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How did he get banned lmao

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[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 58 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

b-b-b-b-bad

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

Get a haircut and get a real job.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

She told me not to mess around
But I done let the deal go down
Move it on over, rock it on over
Move over, nice dog, a big, fat dog is movin' in

[–] Pergoss@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Chat is this real?

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 51 points 1 day ago

They hated [dril] because He told them the truth. -Gal. 4:16

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

He is saying on twitter that it was for posting the below email from Jeffrey Epstein to Deepak Chopra:

I haven't checked whether this email is real or if he was trolling, but Chopra does show up in the emails several times

EDIT: It's real.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Deepak Chopra getting a fever dream idea for an app that "detects an aura" and going "wow" re: his own idea is peak Deepak Chopra

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If anything, the Epstein file releases have affirmed to me that capitalism rewards people independently of societal merit.

....

Because what the FUCK are they even talking about here?

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am repeating once again: it's not that merit is not rewarded, it's that what is "meritous" is not what you think

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What I think is meritous is more correct than them.

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

shrug-outta-hecks that's just like, your opinion man.

Their opinion pays for Academi mercs and Pinkertons.

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be the smugest pinkerton-made corpse ever to hit the ground just you wait 07

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would he get banned for that?

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How dare he imply anyone other than Trump and Putin are in the Epstein files, unless you're actively turning this into Russiagate nonsense you're the enemy

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

I'm so mad at the libs (especially journos) for burying this in blueanon nonsense again.

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What’s with the damn = ?

[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It has something to do with the way servers/protocol broke up emails into lines and stored the lines using = as demarcation. Whenever the emails were assembled, the = remained. We had a thread about it yesterday or the day before.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Do you have a link to that thread?

Because it often appears in place of 'I's and 'E's as if the emails were printed then re-digitalised with OCR(the top and bottom bars on I and E in certain fonts could trigger certain OCRs algos to read it as =)

It also appears to replace characters rather than being appended like you'd expect with a separation flag(chars in unused unicode spaces are also more likely to be used for that function than something commonly used in text like =), I could be wrong though so I'm interested in seeing the discussion

[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do not. I just spent about 10 mins trying to find it. It's not in c/technology or c/chapotraphouse, that I can see. Searching "=" or any other relevant key words for posts or comments doesn't bring it up. IDK.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No worries, thanks for looking(I assume you also checked your browser history)

[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe it was this I saw (thanks to astronot)

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1quqk6q/this_is_where_all_those_equals_signs_in_the/

Really easy to confuse hexbear with r/trueanon since everyone just reposts from there all the time.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

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[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah it looks like the digital rot version of copier burn.

[–] astronot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

I don't have a link to the thread over here, but this article explains it in depth

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Terrible OCR I believe.
Why emails need OCR is a mystery however

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In short, emails still use an old ASCII protocol from the 80s, and old servers used unix tools that read pipes line-by-line.
To avoid emails with long lines slowing down the servers, they break long lines before sending them.
Because it's ASCII, they use an ASCII control sequence to mark inserted line breaks.
That sequence is =␍␊.
There's some sequence of screwups in the email export that ended up with last word =␍␊first word getting replaced with last word =irst word instead of last word first word.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the explanation, what's up with = appearing in the middle of words? does the protocol inserts breaks after a set number of chars, rather in the nearest whitespace to a set number of chars?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

Probably not being outraged at Trump enough.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

how has he not been banned from twitter is the better question

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

He's responsible for like 50% of non-bot traffic is my guess

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This was Jack Nicholson’s dying wish

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Please tell me you're joking and this is not how I find out one of my favs died.

Edit: Ohthank god. He is 88 though...

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago

Problematic dog whistle much?

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

what is bluesky?

enough hitler particles to make a heap