Marcio Kabke Pinheiro

I think it's not clear whether the MAGA politicians are rational or not. Clearly, many of them know little about the government of states, which explains why there is so much fumbling about and obvious mistakes and unintended consequences. However, it's clear that Trump is a con artist. He is using the power of the presidency for personal gain. Just now there are videos showing how Trump is bragging about how he and his friends made a lot of money by taking advantage of the stock market fluctuations caused by Trump's tariffs (being turned on and off).  This is entirely rational behavior from a con artist and a narcissist. He's got the all-clear from the Supreme Court that he can't be held responsible for his official actions as president in court. Congress could still hold him responsible (impeachment), and the people maybe can (if there are free elections in the future) but it could very well happen that he gets away with it, and he's old enough that even if he does go into prison, he wouldn't be there for a long time.
 
Tariff wars tend to be followed by actual wars where people die. That's why the EU was founded, by removing tariffs between European states, it was thought that wars between the states can be avoided, which has been the case so far. However, for Trump, the tariffs are just a means towards personal enrichment (and his friends' enrichment), plus getting a lot of personal attention in the media that he craves.

And the centre-left parties are letting it spread and enabling it.
A lot of people are stupid, but a lot of them just feel that the traditional career politicians don't speak for them.
Then we have 4 or 5 years of this or that liberal party in power and nothing changes.
Where is Kamala Harris now?
How do you lose to a fucking convicted felon? How useless do you have to be?
The democrats are now holding little signs up in congress!
What is that achieving?
You can't play diplomacy games with a fascist thug.
It's one of the reasons Putin is so powerful, he had half of them round his little finger, whilst Russian influence & money was deeply embedded in western society.
The only way you remove a fascist dictator or a mafia from power is violence.
The US might be about to find that out at the next election.
In the meantime, this China trade-war is really ramping up towards a possible armed conflict, and not a lot of Trump voters realise the seriousness of what he's started.

Yes indeed, but mainstream politicians also have their dosis to blame. When they don't do their job, opportunists or radical ones easily pop up... Ideology can be dangerous but no less, ineptitude or lack of competence. André Ventura is very talented as I had the chance to change ideas with Francisco Louçã a week ago... This left-wing politician even agreed with me. We who love a free society we are in big trouble to say the least TBH.
Here is his opinion aired on national TV on XIX century Trump's tariffs next day of our long conversation me and him in person of about one hour or so the day before... Louçã is also a reputable economics professor at the university, he explains how these nonsense tariffs have no logic at all... in Portuguese though to those who know the language, you can follow his interesting criticism, pity that White House economists are dumb or too subservient, to not call it 'moron' and 'dumber than a sack of bricks' as even Musk did. Louçã refers how USD is falling despite what could be expected from:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1032490332104272
Former London-based and City University London graduate Catarina Castro (and talented right-wing economist no less) is there too and tries to contradict him but ends to fail the argument that Trump's plan is the dollar down because of the debt. 
It's just pure markets' fear, folks! 
And that's actually scaring... When inflation and uncertainty enter the things cannot end well for no one. 
The orange man is placing that on hold for 90 days for some reason and Musk has called Peter Navarro of those significant gross names definitely not for no reason...

And about Europe...it is not so far away from the USA insanity as it might appear.

The Le Pens got very close to govern France. The far-right is making inroads on Germany. @Emanuelcould talk about the Andre's Ventura "Chega" party on Portugal. Orbán is already in charge on Hungary, as Erdogan in Turkey. Millei (an idiot as crazy as Trump, or worse) is in charge of Argentina - with 55% below the poverty line. And I already talked about Brazil.

The far-right is a world cancer now.

And about Europe...it is not so far away from the USA insanity as it might appear.

The Le Pens got very close to govern France. The far-right is making inroads on Germany. @Emanuelcould talk about the Andre's Ventura "Chega" party on Portugal. Orbán is already in charge on Hungary, as Erdogan in Turkey. Millei (an idiot as crazy as Trump, or worse) is in charge of Argentina - with 55% below the poverty line. And I already talked about Brazil.

The far-right is a world cancer now.

Nope, they won´t. If social media does not become regulated and co-reponsible for the content they publish, they won't.

He had our Trump here in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. He blocked the Covid vaccines for months - Pfizer offered their vaccines for a very low price as soon as it was approved, because they wanted to use Brazil as an example. They sent 101 emails (yep) for all the authorities, NONE had an answer. A congressional investigation after discovered that it was blocked because some of their allies were trying to put some intermediates on vaccines to profit around US$1 per dose.

More than 700.000 people died in Brazil because of Covid. A father of a friend and a grandmother of another friend between them, both very healthy, more than 5 months after the Pfizer offer. They probably be alive today.

Bolsonaro even tried a coup - in the election day, he sent the federal road police to make blockades "for safety" - but only in places that he was in a major advantage, to try to block people to get to local vote places. In Jan 8th 2023, they incited people to broke into all the major institutions, a version of the USA's Jan 6th; but here it was like the White House, The Capitol and the Supreme Court were invaded and destroyed. It was a plan to force the new president to call the military forces - than the militaries would depose the new government.

With some luck, the riot was dissolved, a investigation was opened, an a lot of coup plans were discovered - as with Trump, their allies and dumbfucks lunatics, and coup plans were found handwritten over their desks...plans that included killing the current president, the vice-president and one Supreme Court judge. They tried to explode a gasoline truck in front of the Brasilia airport in the Christmas Eve, since it was full of people.

They are prosecuted now, and probably will go to jail (in factm, probably Bolsonaro will fly to Argentina or USA to not be arrested).

And even with all this, around 35 to 38% of the population would vote for him.

Because a majority of Brazil's population are permanently addicted to social media. Almost all of these 38% reads nothing else than far-right channels in Whatsapp and Telegram - they are bombarded so much by fake news that they believe in no one more than these info. Like Q'Anon guys.

I have relatives, that were (and in a good part stills) some of the most honest and caring people that I know, and they firmly believe than now we live in a dictartorship that only Bolsonaro could destroy. That China will invade Brazil through Uruguay. That Bill Gates patented the Covid virus. All bombarded by social media.

If I put a video with some copywrighted music in Youtube, in less than a minute I receive a warning. A FUCKING MUSIC - much more hard to pinpoint than words or images. Don't try to convince me that they cannot spot fake news on the fly.

But they will not be accountable. And the consequences will be VERY bad - because USA will be hit with a massive reccession, but the far right will say that other countries, or the immigrants, or ANYHTING stupid are the real culprits, and these people will believe.

And I see no easy outcome for this.

Kinda.

Twitter was closed for some time here because the Baby Spreader owner dismissed the local Twitter legal representatives, and by local laws, no enterprisde here could work with a legal representative. Nothing to do with fake news.

Starlink was not cancelled - the Superme Court here blocked Starlink's local assets to pay the fines that Twitter took for (in this case, yes) not giving the law data from some users involved in nazi stuff (including some kids that performes school shootings). The fines were paid and their assets were returned.

Twitter is not much of a problem here - the fake news trends are made there, but the spreading is done using Whatsapp and Telegram groups - closed groups, which cannot be accessed by the law if the owner of the site does not allow to.

Nope, they won´t. If social media does not become regulated and co-reponsible for the content they publish, they won't.

He had our Trump here in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. He blocked the Covid vaccines for months - Pfizer offered their vaccines for a very low price as soon as it was approved, because they wanted to use Brazil as an example. They sent 101 emails (yep) for all the authorities, NONE had an answer. A congressional investigation after discovered that it was blocked because some of their allies were trying to put some intermediates on vaccines to profit around US$1 per dose.

More than 700.000 people died in Brazil because of Covid. A father of a friend and a grandmother of another friend between them, both very healthy, more than 5 months after the Pfizer offer. They probably be alive today.

Bolsonaro even tried a coup - in the election day, he sent the federal road police to make blockades "for safety" - but only in places that he was in a major advantage, to try to block people to get to local vote places. In Jan 8th 2023, they incited people to broke into all the major institutions, a version of the USA's Jan 6th; but here it was like the White House, The Capitol and the Supreme Court were invaded and destroyed. It was a plan to force the new president to call the military forces - than the militaries would depose the new government.

With some luck, the riot was dissolved, a investigation was opened, an a lot of coup plans were discovered - as with Trump, their allies and dumbfucks lunatics, and coup plans were found handwritten over their desks...plans that included killing the current president, the vice-president and one Supreme Court judge. They tried to explode a gasoline truck in front of the Brasilia airport in the Christmas Eve, since it was full of people.

They are prosecuted now, and probably will go to jail (in factm, probably Bolsonaro will fly to Argentina or USA to not be arrested).

And even with all this, around 35 to 38% of the population would vote for him.

Because a majority of Brazil's population are permanently addicted to social media. Almost all of these 38% reads nothing else than far-right channels in Whatsapp and Telegram - they are bombarded so much by fake news that they believe in no one more than these info. Like Q'Anon guys.

I have relatives, that were (and in a good part stills) some of the most honest and caring people that I know, and they firmly believe than now we live in a dictartorship that only Bolsonaro could destroy. That China will invade Brazil through Uruguay. That Bill Gates patented the Covid virus. All bombarded by social media.

If I put a video with some copywrighted music in Youtube, in less than a minute I receive a warning. A FUCKING MUSIC - much more hard to pinpoint than words or images. Don't try to convince me that they cannot spot fake news on the fly.

But they will not be accountable. And the consequences will be VERY bad - because USA will be hit with a massive reccession, but the far right will say that other countries, or the immigrants, or ANYHTING stupid are the real culprits, and these people will believe.

And I see no easy outcome for this.

Nope, they won´t. If social media does not become regulated and co-reponsible for the content they publish, they won't.

He had our Trump here in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. He blocked the Covid vaccines for months - Pfizer offered their vaccines for a very low price as soon as it was approved, because they wanted to use Brazil as an example. They sent 101 emails (yep) for all the authorities, NONE had an answer. A congressional investigation after discovered that it was blocked because some of their allies were trying to put some intermediates on vaccines to profit around US$1 per dose.

More than 700.000 people died in Brazil because of Covid. A father of a friend and a grandmother of another friend between them, both very healthy, more than 5 months after the Pfizer offer. They probably be alive today.

Bolsonaro even tried a coup - in the election day, he sent the federal road police to make blockades "for safety" - but only in places that he was in a major advantage, to try to block people to get to local vote places. In Jan 8th 2023, they incited people to broke into all the major institutions, a version of the USA's Jan 6th; but here it was like the White House, The Capitol and the Supreme Court were invaded and destroyed. It was a plan to force the new president to call the military forces - than the militaries would depose the new government.

With some luck, the riot was dissolved, a investigation was opened, an a lot of coup plans were discovered - as with Trump, their allies and dumbfucks lunatics, and coup plans were found handwritten over their desks...plans that included killing the current president, the vice-president and one Supreme Court judge. They tried to explode a gasoline truck in front of the Brasilia airport in the Christmas Eve, since it was full of people.

They are prosecuted now, and probably will go to jail (in factm, probably Bolsonaro will fly to Argentina or USA to not be arrested).

And even with all this, around 35 to 38% of the population would vote for him.

Because a majority of Brazil's population are permanently addicted to social media. Almost all of these 38% reads nothing else than far-right channels in Whatsapp and Telegram - they are bombarded so much by fake news that they believe in no one more than these info. Like Q'Anon guys.

I have relatives, that were (and in a good part stills) some of the most honest and caring people that I know, and they firmly believe than now we live in a dictartorship that only Bolsonaro could destroy. That China will invade Brazil through Uruguay. That Bill Gates patented the Covid virus. All bombarded by social media.

If I put a video with some copywrighted music in Youtube, in less than a minute I receive a warning. A FUCKING MUSIC - much more hard to pinpoint than words or images. Don't try to convince me that they cannot spot fake news on the fly.

But they will not be accountable. And the consequences will be VERY bad - because USA will be hit with a massive reccession, but the far right will say that other countries, or the immigrants, or ANYHTING stupid are the real culprits, and these people will believe.

And I see no easy outcome for this.

Take a look at the Scorp Minis, I have the first version.

Feiyutech have a neat wireless follow focus that could be used with it.

Manny just released a video saying that he made a mistake about the noise is stiils.

According to him, he made the comparison opening all the files in Lightroom - he found surprising that Adobe have compatibility on day one with the new camera. But Panasonic told them after that Adobe jumped the gun and the drivers were not optimized yet - and that he should compare in Capture One, because in C1 they worked together and the drivers were right.

After he opened the files from Panasonic in C1, the noise problem was gone, and the files from the three cameras, bar from color differences, were "indistinguishable". In fact, what cought his attention is that the files from all the cameras were much better (color, details, rendering) in C1 than in Lightroom...
 
 

Manny just released a video saying that he made a mistake about the noise is stiils.

According to him, he made the comparison opening all the files in Lightroom - he found surprising that Adobe have compatibility on day one with the new camera. But Panasonic told them after that Adobe jumped the gun and the drivers were not optimized yet - and that he should compare in Capture One, because in C1 they worked together and the drivers were right.

After he opened the files from Panasonic in C1, the noise problem was gone, and the files from the three cameras, bar from color differences, were "indistinguishable". In fact, what cought his attention is that the files from all the cameras were much better (color, details, rendering) in C1 than in Lightroom...
 
 

Manny just released a video saying that he made a mistake about the noise is stiils.

According to him, he made the comparison opening all the files in Lightroom - he found surprising that Adobe have compatibility on day one with the new camera. But Panasonic told them after that Adobe jumped the gun and the drivers were not optimized yet - and that he should compare in Capture One, because in C1 they worked together and the drivers were right.

After he opened the files from Panasonic in C1, the noise problem was gone, and the files from the three cameras, bar from color differences, were "indistinguishable". In fact, what cought his attention is that the files from all the cameras were much better (color, details, rendering) in C1 than in Lightroom...
 
 

Manny just released a video saying that he made a mistake about the noise is stiils.

According to him, he made the comparison opening all the files in Lightroom - he found surprising that Adobe have compatibility on day one with the new camera. But Panasonic told them after that Adobe jumped the gun and the drivers were not optimized yet - and that he should compare in Capture One, because in C1 they worked together and the drivers were right.

After he opened the files from Panasonic in C1, the noise problem was gone, and the files from the three cameras, bar from color differences, were "indistinguishable". In fact, what cought his attention is that the files from all the cameras were much better (color, details, rendering) in C1 than in Lightroom...
 
 

Thom Hogan said something about camera shortages that makes a lot of sense - it is a sensor supply problem.

The sensor manufacturers (Sony and the rest) are sweating to supply the demand - not so much for camera sensors, but for smartphone ones. Cameras sensor are made in somewhat older node processes, and, contrary to commen belief, these legacy nodes (aka transistor size) have much more demand than the cutting edge ones, and is hard to order new processing machines.

Hence, when you plan to launch a camera with some sensor, you estimate how many you will want, based in projections, and order X sensor in a batch. You get these sensors in time, but if you want ANOTHER batch, you will go to the back of the queue.

Since until recently the camera seles were down, and these orden are made WAY in advance, I guess that almost everyone order a smaller batch than needed.

Manny just released a video saying that he made a mistake about the noise is stiils.

According to him, he made the comparison opening all the files in Lightroom - he found surprising that Adobe have compatibility on day one with the new camera. But Panasonic told them after that Adobe jumped the gun and the drivers were not optimized yet - and that he should compare in Capture One, because in C1 they worked together and the drivers were right.

After he opened the files from Panasonic in C1, the noise problem was gone, and the files from the three cameras, bar from color differences, were "indistinguishable". In fact, what cought his attention is that the files from all the cameras were much better (color, details, rendering) in C1 than in Lightroom...
 
 

I think the opposite. Panasonic was a very known brand in the VHS times - their camcorders were some of the best, their VHS recorders sold millions of units. Could not be recognized as a stills camera company, but as a video brand, was on pair with Sony (at least here in South America).

Lumix appeared with their point & shoot cameras. Is like Sony changing their logo in front of the cameras to "Cybershot" instead of Sony.

Every non-camera person that ever saw me with a Lumix always ask "what brand is this, never heard", I say "It's made by Panasonic" and immediately people make a face of "oh, THIS i know".

I think the opposite. Panasonic was a very known brand in the VHS times - their camcorders were some of the best, their VHS recorders sold millions of units. Could not be recognized as a stills camera company, but as a video brand, was on pair with Sony (at least here in South America).

Lumix appeared with their point & shoot cameras. Is like Sony changing their logo in front of the cameras to "Cybershot" instead of Sony.

Every non-camera person that ever saw me with a Lumix always ask "what brand is this, never heard", I say "It's made by Panasonic" and immediately people make a face of "oh, THIS i know".

I think the opposite. Panasonic was a very known brand in the VHS times - their camcorders were some of the best, their VHS recorders sold millions of units. Could not be recognized as a stills camera company, but as a video brand, was on pair with Sony (at least here in South America).

Lumix appeared with their point & shoot cameras. Is like Sony changing their logo in front of the cameras to "Cybershot" instead of Sony.

Every non-camera person that ever saw me with a Lumix always ask "what brand is this, never heard", I say "It's made by Panasonic" and immediately people make a face of "oh, THIS i know".

Eu entendo você em qualquer um dos idiomas, @Emanuel 😁

(just a joke to my fellow "languager" here) 😉

https://petapixel.com/2025/03/02/xiaomi-wants-to-make-modular-magnetic-lenses-for-its-phones/

There is a curious thing: it is a 4/3 sensor with 100mp - but binned in 4x4 pixel, which results in 25mp images.

Same resolution of the sensor that (only) Panasonic is using. Is it the same sensor?

I understand the cost saving/standardisation perspective but I think Panasonic are definitely taking the piss a bit now by re-using the S5ii body for all their products.

Christopher Frost spent some days with one and shows a somewhat detailed navigation through the interface.
 
 

Christopher Frost spent some days with one and shows a somewhat detailed navigation through the interface.