"Luck merchant"."If I speak...."
I guess he must have.
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"Luck merchant"."If I speak...."
I guess he must have.
Sure. But you asked this question in the Clinic, hence why I asked. He has a thread in PRR. For the record I have no idea about O’Conner’s family heritage.I don't know any rider named O'Conner.
I don't have a problem with O'Connor. It's an Irish name and I wondered if any Aussie knows who he belongs to.
Me neither but I might comment on it anyway because it's my right as an entity with free willFor the record I have no idea about O’Conner’s family heritage.
For the record I have no idea about O’Conner’s family heritage.
He's on the same team as Pogicar and VingigoBut, who is this "O'Conner"?
Is he familiar with "Van Welder" and "Ajuso"?
The current meta is to mostly post comments that can be construed as normal, usually generic comments about films, locations etc to fool people into thinking it's a real person in order to then astroturf and put forward their ideas. They will have a database of millions of forums using a bot to create accounts on, mostly it's done to push forward political ideas or advertise a product, this one seems to be a Czechia tourism bot.But why? I don't get the bot motive.
And is it harmful?
If there's a link in the post, it can be potential harmful.The current meta is to mostly post comments that can be construed as normal, usually generic comments about films, locations etc to fool people into thinking it's a real person in order to then astroturf and put forward their ideas. They will have a database of millions of forums using a bot to create accounts on, mostly it's done to push forward political ideas or advertise a product, this one seems to be a Czechia tourism bot.
It's harmful on a mass-political scale, can theoretically be used to sway tight elections, but becoming less effective as time goes on and people start to recognise the signs. On this kind of forum anything like this will usually be benign, usually something to push cycling/exercise gear.
There are also leaked password databases scanning billions of accounts so they can take over old accounts on every website you can think of, because usernames with lots of posts have more credibility. If you go into your old outlook email and check attempted logins you will see hundreds of attempts at accessing it from every VPN location you can think of.
Hehe, notice the uppercase letters. #StraussianThanks for the heads up on those flicks, @Unchained! We actually dodged a bullet with Blink Twice last weekend. Almost watched it, but went with Brightburn instead. But before that, we tried giving afrAId a shot, but decided it's not worth finishing.
I can think of a few.Imagine being so bland that you're mistaken for a bot at cycling news dot com, there's no coming back from a burn like that
(But yes they don't pass the smell test)
Lance Armstrong has the Midas touch. He basically exploded his life and legacy, but picked himself up, brushed himself off to become an investment maven. Likely that the Johan Bruyneel has enjoyed 6 degrees of separation along the way doing multiple language versions of the podcast he and Lance do together. I am sure that the few thousand dollars or euros that Johan monetized from social media are helpful. @131,000 subscribers on YouTube and looking to average @60-70,000 views. With Johan- Lance latest getting @65,000 views in less than a week. And both constantly comment about no current inside information other than what they get from riders not owners or team management. And a strange twist, Hindcapie bloodline continues, George doing podcast w Lance,Johan and his son Enzo winning both road and TT national championships for his age group.Ahem, uh, sorry to interrupt, but I'm wondering if anyone has an idea why Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel still keep in contact.
I mean, they both got what they wanted out of one another, but these two seemingly opposite figures still get together to make podcasts about bike racing without any mention of doping. It's kind of astounding.
Rather than speculate about what might be going on, Lance hypothesizes that Tadej Pogacar will win three more Tours and will then have to be considered the greatest rider of all time. But not really, because we all know that Lance is referring to himself, not Tadej.
Meanwhile, Johan takes the cues and plays along with this little game by nodding yes at pretty much everything Lance says. Maybe I've taken too much THC, but they seem to have a strange dynamic.
The industry followed along with the example being set against bruyneel’s squads, completely shutting him out as bad for their business.Lance Armstrong has the Midas touch. He basically exploded his life and legacy, but picked himself up, brushed himself off to become an investment maven. Likely that the Johan Bruyneel has enjoyed 6 degrees of separation along the way doing multiple language versions of the podcast he and Lance do together. I am sure that the few thousand dollars or euros that Johan monetized from social media are helpful. @131,000 subscribers on YouTube and looking to average @60-70,000 views. With Johan- Lance latest getting @65,000 views in less than a week. And both constantly comment about no current inside information other than what they get from riders not owners or team management. And a strange twist, Hindcapie bloodline continues, George doing podcast w Lance,Johan and his son Enzo winning both road and TT national championships for his age group.
One thing that has always puzzled me about Johan ,he is fluent, in any variety of Dutch, English, Spanish, German,French and has depth of all aspects from rider, coach,director and ownership coordination in professional bike racing but is not used by any major networks until this year.
Meanwhile riders w obviously less credentials like Christian Vande Velde, Alberto Contador, Sean Kelly all confirmed dopers are asked for color about the state of races. Unsure where Bob Roll fits in cycling history, but again all are employed doing cycling broadcasts.
We shall see as ten years of being banned expires for Johan..
There could be humans pressing the actual button to post but the content itself is definitely bot driven
Spear LegweakMy favourite bot was the one who would copy old posts but change some of the words to make it look like original content. The giveaway was when it changed Lance Armstrong's name to Spear.
My favourite bot was the one who would copy old posts but change some of the words to make it look like original content. The giveaway was when it changed Lance Armstrong's name to Spear.
All those "strings"...
Getting back into the game. I see what you're saying.Lance Armstrong has the Midas touch. He basically exploded his life and legacy, but picked himself up, brushed himself off to become an investment maven. Likely that the Johan Bruyneel has enjoyed 6 degrees of separation along the way doing multiple language versions of the podcast he and Lance do together. I am sure that the few thousand dollars or euros that Johan monetized from social media are helpful. @131,000 subscribers on YouTube and looking to average @60-70,000 views. With Johan- Lance latest getting @65,000 views in less than a week. And both constantly comment about no current inside information other than what they get from riders not owners or team management. And a strange twist, Hindcapie bloodline continues, George doing podcast w Lance,Johan and his son Enzo winning both road and TT national championships for his age group.
One thing that has always puzzled me about Johan ,he is fluent, in any variety of Dutch, English, Spanish, German,French and has depth of all aspects from rider, coach,director and ownership coordination in professional bike racing but is not used by any major networks until this year.
Meanwhile riders w obviously less credentials like Christian Vande Velde, Alberto Contador, Sean Kelly all confirmed dopers are asked for color about the state of races. Unsure where Bob Roll fits in cycling history, but again all are employed doing cycling broadcasts.
We shall see as ten years of being banned expires for Johan..