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Messages - RalfLiebhold
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« on: Yesterday at 15:36 »
Go tell that to your government. Because the German government doesn't know that there is no war and constantly supplies huge quantities of weapons to Ukraine.
no matter how many times you say it, russian aggression in ukraine is not equivalent to WWIII
Steve, I'm a big fan of discussing political issues here in the forum too. Especially when it comes to American issues, I'm interested in the opinions of people who live in the region. From months of experience in a now deleted thread because of stoker's misanthropic remarks and insults, I can definitively say: NO DISCUSSION IS POSSIBLE WITH STOKER. This guy is not really an enrichment for the forum.
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« on: Yesterday at 08:59 »
You just don't know that World War III has been going on for 10 years. They didn't tell you that on your local TV.
In your world, that's probably the case.
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« on: January 18, 2025, 17:04 »
No, they didn't.
To be honest, I don't understand how people come up with such weird conspiracy theories in the first place. It's becoming a habit here.
Since Elan Musk hasn't completely shot up the Shutterstock headquarters with his lasers from space, downloads are completely normal, revenue in January is expectedly poor.
Lol - why do you call anything you personally don't agree with a "conspiracy theory", and on top of that - not offer ANY intelligent discourse, other than labelling it as such? It would be like someone trying to discredit anything & everything you say by simply saying "Oh, there is ralf again, the left wing nut, yada yada yada, spouting his left wing nut nonsense". ARE you a left wing nut - and do you prefer just name calling? OR... are you capable of intelligent discourse?
He's just a doctor. And all doctors are a little crazy. They live in their own reality, the reality of their hospital. When doctors go out on the street, they don't see people around them, they only see patients, and that's why they diagnose everyone. Doctors also think that they are smarter than everyone else.
I already wrote to him that this forum is not a hospital and there are no patients of his here.
But probably you need to treat a doctor as a person who has specific deviations due to the nature of his work and his environment.
I've only just discovered this stupid post. I don't work in a hospital. Should you ever have a heart attack, apoplexy, tumor or an open fracture - in this case it is certainly good if the doctor is smarter than you and thinks of his patients. I think it's pretty poor that you keep coming back to the personal level without any arguments.
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« on: January 18, 2025, 16:07 »
I have another theory about whats happening, especially on Adobe. I wont go too deep into it for now since my numbers on Adobe are still growing, but something has caught my attention.
Lately, Ive seen new accounts appearing on Adobe, filled exclusively with AI-generated contentimages and videos that look suspiciously similar to the top-selling ones on the platform.
Of course, last year, we got paid quite a bit because they "trained" their AI using our images. But what really worries me is the possibility that these accounts aren't real people, but rather fake company-run accounts, designed to grab all the earnings from contributors who actually put in the work and figured out what sells.
Through AI, they could be generating almost identical content under these fake profiles to compete with and replace real contributors. If thats the case, they wouldnt just be profiting from AItheyd be cutting us out entirely.
I really hope these accounts belong to independent people who are simply analyzing top-selling content and artificially copying it. Because if they are actually company-run accounts, created to take even more of our earnings, it would be a massive disappointmentespecially coming from Adobe, which so far has been the most contributor-friendly platform.
At this point, I have to agree with you on the whole. There seem to be accounts that specifically copy bestsellers with the help of AI and fill the entire account with them. In another forum, someone explained how this is technically possible on a large scale. Maybe he will explain it here. Because I'm not very good at this sort of thing, I can't reproduce it here. But it has nothing to do with Adobe.
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« on: January 16, 2025, 16:58 »
No, they didn't.
To be honest, I don't understand how people come up with such weird conspiracy theories in the first place. It's becoming a habit here.
Since Elan Musk hasn't completely shot up the Shutterstock headquarters with his lasers from space, downloads are completely normal, revenue in January is expectedly poor.
My sales are up and I found one of my images, first in a search, there's obviously some unfair manipulation going on there!
No Pete, this is not manipulation. I have personally noticed that downloads increase when you dance naked around a public fountain in winter.
I'll submit photos later 
Please don't, just imagining that scene is scaring me.
I generally sacrifice chickens, under a Full Moon. (others call it grilling BBQ Wings, but close enough?) I burn offerings to the all powerful and wise God of Microstock, Hephaestus, who is the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture and volcanoes.
Also covering other options, I celebrate Saturnalia, with a Scotch tasting festival, near the winter solstice.
Charms are also something that everyone should have and use, for good luck. The rabbits foot is extremely powerful for more illustration downloads.
Okay, you win. I feel like a beginner right now. You definitely have more opportunities to influence your success
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« on: January 16, 2025, 15:28 »
The Gov in England even wants to legalize assisted dying - just the kind of thing Putin would do
As a doctor, I am very much in favor of controlled assisted dying being regulated by law.
I also understand and accept the counter-arguments.
This is a very sensitive and complicated issue.
In this respect, I find it quite inappropriate to refer to Putin here.
I'm assuming that you've never been in an oncology intensive care unit.
If I were you, I would simply read up on the subject again.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47158287
I absolutely agree.
Anyone who is against the subject across the board should wish with all their heart that they were never affected themselves. Because the people I have known who have been affected have wished for nothing more.
When the status quo has progressed so far that the eyes, nose, mouth, all muscles, life-sustaining reflexes (swallowing reflex, eyelid reflex etc.) are no longer able to function and everything in the body except the heart and brain no longer function and the body is consumed by cramps and excruciating pain for months on end and a cure is impossible, that is the time when this debate MUST at least be held.
Oregon was the first state to approve Death w Dignity in 1994, a dozen other states have followed. I'm glad my state of Washington enacted a law in 2009 ( did pro bon computer consulting for one of the campaigns).
The actual number of people using assisted suicide is < 500 (about .05% of all WA deaths)
https://compassionandchoices.org/states-where-medical-aid-in-dying-is-authorized/
Thank you Steve, you have just made a very valuable point here. In Germany, this is discussed under the unpleasant terms of assisted death, euthanasia and assisted suicide. The term death w dignity takes a lot of negative energy out of the discussion. I will pass this on. Unfortunately, the topic has completely disappeared in Germany.
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« on: January 15, 2025, 18:59 »
No, they didn't.
To be honest, I don't understand how people come up with such weird conspiracy theories in the first place. It's becoming a habit here.
Since Elan Musk hasn't completely shot up the Shutterstock headquarters with his lasers from space, downloads are completely normal, revenue in January is expectedly poor.
My sales are up and I found one of my images, first in a search, there's obviously some unfair manipulation going on there!
No Pete, this is not manipulation. I have personally noticed that downloads increase when you dance naked around a public fountain in winter. I'll submit photos later
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« on: January 15, 2025, 15:14 »
I think this is a difficult question. The thing is that the level of medicine and doctors is very different in different hospitals and different countries. Let's say if in russia they can't support a person normally, but in Germany they can, then what? Or in Israel they can provide more help to a patient than in Germany. What to do then?
Here we need to start with politicians and doctors. Many criminal cases can be opened on this topic and many incompetents and corrupt people can be put in prison or in the electric chair.
I would have liked to respond to your argument. But your choice of words with the electric chair crap once again disqualifies you for any discussion. Don't you actually have a learning curve?
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« on: January 15, 2025, 15:05 »
The Gov in England even wants to legalize assisted dying - just the kind of thing Putin would do
As a doctor, I am very much in favor of controlled assisted dying being regulated by law.
I also understand and accept the counter-arguments.
This is a very sensitive and complicated issue.
In this respect, I find it quite inappropriate to refer to Putin here.
I'm assuming that you've never been in an oncology intensive care unit.
If I were you, I would simply read up on the subject again.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47158287
I absolutely agree.
Anyone who is against the subject across the board should wish with all their heart that they were never affected themselves. Because the people I have known who have been affected have wished for nothing more.
When the status quo has progressed so far that the eyes, nose, mouth, all muscles, life-sustaining reflexes (swallowing reflex, eyelid reflex etc.) are no longer able to function and everything in the body except the heart and brain no longer function and the body is consumed by cramps and excruciating pain for months on end and a cure is impossible, that is the time when this debate MUST at least be held.
Exactly that Wilm and unfortunately it's not even discussed here. And there is a certain irony in the fact that in Germany you can now change your gender in an afternoon at will. And if you feel like it, you can still have your genitals irreversibly mutilated without counseling.
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« on: January 15, 2025, 13:55 »
The Gov in England even wants to legalize assisted dying - just the kind of thing Putin would do
As a doctor, I am very much in favor of controlled assisted dying being regulated by law. I also understand and accept the counter-arguments. This is a very sensitive and complicated issue. In this respect, I find it quite inappropriate to refer to Putin here. I'm assuming that you've never been in an oncology intensive care unit. If I were you, I would simply read up on the subject again. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47158287
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« on: January 14, 2025, 14:55 »
No, they didn't.
To be honest, I don't understand how people come up with such weird conspiracy theories in the first place. It's becoming a habit here.
Since Elan Musk hasn't completely shot up the Shutterstock headquarters with his lasers from space, downloads are completely normal, revenue in January is expectedly poor.
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« on: January 14, 2025, 14:06 »
Happy birthday I'm always skeptical at first when a message begins with the promise of riches. I didn't receive the email and find the request strange. The date of birth should be available to Alamy, as should all other data to identify you. If I understand correctly, the purpose of the request is to forward your data. It's also not clear where the data goes. I also don't necessarily want to be identified as the copyright owner by anyone. That is the task of Alamy in contact with me. I would not do it.
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« on: January 12, 2025, 11:37 »
Apparently, there are things called "DEWs" ("directed energy weapons"), essentially "starlink" (or things like it), etc are weaponized to laser heat houses and burn them down. Apparently the same thing that happened in Hawaii. Purpose is for "land re-allocation" (i.e., kicking residents off their land), so some specific "rich" people can purchase the land cheap. Also - apparently if one has a blue house top (i.e., painted blue), that prevents the laser from burning it because the wavelength of the laser doesn't heat a specific blue wavelength.
Might be worth looking into more.
Let's take a purely scientific approach to the problem without the media.
In simple terms, lasers are bundled light radiation.
When this light radiation hits material, the photons transfer their energy to the atomic or molecular structure of the material, which in turn leads to heating and penetration of the material. Depending on the material, this results in fire.
These are energetic atomic processes and not a paint box where you can neutralize colors. Teflon, for example, can reduce the effect, but not paint.
Please explain to me on a physical basis why a blue surface should stop this process?
I am curious.
From a purely scientific point of view, there is another question.
The solar panels on satellites are capable of supplying up to 13 kW of energy.
A laser weapon for drone defense requires 30 kW, modern systems are 300 to 500 kW to shoot down even larger flying objects at a distance of 1 to 7 miles. The Iron Beam is also designed for distances of up to 6/7 miles.
The powerful weapon systems are the size and weight of sea containers, while a Starlink satellite weighs between 300 and 800 kg and is much smaller.
Starlink satellites fly at an altitude of 350 miles. That would be the minimum distance the satellite would be from a house on Earth if it were at the zenith above it. And that's only for a second. Because the satellite flies at a speed of 17,000 mph.
What our "scientist" writes may be conceivable in a few years' time - whether it is financially viable is another matter. Because such a system and every launch with it costs immense sums of money. This would first have to be amortized by the supposed land gain.
Currently, his thesis comes from sci-fi movies, of which he watches too many...
I didn't want to make it too complicated We could list pages and pages of plausible counterarguments here, but that won't help. For one thing, our friend has shown that he has no idea about physics and confuses high-energy laser systems with laser pointers. Also, something has happened again that was typically to be expected. If you penetrate their world view with arguments, their arguments are simply changed and adapted. And yes, to light houses from space, you probably need lasers in the peta-watt range. There is actually a laser that can do that. It is located underground in Passau and is over 3 km long.
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« on: January 11, 2025, 19:28 »
the only one I keep reading with an opposite trend is you  Which I find interesting and encouraging for my real video/photo project for 2025.
Yes Jasmin, I hate being trendy and mainstream Thank you for your answer, which of course explains your point of view.
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« on: January 11, 2025, 18:26 »
It must be some kind of glitch. It makes no economic sense to take 5 million fresh files a week and then hide them from the world.
Also if customers hated ai, they would have left for ss or getty in the last two years, but all we see is adobe picking up customers and having increased growth.
No offense meant. But where did you get your figures and your certainty? I myself am experiencing significant growth at Shutterstock, Dreamstime and Depositphotos. Maybe customers are running away from Adobe?
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« on: January 11, 2025, 17:52 »
And actually - yes - there was footage where the "blue roof" house was spared. Apparently has a combination of basically the lasers not targeting blue roofs (a software computer program to recognize that). That was for the maui "fires".
By the way, Here in Germany we are well prepared for laser attacks
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« on: January 11, 2025, 17:29 »
Apparently, there are things called "DEWs" ("directed energy weapons"), essentially "starlink" (or things like it), etc are weaponized to laser heat houses and burn them down. Apparently the same thing that happened in Hawaii. Purpose is for "land re-allocation" (i.e., kicking residents off their land), so some specific "rich" people can purchase the land cheap. Also - apparently if one has a blue house top (i.e., painted blue), that prevents the laser from burning it because the wavelength of the laser doesn't heat a specific blue wavelength.
Might be worth looking into more.
Let's take a purely scientific approach to the problem without the media. In simple terms, lasers are bundled light radiation. When this light radiation hits material, the photons transfer their energy to the atomic or molecular structure of the material, which in turn leads to heating and penetration of the material. Depending on the material, this results in fire. These are energetic atomic processes and not a paint box where you can neutralize colors. Teflon, for example, can reduce the effect, but not paint. Please explain to me on a physical basis why a blue surface should stop this process? I am curious.
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« on: January 10, 2025, 18:54 »
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« on: January 10, 2025, 18:46 »
The USA is a technologically highly developed country. With so many technical achievements and innovations.
What I just don't want to understand are the power lines that still look the same today as they did 100 years ago. If we know - as has been proven by extensive studies - that the main cause of such fires is defective power lines, why on earth are they not buried in these areas? Especially in areas where storms are always raging so violently that the cables snap and their sparking ends set fire to dry bushes or trees.
And why are so many houses built entirely of wood in these areas, which contribute significantly to the immense flying sparks and feed the fires additionally?
Wouldn't it make sense to prevent the fires from taking on such devastating proportions in the first place?
Wilm, you're basically right, of course. However, it seems that arson is more likely to be involved here. By all accounts, the people responsible have also failed overall.
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« on: January 08, 2025, 17:13 »
Well, it cant get worse. So far $6 this month on SS while Adobe is already at $80.
Yes, same here. My ShutterStock is earning about $3-$5/day so far this month. Really bad.
Amazed how things can drop off a cliff so quickly. Where did the customers go? I guess Adobe. Because it sure ain't Pond5.
Also had a comparatively bad day. In December for the same downloads, income would have been around twice as high. However, my impression is that customers are definitely not running away from Shutterstock. Only the new year reset sucks.
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« on: January 06, 2025, 07:11 »
Why do you always get caught up in conspiracy theories?
The virus was isolated in the Netherlands back in 2001 first time and is known to cause some of the seasonal flu-like illnesses worldwide. As with all other viruses, it can cause severe cases in vulnerable people.
There may be many reasons why the incidence is particularly high in China this year. But it certainly has nothing to do with the virus as a weapon.
In Europe, we have seen an increased hospitalization of children due to infections with harmless RS viruses in the last two winters. This is thought to be due to an immune gap caused by isolation measures during the coronavirus pandemic.
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« on: November 20, 2024, 16:12 »
So I have the most reviews when the wind is blowing from the southwest, except when the moon is full.
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« on: November 01, 2024, 16:46 »
Alamy is completely unsuitable for monthly statistics. In October I had 48 downloads, in summer I went almost 8 weeks without.
The overall development at Alamy looks like this for me, almost all sales are editorials.:
The meaning for sales of this ominous CTR with this curve to me personally is pretty unclear.
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« on: October 09, 2024, 11:35 »
Hey everyone,
I understand it, it's heart breaking news. But let's keep this forum as a microstock related forum and avoid sharing something else. Thanks!
A forum member and stock photo colleague describes the hardship in his region due to a natural disaster quite objectively. In this context, I can't understand your request and, to be honest, I find it quite inappropriate. Please keep us up to date, Jeff.
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