Yamaha LT3) and by that period shutter speeds of 1/500 or 1/1000 were readily available amongst better quality cameras. That would be plenty to get a clear shot of the spokes on what would be a relatively slow moving bike (I would assume <40km/h, likely noticeably less). I've got several 50s era cameras that have 1/500 top speeds, so even if the bike was new at the time of the photo it didn't require a new camera to take the shot.

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago

I would not say having the inside foot off the peg and held forward in this situation is an indicator of the photo being fake, seeing as it's a common behaviour when riding dirt bikes.

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

The watermark is noticeably more readable in the Facebook image I linked though, and it does say photography (even there it is somewhat blurred though, so assuming it was actually clear in the original source that copy is a few recompressions along the chain).

The dates of the other sources however are what really convinces me it's not AI. After all, who was doing good quality photorealistic AI image generation in 2021?

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The one I was thinking of is this one from a Facebook page, but looking around a bit more there's also this one from someone's instagram. The instagram one is mainly notable because it dates the image back further to at least 2021, making it even more unlikely to be AI generated.

The common attribution appears to be this Instagram account but google images didn't show me one from that account when looking for other version of the photo and I'm not about to make an instagram account in order to scroll through years of photos looking for the potential original.

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Seems legit enough to me. The next rack of tomatoes would only be ~2m away after all given the gaps between rows aren't going to be massive. Pretty sure the sharpness issues are primarily from repeated JPEG recompression data loss - you can find a better quality version of the image by searching 'carmine spina tomatoes' which both looks less compressed in the far ground and dates from at least 2022 (so before mass popularity of AI generation).

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think a mud track with occasional bits of gravel is basically what the display is suggesting, it's just that the mud is dry.

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago

I agree, I just thought it worth mentioning that telling people 'don't be be a coconut' has the potential to backfire if you want them to be agreeable to whatever you say next.

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Aside from the reference calling someone a coconut is a great way to get them offside if they've got brown skin, so I wouldn't recommend going around saying that title in real life...

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

A blue ringed octopus - they're a cute looking tiny octopus but quite capable of killing a human.

What's worst is that after getting bitten by one you will be mentally alert but completely unable to do anything as you feel your body just stop doing things that keep you alive (like breathing)...

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You pour a bit of boiling water down the side of the cylinder then run your hand down where you poured the water - you will feel a clear delineation in the temperature of the cylinder at the level of the liquid gas inside.

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Boiling the jug and pouring a bit of hot water on the cylinder seems like it'd be less work than digging out the Wii fit gear, unless of course they use it more regularly rather than just for weighing gas bottles.

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Nutbush City Limits might have a chance then, we'll see whether Australian public schools are still teaching the dance in a couple of hundred years...

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