hmm, traps are becoming more mainstream nowadays. The app Tik Tok is full of them

Oh, donde votar?

I suppose it could be a false flag.

I'm suggesting that someone is purposefully making it trend just so they can then see people debate the implications

Just get some programs to spam the search term.

I doubt it was searched much before so to get thousands of % increase wouldn't be hard at all. It's relative change, not absolute.

Donde votar today

Can we compare with the proportional growth of the search term "where to vote"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRhWXolnrkg

Yes, I'd much rather see absolute change than relative

Heh, Google doesn't need any third-party bot support in order to artificially inflate 'donde votar'.

could just as well be search shaping to shape the behaivor of those searching in a form of subconcious programming. Google did admit to changing the rankings of search results in order to influence people as well

But yes, do vote today, everyone. If you haven't yet, take an hour or so to research the choices, their stances and their past activity.

10 vs 350 is a 3500% change

Of course Google is up to its usual election meddling.

But in absolute terms it's inconsequential

There are thousands or millions of search phrases fluctuating at a rate of 3500% at any given moment.

I can see google putting that into the autocompletes of people in regions that have larger hispanic populations automatically in order to influence their voting pattern (the donde votar term)

I wouldn't expect any less from Google.

Exactly, because seldom used terms can spike quite easily just in a small town and the relative change would be big but the absolute change small

dont you know its russian bots.

http://kukuruyo.com/comic/gg-triggerhappy-russian-bots/

Whelp, to change the subject, I actually have TWO civic duties today. The reason why I am still around is that not only is today voting day but I am on grand jury duty every Tuesday for the next two months. Today is day one. Should be interesting.

when will results come out?

well then

wait, who thought election day was an okay day to have a trail?

Results will start around 6pm EST today and continue for about two weeks after that.

Oof.

Absentee ballots

Have fun, Cat. They always turn me away when I get chosen for jury duty.

And that won't include the inevitable lawsuits about outcomes

Haven't even gotten past the lobby.

And the recounts

I think we may not know what the Congress will look like until New Years Day, if then... 😕

OC https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/399440910565507083/509402771339083788/bob.png?width=1170&height=610

They didn't give me a choice. It was totally random and for grand jury they don't do all the questionnaires.

I swear, Blizzard are purposely making every new heroes OP before having to nerf them

Makes the player base think that they're actually listening/doing something

Because they want to please the whamen.

Respecc the wahmen.

Well women are half the potential market for just about anything, so corporations who ignore that demographic cede half the market to their competitors. That said, women are not monolithic and many of us don't like to be pandered to. The noisy ones do, but certainly not all.