Ciderpunk

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is the government equivalent of “you owe me a bajillion dollars!” An unserious fine from an unserious government.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Not quite. It’s largely because a manager decided that an important metric for Google to be better at was “how much time users spend on the results page” which turns out you can game by just making the results worse so users have to stay there longer. Management made a decision to focus on metrics that are counter to what users would actually want because… well, here’s a better article that explains it:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And only 2 of them ever voted. Literally more likely to have ballots lost in the mail than to have people who aren’t supposed to vote sneak through.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago

Bold of you to assume Trump knows how to write and the letter was at all legible.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Per the article, the exploit was fixed back in July. Weird to continue to use present tense to describe an exploit that doesn’t exist anymore.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Yeah, but if the media accurately depicted Trump as a deeply unserious candidate with absolutely no idea how to run anything, you might stop watching the news to see who is ahead, and don’t their ability to sell ads via a horse race narrative matter more than your silly country and life?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Really burying the lede that most of these people were already out of prison and Biden was just wiping their records since they’d been good after leaving prison.

But that’s not as fun as JOE BIDEN PERSONALLY SENT MURDEROUS DRUG DEALERS TO YOUR GRANDMAS HOUSE.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This won’t make a significant difference in the race. Anyone who was going to vote for Sheehy will read this as “saying what they all know to be true” and anyone who wasn’t going to vote for him will continue to not do so.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (48 children)

The Montana Republican Party paid for the Greens to gather signatures in 2020 to help them try to spoil Dem votes, so this is nothing new for Montana. The republicans there are known for funding spoiler candidates and those candidates are just happy to be getting money at all.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would agree if it wasn’t coming from a cop, the only person legally empowered to murder you and get away with it.

It’s different coming from someone who has the authority to act on that “your life is of low value” statement.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Government mandated ad-buys don’t sound very “free speech” to me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

You should be a fan of this, since it was the DNC forcing everyone to accept Hillary that allowed Trump to win.

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