How about Chinese MAGA accounts?

I don’t know that your point makes much difference. The vast majority of people don’t care about hiding who they are; in fact, quite a lot want you to know so you’ll engage with them. A few of them may be of concern for whatever reason. The industrialized manipulation of social spaces would certainly continue to hide who they are, do there’s likely no change. Whole we’re going down this rabbit hole: In fact, faking your displayed location specifically to incite feelings one way or another is probably even better than hiding it entirely.

I agree. If they want to expend the resources to manipulate public opinion then hiding their identity is not going to be a problem.

That’s not the same as making them publicly visible.

I’m sure they’ll get picked up by The Heritage Foundation or some other Right Wing org and protected. Can’t have the spineless lackeys spilling the beans.

The advertisers say “don’t associate us with (x) words”. The algorithms push moneymaking videos to the top. If your video is full of things ad companies don’t like, you get fewer ads, down you go.

Nice way to say “We don’t (directly) prevent content from being shown.” It just conveniently works out that way.

The man knows where the bodies are buried.

Dunno why it’s so hard to figure out or why people bitch about it.

Posting certain words will often get your social media submission blocked, pushed way down by the algorithm, or run up against a rule of some kind.

So people make up stuff like “unalived” or “sh•t” or “f•ck” so they don’t run up against soft censorship.

That’s how it is. It’s not Earth shattering, it’s censorship.

There are no laws that say flashing your lights to warn others of speed traps is illegal. In fact, doing so was ruled protected free speech. Please provide a source that it is illegal in your state and people are being ticketed.

Using what? ChatGPT and a Ouija board?

This is how you get radicalization.

They only claim to love nature so they can kill it. They bitch about seasons and the government limiting what they can take. Just like they say they “love America” but want to mow down the forests that make it beautiful and pave over it with oil derricks and gas pipelines. The same way they’re all about “gun safety” but leave guns where they can be used for everything from accidental shootings to be stolen and used in crimes.

They don’t mean what they say.

She criticized the party too loudly and too often. Bet she got told to leave. Wonder what compromising material they have on her to force her out.

Haven’t done that yet. However, remembering that I had a specific thing I need to another thing with, I just don’t know where I put it even though I have a pretty good idea where it might be. Proceed to start digging through things to find it, and while doing so, find various other items (oh, that’s where this is, I’ll have to remember this!) and then find the thing I was looking for and it’s not what I needed. Dammit.

And I’ll remember that I found the other things; I only retain the knowledge I found stuff, but I can’t remember what it was I found!

It never matters what they said before. They are hypocrisy incarnate.

And now maybe his base might see him for what he is

How many times has this been said over the last 9 years?

Well, the years start comin’ and they don’t stop comin’

Whatever trump said today will be the opposite tomorrow or the next. Smiles today, threaten to hang Mamdani by next Wednesday.

Unless a movie is horribly dated with jargon and references, or wildly out of place social issues*, any good movie should still be good.

*even something that has something like racism or misogyny in it might still be worth watching if those issues can be framed as something that should be seen as how we used to do things and why we don’t do them like that anymore.

The standard pandemic-preparedness playbook “has failed catastrophically,” NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and NIH Principal Deputy Director Matthew J. Memoli wrote in City Journal

I’ll offer this in response, which the author failed to note:

Public health and national security experts shake their heads when President Donald Trump says the coronavirus “came out of nowhere” and “blindsided the world.” They’ve been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trump administration’s decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House charged with preparing for when, not if, another pandemic would hit the nation.