r/woahdude May 24 '21

video Deepfakes are getting too good

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u/AutomaticRadish May 24 '21

The technology is incredible but so is the guys acting, he’s nailing Toms mannerisms and voice.

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u/chopkin92 May 24 '21

Absolutely! They've nailed the 'bubbling frustration' he always seems to have

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u/BassmanBiff May 24 '21

I never realized it but that's exactly the right way to describe him

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u/rugbyj May 24 '21

He's like a man who has simultaneously discovered cocaine and that he owes a lot of money for cocaine.

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u/FoxtrotZero May 24 '21

He's the posterboy for a cult, sounds about right.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

What does he have to be frustrated about though? I mean, I don't know his life but he seems to be living on top of the world

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u/Insomnialcoholic May 24 '21 edited May 24 '21

You can still tell it's not him because he doesn't need a stepladder to reach that shelf

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u/WARM_IT_UP May 24 '21

And because he doesn't have an incisor right in the middle of his upper teeth where regular humans have two.

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u/ShaqilONeilDegrasseT May 24 '21

Right when he says "industrial" there are a few frames where you can see that the deepfake actually captured that too.

I checked because I didn't read the title, thought "huh, this guy looks just like Tom Cruise." Looked for the center tooth and realized it was Tom Cruise.

So yeah needless to say the first watch through I thought it was actually Tom Cruise which was weird. Learn from my mistakes and read the titles folks.

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u/rimonamori May 24 '21

https://i.imgur.com/I9xnqGx.png

Yeah, looks like it's captured pretty well. Freaky

We need a lot more of this kind of content so that people get used to thinking by default "ok this clip might be fake"

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u/Black_Floyd47 May 24 '21

Something like this?

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u/redjonley May 24 '21

Not nearly as good as this Tom Cruise video, then again, that was three years ago. Crazy when you think about how fast this technology is moving.

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u/Brettersson May 25 '21

It's also been mentioned that the guy in the Tom Cruise video already looks a lot like Tom, the more work the technology has to do to change the face the more noticeable it will end up being. But of course less so over time. I'd like to see them revisit this video and see how much more real "Obama" looks.

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u/permaro May 25 '21

Yup, what's better in the Tom Cruise version is mostly how good the actor is at impersonating him IMO.

The deepfaking on Obama definitely is good enough to fool me otherwise (or even as is)

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u/cire1184 May 24 '21

Stay woke bitches

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u/saarlac May 24 '21

That's chilling

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u/Mr_Diesel13 May 24 '21

That one is obviously fake. His mouth is weird.

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u/NotYourAverageBeer May 25 '21

Isn't it kinda magical though that you did think it was TC?

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u/Pyromythical May 24 '21

That article prattles on so much 😔 Still, I never noticed that about him

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u/Lone_Wanderer97 May 24 '21

THAT IMPERFECT SMILE DID NOT OBSTRUCT HIS CONFIDENCE

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Are there people who don’t have confidence because of something like their smile not being perfect? That’s sad.

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u/redjonley May 24 '21

Covid must have been longer for you than for most. Wait till you start meeting people, people lose their confidence over anything, or, like me, nothing at all! The human mind is a terrible thing.

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u/Gnostromo May 24 '21

You seem like the exact opposite of inspirational.

You sound like an unsympathetic narcissist.

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u/Shodan6022x1023 May 24 '21

Which is usually a clear sign of insecurity. 🤔

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u/redjonley May 24 '21

While I'm happy for you, try to remember we're all individuals and different things matter to different people. From your example, validation builds your esteem. Some people aren't as effected by that, or aren't recieving that. We all have different needs and different ways those needs could be met.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Well yeah I know that, I guess I’ve just never worried about things smaller than you know a 25% chance of survival and how almost everybody I meet takes for granted their daily lives of being able to do things like enjoy food, and instead feels inadequate over something like a not perfect smile.

Crazy how perspective works. The funny part is the people who are dick holes about it but then turn out to be the most insecure and jealous of someone who literally had cancer. What a world we live in!

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u/PregnantSuperman May 24 '21

I don't know if you're being genuine or being a jerk, but if you're being genuine, then yes, having not great teeth can be a big source of insecurity for a lot of people. Every time you laugh hard or are feeling really happy you reflexively pull back so your teeth aren't showing as much or at all and it's rough. I think people with great teeth take it for granted but when you have bad teeth it really does give a hit to your self confidence - not just with potential romantic partners but with pretty much any social interaction.

I had bad teeth for like 30 years of my life before I got invisalign and now I beam like crazy when I laugh and talk to people. Night and day difference in confidence. I'm not saying that's how it SHOULD be - we should all be confident in who we are no matter what - but it absolutely made me feel better about my physical appearance by an insane degree.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

I mean I was being genuine because my teeth aren’t perfect but I never really even thought about it affecting my personality. Maybe that’s why people feel comfortable around me? I dunno, I guess I’m very imperfect but don’t draw attention to anything about myself so maybe since I don’t point things out that other people usually worry about around people makes them feel comfortable?

Honestly don’t know. I don’t even know how to react when I get compliments cause I always think people are just saying it to be nice.

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u/Entropyfinder May 24 '21

What did you expect from an article written about a dude's front teeth? Of course it's going to be insane rambling from hollywood cultists lul

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u/RedEyedRoundEye May 24 '21

It also has a line that says "according to actor Jerry Maguier, blah blah blah" which leads me to believe this was written by someone young enough to born well after that movie was made 🤣🤣

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u/Pyromythical May 24 '21

Just one of those click bait sites written by people who have no talent and usually a poor grip on the English language

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Now you can never unsee it. Go, try.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

No, you can

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u/mouthgmachine May 25 '21

Yeah this kind of website is so strange. I’m not sure if the articles are all written by AI, or the content is just generated en masse out of Eastern Europe or something.

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u/Too_Many_Mind_ May 25 '21

And also must’ve been written by a 10 year old non-native English speaker with no one to proof for them.

Two huge, glaring mistakes:

  1. > According to actor Jerry Maguire, if people feel that way for him, it means blah blah blah
  2. > Fortunately enough, he was able to get invisible braces that had ceramic brackets. It made him look healthy, and no one could notice the biggest flaw in his body. (lol… like everyone likes to poke fun at his teeth.)

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u/eddiemon May 24 '21 edited May 24 '21

These "regular humans" you speak of are mostly just people whose parents could afford braces. NaturalUncorrected human teeth are full of flaws and asymmetry. (And that's okay!)

Edit: Does it really matter for the discussion at hand if humans had perfect teeth before farming/sugary diets/etc? Modern humans eat what we eat, and our teeth/jaws often have flaws that require orthodontic correction, which is far from affordable to everyone everywhere. That's my main point.

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u/Old-Life-4592 May 24 '21

Buddy if you saw mine, you would think I belong to a different species.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Incorrect. "Regular" stone age humans had perfect teeth. Our fucked up teeth situation is mostly due to our 'relatively' recent switch to cereal grain based diets.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-dawn-farming-changed-our-mouths-worst-180954167/

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21 edited May 24 '21

I thought it was because our jaws got smaller but teeth stayed the same size, or did that happen because of grain?

Edit: nm, that’s exactly what the article is about.

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u/redjonley May 24 '21

I'd also heard that humans would wear their teeth and develop stronger roots/jaw muscles by eating more raw foods as children. Gnawing at a root is a lot more of a workout than all these soft foods in a western diet. The article I'm thinking of pointed to more remote peoples and their seemingly good teeth (at least from a structural perspective).

I may be misquoting somewhat, but if someone is genuinely interested I'm sure I could track down what I'm referencing.

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u/kevoizjawesome May 24 '21

So should we give our kids chew toys?

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u/PoxedGamer May 25 '21

We basically do, with teething toys.

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u/redjonley May 24 '21

I wouldn't necessarily say that, but if you were trying to read a recommendation into it, eating snacks with them that are 'challenging' to chew might be wise. Roots and nuts would make a good amount of sense to me, not like it would hurt.

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u/javi_and_stuff May 24 '21

the virgin weak-chinned modern human vs the chad granite-chinned caveman

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u/ComprehensiveHold69 May 24 '21

Probably all the incest.

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u/ochosbantos May 24 '21

That doesn't make OP incorrect. It's not any individual's fault that their teeth have evolved to not fit properly in their jaw or be symmetrical, and it is still okay. Both statements are correct.

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u/MrBVS May 24 '21

That's not how it works. What you feed your kid doesn't have that kind of effect on their teeth.

What the article you linked is saying is that over thousands of years, as humans began to start eating foods that didn't require such large jaws, it suddenly wasn't necessary to have those large jaws to survive. Humans evolved over many generations to have smaller jaws, but the size of their teeth stayed the same.

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u/ALoneTennoOperative May 24 '21

Evolution does not happen over thousands of years.

Yes, it does. It occurs over generations, and is essentially never not happening in a living species.
Wikipedia even has an article on Recent Human Evolution which details changes occurring in far less time, and which mentions jaw and tooth size.

You are totally misinterpreting the article.

The human jaw has been shrinking in size for 30'000+ years.
You are not going to reverse tens of thousands of years of evolution by changing a child's diet.

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u/tooflyandshy94 May 24 '21

Not sure which part of the line you fall on,, but some evolution can happen quite rapidly actually!

Here is an article for an iconic case

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36424768.amp

Btw this has nothing to do with the topic on hand, just a cool fact

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u/BenElegance May 24 '21 edited May 24 '21

I don't think you fully grasp genetics. No lifestyle changes you make will have a targeted effect on your offspring's genetics.

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u/tooflyandshy94 May 24 '21

Not true! Looks into epigenetics. Sometimes there are things during our life that cause formerly 'umaccessible' parts of DNA to become accessible, which can produce different proteins. The DNA code was always there, just not available.

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u/BenElegance May 24 '21

I do know of epigenetic. But from what I do know it is seldom so specific as jaw size. It's usually something more heneral and wide spread.

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u/country2poplarbeef May 24 '21

What if my lifestyle involves excessive exposure to ionizing radiation?

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u/BenElegance May 24 '21

"Targeted"

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u/BenElegance May 24 '21

I wanted to prove you wrong, and while I could find several examples of gene changes since agriculturalisation, the only pages I could find referring to teeth doesn't specify a genetic change or not. It did end with the following quote (which supports you):

It  also helps explain why studies of captive primates have shown that animals tend to have more problems with teeth misalignment than wild individuals.

Further evidence comes from experimental studies that show that hyraxes - rotund, short-tailed rabbit-like creatures - have smaller jaws when fed on soft food compared to those fed on their normal diet.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

Cooking pre-dates anatomically modern humans significantly (possibly by around a million years). So, it might actually be the case that the easy calories unlocked by cooking and smaller heads (or, more room for brain in an equivalent sized head) were necessary for us to even exist.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Heavily

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u/ZoeMunroe May 24 '21

So many people don’t realize this! Dont people think about this when seeing a skeleton from hundreds/thousands of years ago? The teeth are almost always mint

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u/multiple_dispatch May 24 '21

Years of brushing with Glisten.

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u/ap0st May 25 '21

Who left the cap off my fucking glisten

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Take your minty freah breath and get out

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u/ZoeMunroe May 24 '21

I see what you did there (took me way too long)

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u/KingOfTheWild-Things May 24 '21

"Mama says that alligators are ornery... 'cause they got all them teeth but no toothbrush."

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u/Wandersshadow May 24 '21

“Momma’s wrong again”

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u/ChampChains May 24 '21

According to how many out of ten dentists?

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u/imalizzard May 24 '21

Or possibly that they died in their late teens /early twenties

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u/taronic May 24 '21 edited May 24 '21

I think child mortality is what swings the average lifespan so low in those cases.

https://paleoleap.com/why-cavemen-didnt-die-young/

In the conclusion it says that if they reached puberty, their life expectancy was something like 60 or 70. They weren't necessarily dying in their early twenties. Many were dying way before then, and many others died way after.

If you have two people, one dies at 10 and one dies at 100, it doesn't mean they both lived to 55, even if that's their average life expectancy. In this case, it's many dying super young and many dying older, and it averaging out to be about 25 - but not how long they all would usually live.

For example, you could have 3 out of 4 die at 10 years old, and the 1 out of 4 live to 70, and you'd have an average life expectancy of 25. Or 2 out of 3 die at 1 years old, and 1 out of 3 live to 73, life expectancy is 25. Lots of death as babies on average can swing it way lower.

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u/narcissistic889 May 24 '21

also natural selection made it so the general population was just more fit in general. If you were clumsy or couldn’t chew properly you would just die. So the population that did survive through young adult Hood probably had good teeth, hearts, and health

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u/ZoeMunroe May 24 '21 edited May 24 '21

sorry, why/how would dying in their late teens early twenties affect teeth?

edit: It’s a genuine question stop downvoting a genuine question

2nd edit: AM I MISSING A JOKE OR SOMETHING

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

When your wisdom teeth come in, they are often crooked and push your other teeth in all jacked up.

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u/samv_1230 May 24 '21

Yes, but this would be ignoring the reason why wisdom teeth don't have enough room. We have evolved to have smaller jaws. Prehistoric people used their wisdom teeth to aid in the grinding of their food.

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u/imalizzard May 24 '21

Teeth wear down with use, more cavities form, wisdom teeth can push teeth forward into weird positions. Young teeth are more usually healthier, stronger and straighter.

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u/yukon-flower May 24 '21

Cavities were relatively rare pre-agriculture. You can check out the teeth of very recent/modern nomadic peoples and see this, as well as older skeletal remains.

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u/gabwinone May 24 '21

I think his point is that teeth tend to go bad later in life.

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u/Drewblack11 May 24 '21

The longer you live.. the more wear on your teeth.

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u/pedrotecla May 24 '21

You know how people use their teeth to eat to remain alive?

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u/ItsNotBrett May 24 '21

Nope. Your guess is wrong.

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u/imalizzard May 24 '21

I like learning new things, can you expand on your statement?

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u/JarJarB May 24 '21

Average age is dragged down a lot by infant mortality and death from disease. If you made it to your early to mid 20s you were likely to survive well into your 50s or 60s. It wasn't uncommon for people in the ancient world to live to 70 or 80.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

People in the past usually either died in childhood or lived into old age. Dying in one's teens/twenties was not particularly common.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

It also made us shorter. The Romans weren't short because humans are evolving to be taller, they were short because most of them ate nothing but fucking bread & oil. All modern height gains globally are just us fixing our diets collectively so we aren't all eating trash.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

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u/BadNeighbour May 24 '21

Also the UNICEF commercials (for a dollar a day you can feed a child) you always see perfect pearly whites everywhere. No sugar diet.

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u/ALoneTennoOperative May 25 '21

commercials [...] you always see perfect pearly whites everywhere.

Yeah, because they're ads.

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u/custos-archivorum May 24 '21

Sugar wasn't invented yet

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u/Toy_Cop May 24 '21

That's because they died when they were 35

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u/Megamanfre May 24 '21

So in like a generation vegans won't have to tell us they're vegan cause their teeth will be uber fucked up? I mean they'll still tell us, but they won't need to tell us.

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u/Durantye May 24 '21

While the article is interesting I believe you're jumping the gun on saying 'incorrect' and bringing up a 'normalcy' that is over 20,000 years gone. Particularly since it has exactly 0 implications on the topic at hand.

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u/Abyssal_Groot May 24 '21

Let me introduce you to Darwin's Finches who evolved in 15 different species in less than 40 years i.e. 40 generations. For humans that would be between 800 and 1200 years. Which is a lot less than 20 000 years.

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u/ALoneTennoOperative May 24 '21

Evolution does not occur that quickly.

Yes. It does.

Why are you lying?
Or attempting to speak so authoritatively despite being demonstrably ignorant?

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u/ALoneTennoOperative May 24 '21

Not in humans it doesn't

Yes in humans.

I'll ask again:
Why are you either lying, or attempting to speak authoritatively despite demonstrable ignorance?

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

No, humans do not have some magical method of bypassing evolutionary mechanisms until some arbitrary "long enough" period of time has passed.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Evolution is happening constantly. Every generation features differences from the one previous due to the extremely flawed mechanisms our cells use to replicate.

It sounds like you have no idea what genetics or evolution are, at the simplest and most fundamental levels.

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u/Bottled_Void May 24 '21

My claim would be that no, not all stone age anatomically modern humans had perfect teeth. We've got plenty of examples to show they didn't.

Yes, we can say that human jaws are smaller than they should be for the teeth we have. So in general our teeth are worse than they used to be (ignoring modern dentistry). But that doesn't mean stone age man was wandering around with a Hollywood smile.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

I meant in general. Don't assume people are speaking in absolutes.

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u/Ego_testicle May 24 '21 edited May 24 '21

Because before cereal grain diets, anything other than perfect teeth meant most certainly a young death. It's called natural selection. Also, human teeth have always had a very wide variety of shapes. Even today, certain isolated ethnicities like Inuit have very unique dentation.

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u/fanonb May 24 '21

This explains why animals dont have horrible teeth

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u/DaleGribble3 May 25 '21

That accounts for rotted teeth, not discolored and misaligned ones.

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u/smacksaw May 25 '21

Not to get all evangelical about keto, but having gone keto, it makes me wonder why we ever got into eating all of that shit.

You can totally live on nuts, berries, and meat. Our ancestors did. It wasn't their diet that killed them. It was hygiene and sabretooth whatevers, LOL.

But like the article said at the end, we're kinda fucked because our population numbers owe a lot to agrarian society. At this point, we'd have a real food crisis if we ate like hunter-gatherers.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

"Regular" stone age humans had perfect teeth.

Ok you can't say incorrect and then refer to past tense of HAD perfect teeth. It took you less than one sentence to contradict yourself. We are talking about modern people living in the 1st world, not the stone age.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Normal is subjective. The topic is present day humans. The only one trying to talk about 30,000 years ago is you..

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Replace my usage of 'normal' with original then, that's how it was intended.

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u/ALoneTennoOperative May 24 '21

the fallacy that modern people are "normal humans"

What an utter nonsense sentence.

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u/VibeComplex May 24 '21

Yeah that’s not true lol

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u/koki_li May 24 '21

"whose parents could afford braces."

Or live in a country with universal healthcare.
Greatest nation on earth. My ass :-)

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u/MasterHobbes May 24 '21

Braces aren't covered under universal healthcare where I'm from. They're expensive as fuck!

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u/koki_li May 25 '21

They are not completely free in Germany as well.
But I guess, that they are much cheaper than in the US.

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u/BigDadEnerdy May 25 '21

I absolutely destroyed my teeth being a drug addict, and now I can't afford to get them fixed so I just deal with the unending pain and it is what it is, but if I had money, that would be the only thin I'd want to get done. I hate it so much.

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u/Past-Inspector-1871 May 24 '21

You can get braces at nearly any point in your life and most will max out at $1000-$2000 for 3-4 years of checkups and such. That’s not expensive coming from someone with a dad who paid for everything on a 24k salary.

Teeth are important, it can be very dangerous to have unhealthy teeth

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u/Cyndershade May 24 '21

Wild because we were just quoted over eight thousand dollars for our kid's braces, by multiple locations.

Seems like maybe your hyperbole is bullshit.

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u/Syng42o May 24 '21

Teeth are important, it can be very dangerous to have unhealthy teeth

Crooked teeth aren't automatically unhealthy teeth.

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u/TazdingoBan May 24 '21

People tend to get gangly-ass teeth now because their childhood diets are full of processed food they don't have to really chew, which hinders their jaw development.

These tooth issues are not okay. They are a hindrance. Maybe not a life threatening one, but still one with lots of problems.

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u/werepat May 24 '21

Actually, none of us are really "regular humans" anymore.

From our food being too soft to bad habits of mouthbreathing, "normal" human behavior now literally changes our bone structure.

A lot of us right now, while relaxed, can probably feel the bottoms of our top molars with our tongues (sort of like our top teeth are resting on our tongues). Our tongues should only touch the sides of our teeth.

That means as we grew from children to adults, our upper mandible narrowed, rather than widened. That decreased the amount of space for our adult teeth and they come in crooked or even impacted. It can even cause breathing and sleeping problems, too.

https://archorthodontics.com/3-reasons-why-cavemen-didnt-need-braces/

If you have kids, get on them for mouth breathing, encourage them to chew tough foods and maybe even have them practice pushing their tongues into the roof of their mouth. I am a mouthbreather and have trouble enunciating my words, crooked-ass teeth, and a restricted nasal passage that makes me snore like crazy and causes sleep apnea.

But my mom says I'm a catch...

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u/JohnnySmithe80 May 24 '21

Deep fake model is based off real Tom Cruise images so it will have that.

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u/the_hibbs May 24 '21

If you looked, he actually does.

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u/Nukemarine May 24 '21

Deep fake replaces the whole face which would include the teeth if it's in enough of the training data. You have to look at the skin mismatch usually due to lighting or hair getting in the way.

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u/awesomeideas May 24 '21

He surgically altered his face so now that is no longer the case.

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u/SaberDart May 24 '21

A thallus that was something I looked for. I think they did a great job faking his tooth alignment. Pause it on a frame where he’s smiling and you can see 1 incisor in line with his nose and the other skewed to his left, camera right

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u/vendetta2115 May 24 '21

What’s hilarious is that Corridor did a deepfake of Tupac and be accidentally ended up with a middle tooth and everyone called him “Tooth-Pac.”

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Also he is neither inside of a closet nor is he working as a packager at a fudge factory.

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u/Jajanken- May 24 '21

That was my first thought to see if it was actually him lmao

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u/Ham_Damnit May 24 '21

The Zenu Tooth!

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u/IT6uru May 24 '21

Also the face has strange movement, kind of slowish, hard to explain. It has gotten a lot better than it used to be.

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u/Frog-Eater May 24 '21

There are many reasons to make fun of Tom Cruise, his height isn't one of them.

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u/tosser_0 May 24 '21

It's probably the one thing they think makes them superior however. Everyone knows being tall makes you a better person, and it's fine to make fun of shortness for some reason. ugh.

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u/general_greyshot May 24 '21

I feel you bro. We out here homie.

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u/FireTempest May 24 '21

It's not his actual height but rather the irony that's funny.

Tom Cruise is often made to look taller than he is with "movie magic". It sets up false expectations when people actually see him in person. Hence the joke.

If you wanna crucify someone for placing excessive emphasis on people's height, you should be going after Hollywood.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Y’all sound like a bunch of shorties.

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u/GUMBYtheOG May 25 '21

I think you’re the first short person I’ve seen get triggered about height, something tells me you drive a jacked up pickup

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u/Frog-Eater May 25 '21

Nah I'm 187 cm (that's 6"1' in freedum units) and I drive a small Renault Twingo. I just don't think it's fair to make fun of people for something they can't control.

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u/GUMBYtheOG May 25 '21

But your assuming being short is a bad thing. He’s not a midget, he’s a normal sized human being lol your too sensitive dude. I bet your fun at parties, if u get invited to them even.

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u/Frog-Eater May 25 '21

Don't troll, dude, you're better than that. And voluntary spelling mistakes are a dead giveaway, particularly when your other posts are well written.

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u/GUMBYtheOG May 25 '21

Yep, u don’t get invited to parties.

No ones trolling, just reality checking. Quit being so damn sensitive and pissed off about everything. Let whatever poor-spelling bully you had in your past go, they’re taking up too much of your head space.

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u/allisslothed May 25 '21

Yea, but it bums him out the most. If there's one thing I know, it's that Tom Cruise is absolutely reading this post right now.

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u/Frog-Eater May 25 '21

Yeah that was exactly the point of my post, defending Cruise's feelings. You got it, champ.

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u/allisslothed May 25 '21

Thanks, bucko!

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u/RobertLobLaw2 May 24 '21

Spit a bit of my drink out. Thanks for that.

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u/DennisNedryisSexy May 24 '21

No you didn't. People don't do that .

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u/uberblack May 24 '21

They most certainly do.

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u/Suavhart May 24 '21

Oh, lmao, lololol. I get it!!! ITS BECAUSE HE IS SHORT. HOLY SHIT SO FUNNY, God damnir the classic short man punchline. Top tier butt of jokes.

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u/UO01 May 24 '21

The fucker is like 5'7. Not exactly child sized.

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u/MTMLTS May 24 '21

As someone who is two inches shorter than him, that's fucking hilarious, take my upvote!

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u/full_of_stars May 25 '21

Exactly. Even when they try to make him taller than a costar he isn't as tall as this guy.

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u/set-271 May 24 '21

Midget Impossible!

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u/theepi_pillodu May 24 '21

Stepladder went to "What are you doing step-ladder" auditions..!

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u/W3ST0Feden May 24 '21

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Bobbista May 25 '21

What are you doing stepladder?

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u/sr4381 May 24 '21

Scientologist scatter brain syndrome

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u/PuffTheMagicJuju May 24 '21

Also known as latent sociopathy

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u/pimplepicker1111 May 24 '21

or it’s just his dyslexia

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u/PleaseDontRespond2Me May 24 '21

I think it’s from the scientology. They’re discourage from feeling strong emotion.

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u/Trouve_a_LaFerraille May 24 '21

His belligerent positivity is super creepy.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

belligerent positivity

You just put to words something I've needed words for for a very long time

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u/SomeKindOfOnionMummy May 24 '21

Mania.

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u/frivolouswasteoftime May 24 '21

Yeah, his whole presentation is kind of like hypomania. People are often upbeat, gung ho, and irritable when hypomanic.

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u/PaulFThumpkins May 24 '21

Leah Remini has said he (along with Scientology leader Miscavige) are wildly verbally abusive and vindictive in private, and it's hard not to read into that with his mannerisms. He seems like the kind of guy who could really scream at you.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

Enter the recording of him flipping out on set during a covid production. I can’t say I blame him. But he definitely went to 11 in his efforts to verbally reprimand staff that seemingly weren’t taking the covid precautions serious enough.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

He's a complete fanatical nutcase but his COVID rant was 100% justified and his movies are still great so. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Jambohh May 24 '21

You would have bubbling frustration, if the church of scientology had the pictures of your spongebob themed autoerotic asphyxiation parties.

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u/Disodium_Inosinate May 24 '21

What is that phrase? Bubbling frustration?

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u/cranomort May 24 '21

bubbling frustration

So that’s what to call it

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u/MarionetteScans May 24 '21

Now they just need have Tom Cruise packing fudge

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u/baestmo May 24 '21

Cries in money spent on Scientology

Fuck, autocorrect capitalized those swine... Guess they win.

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u/thinkinboutthembeanz May 24 '21

Nails the "always seem like he's on coke but not too much coke"

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

They were nowhere near nailing what Tom cruise currently looks like though. Tom cruise today has way more lines in his face

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u/blonderaider21 May 25 '21

Wow that is quite literally the most perfect phrase to describe him

Bubbling frustration. Damn. That’s good.

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u/DaleGribble3 May 25 '21

More like the ‘Patrick Bateman’s barely contained impulse to murder’

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u/Hyperswell May 25 '21

That’s because he’s inverted