Today I Learned #3: There's a wiki for everything!
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TIL (last night actually): In Chinese WeChat discussion groups Right-wing means pro democracy and Left-wing means pro CCP. Tencent moderators do not care about civility only that the Party and Xi are not spoken ill of. To get around the ban on speaking badly about Xi, posters use homonym characters that sound like Xi's name when spoken but mean something different. If a group gets too out of hand, Tencent will shut down the entire group. Typically, those who have organized the group have already planned for this and have a new group waiting to be started. No downtime and the discussion begins again. Group chats can have 500-1000 people in them.
Edit: Chinese moderators are paid by the number of posts and pictures they delete.
Edit: Chinese moderators are paid by the number of posts and pictures they delete.
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Broken_Erika
Play with me.
AFAIK they only shut down stuff if there's a call for action. You can trash the government to some extent without problem, but if you call for a strike, a demo, or worse, then stuff gets removed ASAP.
(but that's X-th hand information, so...)
On WeChat, Tencent gets the first pass at censoring. On the internet the government gets dibs on what is allowed and what is not.
So some of them are working for CBC, then. It's insane, how unaccountable and inconsistent the moderating is there, and how laughably ridiculous the "real names" rule is.
At least my fake name sounds like a real name. Other people? You wouldn't believe how many characters from the Archie comics are posting there, not to mention Star Trek characters, 1970s TV characters, dead monarchs (Catherine the Great posted yesterday), and dead Prime Ministers. You have to admire the dedication of a Prime Minister who's been dead for a century, to rise up from the afterlife to post on a news site's comment section.
The moderation is especially egregiously insane in the "mom blog" section of the site. I think I got on somebody's $h!t list there and they just "deactivate" my posts no matter what. It actually is enough to wonder if they're paid by the number of posts censored.
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timurlenk or Tamarlane in English , after dedicating his life to a pursuit of power without any apparent target and doing great in the way of the example he followed , Cengiz Han of Mongols and yet lacking the power to hide his final resting place , one day discovered he was still a mortal ... And placed a curse ... Whomever disturbed his grave would face the greatest catastrophe that could ever be imagined .
and a team of Soviet archeologists opened his grave on ... June 22 , 1941 ...
and a team of Soviet archeologists opened his grave on ... June 22 , 1941 ...
TIL that there's a new island north of Greenland that the researchers didn't know was there until they accidentally visited it, thinking it was a different island:
What it was like accidentally discovering the world's northernmost island
It's a tiny place, and they say it won't be around very long. But it does qualify for the definition of an island.
What it was like accidentally discovering the world's northernmost island
It's a tiny place, and they say it won't be around very long. But it does qualify for the definition of an island.
Since it's not exactly weird "news", I'll put it here: https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/f...ing-the-birth-of-a-child-by-centrifugal-force
Sofista
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But Elston Howard or Yogi Berra could have helped, possibly.
Gelion
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Sofista
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Tststs, an Italian friend just suggested Gigi Buffon. Shame on you.
I'll defend my google-fu!
I know nothing about baseball history, but a search provided a couple of great catchers that were playing for New York teams in 1965.
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for post #7600 , a multiple of 400 (which was the exact number of my posts in some forum elsewhere on the web , before ı was banned for a post which was typically r16 and included a certain amount of disrespect to George Sho-ross in the way of describing how big a conspirator he was that he would fit in the jacket pocket of the likes of Henry Ford and Howard Hughes where the latter would display their handkerchiefs) ı would really be tempted to describe the Falklands where the British Harriers never used the so called viffing tactics but widely reported to have done so , cutting their trust by vectoring the nozzles down , losing an immense amount of forward speed and after the hapless Argentinian pilots found themselves ahead of the deadly Harriers , the latter would vector the nozzles up and "accelarate like something out of Star Wars" . Which happens to be an actual quote from the USN approved George Hall book on Topgun , which ı have in both paperback and .pdf formats . Though ı might have to check it , my memory never being of the photographic variety . But then old Russkies should have even better anectodes from Falklands . How the Harrier pilots visit Port Stanley after the surrender of Argentine forces and locals are bubbling with how the Harriers had avoided a storm of missiles fired against them on their first attack of the war , against the airfield at Port Stanley . A spectacle none of the pilots had seen ... You know , with the standart stuff that so much annoys people . Who would have believed ı would be still alive ...
TIL that Scranton, Pennsylvania and Utica, New York began as Welsh settlements to preserve Welsh identity, culture and language.
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