Migrants at ICE detention facility in Texas spell out ‘S-O-S’ - National | Globalnews.ca
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The detainees spotted a drone flying by and quickly formed the letters by getting into position and spreading out their arms.

When deportees fear for their lives so much they signal distress with a giant SOS sign, that’s the sign of a robust democracy.

I guess they’ll be allowed out in the courtyard one by one from now on…

  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
    151·
    1 day ago

    This is disheartening news, but I had trouble watching the vertical video on a computer screen without cutting off the top or bottom of it.

    Why are drone videos being shot in portrait? Are vertical videos officially the default now?

    I understand vertical videos being made if someone’s holding their phone in their hand, but for a drone video it doesn’t make sense. Landscape orientation would work better as a default, since it’s easier to view on more devices - I can’t turn my computer monitor 90 degrees the way I can simply turn my phone.

    Am I already too old and out of touch? Is there some psychological game to this that I’m missing?

    • LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      I pointed out to my wife when we were watching YouTube on our TV something like this. She said it didn’t bother her until I pointed it out and now she hates it too.

      We were watching a video that had originally been shot horizontal. But it had been edited to be displayed in YouTube short TikTok vertical form. So it was cut off on the sides and had that blurry copy of the video added to the top and bottom of it.

      So, we’re sitting on the couch watching a video on a 55" tv and maybe 10" of that is the actual video.

      This comment section seems like the wrong place to complain about this but I do feel your frustration. Sometimes I feel like technology is going backwards in a lot of areas. AI slop in search engines being the worst one right now.

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        I agree that a discussion about this is best held elsewhere. I was worried about commenting about it here because of the risk of detracting from the important topic at hand. But since it was a video in this post’s link that bothered me, it didn’t make sense to me to make a separate thread about this minor observation.