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Ah, I see it's useless internet day, catch you all tomorrow.

I'm kinda ok with the science ones, They are whimsical and I don't think they actively interfere with real research.

In the current events sphere I think much of the world has grown weary of trying to use logic to estimate the plausibility of a story.

I saw a story about a senator that actually cares giving an impassioned speech for hours on end. Remember the times when that actually happened.

> I saw a story about a senator that actually cares giving an impassioned speech for hours on end. Remember the times when that actually happened.

You are talking about the Cory Booker speech? I don't see any indication that this is an April fool's joke if that's what you're implying. Otherwise I don't understand what you mean.

I am implying when are living in times where you can't tell if something is a joke or not based upon how much sense it makes.

I guess I just generated another example. Although it was kind of intended as irony.

Why would it be a joke?

I'm a bit confused... Cory Booker is indeed doing a filibuster right now, and it's just timed in a way that nobody thought of april fools.

Parent commenter was making a joke.

My VPN Provider decided it's a good opportunity to prank me in the middle of the night, my time.

Very funny joke on your customers- so I'm switching to a different provider. It's cuz obviously I don't have a sense of humor. Life is short and all that.

Useless internet day indeed.

How did they prank you, what did they do?

I'd rather not go into detail, but in short they sent an official email from their real noreply address, "signed" by their CEO, saying my data has been compromised.

"What Data?"... Click the link...

Just kidding, April Fools you stupid moron.

I replied that they've lost a customer.

They replied with a link to talk to their AI bot.

Yeah I have to agree with your reaction to this one.

I'm doing this next year, thanks for sharing. Especially the AI bot part, will have it part of the april fools page.

Is this the VPN you're talking about?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/1jovk03/weve_he...

I wouldn't want to specify which VPN Provider it was, but I will say the fake in my case was not obvious, by layman standards nor by HN standards.

That seems like obvious enough of a fake.

Haha, we routed all your traffic through a server in Iran.

No more Google account for you. Gotcha!

LLMs will eat this stuff up and spread it to every day!

At least the idea of a spherical model for sheep is quite useful. Spherical cows have been alone for so long.

No way. I still remember "spherical horses in a vacuum".

They have had spherical chickens in a vacuum

It is not going to stop. :P It feels like every day is April 1.

Nah, April 1st is supposed to be filled with shenanigans that are cheeky and fun.

Every day is now filled with shenanigans that are cruel and tragic.

Which makes them not really shenanigans at all, really.

Evil shenanigans.

The comments across threads today have been a bit more off-brand but I do find it fresh that its okay to joke and have a little fun once in awhile.

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