ChiGoose

How many more people are shot or killed than in peer countries that don’t have so many firearms?

Looks like it was a nutjob shooting off a gun in his yard. Neighbors asked him to stop, so he killed them. An armed society is one that solves arguments with bullets. Gunman Kills Five People in Texas Home, Authorities Say

Let’s make sure that bangers can get their hands on guns then, right?

5 dead in Texas shooting, suspect armed with AR-15 is on the loose: All of the victims were shot from the neck up “almost execution style.”

It’s annoying to log on to this site and have a bunch of notifications of people tagging me in conversations I’m not participating in because it makes them feel important or whatever. I have no idea who tf Julie Kelly is but here I am being tagged in this thread because I apparently should set up subscriptions to something. I dunno man, it’s just weird. People should get a life instead of trying to stir up drama on a message board.

WTF are you talking about? Are you high?

It was obviously not going to work. That’s why it was widely criticized. But it also showed that Elon fundamentally does not understand the real issues with verification.

I didn’t say he’s dumb. I said that the move to end verification on Twitter is dumb. It’s possible for smart people to dumb things. Like Elon buying Twitter to set a new world record for most money lost by a single individual.

Destroy the old system, predictably causing a rise of fraudulent accounts and fix it by restoring the old system. Truly, a genius move. We mere mortals simply cannot comprehend it.

I understand that. What I don’t understand is why we would be confident that Twitter will fix a problem it intentionally created.

If the reason we have so many new imposter accounts is because Twitter did away with the verification system that actually verified people, why are you confident they will fix the problem they just intentionally created?

Absolutely. But anonymous sources or people familiar with the matter quoted in an outlet like WSJ sure the hell beats “Nuh uh!”

Doubtful. Given the lack of actual verification, it’s usefulness as a source of news will decrease as the number of imposter accounts rise. Got it. So unless there is news that supports what we want to be true, we can just dismiss anything that counters our position as biased and re-assert our own position without any support.

Twitter revenue, earnings reportedly fell 40% shortly after Musk buyout Twitter's revenue and adjusted earnings reportedly fell about 40 percent year over year in December 2022 amid an advertiser exodus following Elon Musk's takeover. Twitter ad revenue to plummet 28% in 2023: forecast Twitter's income from advertising will fall by 28 percent in 2023, a closely watched forecast said Tuesday, as the platform struggles under the ownership of Elon Musk. Analysts at Insider Intelligence said they were slashing an earlier worldwide revenue estimate of $4.74 billion by more than a third to $2.98 billion as trust in the platform deteriorates.

Tweets Become Harder to Believe as Labels Change Meaning In the 24 hours after Twitter last week eliminated the blue check mark that historically served as a means of identifying public agencies, at least 11 new accounts began impersonating the Los Angeles Police Department. More than 20 purported to be various agencies of the federal government. Someone pretending to be the mayor of New York City promised to create a Department of Traffic and Parking Enforcement and slash police funding by 70 percent. Mr. Musk’s decision to stop giving check marks to people and groups verified to be who they said were, and instead offering them to anyone who paid for one, is the latest tumult at Twitter, the social media giant he has vowed to remake since he acquired it last year for $44 billion. The changes have convulsed a platform that once seemed indispensable for following news as it broke around the world. The information on Twitter is now increasingly unreliable. Accounts that impersonate public officials, government agencies and celebrities have proliferated. So have propaganda and disinformation that threaten to further erode trust in public institutions. The consequences are only beginning to emerge. *** In Sudan, new accounts on Twitter are falsely representing both sides of the civil war that has erupted there. One account that, presumably, bought a blue check mark falsely proclaimed the death of Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, the leader of the rebel Rapid Support Forces. More than 1.7 million people viewed the tweet. *** The main account of the Los Angeles Police Department has a gray check mark, which Twitter created for “legacy accounts,” but not all of its various bureaus do — the Hollywood division, for example. In addition to providing blue check marks for $8 a month, Twitter has invited organizations to pay $1,000 to receive gold marks for multiple accounts. For a time, at least, one was extended to a Disney Junior impostor account that tweeted racist and vulgar language. “This is going to be chaos for emergency services,” tweeted Marc-André Argentino, a research fellow at the London-based International Center for the Study of Radicalization. Mr. Argentino tracked examples showing an account impersonating the mayor of Chicago replying to one impersonating the city’s Department of Transportation. Another had New York City’s actual government-run account arguing with an impostor. “Yes this is funny, let us all laugh,” Mr. Argentino wrote. “Now take two seconds and go back to any mass casualty incident in a major city, or a natural disaster, or any crisis/critical incident when people turn to official sources of information in times need & think of the harm that this can cause.”

Welcome to 95% of the posts on this board

Times today that the most pathetic and sad poster on this board who claims to have blocked me has tagged me in threads: 3

Times today that the most pathetic and sad poster on this board who claims to have blocked me has tagged me in threads: 2

I won’t say that because I obviously don’t.

Times today that the most pathetic and sad poster on this board who claims to have blocked me has tagged me in random threads: 2

I oppose the government criminalizing the practice of medicine. The specific case you cite is sad and awful. But while the exceptions and edge cases should inform conversations about medicine, I wouldn’t support stopping lung transplantations just because a single patient died. The data around the overall safety and risks of a procedure should set the standard, not the outliers.

I was wondering if you were going to get to your daily quota of randomly tagging me in at least two conversations. I’m flattered that the most pathetic poster in the world cannot stop thinking about me and has to tag me in multiple posts per day and even quote me despite claiming to have blocked me. What a rich and fulfilling life you must lead. Anyway, I voted Kasich in the 2016 primary and Johnson in the 2016 general. In hindsight both were a mistake, but we live and we learn. Well, some of us. Others obsessively spend their time thinking about someone on the internet and constantly reaching out to them for attention to distract from their sad and pathetic lives.

The ONLY reason the trans-scare is happening is because the policies pushed by the GOP are losers that the public opposes and they can’t hate on gays anymore. A large part of GOP politics is scaremongering, so they’ll lie about things to scare grandma and make grandpa mad. It’s no wonder that Millennials are the first modern generation to not trend conservative as they age. The GOP is dying. That’s why it opposes democracy.

It took you until 5pm for the daily “tag ChiGoose because I can’t stop thinking about him” post. Yesterday was two posts. Improvement? Maybe someone is finally getting therapy?