One is a telephoto that’s not really on focus; the other is a crisp portriat. The original tweeter is just looking to stir up controversy where there already is plenty of things to talk about.
Seriously… name any service that you would trust a man this age and in this condition to perform for you besides helping you find a book at your local library (and even that is a stretch). We have a terribly broken political system.
It’s called make up Lisa. You should know this!
I’m all about the inherent weirdness of his disappearance.
However, It’s an attrocious shot with bad contrast, cropping and lighting and on another angles and expression. I still see more similarities than differences.
This is seeking something there isn’t
Look up “terminal lucidity” and you will find the reports of nurses who have seen people not only recovering mentally, but also physically only days before their death. It’s a very weird phenomenon which I’m still not completely sure is real, but this could match that really good if he (hopefully) dies shortly.
Also I bet they covered him in makeup head to toes.
My cat was 19 and basically only hung out in like 1 room and felt safe there. She randomly came out and jumped on the couch and went all over the house and like 5 days later she was limping and passed overnight after bringing her home from a vet visit.
All animals I’ve had that were terminally sick had a great last day, like terminal lucidity but more like terminal enjoyment.
Age and poor health is the difference.
(Someone needs to answer seriously, because too many people fall for this shit.)
People don’t seem to realize that camera lens and lighting can vastly change the color, depth, and shape of your image. Most of the time if you see some differences in between two pictures of the same person it’s because they were taken with different lenses or under different lighting.
Some focal length comparisons:
Technically focal length doesn’t matter directly, only indirectly, because the phenomenon is almost entirely defined by the distance from the camera and the subject. If you have a 50mm lens and take the photo as far away as the 200mm lens, the person will look roughly the same when cropped down to the same apparent size (minus the loss of resolution from cropping and a smaller effective sensor size).
If you slap on a 200mm lens on a camera within 2 meters of your subject, though, you might not be able to focus, and if you can you wouldn’t be able to fit their entire face in frame.
But that also means our eyes, with our fixed focal lengths, can experience the same thing, by just moving closer or further away from a subject. Our visual cortex automatically adjusts a lot of things, but get up close and see someone’s ears or hair shrink in relative terms compared to their nose, or get far away and see their nose get back to a normal ratio to their eyes or ears.
Side note, this is a big reason why I don’t care for selfies. I don’t like the distortion.
This is true, but not very helpful: the comparison is about varying focal length while keeping the share of the image occupied by the subject the same.
Yes, but I bring it up for the specific example of using our own eyes to achieve this effect, rather than relying on a camera. We don’t have a choice to change the focal length of our own eyes, or even crop the image, but the effect is still there.
Fair, but I will never see Mitch McConnell with my own eyes either.
If that is him, he’s clearly brain dead.
I think brain dead would require a ventilator since there would be no mental ability for basic functions to keep alive. It would be better to say seriously brain damaged, extremely diminished capacity or even the “ lights are on, nobody’s home” phrase you used later on. I hate to be pedantic but we thought he might be really brain dead the last 2-3 months when no one saw him.
How would we tell?
I mean, dudes mouth was just hanging open. There’s no one home.
They wheeled him to senate, but said video wasn’t allowed (gee I wonder why), and he didn’t vote.
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mvjjxfgswk2g
Why do Americans insist on having old, decrepit, decaying people as their leaders?
