Ciderpunk

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[–] Ciderpunk 27 points 1 day 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/

[–] Ciderpunk 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It’s funny this guy is absolutely gonna try to run for president in 2028 and whoever the republicans manage to put up is just gonna have to say “Commiefornia” and it’ll completely obliterate his run despite him basically being a diet republican anyway.

[–] Ciderpunk 37 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Ciderpunk 84 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Ciderpunk 53 points 4 weeks 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.

[–] Ciderpunk 37 points 4 weeks 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?

[–] Ciderpunk 4 points 4 weeks ago

Nah, this is a lightsaber for a Gundam

[–] Ciderpunk 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.

[–] Ciderpunk 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.

[–] Ciderpunk 20 points 1 month 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.

[–] Ciderpunk 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.

[–] Ciderpunk 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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