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If you throw a fundraiser to cover your gambling debt, but you're not sure if the fundraiser will raise the needed funds, is that gambling?
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Welp. https://twitter.com/StephenPunwasi/status/1090644111915245568
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Jan 30, 2019 21:05
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Russian nerd, sure, but I wouldn't assume a Russian troll - that account appears to make *many* thousands of edits, mostly (all?) to categorizations. When I looked just now, it was in the middle of a huge burst of changes to things like regional songs and eurovision entries with 500+ changes in the last hour. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Ghuron&offset=&limit=500&target=Ghuron
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Jan 30, 2019 21:12
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James Baud posted:Russian nerd, sure, but I wouldn't assume a Russian troll - that account appears to make *many* thousands of edits, mostly (all?) to categorizations. Why the gently caress else would you add "Canadian soldier" to Khadr's page other than to rile people up?
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Jan 30, 2019 21:16
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Russia knows how easily the alt-right eats poo poo like that up and is constantly feeding them poo poo like that to whip them into a tizzy.
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Jan 30, 2019 21:17
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Honestly I would do this job. Give me a salary and benefits and I’ll modify Russian language Wikipedia entries on Kosovo to inflame public sentiments. I can do that job from the beach with a laptop and a mai tai. I’d whistle while I worked.
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Jan 30, 2019 21:20
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Why the gently caress else would you add "Canadian soldier" to Khadr's page other than to rile people up? If you’re a classification bot, he’s a soldier + Canadian = Canadian soldier. He wasn’t a soldier in the Canadian Forces, but that’s not the sole meaning of “Canadian soldier.”
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Jan 30, 2019 21:22
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Yeah there's just no explanation for why somebody would vandalize a wikipedia page other than state sponsored "active measures" by the Russian government. It's not like the very forums we're posting on used to be notorious for doing that poo poo all the time.
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Jan 30, 2019 21:25
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Arivia posted:If you’re a classification bot, he’s a soldier + Canadian = Canadian soldier. He wasn’t a soldier in the Canadian Forces, but that’s not the sole meaning of “Canadian soldier.” Much like Russian troll has an implied meaning and a literal one.
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Jan 30, 2019 21:36
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James Baud posted:Russian nerd, sure, but I wouldn't assume a Russian troll - that account appears to make *many* thousands of edits, mostly (all?) to categorizations. Yes, what a peculiar thing to have happened. Have you been living under a rock for the past few years? gently caress, Canada really does just follow America's patterns.
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Jan 30, 2019 22:24
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infernal machines posted:Much like Russian troll has an implied meaning and a literal one. a russian account with a facebook/zuckerberg quote
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Jan 30, 2019 22:29
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Destabilizing the world with Wikipedia edits is something out of an Orson Scott Card story.
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Jan 30, 2019 22:30
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infernal machines posted:Destabilizing the world with Wikipedia edits is something out of an Orson Scott Card story. Prey on the gullible to spread your bullshit.
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Jan 30, 2019 22:32
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Vintersorg posted:Yes, what a peculiar thing to have happened. Making 80,000 legitimate edits of marginally positive utility to poorly cover the Russian tracks of just a handful of psyops that might ["we have ways!"] get detected is pretty dedicated to creating a reasonable doubt about something that could have been addressed a lot easier by setting the "native language" to something useless like Flemish. There's a monster in the closet!
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Jan 30, 2019 22:33
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Ok, you keep putting your fingers in your ears, closing your eyes and going mawmamwmawmawmawmawmawmwa while loving dumbshits in power like Andrew Scheer send out tweets and encourage their base to spread their disease across the internet. mawmamwmawmawmawmawmawmwamawmamwmawmawmawmawmawmwamawmamwmawmawmawmawmawmwamawmamwmawmawmawmawmawmwamawmamwmawmawmawmawmawmwamawmamwmawmawmawmawmawmwa
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Jan 30, 2019 22:41
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The russian guy classified him as a "Soldier" not "Canadian Solider", which is quite correct. He seems to like classifying things on Wikipedia, good for him. Then Google got confused and mixed "Canadian" and "Solider" into "Canadian Solider" if you scrolled through the entries deep enough. Calling a guy who was part of a combative force a 'solider' isn't terribly controversial, so it's a pretty weak troll. Vintersorg posted:Ok, you keep putting your fingers in your ears, closing your eyes and going mawmamwmawmawmawmawmawmwa while loving dumbshits in power like Andrew Scheer send out tweets and encourage their base to spread their disease across the internet. What the everloving gently caress is this?
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Jan 30, 2019 22:56
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Attribution in cybersecurity is fundamentally impossible. I could be writing this post from a Russian IP (currently I'm using New York.) And if I were a KGB agent, I probably wouldn't make Wikipedia edits from a naked IP. Not to say that it was or wasn't a Russian influence attempt, but IP tracking is something that laypeople sometimes think is accurate, when it is very not.
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Jan 30, 2019 22:58
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James Baud is ok in his ignorance. That's ok.
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People may find this article interesting, although only related in subject: https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/ Coincidentally Philip Cross waited until 8 hours ago to re-enter the news, using Russian state media: https://www.rt.com/news/450154-rania-khalek-smear-campaign-wikipedia/ From another article: quote:“My view is that Philip Cross probably is a real person, but that he fronts for a group acting under his name. It is undeniably true, in fact the government has boasted, that both the MOD and GCHQ have “cyber-war” ops aiming to defend the “official” narrative against alternative news media, and that is precisely the purpose of the “Philip Cross” operation on Wikipedia. The extreme regularity of output argues against “Philip Cross” being either a one man or volunteer operation. I do not rule out however the possibility he genuinely is just a single extremely obsessed right wing fanatic.” xtal fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Jan 30, 2019 |
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Jan 30, 2019 23:03
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https://twitter.com/mattbraga/status/1090791447807315974
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Jan 31, 2019 03:12
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Khadr isn't not a Canadian soldier. He was both a soldier, and a Canadian, so I see no understanding of the English language where it's inaccurate to call him a Canadian soldier unless of course you dispute the notion he was a soldier at all. I believe he was a child soldier, thus placing him in the larger category of soldiers overall. He isn't and wasn't a soldier in the Canadian Forces, but that's a separate issue.
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Jan 31, 2019 03:45
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quote:killing isn't an occupation Well, sure, not if you do it for free. Most people in the field are fairly well compensated, especially in the private sphere.
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Dreylad posted:I recently checked up on the survivors from the mosque shooting including the guy who couldn't walk again and was struggling with zero support after what rehabilitation was covered and people raised $400k for him to get an electric wheelchair and an accessible home. This is wholesome, thanks for sharing :3  'Yes, I am Jason’s mother,’ says wig-wearing Kenney. Yellow Ant fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jan 31, 2019 |
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Jan 31, 2019 04:26
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Yellow Ant posted:This is wholesome, thanks for sharing :3 lol is that Kenney's hateful visage photoshopped onto a sweet old lady?
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Jan 31, 2019 04:29
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PT6A posted:lol is that Kenney's hateful visage photoshopped onto a sweet old lady? Sorry, added the link. You replied before I finished editing! But yes it is. https://www.thebeaverton.com/2019/0...ment-residence/
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Jan 31, 2019 04:36
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Vancouver's socialist Coalition of Progressive Electors councillor Jean Swanson joined with the arch-NIMBY Councillor Hardwick in voting against a motion to support the proposed Skytrain to UBC. That this vote came after an impassioned speech at the public hearing by a UBC area Safeway manager who described how hard it was for her low wage earning workers to commute into work with the existing insufficient bus is incredible. Swanson has betrayed the workers that voted for her and discredited herself. https://twitter.com/fabulavancouver/status/1090786274477203456
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Yellow Ant posted:Sorry, added the link. You replied before I finished editing! Yeah, I saw that just after I replied. I can identify corpulent nazis in drag with ease! 
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Femtosecond posted:Vancouver's socialist Coalition of Progressive Electors councillor Jean Swanson joined with the arch-NIMBY Councillor Hardwick in voting against a motion to support the proposed Skytrain to UBC. That this vote came after an impassioned speech at the public hearing by a UBC area Safeway manager who described how hard it was for her low wage earning workers to commute into work with the existing insufficient bus is incredible. Swanson has betrayed the workers that voted for her and discredited herself. I love skytrain and transit systems in general, but it does seem like a hard sell to run one all the way through the endowment lands. Skytrain to Arbutus then bridging the rest of the way with more dedicated buses would still be a huge service improvement.
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Jan 31, 2019 06:08
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Nanaimo byelection is closer than I'd like, but the NDP should have it. 50% of the vote with 46 of 111 polling stations in. CHEK News live update
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Jan 31, 2019 06:55
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Looks like we dodged a bullet tonight folks.
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The Butcher posted:I love skytrain and transit systems in general, but it does seem like a hard sell to run one all the way through the endowment lands. I tend to agree, but I wonder - my figures are a bit out of date but I think UBC had a 30,000 nighttime population and 120,000 in the day. That's a small city moving in and out of two main and two minor arteries every day and UBC just keeps pouring concrete. Skytrain from my old place near Broadway and Main, rather than standing in the rain watching trolley after trolley go past packed to the gills? The mind boggles!
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Jan 31, 2019 07:05
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So now that the byelection is called and I can breathe again... how the hell did Mainstreet get the Liberals by THIRTEEN? In Nanaimo! Even they didn’t seem to believe their own poll. I also would like to give a shout out to the Green voters, who appear to have gone hard for the NDP as green support collapsed. Thanks Greens, for making Andrew Wilkinson eat poo poo. Edit: also the Georgia Strait called it for the Liberals, lol
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Jan 31, 2019 07:20
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I'm pretty sure the GS is like that Charlie Smith guy and 10 other people working out of an apartment at this point. On the polling thing, it's hard enough as it is. Zero it down to a single riding and the respective budget you'd allocate for that, you aren't going to get great results. Especially if you're mainly just doing the robocall thing. More and more people are finally learning to never pick up unknown number calls. If you lean too heavy on that method you are going to be overwhelmingly getting only terminally bored retirees answering.
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LANDLORDS DIE / NANAIMO IS A gently caress/ Kill Em All 2019 / I am a Horg man / 410757864530 DEAD LIBS
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Jan 31, 2019 07:32
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Building the skytrain halfway to UBc is the dumbest loving idea. Build it the whole way and then upzone the poo poo out of that area. Transit needs to connect urban centres, a line the full way would do that, terminating the line at Arbutus does would be awful. I would take the skytrain to my job at UBC if it went all the way; if I had to get off and transfer on to a bus then gently caress that I’m still driving.
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Jan 31, 2019 07:43
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MikeSevigny posted:So now that the byelection is called and I can breathe again... how the hell did Mainstreet get the Liberals by THIRTEEN? Mainstreet has a bunch of numbers on bingo balls and picks a random one to find margins. They’re loving crooks. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/mainstreet-polling-failure-calgary-election-naheed-nenshi-1.4442659
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Jan 31, 2019 07:44
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cowofwar posted:Building the skytrain halfway to UBc is the dumbest loving idea. Build it the whole way and then upzone the poo poo out of that area. Upzone the poo poo out of the urban half part by all means, but leave the giant chunk of forest alone. We can't get that back.
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Jan 31, 2019 07:46
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The Butcher posted:Upzone the poo poo out of the urban half part by all means, but leave the giant chunk of forest alone. Sorry do you mean the forest with three roads, a golf course, and mansions through it currently enjoyed only by wealthy single family homeowners? And obviously there would be no way to build the skytrain along University Blvd given it is a two section road split by a large median conveniently the size of elevated rail pillars. cowofwar fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Jan 31, 2019 |
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cowofwar posted:Building the skytrain halfway to UBc is the dumbest loving idea. it's really not. vast majority of 99B trips are taken within the currently funded line, including the all-important Commercial to Cambie and Commercial to Granville slogs. all the way to UBC would be fantastic obviously but the current plan of stubbing it off at Arbutus is still a vast improvement for tons of commuters
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