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Hyrax Attack! posted:Bluesky is fine but wondering when they’ll start running ads or if there’s any reason they won’t get bought out by a tech creep who wants their own FB/twitter. Haven’t seen anything about them planning to be a Wikipedia style donation operation. Bluesky is still in funding stages - they just took in $15MM. However they are starting to talk about revenue streams. Currently, you can buy a custom domain for your Bluesky profile through a partnership with Namecheap that kicks some money back to Bluesky. Other ideas have been vanity purchases like how you can buy an excessive number of check marks on Tumblr, or quality of life upgrades like playing videos in higher quality. The developers and CEO are consistently vocal about setting up not just Bluesky but the underlying AT Protocol as being, "billionaire proof." AreWeDrunkYet posted:
I am not enough of a social media engineering-knower to understand the minutiae, but from listening to the people that are, there are some fundamental differences between Mastodon/ActivityPub and Bluesky/ATProto (aka the ATmosphere). One of the driving ideas behind ATProto is that you own your data and can take it with you much more easily than you could with Mastodon, and I believe that's been proved out with some internal moves - Bluesky went from being 1 server to an array of servers that are all federated with each other. They're still all Bluesky owned and operated servers, but it proved out the interoperability. Tldr, since this is the Election thread: Bluesky looks like Twitter but is set up and run by people that learned from both Twitter and Mastodon's mistakes, and also aren't in it for short-term payoff.
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Take this with a grain of salt, but it would be really funny if that stunt backfired. https://x.com/MattBinder/status/1853159252359020722
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most voters are part-time news readers or checked out enough that i 100% believe many people took it that way
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I don't see how it can be taken as anything other than doubling down?
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Platystemon posted:Take this with a grain of salt, but it would be really funny if that stunt backfired. honestly yeah that was my thought as well, it's exactly the kind of plausible deniability bullshit he'd pull
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Nov 4, 2024 01:37
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it was always a dumb thing to try to hammer on because even beyond the uncertainty of the messaging, you can't get offended by the biden comment without acknowledging your own comment lol
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So a while back there was a Bureau of Labor Statistics adjustment that knocked down 2023's total job count by like 800K or something, standard statistical stuff. Donnie's been yammering that it was fraud and blah blah. But he's absolutely loving spent with a cooked brain, so all he could manage was this: https://x.com/atrupar/status/1853252098906845620 All of you people wouldn't have a chance to see before you pull the lever on Tuesday, but a whistleblower released the information on the 18, or the 800,000 cobs plus. But the whistleblower said you know there were not 800,000 and 18,000, you add em up that's, and then you add a hundred think of it, 112,000 jobs.
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Nov 4, 2024 02:00
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Only 80 on the 800k cobs plus? So what?
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Nov 4, 2024 02:09
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typical midwest pandering with all this cobs talk
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Nov 4, 2024 02:10
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He’s trying to summon Dugout Doug with the cob pipe.
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Nov 4, 2024 02:13
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That was the first time I've heard him speak at length since the debate, and dear lord, he sounds like absolute poo poo. He's loving cooked.
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Nov 4, 2024 02:18
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What is with the navy blue and yellow hat? Is it an attempt to be a rip off of a Navy hat?
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Nov 4, 2024 02:25
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For what it’s worth discussing late voting surges, today was the largest day of early votes cast in my county in FL possibly ever. I can’t see 2016’s breakdown by day, but today dwarfed anything from this year and 2020.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Only 80 on the 800k cobs plus? So what? There's millions of country girls that can't make do. CBJSprague24 posted:What is with the navy blue and yellow hat? Is it an attempt to be a rip off of a Navy hat? It's the dork maga hat with gold lettering, I think.
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Nov 4, 2024 03:13
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You know how with hurricane forecast models, the spaghetti plot models can be all over the place, but as the models come closer to landfall, models come into agreement? https://x.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1853217620503167252?t=OMpfbJ9iFMqFqBIHsNGMlQ&s=19 This feels like that, but with politics.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Marijuana legalization could be a regulatory thing once you get past federal law enforcement resistance. Getting past federal law enforcement resistance happened back in May. The regulatory thing (rescheduling to Schedule III) has been proceeding apace (i.e., slowly) since then. Public hearings are going to happen in January or February.
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Handsome Ralph posted:That was the first time I've heard him speak at length since the debate, and dear lord, he sounds like absolute poo poo. He's loving cooked. I've been watching several of his rallies in the background for the last few days and even in the last few days it's... woof. he's gone downhill bad. today he had 3 rallies, tomorrow he's doing four -- all scheduled four hours apart. his speeches have been rambling on for over an hour these days. there is no way he's making them on time. tomorrow is going to be one hell of a day.
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Nov 4, 2024 04:13
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Based on how hard his brain has been nosediving over the past week or so Trump kicking the bucket on election day would be the most Weirdest Timeline type of belated October Surprise.
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After the NASCAR race ended today, my local NBC affiliate had a Trump ad, which seemed more low budget and desperate than anything else he's put out. He's wearing a suit with a red hat in front of his trademark flags, but it's with different lighting and is encouraging people to vote for him in a manner consistent with someone who realizes his opulent lifestyle is in grave danger if he loses. E- speak of the devil: https://x.com/A_S12/status/1853281090607214602?t=wFaz0eN0AoOSuk47bij3yg&s=19 quote:On Sunday, NBC broadcast a NASCAR playoff race, but some viewers noticed toward the end of the broadcast (technically right after the race ended but while coverage was still ongoing) that Trump appeared in an unusual ad, speaking directly to camera while wearing a Red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap, and claiming that electing Harris would cause a “depression” and that viewers should “go and vote.” CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Nov 4, 2024 |
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Nov 4, 2024 04:37
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CBJSprague24 posted:You know how with hurricane forecast models, the spaghetti plot models can be all over the place, but as the models come closer to landfall, models come into agreement? Polls and models don't equal what will happen but Jesus H. the electoral college needs to loving go
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Nov 4, 2024 04:39
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270–267 would give electors the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.
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Nov 4, 2024 04:43
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I've always suspected that the reason that exit polls seem to be considerably more accurate than earlier polls is that, partisanship aside, people tune out when the result seems to be predetermined. Ergo, it's in the best interests of the media and pollsters to make the race appear neck and neck for as long as possible to keep the punters tuned in. If the final exit polling is close enough to the end result, they can proudly claim they called the race and point to "a large number of undecided voters" as the reason for the earlier results - conveniently translating to more ad buys from campaigns the next time around!
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Kazinsal posted:Based on how hard his brain has been nosediving over the past week or so Trump kicking the bucket on election day would be the most Weirdest Timeline type of belated October Surprise. I could see it happening the second PA is announced for Harris (if it is, of course)
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Nov 4, 2024 05:06
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I guess Hitler never went to jail.
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Elviscat posted:I could see it happening the second PA is announced for Harris (if it is, of course) Comedy scenario when Florida is called for Harris on Tuesday.
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Volkova III posted:I guess Hitler never went to jail. Hitler quite famously spent time in jail.
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Iowa, Florida, and Texas get called for Kamala in quick succession and he strokes out while rage posting on Truth.
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Wombot posted:Iowa, Florida, and Texas get called for Kamala in quick succession and he strokes out while rage posting on Truth. Please
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Wombot posted:Iowa, Florida, and Texas get called for Kamala in quick succession and he strokes out while rage posting on Truth. inshallah
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facialimpediment posted:So a while back there was a Bureau of Labor Statistics adjustment that knocked down 2023's total job count by like 800K or something, standard statistical stuff. Donnie's been yammering that it was fraud and blah blah. He's cobbing hard.
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Crab Dad posted:Easy peasy. Call the Tech bros, we can call one “Atlantic Islands” or AI…
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Jonny Quest posted:Call the Tech bros, we can call one “Atlantic Islands” or AI… Invade Anguilla to seize its top-level domain.
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facialimpediment posted:Donnie's really sputtering at the end here and devolving into Spinal Tap. May not matter, but not ideal for him! As funny a picture as it is, all I can think about is how they will probably vote for him anyways. On a macro scale I get the argument about bummed-out voters not turning up, but it's really depressing to think about the other 95+% who see these displays and are like "yep let's give the keys to that guy"
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This video applies to a specific subset of us that keep tabs on the fix it fast / homeowner threads on these here dead gay comedy forums. https://youtu.be/Wo7KwWIg-7o?si=MrpD2871YBqOpux6 Discussion Quorum posted:As funny a picture as it is, all I can think about is how they will probably vote for him anyways. On a macro scale I get the argument about bummed-out voters not turning up, but it's really depressing to think about the other 95+% who see these displays and are like "yep let's give the keys to that guy" All fair, but Donnie's Cloak Of Invulnerability has been on the fritz lately. If that thing ever goes, he ain't got poo poo left and is a below-average campaigner, even for a lovely republican.
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CBJSprague24 posted:What is with the navy blue and yellow hat? Is it an attempt to be a rip off of a Navy hat? Elviscat posted:It's the dork maga hat with gold lettering, I think. Last-second cash grab. It's the "dark gold" maga hat that Donnie only started selling last week. Also just so happens to match Proud Boys colors, so may / may not be some dog whistling involved. I should've guessed it was a cash grab thing before I looked into it, since it made him look like even more poo poo than usual and he was wearing hats for poo poo he wouldn't usually wear hats for. Lately, he's been using "whoa, my hair looks like poo poo, bad hair day lol" as a random crowd applause line when he was in the middle of saying something else. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Nov 4, 2024 |
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He randomly started wearing hats to every rally recently and I am going to assume it is because someone showed him a pic of his bald spot and it embarrassed him. This may or may not be true but it’s the possibility where Trump is suffering the most so it’s canon to me.
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boop the snoot posted:He randomly started wearing hats to every rally recently and I am going to assume it is because someone showed him a pic of his bald spot and it embarrassed him. The four feet of cotton candy he twirls into a hair-turban have been failing him frequently lately, so I'm on board with this. It's exactly petty enough to be something he would do. Still hasn't stopped him from looking like he's bobbing for turds with that face spackle he uses but I don't think anything will stop him orange-ifying himself at this point. He's pretty committed to that one no matter how ridiculous he makes himself look.
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It's remarkable he doesn't realize how loving tacky wearing any sort of baseball cap with a suit is, but then again, we don't get to live in Trump world.
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For reference, here's the history of the "oh my hair sucks lol" stuff, which thanks to those meidas weirdos I don't need to link multiple things: https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1852846838015037806?t=uZIkKlywE3XDcdYqDpruDg&s=19 I really do think the black cap thing was just marketing a new hat for late donations. The "oh my hair sucks lol" thing has been a late campaign staple like a canned joke. Hats during speeches really hasn't been, except for outside rallies.
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CBJSprague24 posted:It's remarkable he doesn't realize how loving tacky wearing any sort of baseball cap with a suit is, but then again, we don't get to live in Trump world. "tacky" isn't a problem for trump    https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/melania-donald-and-barron-trump-at-home-shoot
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