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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

“Another waste of taxpayer dollars and resources. Appropriate action will be taken for all involved,” HUD spokesperson Kasey Lovett said in a statement to The Hill.

I look forward to the "incredibly transparent" DOGE report explaining exactly how much money was wasted here.

I'll just cover it out of my own pocket. You're welcome, American Taxpayers

[–] roofTophopper@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago

I love the reaction to this. There's comments floating around about how childish it is, how it shows immaturity, that it's disrespectful - all from folks who stuck stickers on gas pumps, has decals is Biden tied up and gagged, and a handful of other goofy pictures. Such tears.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 120 points 1 day ago (4 children)

A video produced using artificial intelligence (AI) showing President Trump rubbing and kissing Elon Musk’s feet

That's some poor reporting. How do we know it was AI generated? The footage looks authentic to me.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 day ago

The way he looks I wouldn't entirely discard the possibility of Musk having two left feet, but it seems somewhat unlikely.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Just asking questions!

[–] cmoney@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Trump kissing president Musk's feet

[–] Rokin@lemm.ee 26 points 23 hours ago

Correct number of toes! That's how you know it's not AI.

[–] Yodan@lemm.ee 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is what bothers them. They have all the money, hit them in the ego. It's all the currency they have between billionaires. When money doesn't matter you attack their sense of self and worth because what else do you trade at that level? It's not enough to win, others have to lose to be a billionaire. They get off on punishing people and feeling bigger. Make them feel like a black mirror pig fucker.

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Plus, with how much america glorifies wealth. A good ego check does wonders to billionaires. It's one of the things that really gets to them. Did you listen to Elon as his alternate account and how pissed he was? Such a fucking thing skinned Nazi bitch.

[–] Yodan@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

These people can't say "I've won capitalism, I want to have a nothing Saturday in my robe and suntan then watch a movie", they think "if I'm not blasting 24/7 every day then someone else is going to get to do nothing on Saturdays in a bath robe instead" and can't turn the hate/work/etc off. They equate someone else winning to themselves losing. Can't have anyone else be happy, they'd rather everyone be miserable. If we laugh, they lose.

Keep doing this. It'll fracture that unholy relationship in no time.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)
[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago

This is going to quickly escalate into full-on Trump and Musk hardcore gay porn appearing in random government offices.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Catma@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We dont kink shame here but you are making it real hard not to.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What exactly am I making hard?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Feet doesn't melt steel skyscrapers

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They melt my steel skyscraper.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your mom blew up my building 4

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah she does that.

I’d recommend a course of antibiotics.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The ~~moneys~~ vaccines on the counter.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Vaccines are now illegal in the US.

Best we can do is some heroin.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can i get an overdose of fenty with that?

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How do I get tweedle Dee and tweedle dum to learn that I blasted ungodly amounts of rope to this picture?

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do it near the microwave, I'm told there are recording devices in them.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 64 points 1 day ago

Lol they couldn't figure out how to stop the video so they had to go to every tv and unplug them. That's beautiful.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nb: HUD apparently means "Department of Housing and Urban Development" for people without their decoder ring.

What's the rule on introducing jargon again? Do we remember ?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Now ... what does "nb" stand for?

Nebenbedingung is my guess

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

Nudist Ballet.

[–] DarthFreyr@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Na: He's clearly referring to Niobium. I'm not sure what that has to do with the relationship between a Heads Up Display and this "Department of Housing and Urban Development" thing.

isn't niobium an important electronics component? that could explain it.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 1 points 18 hours ago
[–] turtle@lemm.ee 37 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Honestly, I wonder if that's deliberate. Trump is famously litigious, and he has promised to weaponize the Justice Department against his political enemies. If you publish a video like this (ignoring the hacking onto government computers part right now), but that is clearly meant to appear real, what civil or criminal liability might you face? You could face a defamation lawsuit against a litigant with an unlimited bank account. You might face fraud charges by the Justice Department.

But give Elon two prominent left feet? No one is going to believe the video is real upon any close inspection. Any reasonable person will conclude the video is fake, rather than Elon having two left feet. Unless Elon wants to admit he has two left feet, he can't sue someone for defamation (at least under existing defamation law.)

If this is deliberate, it's actually quite brilliant. It's an AI video version of the small penis rule. This might get around anti-deepfake porn laws, but I'm not really sure on that one. This is more a traditional defamation thing. Not sure how it applies in anti-deepfake porn laws.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's what happens when you replace a professional photo editor with the 'put glue on your pizza' machine.

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[–] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trump really isn't getting off on the right foot, is he?

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The Hill obtained a photo of the screens in the HUD building as they video was playing.

Then doesn't show the photo. Bruh.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Wonder what model made this? Tried it with Hunyuan Video and Musk/Trump loras, and it got thier likeness but doesn't quite get the feet licking right.

I didn't try starting with a still image though. Flux could 100% swing this, but I don't have img-to-vid setup locally yet.

[–] squidman@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

I dunno, looks pretty real to me. I think we should just tell everyone it's real, cuz it totally is :)

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Made by grok

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lmfao

Like, he is really sucking on those toes in that video. To be a fly on the wall when he saw it.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

* microwave on the wall

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I assume there’s publicly accessible ways to generate deepfake porn. Just saying.

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

hahahahahahahaha this is excellent

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Needs to be on Clearchannel billboards asap.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm getting an error message on the site. It asks me to fill out a captcha, but shows no captcha. After 15 seconds it asks me to disable my adblocker to see the captcha, but my adblocker isn't blocking anything from that page. Their instructions are a broken link.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah nothing is loading for me at all - strange

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