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Who Stole Her Philtrum

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Are there 10000 substantive issues I could discuss?

Yes, of course.

Are we not supposed to discuss people’s looks?

Also yes.

Am I going to anyway?

If you guessed yes, you are correct.

I can not stop thinking about this so now you aren’t allowed to either. Why does Karoline Leavitt look like someone used the adobe blur tool on her upper lip and then forgot to go back in and recreate a philtrum?

Who Stole Her Philtrum

WHY?

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  5. 5.

    lowtechcyclist

    When I saw the thread title, I was racking my brain, trying to remember what a ‘philtrum’ was.

    Then I saw the pic, and said, ‘oh yeah, that.’

  7. 7.

    TBone

    Holy shit, she’s a Reptilian Qanon Lizard Deep Stater!

    How’s her throat wattle? Can she inflate it to attract a mate?  Is she amphibious?

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    In FYWP news,

    The company behind WordPress, Automattic Inc., and its founder, Matt Mullenweg, continue to face backlash over a “nuclear war” started with WP Engine (WPE) that allegedly messed with maintenance and security of hundreds of thousands of websites.
    [snip]
    WordPress must remain free for all, lawsuit says
    [snip]
    WordPress software, Keller’s complaint explained, “has long been promised to be free and available to everyone forever.” This promise propelled WordPress’ popularity to, by its own estimates, “encompass more than 40 percent of all websites in the world,” his complaint said.

    In the 10 years Keller used WPE, he never had any issues accessing the WordPress ecosystem, and he thought WordPress had guaranteed that it would stay that way—especially since WPE’s use of the trademark appeared to be “expressly permitted on the WordPress foundation website.” Source

  12. 12.

    Colette South

    Sadly, lack of a philtrum is a symptom of Fetal alcohol syndrome although it may also be a sign of photoshopping.

     

  15. 15.

    humanadverb

    Looking at a variety of pictures in Google Images, I actually think I see some evidence of a repaired cleft lip.

  16. 16.

    TONYG

    @TONYG: She looks like poorly designed “AI” interface had been asked to generate an image of a “blandly pretty, unintelligent young blonde woman”.

     

    @Eric:

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    FYI.

    Exposure to extreme heat could lead to faster aging, a new study published today in the journal Science Advances suggests. Older people living in hotter areas of the US showed faster aging at the molecular level than people living in cooler areas.
    [snip]
    “We’re kind of surprised [at] how massive this impact could be,” says Eun Young Choi, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral associate at the University of Southern California. “The effects of extreme heat might not show up right away as a diagnosable health condition, but it could be taking a silent toll at the cellular and the molecular level which could years later develop into disability and disease.“ Source

  26. 26.

    Marmot

    @NotMax:

    Older people living in hotter areas of the US showed faster aging at the molecular level than people living in cooler areas.

    Fuck! I was really hoping it was the other way around, since I function better in the heat than the cold.

  27. 27.

    A Ghost to Most

    I think that they have a factory churning this model out in Russia. I’ve seen it before.

  32. 32.

    Hilbertsubspace

    I am now of the opinion that fascists are the locust form of reactionaries.  Which make Trump their metaphorical Abaddon*.

    If I were writing the script for this shitshow, I would have the extinct Rocky Mountain locust make a sudden return this summer to drive the point home.

    *Demon King of Locusts

  39. 39.

    bbleh

    Third-rate plastic surgery?  Too much pancake makeup and fuzzy focus or filters?  Or yeah, maybe alien lizard being who didn’t get the disguise quite right.

    But when it comes to rightwing spokesbots, they might as well be AI constructs.  So ok, AI construct.  Maybe that’s why we don’t see her hands, because they’re both left, with 6 or 7 fingers each.

    Now on to important matters — which individual socks in this batch of laundry make pairs?  I mean, they look mostly the same, but some are more worn than others, and I know some are older than others, so which ones GO together?!?

  43. 43.

    Suzanne

    @Colette South:

    Sadly, lack of a philtrum is a symptom of Fetal alcohol syndrome although it may also be a sign of photoshopping. 

    It is also a sign of terribly-done fillers.

  45. 45.

    Scout211

    I had my book group meeting yesterday on zoom and I was not happy with how old I looked on my video feed so I played around with the filter that “improves” your appearance.  My face was “touched up” by the zoom filter so much it looked like I was a mannequin whose face was smeared with Vaseline. You know, just like young Karoline.  The only difference between my face and young Karoline’s was I looked like an old Scout211 with Vaseline all over my face. Believe me, that was not a good look. My book group got a kick out my story trying to look younger on my video feed because as old as I am, I’m the youngest book group member in our group.  LOL.

  46. 46.

    Ohio Mom

    @Colette South: IIRC, there are some other developmental disabilities that are also marked by a lack of a philtrum, not just FAS. It is definitely something developmental doctors note.

  48. 48.

    Suzanne

    @Scout211: If the lighting is overhead or cold in temperature, one will look bad. Turn on a nice lamp that’s roughly level with your face, or sit next to a window, and you’ll look beautiful.

  49. 49.

    Mel

    @TBone: The even gorier question is: which  creature from the Trump lagoon is lurking just off-screen ready for the amplexus?

    The mind boggles…

  50. 50.

    Suzanne

    @Ohio Mom: Karoline Leavitt has had buccal fat removal in her cheeks and a ton of fillers in her face. That’s standard practice for MAGA women.

    Probably Botox eyebrows and veneers on her teeth, too.

    ETA: And a closer look at her photo makes me think she’s also had a nose job and a chin implant.

  54. 54.

    Jackie

    Good for John Deere!

    A right-wing think tank pressuring shareholders of large public companies to prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion programs suffered a blowout defeat when they took their case to farming equipment manufacturer John Deere, independent journalist and author Nancy Levine Stearns reported Wednesday.

    “At John Deere’s annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal,” wrote Stearns on Bluesky. The proposal, brought to shareholders by the National Center for Public Policy Research, “received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out.”

    Will MAGA farmers boycott John Deere?

  55. 55.

    waspuppet

    Are we not supposed to discuss people’s looks?

    Depends. I will discuss Donald Trump’s looks all day long because 1) he insults other peoples looks constantly and 2) his appearance — not what he was born with, I should stress, but the way he chooses to make himself look vis a vis the impression he’s trying to make — crosses the line into obvious visual evidence of age-related mental decline. He’s clearly unable to perceive the reality of the world around him.

  62. 62.

    Suzanne

    @waspuppet: I believe it is bad form to discuss people’s body, but fully acceptable to discuss their presentation choices and the semiotics thereof.

    I will also note that I think plastic surgery and procedures are fucken awesome for anyone who wants them. I don’t think it’s shallow or an indicator of poor character. The aesthetic of MAGA for women is about visible procedure work to fit into a specific beauty standard and that has relevance to politics and the world that women live in.

  64. 64.

    geg6

    @Jackie:

    My former boss’ daughter was recruited by John Deere in her junior year of college.  She’s a mechanical engineer, in the top of her class at PSU.  Held a job open for her until she graduated.  Paid for moving costs from here to Augusta, GA, found her an apartment and paid her a $70k signing bonus.  She is making more money three years from graduation than her mom and dad do now put together.  She says they love hiring women and Black engineers and will fight to hire them.

  65. 65.

    Nukular Biskits

    Good evenin’, y’all.

    OT, I guess (?):  Made a brief visit to my senior US Senator’s local office today.  Staffer their claimed the other staffer, the “Southern Regional Field Representative” had tried to call me (I had left several messages).  I told her I had no missed calls.

    Got his card so I’m about to email him, requesting a face-to-face.

    Again, folks, remember:  THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO COME BY THEIR OFFICES.

  66. 66.

    ArchTeryx

    If that’s actually AI-generated, then I think you can make fun of it all you want. I mean, I think it’s a moral imperative to ruthlessly mock AI-generated anything.

    If that’s an actual human being… WTF? Why would you do that to yourself? What the hell is wrong with these people?

  67. 67.

    Nukular Biskits

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Are you fucking kidding me?

    Probably the ONLY reason I didn’t catch the flu while on business travel (and in closed spaces aboard a ship for hours at a time)  while everyone else was dropping like flies was because I got my flu shot in October.

  68. 68.

    Suzanne

    @ArchTeryx:

    Why would you do that to yourself? What the hell is wrongwith these people? 

    She does it because she wouldn’t have the career/platform that she enjoys if she didn’t.

  72. 72.

    ArchTeryx

    @Suzanne: If she wasn’t a MAGA cultist I’d feel sorry for her. I’ve never believed in the utter crap women are forced to go through for public facing jobs like that.

  73. 73.

    Baud

    Via reddit

    Jasmine Crockett – ”We may be heading towards the next World War because we have a President that wants to pal around with Putin, and lying about who invaded who.”

  77. 77.

    suzanne

    @ArchTeryx: I think that most women are doing the best they can do, given a society that provides incredibly strong incentives and disincentives for conformity. And, quite frankly, it is much more helpful/ally-ful to tear at those incentives and the beauty standard, rather than to ask why women conform to them, or to imply that she doesn’t conform well enough to the beauty standard.

    She’s pretty. She looks uncanny, though…. which is entirely the point.

  83. 83.

    Jay

    There is a sub set on r/Leopards ate my Face, about misogynistic women MAGgot’s finding out that MAGgot’s are misogynistic towards women in their own Party and that they are all DEI hires, now fired.

    Funny that, support the patriarchy, discover the misogyny.

  86. 86.

    Ohio Mom

    @Suzanne: The first thing I thought when I saw her (whoever she is) is, What an awful nose job, it’s disproportionately small. Looks weird.

    As someone who has had medically necessary surgeries, it boggles my mind that people volunteer to go under the knife. I hate surgery. I guess I am not vain enough.

  88. 88.

    prostratedragon

    @waspuppet:  Thank you! He’s always had issues here, as you can tell comparing his appearance to his very presentable-looking younger brother. It’s how, against all my home training, I came to see him years ago as defiant and dangerously shameless.

  89. 89.

    Ohio Mom

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Fooey. I am still recovering from a two week bout of Flu Type A. Maybe my early fall shot wore off, maybe I would have been sicker without it. I definitely do not want to skip next fall’s shot.

    Are we going to have to become medical tourists for flu shots?

  95. 95.

    Mai Naem mobil

    She’s 20 something and married to a guy close to 60. I know I’m not supposed to care about peoples personal lives but these kind of marriages  just have such an eww factor with me..

  96. 96.

    Nancy

    @Baud: Jasmine Crockett is brilliant. I admire her immensely but the deal was sealed when I saw her response to a reporter; “What would you say to Elon Musk?” “F— off.”*

    *This is a family blog, isn’t it?

  98. 98.

    Maxim

    Welfare check — Bill in Glendale:

    I have not been in the comments much recently; too much life stuff going on. A friend who knows Bill  from another site asked if I’d seen him here, as he’s been absent from that other site the last few weeks.

    Is there any news about him? It’s a bit scary to ask these days, but I hope he’s just been busy. TIA.

  99. 99.

    West of the Rockies

    I don’t know… she looks how she looks and gets to choose her makeup.  It’s the words (lies) she spews that are offensive.

  104. 104.

    Jay

    @matt:

    isn’t that the Watergate?

    I thought that the Watergate was that great big tap in Canada, that takes hundreds of people to turn, that controls all the flow of water to California?

  107. 107.

    geg6

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Allyson (boss’ daughter) loves it there.  She feels valued and very much part of the team.  It’s still pretty unusual for a woman to be an engineer, let alone a mechanical engineer.   And she’s also a stunner, tall, blonde, blue-eyed, which you may think would cause her some issues in such a male dominated world.  But she has nothing but good things to say.

  108. 108.

    SpaceUnit

    I admire a good vocabulary but there’s something sus about anyone who knows the word philtrum.

     

    Spellcheck doesn’t even recognize it.

  111. 111.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    It’s nice to hear that Deere remains committed to DEI and realizes what a diverse engineering team brings to the company.

    I saw this play out over a decade at my DOT mode.

    The kicker is location.  Our state DOT had a helluva time retaining out-of-area black and women engineers because the location (state capitol in Jeff City MO) was so insulated, they couldn’t find anything to do or people to socialize with, so were gone within 2 years.

  112. 112.

    prostratedragon

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Ummm …

    Death by idiocy & ignorance is coming.

    Uganda has an Ebola outbreak. 12 Americans were exposed to it.

    Uganda tried informing the US but its staff had gone.

    There was no-one to answer the phone. No-one to set up border screening. No-one to liaise with WHO.

    Madness.

    Refers to this:

    Elon Musk: “We will make mistakes. We won’t be perfect … so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention.”

  113. 113.

    VFX Lurker

    @NotMax:

    Older people living in hotter areas of the US showed faster aging at the molecular level than people living in cooler areas. 

    Darn it…so, to maintain freshness and extend my shelf life, I need to live in a fridge?

  117. 117.

    Jager

    @Jackie: The son of a friend of mine, is the head tech guy for John Deere. He is the guy who shut off all the tractors Russia stole from Deere’s Ukrainian distributor at the beginning of Putin’s “3 day war”.

  118. 118.

    West of the Cascades

    @bbleh: You would think that with all of Rupert Murdoch’s money the Lizard People would have the “Blonde Female FOX News Announcer Human Suit” perfected by now.

  120. 120.

    Professor Bigfoot

    @geg6: I used to follow Mark Cuban on Twitter and I still do on Bluesky, and he’ll tell you that DEI is good for business… and there are companies who put their bottom lines ahead of currying favor with the Regime.

    Looks like Deere is one of them.

  122. 122.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @NotMax: Older people living in hotter areas of the US showed faster aging at the molecular level than people living in cooler areas.

    Eventually I ran to Minneapolis, where it’s cold and I figured I’d keep better.

    Rhoda had it right all along.

  124. 124.

    Old School

    @Maxim:

    Welfare check — Bill in Glendale

    He sent out a Patreon on Monday.  He spent 4 1/2 hours shooting/processing a Leo shot on Sunday night.

  130. 130.

    Betty

    Much too late for this thread, but popping in to say I lost my philtrum when I fell and smashed my mouth on my brother’s driveway. My lip does look funny now. If happens.

  134. 134.

    RA

    @NotMax: Living in Minnesota, I have this to be true until about 10 or 15 years ago. We are warming up quite a bit since then and I am shocked at how much my age shows on my face since then…and OMG the batwings!

  139. 139.

    Paul in KY

    @TBone: She can unhinge her jaws. Probably same species as DeSatanis.

    If they ever get in same room, and she’s ovulating, we might see him perform a Mating Display.

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