why did they both happen to stop on that day despite having such regular posting habits?
One of the reddit comments has proposed a pretty simple explanation: the two profiles are the same person. Just one person's posting habits were disrupted.
The other guy was disputing the objectively unlikely connection between the two posters and Russia. In your mind you somehow converted that into claiming that the poster defended Russia as such. You've stopped looking at the actual evidence and are just going off the vibes, Russia is already bad therefore every bad thing ascribed to it has to be true.
When the weakness of the connection was pointed out to the reddit OP, even he kind of stepped back. Maybe go accuse him of going soft on Russia as well? Or take a step back yourself.
For now what I'm usually seeing is people talking about Russian influence without hard proof or just plainly contradicted by reality, as in this case. I've seen speculation that Dessalines (Lemmy developer) is Russian due to his tankie takes, again easily contradicted by his digital footprint.
As for me being a tankie, I'm literally banned on Hexbear for being subscribed to some anti-tankie communities.
I am sorry, /u/Ok-Stand-2128, but this premise from the post looks wrong. Could you please share your sources on this? I could find no info about an outage in the city of Moscow on that night. There was only an outage in Moscow region: more specifically, in Zhukovsky, a city with a population of about 100,000 people. (An analogy would be an outage in Albany in the state of New York, while New York City had no outage.) I’ll share my sources in a reply because Reddit sometimes deletes links to Russian websites.
I can imagine no reason for this outage to influence any Russian bots. Zhukovsky is not an IT hub.
Also, the fifth image shows that the two users in question usually start posting at 2 a.m. Moscow time, the middle of the night, not a typical workday start.
The increasing tendency of US leftists to assume Russian influence behind the conservatives seems like a rehash/mirror of the Cold War anti-communist paranoia. The profiles themselves clearly behave bot-like:
It's definitely Ask4MD, but I figured the other one was According-Activity87. If you go on conserv sub right now half the first page is both of them posting. Both have extremely easy MOs to follow. Ask4MD will post something and never engage with it. According-Activity will post something then post a GIF response almost instantly. It's so tuned and they're never called out about it.
GIF responses are indeed a frequent thing for reddit bots to use, from what I've seen.
Doesn’t do that for me. I have to hold left click on a link for over a second to trigger it.
I misunderstood the previous comments, actually, yeah, it's not triggered the way I assumed.
The use case is “give me the key bullet points of this article so I can decide if I should give it more attention.”, and it does that job pretty well.
I'll put aside all the other complaints I have on my mind, because we've both probably gone through similar discussions, I don't want to get bogged down in yet another, and just say that I honestly can't imagine this being such a useful or time-saving thing in the first place. Like, did it use to be a frequent problem to you to start reading an article, realise you're not interested, and give up on it?
you only encounter it by interacting with the browser in an atypical way
Leaving my pointer on a random place that happens to be a link is atypical? I don't think it is. I had this pop up to me a couple of days ago and I didn't even understand what could've triggered it, I was wondering if I clicked something or pressed a key unconsciously.
and the thing it does is a thing that AI is actually pretty decent at (summarizing text)
Pretty decent? Just passable, if the text is about some run-of-the-mill topic.
Going off QuinnyCoded's comment, I'd speculate the song is used in some antisemitic meme TikTok video or something similar. Kind of like Little Dark Age getting associated with nazi Hyperborea fantasies.
Edit: the pic I posted has a more greenish tone, I think, but it's a photo of a book that I have physically and Coyote Brown lines up with the physical version better
Those are all directly and heavily influenced by all regimes in general, aside from the one-child policy which might be regarded as an authoritiarian policy. Shit economy making people not want kids works the same both in democracies and in authoritarian countries (in fact, the latter might even dampen the negative psychological effects upon the population through propaganda).
Ehh, the character of the regime doesn't seem to affect birth rates a whole lot. Brutal dictatorships that make China seem like a gentle puppy could have perfectly ok birth rates. E.g. Nazi Germany had 2.5 fertility rate in 1939 and 1940, it was their highest since 1922: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany
I really don't think the average Chinese cares too much about how authoritarian their govt is when it comes to deciding on whether to have kids. The consequences of one-child policy, economic prospects, stability, general cultural optimism/pessimism, social habits (and the effects of technology on them), etc. are all likely to be much more important factors.
One of the reddit comments has proposed a pretty simple explanation: the two profiles are the same person. Just one person's posting habits were disrupted.