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this can be done, and it’s suspect when someone’s done it to build a following and it’s not clear if they own the tweets.

I tail the firehose sometimes , filtering for post dates that don’t contain 2025. Bottom line this has been happening since day one and backdated/imported posts were about 1/16th or so of the overall post volume in any random sampling I’ve taken. It’s a lot.

But the few I spot checked , all checked out. The people importing their posts were all mentioning their new bluesky on LinkedIn or Twitter . I haven’t caught a spammer yet. It’s something I look at when I am extremely bored.

I loved dishonored so much I played it for several months.

Only game I ever did that with in my life.

no similar reports

Covid detected in wastewater samples

December 2019 in Italy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428442/

November 2019 in Brazil: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.26.20140731v...

They found covid in samples of the sewage system in SC state Brazil in November. 2 months before it came out of wuhan

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/saude/novo-coronavirus-ja-estav...

March 2019 in Spain: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v...

Brazil recorded its first COVID death April 15, 2019. Initially taken as a data entry error by some, data for 2019 is still published nearly six years after the fact.

https://transparencia.registrocivil.org.br/dados-covid-downl...

I can answer this one because it was one of my dirtier SEO tricks.

Expired domains and Domains on the marketplace, with hundreds or thousands of “backlinks” to them, are valuable. In the listing you may see something like “20000 back links.” And those links are usually worthless , spam, and will vanish as soon as you buy. But you can find domains that have real backlinks. TEN backlinks from reputable websites are more valuable than a thousand spam BLs.

You used to be able to buy and run software , “backlinks explorer” to investigate everyone who links to a domain you’re thinking about buying. And you can also research a “20000 backlinks” claim to see if this is just someone spamming that domain all over blogger and forums.

A good domain to buy will have legit backlinks from real websites that the website linked on purpose. If it’s been spammed thousands of times for a “5000 backlinks claim” , expect google to punish it!

Because if you 301 them to your site, google et al assume you’re the legitimate successor to that website and people mean to link to you.

So you come up higher in search.

I’ve used this to be the first or second result on google. And certainly on the first page of results.

It overcomes downranking for being a new domain nobody links to.

Google has its own criteria for evaluating whether your page is spam or a scam, and whether you’re abusing this to promote spam or a scam.

I have a trio of ancient highly ranked domains that I forward to a new page for about a year.

They’ll hit page one on google within a week or two or three.

After I remove the 301s or recycle those domains, the pages usually still come up within the first page of results afterwards.

Before you get too horrified here, I did this to bury a “competitor” who had registered a similar domain name, stolen my entire repo and website from a disgruntled employee, copied all my software and copied my webpage word for word trying to drum up business on my IP. The whole time they mocked me in email about stealing my customers and putting me out of business.

It worked. (Sort of. If you hire them they don’t actually have any idea how to do what I do.)

I did not do this to scam or phish or what have you. I just did this to bump them from #1 on google. Which they got by incorporating with a similar business name and registering with a similar URL.

They did ultimately manage to shut that business down and disrupt it after years of this and I moved on because I have other talents and this venture wasn’t profitable enough to deal with this entity kneecapping me for years and years.

But on my way out, I forwarded all of those domains to a reasonable and legitimate website that’s in the same line of work, resulting in them now dominating the other site in search. So I walked away and used this trick one last time to at least ensure someone searching for this subject would end up in some safe and reasonable hands.

What’s my point in sharing this?

It’s that the other website has no idea I did this, and has no control over it. You might see this and assume the worst about the other website.

someone could be doing this to manipulate SEO or search results over sites they don’t even own. For reasons that might (?) make sense or be well intended.

and for reasons that don’t, or might even be malicious.

* MULTIPLE edits for clarification

including a jailed android

no. I would only consider a Linux phone to get away from apple and google

On iCloud public relay, go to settings and select “use country and time zone” instead of “use general location.”

Now you’re no longer “within 250 miles,” hell my phone geo IPs everywhere from Louisiana to New Jersey , which are not even “in my time zone,” but there you go.

This setting was pissing meta/Facebook off big time because they also couldn’t narrow me down to a precise geographical area, resulting in much nagging and whining about “was this you signing in from [shreveport]?” and frequent account lockouts , password resets, and endless requests to approve my logins from a device that’s already logged in before I finally said to hell with it and deleted FB a few days ago.

I figure if a privacy setting makes meta mad , then it’s .. probably … a good setting. Must really irk them trying to sell location relevant ads when my state changes every other time I unlock my screen.

It’s a combined behavior of using private browsing and refusing to install their app, thereby giving them a permanent supercookie no matter what my IP is, so if you don’t like the sound of this it [might not] affect you if you use their apps. “X” does it too, just look up “inferred identity+ twitter” on google.

I’m editing out a tall claim in the last paragraph of this for some other time when I’m less tired and have sources next time we’re on the subject.

the pull tab on the right has a divot in it where it makes contact with the can, and it concentrates more pressure at the point of contact to pop the seal.

That’s an attempt to mitigate cans where you’d pull the tab and the tab would just break off without opening the can. So the person who answered it’s usually because of the seal is right.

other half’s dad [retired from] Campbell in Ohio and isn’t an internet let alone a Reddit person, you’d never guess how much trivia there is about their #2 can. I’d have commented but a brand new account will probably be buried as spam … and the second answer is correct anyway.

in LA, it’s 45-60+ minutes to drive anywhere. work if you’re lucky. groceries. gym. social activities.

I’ve had 3 hour commutes in Chicago suburbs too.

Austin and the Bay Area are awful too. Did all of them.

Now I live in a town where it’s no more than 15 minutes to anything.

Oh and I only have to give my identity to Alipay and Chinese transit? And modify my phone so it consistently beacons out a trackable ID?

That’s the bulk of the “justifiable” censorship but if you dig into the [largely overrated] “Twitter files,” sometimes they even got mad about jokes.

It doesn’t work that way.

When a dealer has a floor plan (to finance their inventory), the cars that are being bought by the dealer are collateral and have liens on them.

The lien has to be satisfied (bank paid with interest) to transfer the title to a buyer or to your theoretical “another LLC.”

Just like my car would have to be, for me to get a clear title to sign over to you.

Not everyone uses a floor plan, an unsecured line of credit would be the one situation where what you’re proposing would “work”

Floor plans are one of the reasons there’s only a few (used) dealerships in town I could walk into, plunk down cash, and walk out with a signed title that day. Because they’re transferring the title to themselves, and then to me, using the chain of ownership boxes on the back,and then sending that to dmv.

I didn’t know a lot about this other than the owner at my previous company had attempted to branch into car sales before he passed away. TLDR, we couldn’t even sell or dispose of the cars with good intentions and they all got repossessed.

I’ve heard about Trial by Press.

But Trial by Polymarket is a bridge too far.

SF only approves something like 3-4 new housing construction projects a month for its 800,000 or so population. If I have that wrong, just chime in.

So even if you lucked out and acquired land , inherited it , or whatever . It could be years before you can do anything with it. If you even have the money to build on it.

Parking is the only rent you might be collecting on it.

Whoever did this doesn’t even clean their computer, it’s disgusting!

I think many people would go along with dragging anyone responsible for funding or terrorizing people with this stuff out into the streets by their hair.

Not sure I’m expecting an “oh yeah haha, about that-“ anytime soon.

At least not until everyone’s welded inside their homes like China.

My favorite thing used to be counting the trails of oil from the topes wherever someone had knocked off their oil pan!

I see your point: Facebook is known for having “shadow profiles” on people who have never used Facebook in their lives.

So to them, “this is the profile we’ve decided is amy “ and “this one isn’t.” Even if it is….

You’d be surprised (and horrified.)

AT&T wrote me up for missing pages while I was battling cancer! And I supposedly had std/ltd/fmla/etc. my current job , which I’m grateful for beyond words , would just about be sick at the idea of treating anyone like that.

When it’s in a status where they’re demanding ID it “should be” deactivated.

Now they will delete the account after some time if if you refuse to give them ID. But they didn’t always do that, which meant they had your data and refuse to give it up. Basically forever.

They’re not a great company and they don’t care about anything. You might be better off claiming you live in California USA and demanding they delete it under CCPA, than to try as EU Right to be forgotten or EU privacy. And that’s dismal too because your laws are supposed to be better than ours.

You should be able to get a UPS store Mail Drop for a month or two while you correspond with them and or the California attorney generals office and raise some hell. Yes it’s garbage to suggest this but it works. They take ID and all that over the web to open a mailbox and “voila I live in California now.” If you have any friends online there , just ask if you can “live there” and get some mail there while you write letters to the AG and or meta

https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

They *have to* comply with the California request. I had to resort to this to get Kinto Share to stop accessing my background and credit every year. (Another trash fire company that doesn’t care how much you beg threaten or cry.)

Same. I had a deactivated account from 2015 I could no longer access .

Subsequent attempts to make new ones were instantly banned for “no reason.”

They did work with me to reinstate the 2015 account. And it’s never been banned or suspended since. I don’t really use it anyway.

But that’s how they are. They trust older accounts. New ones are treated like criminals.

I think Mangione is more popular with the public than Stack Exchange.

I’m on social media to talk to my grandkids and former co workers.

I don’t want to see your hoo-ha on Meta while I’m eating my pancakes.

Meta has failed (abysmally) at identifying and categorizing content where you’ve said “show me less of this.”

Bluesky’s not my favorite website but Xblock is proof that the app can go “this is a twitter screenshot and she doesn’t want to see those” at scale.

AI could identify, label, and hide all of these things.

On bluesky it already does: “this is rude” or “this content promotes self harm” , I wish both websites could suppress , snooze, or completely nuke “viral” or political content be it left or right. In bluesky’s case it’s not that I disagree with them. It’s just that I’ve had this shit that I more or less agree with shoved down my throat from every angle for a decade and I’m exhausted and don’t want to see or engage with it anymore. People who have nothing else to say 24/7 every single day of their life and mine just need to go away and I wish the AI on bluesky would just let me filter people whose content is primarily political temper tantrums because I don’t have the time or will to mute or block them all so I just don’t use the product.

In fact for moderation purposes, Facebook already is doing that on their back end. (a few years ago you could see automatically generated alt text like “a woman holding a baby” though I don’t use meta at the present time and don’t know if it’s still doing this.)

AI is already analyzing the memes and purging ones with themes they don’t like on FB though . Unlike bluesky moderation, it’s not presented as something I can leverage or access to make my experience more enjoyable on Facebook.

But that’s not how they’re leveraging AI right now. They won’t let it prevent me from seeing memes posts and content with themes **i** don’t like.

It just seems I’m doing the google -> bing -> yandex thing a lot now.

And then I don’t bother with many competitors because they’re all bing based anyway.

Way down the list sometimes I resort to Brave search. Not because it’s good. But in fact, because it’s so bad, it might be indexing something the others tried getting rid of for a good year or two after everyone else tried to memory hole it.

Which has helped me pull cached versions of something interesting “to me” that wasn’t interesting enough for someone else to have gotten with archive.today

Think the most recent one I went down the whole rabbit hole on was a tv show called “that’s my bush” from Comedy Central. I was willing to buy them but they were Unobtainium. I did end up finding the episodes on archive.org and on torrents, via yandex. Great example of something harmless and hilarious that Big Social and Big Search just HAS to protect my delicate sensibilities and my fragile mind from.

Just to underscore how stupid and petty some of this stuff has gotten. Even if it’s not outright censorship of (at best) tangentially “political” content (they had planned on lampooning whoever won, thinking Al Gore was going to be president, and it’s the same guys who did South Park so it’s culturally and historically interesting to some of us) it proves how increasingly irrelevant Google has become.

Google and Bing both hid their availability on archive.org from me and I would not have thought to look there. Meanwhile, first hit on Yandex.

I’m agreeing with you.

Twitter used to have a problem with retaliation if you dared talk back or correct the “wrong person” (mass reporting, suspending, taking down anyone who bruises an influencers massive ego - which still works unfortunately and is still a problem under Musk. But CN made sure this wouldn’t happen to you for telling the truth.)

Or a minor nitpicking comment or correction becomes a flame war and now someone’s digging up your high school year book photo or your DUI mugshot from 20 years ago. (Root cause being, again, twitters retaliatory culture) CN just kinda stops people from shooting the messenger.

And sometimes the messenger sucks but still has a point.

CN is a twitter-specific solution to Twitter-specific problems.

It would have also been good if they’d stop suspending people with no human review just because an influencers army of flying monkeys reported them. It “only” takes about 50 and then you’re done forever and all appeals denied. This is one of several reasons I don’t use Twitter, none of which are political or about it’s supposed “owner.”

You can’t block these guys, god forbid you reply to one- no thanks

Fed hasn’t paid Treasury a dime since August 2022:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RESPPLLOPNWW

his pesky commitment to a well-informed society.

You shouldn’t get high this early.

Duolicious: where the men are men and so are the women.

are you a Canadian doctor?

Possibly. I tried to follow along but didnt get it/couldnt hang.