Sat May 16, 2020, 06:18 PM

Hey everyone, so what is the Epoch Times?

And what does DU think of it? I've run into their advertising recently and was wondering, "what are they? who are they? and what do they stand for?"

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Hey everyone, so what is the Epoch Times? (Original post)	donkeypoofed	May 2020	OP
Right Wing Crazies	leftieNanner	May 2020	#1
Right-wing Trumpist crazies.	The Velveteen Ocelot	May 2020	#2
Falun Dong cult. They seems to be making a big move these days.	underpants	May 2020	#3
It's published by a religious cult.	RandySF	May 2020	#4
...	greenjar_01	May 2020	#5
It's fine until 2038	Midnightwalk	May 2020	#6
?	The Velveteen Ocelot	May 2020	#7
Sorry obscure computer reference	Midnightwalk	May 2020	#9
Epoch Times is a righwing print and online publication.	SkatmanRoth	May 2020	#8
i was wondering the same thing lol	Takket	May 2020	#10
Trying to replace Moonie Times as the go-to for RW propaganda	blm	May 2020	#11
"What the world needs now is right-wing puff: that's the only thing we find just too little of"	struggle4progress	May 2020	#12
Crap from religious nuts. . . . nt	Bernardo de La Paz	May 2020	#13

Response to donkeypoofed (Original post)

Sat May 16, 2020, 06:19 PM

leftieNanner (13,703 posts)

1. Right Wing Crazies

I think they stemmed from the Moonies or something.

Really bad news!

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Sat May 16, 2020, 06:20 PM

The Velveteen Ocelot (108,756 posts)

2. Right-wing Trumpist crazies.

The media outlet is primarily known for promoting far-right politicians across Europe and the United States, and in particular for its promotion of U.S. President Donald Trump; a 2019 report showed it to be the second-largest funder of pro-Trump Facebook advertising after the Trump campaign. The group's news sites and YouTube channels have spread conspiracy theories such as QAnon and anti-vaccination propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times

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Sat May 16, 2020, 06:22 PM

underpants (176,691 posts)

3. Falun Dong cult. They seems to be making a big move these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times

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Sat May 16, 2020, 06:22 PM

RandySF (46,108 posts)

4. It's published by a religious cult.

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Sat May 16, 2020, 06:26 PM

greenjar_01 (6,477 posts)

5. ...

Achievement level: Mega-fail.

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Sat May 16, 2020, 06:28 PM

Midnightwalk (3,131 posts)

6. It's fine until 2038

Not many apps that keep time in 32 bits will be a problem by then. We can probably deal with the breakage unless something like MAD is implemented that way.

We're talking about UNIX Epoch time right?

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Sat May 16, 2020, 06:41 PM

The Velveteen Ocelot (108,756 posts)

7. ?

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Sat May 16, 2020, 06:52 PM

Midnightwalk (3,131 posts)

9. Sorry obscure computer reference

From wikipedia

Unix time (also known as Epoch time, POSIX time,[1] seconds since the Epoch,[2] or UNIX Epoch time[3]) is a system for describing a point in time. It is the number of seconds that have elapsed since the Unix epoch, minus leap seconds; the Unix epoch is 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970. Leap seconds are ignored,[4] with a leap second having the same Unix time as the second before it, and every day is treated as if it contains exactly 86400 seconds.[2] Due to this treatment, Unix time is not a true representation of UTC.

If you don't use enough digits in computer time (64 bits instead of 32 bits) it wraps in 2038. It's the next y2k kind of bug after this years mini-event (it's what drives some of the Cobol stories you might have seen).

What happens is like an odometer wrapping from 99999 to 00000, except in this case it's in binary.

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Sat May 16, 2020, 06:47 PM

SkatmanRoth (843 posts)