Rolling Most 2020 Images

In French, syphilis used to be called 'le mal de Naples' (the Neapolitan illness) while in Italian it was dubbed 'il mal francese' (the French illness). Nothing new, really.

Btw only one of the stabbing victims was Korean:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/koreans-montreal-safety-warning-1.5501963

Not that it makes it any better, of course.

nothing new except it's hundreds of years later, and we should know better

the "we also did this during other, even more notoriously racist times" excuse doesn't work

True, but I've never been more pessimistic about the prospect of achieving maturity as a species.

We fucking suck is what I'm saying.

lol
otm

pom, thanks for the correction (I'd read the previous version of the story). And yes I'm aware of those historical precedents, plus I've read some interesting stuff about the circumstances around the naming of the "Spanish flu" in 1918

But what gets me about this is that trying to rename it "chinese virus" is *not* the result of some widespread misattribution or broadly dispersed bigotry--it's top of mind for this loathsome shitstain

yep, it is a rebranding campaign, and he's already got fox news onboard (is it that they got HIM onboard? there's hardly a distinction between the two)

As long as his army of alt-right trolls is ready to pull the trigger whenever someone calls him racist by pointing out that CHiNa IsN't a RaCe, he's a totally normal president.

And he'll get reelected. His approval rating has just shot up.

Courtesy of Costco Canada:

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that Joshua Bickel photo is quite an indelible image of the times. The composition is so perfect you'd be forgiven for thinking it's from a graphic novel or summat!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWBDvtQVAAAMArA?format=jpg

yeah, just like the other protester one above, amazing.

both excellent photos. look how fucking HUGE the Ram is! the angry dumb patriot is climbing out of it like it's a different ecosystem.

Hadrian posted this one on a diff thread:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EV6AS7XU4AA2h9B?format=jpg&name=large

Give me mint chocolate chip or give me death

Hmmm

Sure is weird how these definitely homemade and definitely not astroturfed protests signs look the same, just a coincidence i guess pic.twitter.com/L7tBX2IPJn

— metal dot txt (@metaltxt) April 19, 2020

if they're at the same protest it would make sense, but not enough info there

ok lol at "social distancing = communism," pick a critique and stick to it ffs

fiddle harder everyone, rome's not burning fast enough!
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https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2020/04/germcar.jpg?resize=1200,630&quality=65

GERM-K!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWomM4SUwAAU2fx?format=jpg&name=small

wtf is that???

prisoners in El Salvador being held in a crack down

jesus christ

their government puts these pics out to show what a cracking job they are doing to reduce gang violence.

These are shocking photos of prisoners in El Salvador being held in a crack down. The craziest thing is it is the government itself wanting to put these out to show it looks tough. It is supposedly to stop gang members ordering murders on the outside. Human rights? pic.twitter.com/ljLukJoKnL

— Ioan Grillo (@ioangrillo) April 27, 2020

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i just put a lysol wipe over my finger

These Reuters photos of a strip club in Oregon operating as a drive through takeaway service confirm that we have reached the neon anime sci fi part of our future dystopia. pic.twitter.com/kRKOVz5CWE

— Sean Craig (@sdbcraig) April 30, 2020

respect the hustle

I would immediately scratch my eyeball with the Cleankey

I've been using the eraser of a pencil with touchscreens and PIN keypads.

i just put a lysol wipe over my finger

― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, April 30, 2020 3:58 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Where did you find Lysol wipes???

at the drive-thru strip club

oh they're unavailable? i got some early on.

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https://www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/nature/files/2020/04/eC6c1LO-asset-mezzanine-16x9-yud7p5n-512x288.jpg

the pigeon just farted

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eonvjc4W4AAwpnP?format=jpg&name=small

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EosRt37W8AI0bl_?format=jpg&name=900x900

https://i.imgur.com/dkhOC9g.jpg

solid

not as good as the footage of Trump abruptly leaving and that guy throwing his hands up in the air

http://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/everyhere-5-of-8.jpg
https://hyperallergic.com/606046/chris-ramming-rob-brill-marfa-covid/

Some good ones in this NYT roundup:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/year-in-pictures.html

Every time I open this thread, the first two posts remind me how quickly this year devolved to shit, even before COVID shut things down.

as always, National Geographic is worth the subscription
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/2020/12/21-most-compelling-images-of-the-21st-century

in any case, here's their most 2020 image, by Kris Graves
http://i.imgur.com/6CPfi8D.png

I just spent a good 20 minutes looking through those, thanks!

omg, that face transplant one.

the entire story there is amazing, they gave her the full issue.

i just spent an hour reading and watching the movie about the immortal woman, susan potter. utterly shook by it.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/01/visible-human-susan-potter-cadaver/

Those National Geographic images are astonishing. I've just subscribed - currently £25 for a year in the UK, which seems absurdly good value.

This article embedded from the 2014 picture was worth revisiting:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2014/11/mindsuckers/

If the power of a gene can extend to manipulation of the physical world, Dawkins wondered, could it not extend as well to the manipulation of another living creature? Dawkins argued that it could, and he pointed to parasites as his prime example. The ability of a parasite to control the behavior of a host is encoded in its genes. If one of those genes mutated, the host’s behavior would change.
Picture of a bullfrog's limbs affected by flatworm larvae

Depending on how it changed, the mutation might help or harm the parasite. If a flu virus mutates so that its victims lock themselves away and starve to death, the virus will be unlikely to spread to other hosts, and it will disappear from the population of viruses. A mutation in a parasite that influences a host’s behavior for the better will become more common. If a wasp acquires a mutation that compels its ladybug host to begin to act as a bodyguard, for example, its offspring carrying that trait will thrive, because fewer of them will be killed by predators.

didn't they do an earlier slice / scan thing using thicker slices and, iirc, a prisoner?

ha, yes, it's in the linked article:

"The cadaver was supposed to be anonymous, but when the press found out that the first Visible Human was an executed convict in Texas..."

(i think i remember reading it in Wired at the time, ~1993. oh, https://www.wired.com/1995/05/digital-dead-man/)

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we should prob do a poll. there's at least ten on here that are gonna be 2020 forever.

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everyday people

the guy on the right is there everyday. the people on the left, i'm not sure what their role is, and maybe they don't either

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2020/12/21/tiki-topper/73a79009e01dcd49ec2892b272ba3092a6015563/biz-yip-top.jpg

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/business/2020-in-photos.html

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Last chance yall

Should we vote on which image is the most 2020 or would that unlock the final demon

i'm for it

https://i.ibb.co/BZ8GcFd/VT6-Q4-WSLPUI6-XF5-WJ247-OL7-UNM.jpg

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