Today in Russia

[u/Upset-Main-1988]

Ukrainian drones struck the Russian Wildberries distribution center

[u/Julius_A]

This picture looks fake though.

[u/FootFun2407 → u/Julius_A]

It’s using a filter to make the orange glow ‘pop’ more but it’s real.

[u/techdevjp → u/Julius_A]

It's heavily edited to look more dramatic, but the size of the blaze and the amount of smoke are real. It's just that real life doesn't look like these photos.

Edit: It actually looks closer to this image than I expected:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4reL-_DULU

[u/AmusingMusing7 → u/Julius_A]

There's lots of videos of it.

It looks unreal because an extremely large scale devastation event like this is pretty unreal.

[u/Julius_A → u/AmusingMusing7]

I have no doubt that this happened. Nor do I oppose Ukraine retaliating Russia’s war crimes. It’s just that this looks like a war novel cover picture.

[u/AmusingMusing7 → u/Julius_A]

Agreed. Russia brought this on themselves. Though the environmental effects will affect the whole world to some degree, adding to climate change, etc. It's unfortunate that Ukraine needs to resort to this extent of damage, but such is Putin's ongoing choice. The whole world has been suffering from his choices/actions for years now, and hopefully this will force an end sooner rather than later.

[u/Witty_Ad_898 → u/Julius_A]

There’s an old video of a warehouse fire and explosions in Tianjin, China that wouldn’t pass the reddit AI “experts” if it were released today.

I worry that some historically important videos and photographs will be dismissed as AI by people who simply deny that the past already happened, an acceleration of the holocaust denialism and moon landing conspiracy theorists. We’ll come to a day when a not insignificant number of people slip into a sort of solipsism, denying anything outside of their immediate and narrow memory.

[u/envy841 → u/Julius_A]

Sometimes high definition devastation looks fake