I’m peanut butter, and you are jelly

Stretch and outward rake

Desalination is a good explanation too. The point really, is that just ordering certain chemicals in bulk isn’t necessarily shady even if they sound scary.

Agree with you there. Just pointing out that in theory and with the right technique, some blurring methods can be undone. Grok most certainly is the wrong tool for the job.

That’s hard to say. It might be a few years’ supply for a large pool and due to the shipping costs it made more sense to get this amount. 330 gal isn’t all that much really (an Olympic sized pool is 660 000 gal for example). Some articles I’ve seen for this story use a tanker truck picture which is crazy misleading as it’s more like one of these tanks which I often see in multiples in the back of a 1-ton pickup.

This isn’t like the P Diddy baby oil where it was a crazy weird amount with no other purpose than something freaky. The acid alone isn’t necessarily evidence of anything nefarious or newsworthy; people just watch breaking bad so think acid is only for dissolving bodies or something, and the news sites feed into that to get clicks. Just offering up calorie-free content instead of anything of actual substance.

Now, if there was evidence they used the acid for something bad? Then that’s something.

https://poolonomics.com/sulfuric-acid-pool/

Oof, against the grain. Pine fresh after though.

The black boxes would be impossible, but there are some types of blur that keep enough of the original data they can be undone. There was a pedofile that used a swirl to cover his face in pictures and investigators were able to unswirl the images and identify him.

With how the rest of it has gone it wouldn’t surprise me if someone was incompetent enough to use a reversible one, although I have doubts Grok would do it properly.

Edit: this technique only works for video, but maybe if there are several pictures of the same person all blurred it could be used there too?

https://youtu.be/acKYYwcxpGk

In fairness, it seems that America now stands for those things so being against them is seemingly anti-America too

Wouldn’t this just be stocking up on pool chemicals or something? I’m sure nefarious things were happening in the pool, but the chemicals themselves doesn’t feel newsworthy.

In the post I mean in addition to the usual volume function. You could adjust the volume like normal in each volume toggle, there’d just be a button to swap between them. The point is you wouldn’t need to gradually change the volume if you set them at two different points and could just jump from your “loud” setting to your “quiet” one if you wanted.

Wait, the recall button isn’t a thing anymore? Guess I never noticed because I don’t have cable

Cast, or caste?

There’s safety in being indirect (you can retreat into the ambiguity), and there’s the “handshake” aspect of it too where it can prove they understand you on a deeper level than what’s explicitly on the surface.

I see you’re already on step 4

Is “cultural mosaic” not what’s used anymore?

Ryan Gosling of course.

Engagement bait isn’t effective communicating, it’s a large component of what’s wrong with the world right now. Instead of sharing actual knowledge or being more careful with our words, there’s an incentive to get it wrong on purpose because that’s what the algorithm rewards. Let’s all be better.