• cadekat@pawb.social
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    7 months ago

    Why do people censor fuck or other profanity on the internet? I don’t get it, and until now, I’ve been too afraid to ask.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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      7 months ago

      Murica. Dunno if any other country does censor such trivialities too. And to the deeper why: religious hipocrisy i guess.

      • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 months ago

        Fuck the fucking fuckers. Swearing as much a part of human communication as cadence is.

        Puritans can fuck themselves with a pineapple. It’s as ridiculous as finding full stops offensive and insisting the rest of the world bow to them by using double commas or something.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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        7 months ago

        Except no one sees the censored thing and doesn’t think the word itself. If anything the censor is bringing extra attention to it. It’s dumb. If the person posting is scared of the word, they should leave it out. If they’re worried other people might fear it then either they should leave it out or not bother censoring because they see it anyway.

    • 6mementomorib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      because it actually adds comedic value to some, like me. it’s somehow funnier if you sloppily censor fuck? i can’t explain it but yesh, if you don’t think of it like that it’ll be pretty cringe

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You CAN in fact more or less do this for real: photographing a mirror from a straight on perspective without the camera visible.

    https://youtu.be/ZlaeWRMYwGg?feature=shared

    Basically, you need a special tilt-shift lens that distorts perspective to where it looks ‘straight on’ while the camera is actually off to the side or down below. If you do it correctly, the viewer won’t even notice anything’s missing.

    These lenses are primarily used for architecture photography to prevent ‘leaning buildings’. They can also create really cool miniature effects. It’s quite a useful bit of gear, but also rather expensive because it’s such a niche lens.

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      7 months ago

      If someone is like me and goes: “Want!”: That Lens in the video costs a cool ~1000 Bucks.

      Which doesn’t mean I don’t want it anymore… Just that it’s on the list for when I swim in money for some reason :D