Rolling Most 2020 Images

Close up of President @realDonaldTrump notes is seen where he crossed out "Corona" and replaced it with "Chinese" Virus as he speaks with his coronavirus task force today at the White House. #trump #trumpnotes pic.twitter.com/kVw9yrPPeJ
— Jabin Botsford (@jabinbotsford) March 19, 2020

― rob, Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:37 (six years ago)

fucking asshole

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:38 (six years ago)

can't put into words how angry this made me

― rob, Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:40 (six years ago)

This is just his totally grownup response to Xi calling it the American virus.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:42 (six years ago)

aiui, Xi was himself responding to american attempts to call it "Wuhan virus"

whatever. the problem is people of Asian descent are being attacked (two separate stabbings in Montreal yesterday)

― rob, Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:51 (six years ago)

In French, syphilis used to be called 'le mal de Naples' (the Neapolitan illness) while in Italian it was dubbed 'il mal francese' (the French illness). Nothing new, really.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:55 (six years ago)

Btw only one of the stabbing victims was Korean:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/koreans-montreal-safety-warning-1.5501963

Not that it makes it any better, of course.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:01 (six years ago)

nothing new except it's hundreds of years later, and we should know better

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:02 (six years ago)

the "we also did this during other, even more notoriously racist times" excuse doesn't work

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:02 (six years ago)

True, but I've never been more pessimistic about the prospect of achieving maturity as a species.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:04 (six years ago)

We fucking suck is what I'm saying.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:04 (six years ago)

lol
otm

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:08 (six years ago)

pom, thanks for the correction (I'd read the previous version of the story). And yes I'm aware of those historical precedents, plus I've read some interesting stuff about the circumstances around the naming of the "Spanish flu" in 1918

But what gets me about this is that trying to rename it "chinese virus" is *not* the result of some widespread misattribution or broadly dispersed bigotry--it's top of mind for this loathsome shitstain

― rob, Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:13 (six years ago)

yep, it is a rebranding campaign, and he's already got fox news onboard (is it that they got HIM onboard? there's hardly a distinction between the two)

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:15 (six years ago)

As long as his army of alt-right trolls is ready to pull the trigger whenever someone calls him racist by pointing out that CHiNa IsN't a RaCe, he's a totally normal president.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:16 (six years ago)

And he'll get reelected. His approval rating has just shot up.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:17 (six years ago)

Courtesy of Costco Canada:

https://i.imgur.com/anTjwiJ.png

https://i.imgur.com/cjmR3Ze.png

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:46 (six years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/T2gvDq9.png

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:30 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/kMzqDpd.png

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 9 April 2020 15:32 (six years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/Of9uTDA.png

― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:07 (six years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/EwDB2tm.jpg

― pplains, Friday, 10 April 2020 21:16 (six years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/GmL2kpU.png

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:29 (six years ago)

https://static.businessinsider.sg/2020/04/04/5e9a464f8427e920c33941c3.png

― jmm, Saturday, 18 April 2020 14:16 (six years ago)

that Joshua Bickel photo is quite an indelible image of the times. The composition is so perfect you'd be forgiven for thinking it's from a graphic novel or summat!

― calzino, Saturday, 18 April 2020 14:33 (six years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWBDvtQVAAAMArA?format=jpg

― speaking moistly (Sanpaku), Monday, 20 April 2020 13:57 (six years ago)

yeah, just like the other protester one above, amazing.

― Nhex, Monday, 20 April 2020 14:07 (six years ago)

both excellent photos. look how fucking HUGE the Ram is! the angry dumb patriot is climbing out of it like it's a different ecosystem.

― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 20 April 2020 14:27 (six years ago)

Hadrian posted this one on a diff thread:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EV6AS7XU4AA2h9B?format=jpg&name=large

― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 20 April 2020 14:32 (six years ago)

Give me mint chocolate chip or give me death

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 20 April 2020 14:34 (six years ago)

Hmmm

Sure is weird how these definitely homemade and definitely not astroturfed protests signs look the same, just a coincidence i guess pic.twitter.com/L7tBX2IPJn
— metal dot txt (@metaltxt) April 19, 2020

― pplains, Monday, 20 April 2020 17:40 (six years ago)

if they're at the same protest it would make sense, but not enough info there

― Nhex, Monday, 20 April 2020 18:16 (six years ago)

ok lol at "social distancing = communism," pick a critique and stick to it ffs

― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 20 April 2020 19:27 (six years ago)

fiddle harder everyone, rome's not burning fast enough!
http://i.imgur.com/FfoSh2g.png

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 27 April 2020 20:47 (five years ago)

https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2020/04/germcar.jpg?resize=1200,630&quality=65

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 April 2020 20:51 (five years ago)

GERM-K!

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 27 April 2020 20:54 (five years ago)

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there appears to be a man trapped inside that glass

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 November 2020 21:11 (five years ago)

a man, a pane, a kapow -- SANTA CLAUS

― discourse stu (m bison), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 01:11 (five years ago)

A highway on the California/Nevada stateline is closed

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHvFE2IFsu1/

not due to the heavy snow in the picture but because of an out of control wildfire that is still raging despite the heavy snow/precipitation and below-freezing temps.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:38 (five years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/KuMSWqk.png

― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2020 19:10 (five years ago)

https://imgur.com/AKYfDY7

― here 1st (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:36 (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/AKYfDY7.jpg

― here 1st (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:37 (five years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/w2c48No.png

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:33 (five years ago)

welp that answers that https://t.co/3pXVxDSPTX pic.twitter.com/Yhi8ZFJjRB
— nat “cops break laws to terrorize/intimidate” puff (@LeftAtLondon) November 26, 2020

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 November 2020 17:23 (five years ago)

BREAKING: Monolith Inexplicably Returns... With Stories pic.twitter.com/If61Aj0iaC
— Tim Quirino (@timquirino) November 30, 2020

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:45 (five years ago)

god I haven't looked at this thread in about a month, what an embarrassing year this has been (I mean, there are worse things you could say about it of course, but ugh)

― rob, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:53 (five years ago)

A very visually distinctive year, though.

― jmm, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 18:57 (five years ago)

These are iPad stations being prepared for virtual ICU end of life visits by a palliative care doc I know. Jesus. pic.twitter.com/lIgbg0FhaL
— i cant drive, n95 (@roto_tudor) December 3, 2020

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 December 2020 19:44 (five years ago)

grim

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:16 (five years ago)

a bit late but still relevant
http://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/c5b/a62/733b32c0d4be5ea49a2a5adcf733a7d476-gbbo-1106-03.rhorizontal.w700.jpg

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2020 03:45 (five years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/DUOxvTt.png

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 December 2020 22:05 (five years ago)

How are these last two "2020" images, besides having been taken this year?

― pplains, Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:16 (five years ago)

the pigeon is the exiting under secretary of transportation

― discourse stu (m bison), Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:44 (five years ago)

the first represents climate change, the second represents how we feel when an unmasked person comes too close

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:52 (five years ago)

the bird one is how we all feel. they will peck your eyes out, if you look too closely

― Karl Malone, Sunday, 6 December 2020 06:27 (five years ago)

the former is from internationally popular television show "who wants to bake a cake pip pip" and shows a fan favorite and a fan loathed both having stress melt-down while trying to entertain an ungrateful world in-between daily covid tests and social media kerfuffles

the latter child personifies my increasing claustrophobia and terrified madness in response to even the slightest and most benign intrusion into my bubble. the pigeon is rudy giuliani.

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 6 December 2020 06:34 (five years ago)

the pigeon just farted

― huge rant (sic), Sunday, 6 December 2020 07:46 (five years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eonvjc4W4AAwpnP?format=jpg&name=small

― mookieproof, Monday, 7 December 2020 09:40 (five years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EosRt37W8AI0bl_?format=jpg&name=900x900

― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 15:06 (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/dkhOC9g.jpg

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:18 (five years ago)

solid

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:23 (five years ago)

not as good as the footage of Trump abruptly leaving and that guy throwing his hands up in the air

― Nhex, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:32 (five years ago)

http://i0.wp.com/hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/everyhere-5-of-8.jpg
https://hyperallergic.com/606046/chris-ramming-rob-brill-marfa-covid/

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 15:47 (five years ago)

Some good ones in this NYT roundup:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/year-in-pictures.html

― jaymc, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 16:31 (five years ago)

Every time I open this thread, the first two posts remind me how quickly this year devolved to shit, even before COVID shut things down.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 16:35 (five years ago)

as always, National Geographic is worth the subscription
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/2020/12/21-most-compelling-images-of-the-21st-century

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 December 2020 04:23 (five years ago)

in any case, here's their most 2020 image, by Kris Graves
http://i.imgur.com/6CPfi8D.png

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:01 (five years ago)

I just spent a good 20 minutes looking through those, thanks!

― Karl Malone, Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:09 (five years ago)

omg, that face transplant one.

― Nhex, Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:30 (five years ago)

the entire story there is amazing, they gave her the full issue.

i just spent an hour reading and watching the movie about the immortal woman, susan potter. utterly shook by it.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/01/visible-human-susan-potter-cadaver/

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 December 2020 05:44 (five years ago)

Those National Geographic images are astonishing. I've just subscribed - currently £25 for a year in the UK, which seems absurdly good value.

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 12 December 2020 11:32 (five years ago)

This article embedded from the 2014 picture was worth revisiting:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2014/11/mindsuckers/

If the power of a gene can extend to manipulation of the physical world, Dawkins wondered, could it not extend as well to the manipulation of another living creature? Dawkins argued that it could, and he pointed to parasites as his prime example. The ability of a parasite to control the behavior of a host is encoded in its genes. If one of those genes mutated, the host’s behavior would change.
Picture of a bullfrog's limbs affected by flatworm larvae
Depending on how it changed, the mutation might help or harm the parasite. If a flu virus mutates so that its victims lock themselves away and starve to death, the virus will be unlikely to spread to other hosts, and it will disappear from the population of viruses. A mutation in a parasite that influences a host’s behavior for the better will become more common. If a wasp acquires a mutation that compels its ladybug host to begin to act as a bodyguard, for example, its offspring carrying that trait will thrive, because fewer of them will be killed by predators.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 12 December 2020 11:34 (five years ago)

didn't they do an earlier slice / scan thing using thicker slices and, iirc, a prisoner?

ha, yes, it's in the linked article:

"The cadaver was supposed to be anonymous, but when the press found out that the first Visible Human was an executed convict in Texas..."

(i think i remember reading it in Wired at the time, ~1993. oh, https://www.wired.com/1995/05/digital-dead-man/)

― koogs, Saturday, 12 December 2020 11:59 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/9uPeTuz.png

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 18:47 (five years ago)

we should prob do a poll. there's at least ten on here that are gonna be 2020 forever.

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 18:52 (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/gMCm1Kt.png

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:31 (five years ago)

everyday people

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:32 (five years ago)

the guy on the right is there everyday. the people on the left, i'm not sure what their role is, and maybe they don't either

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:33 (five years ago)

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2020/12/21/tiki-topper/73a79009e01dcd49ec2892b272ba3092a6015563/biz-yip-top.jpg

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/business/2020-in-photos.html

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 31 December 2020 20:29 (five years ago)

https://i2.wp.com/www.lataco.com/wp-content/uploads/123600-R1-26A-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1007&ssl=1

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 31 December 2020 20:31 (five years ago)

https://i1.wp.com/www.lataco.com/wp-content/uploads/DSCF5905-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&ssl=1

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 31 December 2020 20:32 (five years ago)

Last chance yall

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:06 (five years ago)

Should we vote on which image is the most 2020 or would that unlock the final demon

― cat, Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:28 (five years ago)

i'm for it

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 31 December 2020 21:43 (five years ago)

https://i.ibb.co/BZ8GcFd/VT6-Q4-WSLPUI6-XF5-WJ247-OL7-UNM.jpg

― pplains, Thursday, 31 December 2020 23:19 (five years ago)

one year passes...

https://i.imgur.com/P0G1kSX.png

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 19:27 (three years ago)

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