▲ 712 ▼ Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say (gizmodo.com) submitted 1 year ago by miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 82 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children) Why did you lose sleep over it? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) Why do you assume that having an opinion about something means I was solely invested in it? Because clearly having an actual opinion on something must mean I'm making it my entire reason for doing things in my life. Of course. Is that how you live your life? Only able to focus on one current event at a time? If so that's extremely depressing. But being unable to think about more than one thing at a time would explain a lot about why people are so easily manipulated by this sort of shit in the first place. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] -6 points 1 year ago Sorry I triggered your thesis. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Serinus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Are we not allowed to talk about an interesting intersection of advertising and politics? You know this is a discussion board, right? If you didn't want to discuss, why are you posting? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 0 points 1 year ago Can you explain the thought process as to how you fabricated your comment out of the 7 words, "Why did you lose sleep over it."? You self-generated a random thought and argued with yourself, then somehow blamed me. Fine job. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) Why do you assume that having an opinion about something means I was solely invested in it? Because clearly having an actual opinion on something must mean I'm making it my entire reason for doing things in my life. Of course. Is that how you live your life? Only able to focus on one current event at a time? If so that's extremely depressing. But being unable to think about more than one thing at a time would explain a lot about why people are so easily manipulated by this sort of shit in the first place. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] -6 points 1 year ago Sorry I triggered your thesis. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] -6 points 1 year ago Sorry I triggered your thesis. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Are we not allowed to talk about an interesting intersection of advertising and politics? You know this is a discussion board, right? If you didn't want to discuss, why are you posting? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 0 points 1 year ago Can you explain the thought process as to how you fabricated your comment out of the 7 words, "Why did you lose sleep over it."? You self-generated a random thought and argued with yourself, then somehow blamed me. Fine job. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 0 points 1 year ago Can you explain the thought process as to how you fabricated your comment out of the 7 words, "Why did you lose sleep over it."? You self-generated a random thought and argued with yourself, then somehow blamed me. Fine job. permalink fedilink source parent