“It is supposed to be ribbed for my pleasure!”

They wanted cluster bombs banned because they sometimes had the same effect unintentionally. Now they’re doing it on purpose.

That just looks like the first half of that crying woman pointing at the cat meme

A minimum amount of karma is required to start threads in many communities. I used to be subscribed to a community that didn’t have automated bot detection or a very active moderator and was being hit by bots posting ads to scam merchandise websites multiple times a day. Here’s what I observed.

These posts had a few dozen quick upvotes over the first few minutes of being posted along with a few comments from other bots shilling the ad after being posted. These shilling comments also received a bunch of initial upvotes as well, and then all slowly got a trickle of downvotes by real humans after. Real humans also commented to denounce the scam ads a few minutes later, some of which were also receiving a sudden spike of downvotes from bot accounts. The bots would eventually get reported and banned (only from the subreddit because Reddit themselves didn’t do crap about bots), and then this would repeat multiple times a day.

I’ve checked their post history and all of these bots were “dormant” and were farming karma by reposting content and copying comments in other subs and imitating human behaviour for the better part of a year before being activated and used to post ads.

This was only from a scammy merch selling website in a relatively small community and it employed a sophisticated network of thousands of rolling bot accounts, probably more than the number of subscribers the subreddit had. There are countless other bot operations on Reddit for advertising, scamming, astroturfing and propaganda purposes that might be even more sophisticated and difficult to detect.

I’ve also seen my own original content being reposted by a bot farming karma in another subreddit and I was shadow banned for complaining about it while the bot was allowed to do its thing where it went on using its karma to post propaganda.This is when I quit Reddit and never looked back at this cesspool of a site.

And all that was before AI text generation was viable. I don’t know if the majority of Reddit is bot accounts, but the number of bots on it is staggering.

Russian propaganda had its way to them

I keep forgetting that Facebook still exists

• “$10”
• “But the sign said $5”
• “Then why did you ask?”

The way I see it if they get defederated a lot of the people will migrate away from it and it won’t be “too big to fail” anymore

There’s one heading to the white house

If by “value” you mean income it isn’t even tied to individual productivity. It’s tied to how much power or leverage you have to demand more.

Almost every cloud based device I’ve ever owned ended up either putting an increasing number of basic features that were originally free behind a subscription paywall or simply turned itself into a brick when it stopped being supported.

“I’ve got good news for you. It’s a suppository”

They’re going to release completely absurd and hilarious conspiracy theories and the regular followers of InfoWars who didn’t know about the change of ownership won’t even see the difference.

Placing people in positions of power based on personal loyalty over competence. This is how dictators secure their power. It also usually completely cripples the country’s ability to function at every level but the dictators don’t care about that.

Sounds like they’ll blend in just fine with the rest of the Russian conscripts

I’m so glad I kept my car and weathered through this shitty phase of car manufacturing.

If only there was hope for weathering through the data collection, subscription-based features and the death of sedans though…

They were born in hardship. Molded by it.

They’ll still die though.

New fear unlocked

Considering that when people paid $100 for that OS they were told that it would be the “last Windows to be released”, shouldn’t there be a class action lawsuit?

It gives employers the ability to suppress votes.