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Answer: because it was. | -3 | 10osicb | j6l4cku | 2023-01-31 02:21:14 | false | What is up with people saying that the Bengals vs Chiefs AFC Championship game is rigged? | I watched the entire game and went to Twitter to see people’s reactions. The first thing that I see is #NFLRigged trending.
Posts like these:
https://twitter.com/nataliehastings/status/1619894500444479490?s=46&t=LPuLybNovAzVX68F76u_oQ
https://twitter.com/brianwitherby/status/1619894027775807488?s=46&t=LPuLybNovAzVX68F76u_oQ
Some users also said that the ‘unnecessary roughness’ call at the last 30 seconds was bullshit. But it was pretty obvious that he was out of bounds when he was pushed to the ground.
I was rooting for the Bangals, but I didn’t see anything shady happen during the game. | 228 | 2023-01-30 04:20:10 | true |
Answer: Sports gambling and the nfl move astronomical amounts of money. There have been cheating scandals in most other sports from Major League Baseball to college basketball. In order to “fix” a game, you really only need one ref in on it. There is so so so much you could “see” if you look for it, and so much to miss if you keep your eyes closed. a single referee can, for example, call roughing the passer on fourth down, which goes from a turnover to a first down and free 15 yards.
Now I’m not saying it’s rigged but that there is incentive to do so, a history of rigging occurring in major league sports, and the process by which a game could be fixed is extraordinarily easy. NFL refs are also part time, making them easier targets for financial manipulation | 1 | 10osicb | j6n6lu4 | 2023-01-31 15:02:20 | false | What is up with people saying that the Bengals vs Chiefs AFC Championship game is rigged? | I watched the entire game and went to Twitter to see people’s reactions. The first thing that I see is #NFLRigged trending.
Posts like these:
https://twitter.com/nataliehastings/status/1619894500444479490?s=46&t=LPuLybNovAzVX68F76u_oQ
https://twitter.com/brianwitherby/status/1619894027775807488?s=46&t=LPuLybNovAzVX68F76u_oQ
Some users also said that the ‘unnecessary roughness’ call at the last 30 seconds was bullshit. But it was pretty obvious that he was out of bounds when he was pushed to the ground.
I was rooting for the Bangals, but I didn’t see anything shady happen during the game. | 228 | 2023-01-30 04:20:10 | true |
Answer: Hindenburg is a short seller - their business model is to identify and research companies that are committing various scams, bet their stock price will go down, publish the research, collect their bet. Adani is a giant Indian conglomerate engaged in logistics, mining, & chemicals. Hindenburg accused Adani of securities & accounting fraud. Adani’s stock price went down. I don’t know if Hindenburg closed their position & got the dough. | 34 | 10or1y2 | j6gtzmg | 2023-01-30 05:31:14 | false | what's going on with Adani Group and the Indian stock market? | https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/us-firm-hindenburg-report-not-independent-objective-adani-in-413-page-reply-2327944-2023-01-29
Came across a bunch of articles and tweets about Hindenburg report calling out Adani Group and them denying the claims. What is this about actually? | 38 | 2023-01-30 03:09:18 | true |
Answer: from what I can decipher from some tweets, Brandon posted a PoGo screenshot of a user with a racist slur in their username/Pokemon name and asked people to send similar screenshots. Some people were not cool with that and reacted with (paraphrasing) "hey, how about we don't share racist slurs for fun", which resulted in Brandon's apology. | 5 | 10ofqk0 | j6h3zek | 2023-01-30 07:26:58 | false | What's going on with Brandon Tan and his tweet? | I saw Brandon Tan mention that he had to delete a tweet and backtrack on what he said. Can anybody inform me what he actually said?
Link to tweet:
https://twitter.com/brandontan91/status/1619255049775116288?s=19 | 2 | 2023-01-29 19:12:51 | true |
Answer: The description of the video says that the interviewer mistook the interviewee for another actor. The comments are most likely going along with the same joke, by stating the name of someone else that is not the subject of the video. | 13 | 10ow6n6 | j6hb6wp | 2023-01-30 09:06:16 | false | What's going on with the comments section of this YouTube video? They don't seem related to the video at all. | https://youtu.be/yXF8Lhvjqa8 | 0 | 2023-01-30 07:46:59 | true |
Answer: the video is about mistaken identity of the interviewee by the interviewer.
The chat has picked up on this and are keeping the theme going as a meme.
Actually pretty hilarious, | 6 | 10ow6n6 | j6hocgz | 2023-01-30 12:04:44 | false | What's going on with the comments section of this YouTube video? They don't seem related to the video at all. | https://youtu.be/yXF8Lhvjqa8 | 0 | 2023-01-30 07:46:59 | true |
Answer: Most reality shows try to convey the image that they are taking salt of the earth people,
When i reality they usually seek the most weird and distruptive people out there, the more drama, the better the ratings, so its not unusual for them to seek racist people or homophobic people and put them directly in an envirenment where they are exposed to other races and sexual orientations just to create more drama on the cheap.
TL;DR : Fucked up people give more entertainment on the cheap. | 201 | 10p00nh | j6hqjm3 | 2023-01-30 12:28:33 | false | What’s going on with the Bachelor, weight, and blackface? | Seeing a lot of tiktok skits about Bachelor casting looking for people who have done blackface and hating on women of a certain weight. What’s the context? https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cn0U3TRDQIs/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= | 51 | 2023-01-30 11:48:33 | true |
Answer: The bachelor has a history of casting people with a racist past of some kind (Greer in this season defended blackface, Erich, Gabby’s winner has a picture IN blackface, Rachel, Matt’s winner had a picture at a plantation party with racist roots, etc etc etc). Yet the show refuses to vet their contestants and keeps on casting people like that. And still, absolutely refuses to cast anyone who has a real body.
There have been TWO cast members who identified as plus size, and both have gone home night one, out of 40+ seasons and at least 25-30 people on each season. It’s insane.
There’s a campaign called Roses For Every Body that is campaigning for more body diversity, and does a lot of wonderful work over on instagram to educate people on fat phobia, what exactly the show needs to do to be truly diverse, and more. Go check them out! | 14 | 10p00nh | j6itd7e | 2023-01-30 17:16:32 | false | What’s going on with the Bachelor, weight, and blackface? | Seeing a lot of tiktok skits about Bachelor casting looking for people who have done blackface and hating on women of a certain weight. What’s the context? https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cn0U3TRDQIs/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= | 51 | 2023-01-30 11:48:33 | true |
Answer: The people in the thread are posting emojis. Whatever device you are using cannot display those emojis. The numbers are what you see instead. | 10 | 10p0wig | j6hujbe | 2023-01-30 13:08:01 | false | What's up with :7338: ? | There is other numbers but it's always ':xxxx: '
Like some comments in this thread: https://reddit.com/r/xqcow/comments/10opp31/meanwhile_at_the_latin_america_streamer_awards/ | 1,484 | 2023-01-30 12:37:55 | true |
Answer: The latest version of Reddit supports showing gifs in the comments from sites different sites, or Reddit's image hosting.
Other people are seeing pictures instead of the numbers. For example, I see a man biting his lips and a 4chan frog. But if your browser does not support it, you'll see the ID numbers for the image instead. | 250 | 10p0wig | j6hulpf | 2023-01-30 13:08:38 | false | What's up with :7338: ? | There is other numbers but it's always ':xxxx: '
Like some comments in this thread: https://reddit.com/r/xqcow/comments/10opp31/meanwhile_at_the_latin_america_streamer_awards/ | 1,484 | 2023-01-30 12:37:55 | true |
Answer: The mods of this sub really need to sticky this question since it is so hard to search for. The numbers you are seeing are just codes for gifs that people can use in their comments. I assume you are using a third party app? | 1,955 | 10p0wig | j6hunzh | 2023-01-30 13:09:14 | false | What's up with :7338: ? | There is other numbers but it's always ':xxxx: '
Like some comments in this thread: https://reddit.com/r/xqcow/comments/10opp31/meanwhile_at_the_latin_america_streamer_awards/ | 1,484 | 2023-01-30 12:37:55 | true |
Answer: honestly I think it’s because they gained weight. I personally see people doggin on how their body and looks all the time on the pop culture subs. They themself has not done anything to my knowledge to be hated on. | 25 | 10pfk3m | j6km540 | 2023-01-31 00:07:17 | false | What’s going on with the internet hating Sam Smith? | I always thought they were beloved by both the industry and fans but I’ve been noticing so much unspecific internet hate towards them (reference to that hate [here](https://twitter.com/jordan_lee/status/1620088698795888641?s=46&t=oErxYUllEDnQeQ7MgvhFWQ))
Did they do anything wrong? Other than Unholy being a cringey song, why did the internet turn on them overnight? | 1 | 2023-01-30 22:04:49 | true |
Answer: It's not about Sam Smith, it's about their association with Kim Petras. Kim gained a bad rep for working with Dr.Luke (an alleged sexual predator). Sam was just caught in the crossfire of hate comments. | 25 | 10pfk3m | j6kuye9 | 2023-01-31 01:11:25 | false | What’s going on with the internet hating Sam Smith? | I always thought they were beloved by both the industry and fans but I’ve been noticing so much unspecific internet hate towards them (reference to that hate [here](https://twitter.com/jordan_lee/status/1620088698795888641?s=46&t=oErxYUllEDnQeQ7MgvhFWQ))
Did they do anything wrong? Other than Unholy being a cringey song, why did the internet turn on them overnight? | 1 | 2023-01-30 22:04:49 | true |
Answer: Sam Smith’s latest release had a drastic shift in sound. Unholy, their latest track was very different in the teaser and it got a lot of fans hyped for that particular sound only for it to be quite different. There’s also the fact Unholy is played very often on Radio stations.
There’s also many not liking Sam’s recent shift in style choices and the fact they gained weight. | 1 | 10pfk3m | j6mpobr | 2023-01-31 12:49:04 | false | What’s going on with the internet hating Sam Smith? | I always thought they were beloved by both the industry and fans but I’ve been noticing so much unspecific internet hate towards them (reference to that hate [here](https://twitter.com/jordan_lee/status/1620088698795888641?s=46&t=oErxYUllEDnQeQ7MgvhFWQ))
Did they do anything wrong? Other than Unholy being a cringey song, why did the internet turn on them overnight? | 1 | 2023-01-30 22:04:49 | true |
Answer: I think the recent hate has come from the release of the music video "I'm not here to make friends." In the video Sam wears various outfits and there are some where the group (Sam and dancers) are wearing some suggestive outfits that are also a bit showy. From what I have seen on conservative folks are mad that Sam is flaunting their sexuality and showing off sexual themes in the music video. People are defending Sam because the video isn't all that more suggestive than other videos, but it contains a queer person so that some how makes it worse.
Also to add to this discourse there has been people on both sides that are commenting on Sam showing off their body because Sam may not fit the conventional theme of attractive.
So the recent buzz is around "I'm not here to make friends" and that discourse two parts hating a queer person being queer and one part body shaming. | 29 | 10pfk3m | j6n0l1l | 2023-01-31 14:19:27 | false | What’s going on with the internet hating Sam Smith? | I always thought they were beloved by both the industry and fans but I’ve been noticing so much unspecific internet hate towards them (reference to that hate [here](https://twitter.com/jordan_lee/status/1620088698795888641?s=46&t=oErxYUllEDnQeQ7MgvhFWQ))
Did they do anything wrong? Other than Unholy being a cringey song, why did the internet turn on them overnight? | 1 | 2023-01-30 22:04:49 | true |
Answer: I'm not sure about recent hate, but I think he started the process when he made a video from his mansion sobbing about being isolated during the pandemic. I may be wrong though. | 5 | 10pfk3m | j6nny97 | 2023-01-31 16:52:42 | false | What’s going on with the internet hating Sam Smith? | I always thought they were beloved by both the industry and fans but I’ve been noticing so much unspecific internet hate towards them (reference to that hate [here](https://twitter.com/jordan_lee/status/1620088698795888641?s=46&t=oErxYUllEDnQeQ7MgvhFWQ))
Did they do anything wrong? Other than Unholy being a cringey song, why did the internet turn on them overnight? | 1 | 2023-01-30 22:04:49 | true |
Answer: The primary risk for mail-in ballots is not the injection of fake votes, but rather the interception and removal of real ballots from the counting of votes. Mail-in ballots are issued to registered voters only; if excess (fake) ballots were returned, that would be really easy to catch.
Much harder is making sure that nobody intercepts ballots on their way from the mail — or from a physical voting location. In our society, unlawful interference with the vote has almost always taken the form of blocking legitimate votes, not injecting false votes. | 18 | 10pizk0 | j6kpxv9 | 2023-01-31 00:34:42 | false | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: voter fraud has had zero statistically significant occurrence.
Because of the nature of media and ad views, every single tiny example that can be waved in the air gets hours of air time.
But the math is clear - the amount of votes that can be called “voter fraud” represents a percent of a percent.
So it’s not a threat and hasn’t been since the days of LBJ.
It’s extra important to highlight this because fearmongering of voter fraud leads to its ugly cousin *voter suppression.* And **that** happens every day in every city in the US. People are flat out camping at ballot boxes with assault rifles and legislators are removing ballot boxes and mail sorting machinery. They’re even enacting new and updated Jim Crow laws.
So, voter fraud, mathematically speaking, doesn’t exist and voter suppression is run rampant. | 160 | 10pizk0 | j6kq560 | 2023-01-31 00:36:11 | false | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: In order for a ballot to be valid, you have to be registered to vote in your state, county, and town. The ballots are then checked against the list of registered voters and counted and logged, and re-checked at each stage. With modern technology, you can now check online to confirm your ballot was received/ accepted and if rejected the reason will be given, my SO once had one rejected because they forgot to sign it. | 198 | 10pizk0 | j6kttgd | 2023-01-31 01:03:11 | false | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: In-person and mail-in voter fraud are exceeding rare. Republicans talk about them to distract people from confronting the commonplace, corrupt election practice that routinely changes election results, voter disenfranchisement.
Making it harder for poor people and non-whites to vote is common, insidious, and effective for stealing elections time-after-time. | 37 | 10pizk0 | j6kuzqp | 2023-01-31 01:11:41 | false | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: Mail-in ballots are not anonymous pieces of paper. They are labeled and tracked. There is a barcode on every mail-in ballot envelope and a signature is required. Depending on the state, that signature can be checked against the signature on record to make sure it matches. A person whose ballot has been accepted by mail will be caught if they attempt to also vote in person. A person who impersonates another voter, such as a relative, will likely be found if the signature or address doesn’t match or if the party being intercepted noticed they didn’t receive a ballot and requests a new one. Furthermore from a logistical perspective it is virtually impossible to mass produce the amount of physical ballots and envelopes needed to affect a turnout, since every envelope is unique and ballots vary from county to county.
Ultimately it is up to the Secretary of State of each state to oversee elections, so individual guardrails vary from State to State. But statistically there is no widespread voter fraud or ballot tampering going on.
Individual anecdotes are exaggerated to represent a “problem” that does not exist outside the world of the media. | 93 | 10pizk0 | j6kvvv3 | 2023-01-31 01:18:15 | false | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: the US government doesn't take any steps. Voting procedures are established at the state level and subject to federal review only in limited cases. [Each state has different methods to verify the validity of absentee ballots](https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-14-how-states-verify-voted-absentee-mail-ballots). For most places, the ballot (anonymous) is placed inside an envelope that the voter has to sign under penalty of perjury. That signature is subject to verification against the signature on file when the voter registers. Volunteer observers are given access to the envelopes and can challenge signatures. If there's a challenge, an election judge makes the decision about whether to accept the ballot. If the signatures don't match, the envelope (and the ballot inside) is rejected.
Some states use a two-envelope method, where there's an inner envelope bearing the signature, some just have the voter sign the return envelope.
Most states now allow absentee voters to track the status of their ballots and to see whether and when they've been accepted. If someone were to steal an absentee ballot and somehow pass signature verification and the voter shows up on election day (or contacts the state election agency to say that their ballot didn't arrive), the voter would show as having voted and be allowed to submit a provisional ballot, and the matter would be referred to law enforcement. Voter fraud is a felony. Interfering with the delivery of mail is a federal crime. So anyone who wants to try to commit voter fraud by stealing absentee ballots would be taking a MASSIVE risk, subjecting themselves to draconian penalties, all for...one vote? Such an operation would never work at any kind of scale. There are always a handful of cases of fraud, but never on a large enough scale to sway an election (elections are almost always decided by thousands of votes). Vote by mail is no less safe than voting in person.
To address your citation directly, beginning with the 2020 election, president Trump began claiming that vote by mail was not secure (despite it being demonstrated safe repeatedly). The reason for this was that Democratic voters, by and large, wanted to make greater use of absentee voting as a result of the pandemic - in-person voting requires a lot of standing and waiting in large groups. A lot of states have rules that don't allow absentee ballots to be counted until after same-day votes are counted. So it would LOOK like Trump jumped out to large leads, which would then be eroded as absentee ballots were counted. To justify challenging these ballots, Trump claimed without evidence that absentee ballots were more subject to fraud. His supporters, including people like Kari Lake, have continued to make these claims, again, without any evidence. | 459 | 10pizk0 | j6kwlk2 | 2023-01-31 01:23:32 | true | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: Election fraud is rare. Of all the election fraud in America, absentee (mail-in) ballots are the tool of choice for fraudsters. Election integrity becomes a greater concern when mail in methods of voting are expanded vs. voting in person. Some want to move to all mail in systems, which makes others more concerned about those ballots being used for fraud.
This is just one small sample of some of the voter fraud convictions in the US:
https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/search | -25 | 10pizk0 | j6l0yhe | 2023-01-31 01:56:06 | true | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: Kari Lake is a fraud. | 125 | 10pizk0 | j6l1ux5 | 2023-01-31 02:02:48 | false | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: voter fraud is not real. It's just another attempt by radical right wing extremists and their racist leader Trump to make it look like the election was stolen and discredit joe biden as the real president. | 20 | 10pizk0 | j6l3gi0 | 2023-01-31 02:14:34 | false | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: There really is no deal with voter fraud in the United States. It’s a mathematically non-existent issue. Statistically irrelevant and when pressed for evidence no one has been able to demonstrate the opposite. Further, the US Government doesn’t need to prevent voter fraud in the US because it’s secured by the US postal system in which any tampering whatsoever is a major federal crime. Messing with a mail in ballot wouldn’t be any different than getting a fake ID and voting for someone else in person. One could ask what the US is doing to prevent people from getting fake IDs and voting for someone else in person, but nobody is asking that because its objectively irrelevant. | 14 | 10pizk0 | j6l7rbh | 2023-01-31 02:46:36 | false | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: People can commit fraud. It has happened.
A man received his estranged wife’s (ex-wife’s?) ballot in the mail, and he filled it out and sent it in. When she went to vote, they told her she’d already voted, and they caught him.
Some people have used the ballots of dead relatives. Local governments try very hard to match death certificates with voting records, but of course a few slip through.
It’s not difficult to find those.
It’s not impossible; it’s just very hard for those scattered few votes to make a difference. For mail-in ballots to make a difference in a local race, it would take some serious corruption inside the county clerk of court’s office and the election board.
Election boards and procedures have been carefully crafted to make sure equal numbers of people from both parties (and third parties if they’re sizeable enough) are represented at every step.
I encourage US citizens who are worried about the integrity of the vote to reach out to their local election board and county clerk of court to find out how elections are handled in their state and their county and locality.
And to volunteer!
If the vote is close enough that a few votes would matter, there are recounts and reviews of the ballots.
Some examples:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/05/15/man-suspected-wifes-death-cast-ballot-her-name-court-docs-say/5108597001/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/us/voter-fraud-nevada.html
https://www.salon.com/2023/01/13/ex-candidates-wife-hit-with-52-felony-charges-after-casting-23-votes-for-husband-doj/
Here’s an example of corruption inside the election organization (not mail-in) https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-congressman-charged-ballot-stuffing-bribery-and-obstruction
If someone moves and doesn’t update the voter records, I suppose someone could get the previous resident’s ballot, but if they left a forwarding address with the post office, that eliminates that problem.
It might be tempting to say, “well, if you caught these guys, how many did you not catch?” But again—it would be hard for those few votes to matter. And it’s not as difficult to catch the fraud as you think. | 9 | 10pizk0 | j6lbra9 | 2023-01-31 03:17:34 | true | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: Its a scam issue Republicans spread to try to get mail in voting shut down. they really don't like mail in voting because it bypasses a lot of their attempts to stop people from voting. | 10 | 10pizk0 | j6lf2py | 2023-01-31 03:43:37 | false | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: You can only request one ballot and if more than one comes in with your name on it then it'll be flagged.
Also, while it has happened, it's pretty hard to swing an election off one vote so you either have to somehow acquire a lot of ballots (and they're not just set out on a table like flyers) or coordinate with a lot of people to work together. Doing either one of those things is going to trigger an investigation.
Here's a recent example:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/four-people-plead-guilty-north-carolina-ballot-probe-2016-2018-electio-rcna49534
It was a lot of work and that means there was also a lot of evidence to charge the people involved.
So yeah, even if you can be fraudulent with one ballot pretty easily but to do easy ballot fraud and win an election? that's much harder. | 1 | 10pizk0 | j6lxsz6 | 2023-01-31 06:49:02 | true | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: Not enough. That's why when the Orange man claimed voter fraud he could amass such a following. Most states require a signature but that's it. Although very rare, people do collect mail in ballots or bamboozle others into "helping" them fill it out. People can even fill in a ballot for their demented grandma and send it back nd nobody would know.
Voter integrity laws vary by states and there has been few cases of schemes. But it's not suspected to be a problem. | -16 | 10pizk0 | j6mcbji | 2023-01-31 10:09:03 | false | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: There isn't a voter fraud problem in the US, there's just a loud minority trying to convince the rest of us that water isn't wet...
It's exceedingly simple and foolproof: person is born (birth certificate), person turns 18 (registers to vote), person votes (using valid ID) and election officials literally check his name off the "living humans registered to vote list". | 7 | 10pizk0 | j6n2jc2 | 2023-01-31 14:33:41 | false | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer:
TLDR: It’s all about a paper trail. It’s easier to cheat when there’s not one. Mail in absentee ballots provide a very strong paper trail.People who would benefit from cheating don’t like paper trails.
Long answer: Voting by mail is controlled by each state and has proven itself very secure. It’s actually a far superior system to the electronic voting machines due to its paper trail, and it’s convenience which allows more people rather than fewer people to actually vote and get a say.
It was under heavy scrutiny in the last election and every legitimate legal analysis of it has shown there were no real fraud issues (even after they tried desperately to find an issue, any issue,and boy did they try.) Mail in ballots are trackable and there is a system for challenging it in extremely rare cases where a single ballot might have been stolen or lost.
Very few single instances of a problem with it were found even though it was heavily challenged in the last big election - careful examination only revealed a handful of issues here or there out of millions and millions - usually either the results of clerical errors or of a Republican cheating.
As a good example of the type of error and all the noise made over out it, in one of the handful of errors identified in the last election there was a case where a father and son with the same exact name lived at the same address, when the father died. A local clerk had checked the wrong box once upon a time when the son registered to vote years ago that switched their two records with their respective identities. Their records were confused and reversed in their local township office. So come this past presidential election the son unknowingly votes in the father’s name, the exact same name as his, using the ballot that was sent to the son. When it was run against a list of death records it then looked like a dead person voted - “ahha! We’ve found real fraud! Dead people are voting!”- this was the case Trump was actually crying about - but upon examination there was no vote cast at all in the son’s name (the record associated with the dead father) yet the son claims he voted - it was determined that it was clear the records were switched with clerical error although the net result was unaffected. Yet Trump didn’t correct his narrative and goes around loudly repeating “dead people are voting!” as if it is a huge issue and his parrots then parrot him. So there may be a few little mistakes like this around that are extremely rare and nowhere nearly enough to affect any result. In fact Republican appointed judges in every single case case of alleged voter fraud dismissed the case for lack of evidence. Republican politicians who would’ve benefited from a lease honest approach instead honestly determined that upon review there was no actual evidence of fraud. (The really bizarre thing is these ethical people would then get death threats from their fellow Republicans.)
The underlying truth of the issue is Trump is a known cheater and he tends to over and over again blame loudly his opponents for doing exactly what he’s doing. Literally a case of don’t look here at what I’m doing look over there where I’m pointing. So pretty much if he’s loudly accusing someone of something we can bet he’s probably up to it himself. And indeed the few cases of voter fraud caught in the last election that he claimed was so unfair were actually votes in his favor by his people.
Cheating, if possible, and the real risk of widespread fraud, like suspected in the 2016 election, is best done through electronic voting machines that have no paper trail to prove how each voter actual voted. So hypothetically if you want to cheat it would be very much in your advantage to use electronic voting machines with no paper trail. It’s way too hard to cheat when there’s a paper trail. Mailing absentee ballots are the opposite - they provide the ultimate a paper trail system. You can do your own math...
Trump reset the standard to challenge what was previously accepted – that we have secure elections with trustworthy results. Democracy depends upon a loser conceding their loss. Trump refused to concede. Now his followers learned from his example and are trying the same tactics. Republicans lose and they don’t like it. It’s a way to be destructive and make a lot of noise. And the stakes are very high.
Finally, Republican voters are largely in their own echo chambers where everyone they know thinks the same way they do, or keep their mouth shut around them. The news they listen to is heavily biased often with “alternative facts” - a much ridiculed term trump’s press secretary used to basically explain being caught in a lie about the over exaggerated size of his small inaugural turn out. Other people don’t want to associate with these crazies. Often they’re so loud and brash and obnoxious that people who disagree will just keep their mouth shut instead of getting into a fight over it. Then they assume you agree with them. No, they just don’t want to get into a pointless argument with a hotheaded loudmouthed gun crazy person who believes insane stories and can’t be reasoned with. The other side tends to be a bit more sophisticated, keeps their mouth shut, doesn’t fly big obnoxious banners and bumper stickers all over their truck while quietly voting for the other party. So in their world the Trump Voters truly believe everyone thinks the way they do, and then they simply can’t believe they didn’t win - nor that the other side could actually win. | 2 | 10pizk0 | j6o83ml | 2023-01-31 18:55:01 | false | What is the deal with voter fraud in the US? How does the US government prevent voter fraud when people vote by mail? | [https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870](https://www.newsweek.com/kari-lake-claims-new-evidence-arizona-voter-fraud-has-been-found-wow-1776870)
I would like to know when people vote by mail, what steps the US government takes to protect its ballots from voter fraud. Can't anyone who lives in a residence use it to cast a ballot without me knowing? What does the government do to prevent this? | 0 | 2023-01-31 00:26:31 | true |
Answer: I'm not sure what there is to be OotL with this, it's a normal business practice and nothing new or specific to this particular series. Streaming services can't just show any old content they want, they need to negotiate a contract with the rights holders, which usually involves some form of payment, and conditions on what episodes can be released when and in which regions, and for how long they're made available on the service.
On top of that, the streaming service may decide that a particular release schedule is advantageous to their business. So even if they have a contract to serve certain content, they may choose not to just dump every episode in one go, but stagger the release of certain seasons or even episodes.
It's reasonable to imagine a scenario where Netflix paid only for the first two seasons to test how many people would watch it, before determining whether it was worth paying for more seasons.
The age of the show or how many seasons it has are not really relevant. Negotiating rights for a whole series is probably cheaper and easier than negotiating rights for each season separately, but it's also a gamble that has to be balanced with the possibility that you pay for something that no one watches. | 1 | 10ley8q | j6kv2m5 | 2023-01-31 01:12:17 | false | What’s the deal with Inuyasha season 3 finally coming to netflix? | https://www.reddit.com/r/inuyasha/comments/jmhksb/where_to_watch_season_3/
For the longest time it has just been the first two seasons and all the movies. However just as of last night i had clicked on it and it had the “season 3 coming on Saturday!” notification on top of the description. Inuyasha is such an old show and it has like what 7 or is it 8 seasons in total on top of all the movies? So why is it Netflix is just now finally adding season 3 on? Let alone still cucking everyone on all the rest of the seasons?? They do have them all on Hulu, but admittedl, i would definitely preferably want to watch on Netflix because personally i have Hulu but with ads, and Netflix has no ads. Lol. | 5 | 2023-01-26 00:47:21 | true |
Answer: I have forever said and heard Tomboy when referring to a young lady or woman who is athletic or hangs with the guys. | 396 | 10pmf56 | j6lb8vj | 2023-01-31 03:13:29 | false | What is going on with the word tomboy? | If they’re an athletic woman they’re a tomgirl, not a tomboy. [https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/10pa8x7/this_is_the_future_that_my_uncle_fears/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf](https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/10pa8x7/this_is_the_future_that_my_uncle_fears/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) | 0 | 2023-01-31 03:05:15 | true |
Answer: You’re wrong.
[Tomboy](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tomboy) | 964 | 10pmf56 | j6lbjq2 | 2023-01-31 03:15:54 | true | What is going on with the word tomboy? | If they’re an athletic woman they’re a tomgirl, not a tomboy. [https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/10pa8x7/this_is_the_future_that_my_uncle_fears/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf](https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/10pa8x7/this_is_the_future_that_my_uncle_fears/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) | 0 | 2023-01-31 03:05:15 | true |
Answer: the word tomboy has meant a boyish girl for centuries now, although it did originally refer to a boisterous boy around the 16th century. The use in the post you linked is not as common.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomboy | 124 | 10pmf56 | j6lbw89 | 2023-01-31 03:18:39 | true | What is going on with the word tomboy? | If they’re an athletic woman they’re a tomgirl, not a tomboy. [https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/10pa8x7/this_is_the_future_that_my_uncle_fears/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf](https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/10pa8x7/this_is_the_future_that_my_uncle_fears/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) | 0 | 2023-01-31 03:05:15 | true |
Answer: (first part only to compensate for stupid rules) I was under the assumption that tomboy was a term for a woman who dresses or acts like a boy or man does/would and is sometimes considered more attractive or cooler because of that | 12 | 10pmf56 | j6lx9ec | 2023-01-31 06:42:23 | false | What is going on with the word tomboy? | If they’re an athletic woman they’re a tomgirl, not a tomboy. [https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/10pa8x7/this_is_the_future_that_my_uncle_fears/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf](https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/10pa8x7/this_is_the_future_that_my_uncle_fears/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) | 0 | 2023-01-31 03:05:15 | true |
Answer: Tomboy is a very old term. If you said "Tomgirl", people would wonder if you are talking about a masculine girl or feminine boy. I don't see a good reason to confuse people especially considering the current transgender controversies. A tomboy can be a CIS gender heterosexual girl. A tomboy can also be a lesbian. It is a better term to use if you don't want to imply anything about sexual orientation. Tomboy refers to both athletic ability and a willingness to get dirty. | 65 | 10pmf56 | j6mazhs | 2023-01-31 09:49:55 | false | What is going on with the word tomboy? | If they’re an athletic woman they’re a tomgirl, not a tomboy. [https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/10pa8x7/this_is_the_future_that_my_uncle_fears/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf](https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/10pa8x7/this_is_the_future_that_my_uncle_fears/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) | 0 | 2023-01-31 03:05:15 | true |
Answer: wrong, Its tomboy not tomgirl | 14 | 10pmf56 | j6mw3gd | 2023-01-31 13:45:00 | false | What is going on with the word tomboy? | If they’re an athletic woman they’re a tomgirl, not a tomboy. [https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/10pa8x7/this_is_the_future_that_my_uncle_fears/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf](https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/10pa8x7/this_is_the_future_that_my_uncle_fears/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) | 0 | 2023-01-31 03:05:15 | true |
Answer: Mrbeast is a YouTuber famous for making philanthropic content where he spends large amounts of money helping underprivileged individuals and charitable organizations. This last week he released a [video](https://youtu.be/TJ2ifmkGGus) where he paid for a thousand people around the world to have cataract surgery to repair their eyesight. | 330 | 10pny1r | j6ljxlr | 2023-01-31 04:24:55 | true | What's the deal with Mr. Beast and something about cataract surgery? | I don't know who Mr. Beast is or what he's trying to do. I keep seeing tweets like this:
https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1620271911455580160
So is he like a doctor who is doing surgery for free on people with cataracts or something? | 285 | 2023-01-31 04:07:58 | true |
Answer: MrBeast is a stunt youtuber who originally came to prominence just doing mildly absurd things like publishing a 24 hour long video of him counting to 100,000. He's found quite a bit of viral and financial success which has allowed him to spin off both traditional business ventures like MrBeast Burger, a virtual restaurant brand, but also viral philanthropy.
Normally this takes the form of large foundations which he spins up and helps fund, often by leveraging the star power of other youtubers to gather donations from large companies, but this was just finding 1000 people who were functionally blind but couldn't afford cataract surgery and just paid for it without any other ceremony.
If you're not familiar with US healthcare, regular health insurance doesn't cover the eyes or the teeth. If you have dental or vision problems you need specialized insurance or to pay out-of-pocket for work, which is why procedures like this are often _difficult_ for people to get. | 40 | 10pny1r | j6lk059 | 2023-01-31 04:25:34 | false | What's the deal with Mr. Beast and something about cataract surgery? | I don't know who Mr. Beast is or what he's trying to do. I keep seeing tweets like this:
https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1620271911455580160
So is he like a doctor who is doing surgery for free on people with cataracts or something? | 285 | 2023-01-31 04:07:58 | true |
Answer: People are upset that someone did something nice because they make money through their charitable work.
Mr. Beast, a prominent YouTuber, does charitable stuff that gets views. Those views provide money, which then allows him to do additional work. In essence a YouTube shitposter has learned to monetize charity to snowball that money into more charity work (alongside other business).
To the people who are on the outside? It's exploitative.
To the people being helped? It's usually a huge net positive and they're just happy to receive the help.
Most of the upset comes from a very culturally ingrained idea that there is something noble about selfless altruism vs. getting something out of doing good things. Just from his largest stunts the guy has donated around $6M, a total somewhere in the 8 digit range, and has a net worth of $100M. That doesn't include the additional goodwill, matched donations, awareness, and additional work.
Do I think Mr. Beast is kinda a dork? Sure. Is it a parasitic relationship? More symbiotic than anything. There are larger issues due to the path that his stuff takes (the rise of charity porn was definitely influenced by his success), but for some dumb YouTube personality to change the lives of tens/hundreds of thousands of people for shits and giggles? I'm for that part. | 1,220 | 10pny1r | j6lpyts | 2023-01-31 05:21:48 | false | What's the deal with Mr. Beast and something about cataract surgery? | I don't know who Mr. Beast is or what he's trying to do. I keep seeing tweets like this:
https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1620271911455580160
So is he like a doctor who is doing surgery for free on people with cataracts or something? | 285 | 2023-01-31 04:07:58 | true |
Answer: it seems to be nonsense. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/1/prince-harrys-spare-becomes-fastest-selling-non-fiction-book-ever-732915 | 19 | 10pwmee | j6mi4x3 | 2023-01-31 11:27:30 | true | What's going on with Prince Harry's book? | I've seen several posts now of Prince Harry's unsold or intentionally poorly displayed book in stores. What's the deal?
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/10pqhdy/someone_listened_to_the_audiobook_huh/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button | 3 | 2023-01-31 11:24:46 | true |
Answer: I've only seen just the one example you cited, so not sure that this is any kind of widespread thing. From the photo in the previous Reddit post it appears there was an employee tasked with applying clearance stickers to the jackets who took it upon themselves to cover his mouth as some kind of statement. I wouldn't expect that to be a widespread thing as it's a pretty unprofessional look on the bookseller's part.
I also wouldn't read too much into the fact that this is already being marked down for clearance, as nearly every book expected to be a runaway bestseller tends to be overprinted. | 34 | 10pwmee | j6nncgs | 2023-01-31 16:49:02 | false | What's going on with Prince Harry's book? | I've seen several posts now of Prince Harry's unsold or intentionally poorly displayed book in stores. What's the deal?
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/10pqhdy/someone_listened_to_the_audiobook_huh/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button | 3 | 2023-01-31 11:24:46 | true |
Answer: Lots of people view Prince Harry and his wife Megan as grifters who are trying to cash-in on being victims despite leading lives of privilege. The book (which I have not read) seems to be themed around "Woe is me, I'm the forgotten child, unimportant because I'm not direct in the line of succession." This has left a bad taste in lots of peoples' mouths. | 18 | 10pwmee | j6p194y | 2023-01-31 21:55:02 | false | What's going on with Prince Harry's book? | I've seen several posts now of Prince Harry's unsold or intentionally poorly displayed book in stores. What's the deal?
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/10pqhdy/someone_listened_to_the_audiobook_huh/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button | 3 | 2023-01-31 11:24:46 | true |
Answer: a quick search for "lime lips" brings [this up in Know Your Meme.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lime-lips) | 24 | 10pqyci | j6mt7pz | 2023-01-31 13:21:05 | true | What is up with everyone putting those green lips with a lime over other photos? | I’ve seen on twitter and instagram people have been putting this neon green lips with a lime cutout on top of other peoples mouthes in photos. It’s a new meme but I wonder how it started?
https://imgur.com/a/JkpDui2 | 314 | 2023-01-31 06:35:47 | true |
Answer: From what I could gather, basically it was an image posted by makeup artist Vladda Haggerty in 2016 that became a popular reference for realistic drawings.
It came back to the public eye because of tiktokers remembering its odd popularity and how it was kind of a cringe image | 181 | 10pqyci | j6mtfnd | 2023-01-31 13:22:59 | false | What is up with everyone putting those green lips with a lime over other photos? | I’ve seen on twitter and instagram people have been putting this neon green lips with a lime cutout on top of other peoples mouthes in photos. It’s a new meme but I wonder how it started?
https://imgur.com/a/JkpDui2 | 314 | 2023-01-31 06:35:47 | true |
Answer: new tiktok trend where women pretend they work as slaves that produces only lime lips drawings
Kinda a joke about how aspriring artists drew those lips back in the day as the ultimate test of skill | 9 | 10pqyci | j6orcw9 | 2023-01-31 20:54:09 | false | What is up with everyone putting those green lips with a lime over other photos? | I’ve seen on twitter and instagram people have been putting this neon green lips with a lime cutout on top of other peoples mouthes in photos. It’s a new meme but I wonder how it started?
https://imgur.com/a/JkpDui2 | 314 | 2023-01-31 06:35:47 | true |
Answer: theres probably a sudden increase because one of the characters in Everything Everywhere All At Once does eyebombing | 38 | 10q4bva | j6nv6mr | 2023-01-31 17:36:36 | false | What's up with eyebombing? | Maybe I just accidentally clicked on a post somewhere and now the algorithm thinks I want to see it all the time, but I seem to keep getting bombarded with eyebombing posts on the Reddit homepage, and the titles are often variations on "My first attempt! I've been so excited to do this all week!" ([https://www.reddit.com/r/eyebombing/comments/10p0d2e/my\_first\_go\_ive\_been\_so\_excited\_to\_do\_this\_since/](https://www.reddit.com/r/eyebombing/comments/10p0d2e/my_first_go_ive_been_so_excited_to_do_this_since/)) as if sticking googly eyes on things is a new invention.
Can't tell if it's the same as it always was and I'm a grumpy bastard, or if there's now a sudden increase in it. | 26 | 2023-01-31 17:04:15 | true |
Answer:
https://time.com/6251385/australia-radioactive-capsule/#:~:text=A%20mining%20corporation%20on%20Sunday,the%20tiny%20but%20dangerous%20substance. | 16 | 10q7w2f | j6od0wm | 2023-01-31 19:25:35 | true | What’s going on with the meme of the metal thing found on the beach? | I don’t know what [the meme](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/10q16ea/after_a_restless_night_i_woke_up_feeling/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) is about, what it’s a picture of, etc. | 41 | 2023-01-31 19:22:41 | true |
Answer: An Australian ~~government~~ mining company lost a small capsule of radioactive material.
[https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-nuclear-safety-agency-joins-hunt-radioactive-capsule-2023-01-31/](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-nuclear-safety-agency-joins-hunt-radioactive-capsule-2023-01-31/) | 33 | 10q7w2f | j6ods9a | 2023-01-31 19:30:20 | true | What’s going on with the meme of the metal thing found on the beach? | I don’t know what [the meme](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/10q16ea/after_a_restless_night_i_woke_up_feeling/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) is about, what it’s a picture of, etc. | 41 | 2023-01-31 19:22:41 | true |
Answer:
It's to push the aesthetic of the new album as a cohesive brand image. Before social media Radiohead would put some cryptic imagery or messages on their website to get people hyped for a new album. There wouldn't be a bunch of show dates, previous pictures or previous blog posts. It was to get people curious and excited so they really get into the new music when it comes out.
A lot of social media pages can get messy looking when a variety of content is posted over time. When the slate is wiped clean and everything is updated with a more consistent theme it's likely to get people more interested in the new album because it comes across as very important to the artist. | 300 | 10q7vzf | j6or6we | 2023-01-31 20:53:08 | false | What’s the deal with artists and musicians wiping their entire post history when they drop new albums? | I know that many artists have been doing this for years but I’m not sure where it started or why. Just one example, Lil Yachty has been around and writing music for the better half of the last decade, and now only has a couple posts after his latest album dropped.
[Lil Yachty](https://instagram.com/lilyachty?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=) | 177 | 2023-01-31 19:22:37 | true |