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Accidental Renaissance

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AccidentalRenaissance is for photos that look like Renaissance paintings.

This means that they look like Renaissance art in their composition, their coloring, their saturation, the angle of the scene, the types of settings, etc.

πŸ‘‰ Must be a photo. Not a meme, drawing, art, ai-generated or ai-enhanced image, screenshot, low-effort post, meta posts, video, or anything else but a photo.

πŸ‘‰ Must be SFW. No gore, porn, extreme violence, blood, corpses, or similarly disturbing content. Absolutely no pornography, even if it's "tasteful".

πŸ‘‰ Comments must be civil. No slurs of any kind or using words to insult, demean, harass, or abuse other individuals or groups.

πŸ‘‰ The Renaissance part (not the photo itself) must be accidental to the photograph. In other words, no photos of Renaissance fairs, people dressed in medieval/Renaissance clothes, etc.

πŸ‘‰ NO influencer selfies, professional photoshoots with watermarks, any type of OnlyFans-like content. We are not the place to work your side-hustle.

πŸ“Έ If you know who the photographer is, give them credit in the comment section. This is the only type of self-promotion we allow.

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Were this a painting, I'd accuse the artist of being lazy and not knowing how to paint a car.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago

Seen somewhere else: it's really impressive that Tesla designed a "truck" so bad that when one explodes you can't be sure whether it was a car bomb or just yet another design flaw.

[–] CrazyFrog97@discuss.online 19 points 6 days ago

It's poetic, not so sure about renaissance.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 6 points 6 days ago

This was so insane that I thought it was an AI generation

[–] bicaklar@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago
[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But, is it efficient???? Eh? Is it?

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Garbage that incinerates itself? Sounds efficient to me!

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I just learned that this was an actual explosion rather than a Tesla special bonfire.

[–] Forestial@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Nice bird of prey look to the top of the flame

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 277 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

Here’s the original photo before the low-quality noise reduction and oversaturation, in case anyone else is interested.

2025

Edit: Here’s the video https://youtu.be/YnO6RBOs6oA

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The sad thing is I thought this wasn't real.

but apparently it is

No shame. I felt the same way until I saw the video.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 79 points 1 week ago (11 children)

2020: The longest Decade.

2021: 2020 Part II

2022: Several Steps Backward

2023: Return of the Financial Crisis

2024: Fuck Around and Find Out

2025: Just how bad can it get?

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

2023: Return of the Financial Crisis

Did it ever really leave? as far as I can tell the funny numbers went back up but for most real people things have been pretty consistently downhill since 2008.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you really want to have a migraine, read Hunter Thompson's "Hell's Angels."

There's a passage where he talks about the economics of being a biker/hippie/artist circa 1970.

An Angel could work six months as a Union stevedore and earn enough to hit the road for two years. A part time waitress could make enough to support herself and her musician boy freind.

Then a guy named Nixon got to work...

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Same with Thatcher in the UK.

Post war recovery worked to a degree and had made life better but people screamed about it being a nanny state because people had the ability to explore the meaning of their own life without fear of imminent death and think of all the profit that was being missed out on because we were busy helping people.

And here we are doubling down again.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

Reaganomics failed during his administration.

They've been running on its incredible success for decades.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago

2026: :) -> >:)

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago (8 children)

One dead, seven injured according to the BBC.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The person who died was inside the vehicle, not that this makes it any better if it was an accident.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Dude was transporting fireworks in the car. They caught on fire. For whatever reason. Doors locked automatically. As designed. The guy couldn't find the hidden release lever. And so he burned to death.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

He was also transporting cans of natural gas and other fuels. Who loads their truck to the brim with fireworks and anything that is highly explosive and then "accidentally" detonates it at the entrance of a hotel?

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

People who drove cybertrucks

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 7 points 6 days ago

Seems about the right IQ level for it.

[–] dariusj18@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Someone with bad decision making skills? Wanted to go out into the desert and light shit on fire maybe?

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Why the fuck would doors lock automatically upon catching fire? That seems insane

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] spider@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nov. 5, 2024 has been officially identified as the cause of the fire.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Dumpster fire.

(Sad that someone died)

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 14 points 6 days ago

Or was killed by the awful design decision of AUTOMATICALLY LOCKING THE DOORS in the case of an accident. WITHOUT AN EASY TO REACH RELEASE MECHANISM INSIDE.

This type of design should be illegal. Several people have already died because of this idiocy.

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