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How To Check If You Interacted With Russian Propaganda On Facebook During the 2016 Election (recode.net)
Facebook has rolled out a new tool to help some users figure out if they interacted with Russian propaganda during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. "The social giant's tool -- available here, through its Help Center -- specifically allows users to see if they followed or 'Liked' any pages and accounts set up by Kremlin-backed trolls on either Facebook or Instagram," reports Recode. From the report: Over the course of the 2016 election, Facebook estimates that roughly 140 million users may have seen Russian propaganda in their News Feeds or on Instagram. Much of that content sought to sow social and political unrest around divisive issues like race, religion and LGBT rights. But only a small slice of those 140 million affected users can actually take advantage of Facebook's new tool, which it first previewed in November. That's because the portal only aids those who directly followed one of the accounts or pages set up by Russian sources on Instagram and Facebook. It does not help users who may have simply seen Kremlin-sponsored content because their friends "Liked" it and it subsequently appeared in their own News Feeds. Facebook's new service also doesn't allow users to check if they saw some of the roughly 3,000 election-timed ads purchased by Russia's notorious trolls, known as the Internet Research Agency. About 10 million users saw those ads around the election, the company previously has said.
Would be lovely to see a list of posts shared/liked by friends to your timeline rather than just things you've clicked on.
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So I'm safe. Unlike the rest of you dweebs.
Joe McCarthy was right!!!!!!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
While they are at it, can they show me NSA, CIA, FBI, Plus every other propaganda agency of every other government. Why just single out the Russians.
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or Club For Growth
or Priorities USA
or Right To Rise
or the DNC/RNC
or...
When your own country is pumping out propaganda at a rate 5-6 orders of magnitude larger than the evil foreign boogeyman of the day, you need to just fucking shut up. Just because the country is full of white people doesn't make xenophobic scapegoating ok.
If user!=Hillary fan
Then Russia influence == yep
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Your search is garbage comrade as slashdot has been talking about the glorious socialism of Linux for 30 years
Answer this simple quiz to know if you've encountered Russian Propoganda:
1) Have you ever been on the internet?
If you answered "yes", then congratulations!? You've encountered Russian Propaganda. And American Propaganda. And probably Botswana Propaganda. Maybe some Klingon stuff, too.
I guess if you want to know if you interacted instead of just encountered you'll have to use that tool, and another for Twitter, and another for Tumblr, and another for LiveJournal[1], etc. I'm not trying to dismiss Russian interference (it's not good, and no, neither is American interference in foreign elections), but propaganda without direct interactions (such as, say, talking to certain members of a certain transition team for a certain President-Elect) has been blown out of proportion for their effect. With or without that interference, >40% of American voters didn't vote (or were blocked from voting), and about ~50% of those who did are idiots[2].
[1] Yes I know LiveJournal is owned by a Russian company.
[2] I leave it to the reader apply this assessment to whichever tribe they don't belong to.
Republicans won't give a shit, while terminally paranoid democrats who find out they liked a pro-BLM post made by Russians suddenly won't know what to believe anymore.
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If so, the answer is yes.
Look. The US 2016 Election happened for a few reasons:
1. Mass White Supremacist Blowback from 8 years of having a black President.
2. Right Wing anti-worker and anti-union behaviour that crushed the Middle Class. Socially, Obama was a liberal President. But Economically, he was a Center Right Wing Republican. He signed the TPP, which had it been ratified, would have created one of the worst International Oligarchies of Human history over the planet Earth.
3. A series of "Voter ID Laws" that were intended to allow Republicans in Northern states and other places to steal elections by denying young people, and people of color the right to vote. They are effectively Jim Crow laws, but targeted at Black people specifically.
4. The Rise of a Radical Christian Dominionist Congress in 2013, that was only ever held in check by Presidential Veto.
5. The fact that the Democrats effectively put up the worst Candiate possible to galvanize Right Wing Hate of the US left. They alienated Populists who feared - again, that the TPP would have been ratified under a Congress with Hilary Clinton as President.
What can fix this?
1. The 2018 Elections need to be a complete revolt against the Republican Party. There needs to be a bounce back of the liberal left and an refutation of the Conservative Christian right, as secular instutions the right is dismantling by Christian Fascists get reassembled.
-Or-
The US Breaks up leading to civil war.
Because I don't argue with random strangers on Facebook, nor do I allow anyone but my connected friends comment or even see my posts. If you let this shit be public then you're an idiot and deserve to be trolled.
It says 99% of my interactions were with dank memes and 1% was my own political shitposting, usually also in meme form.
There's no tool at the linked page, or at least not displayed to me. Just a video and some bullet points saying that FB takes security seriously, will be removing fake accounts, and provided 3k ads to Congress. I'm in Canada and logged in to Facebook from a Canadian IP address, is this tool only being displayed to people who visit from an IP address geo-located to the USA?
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How to tell if you've interacted with, and likely been indoctrinated by, Russian propaganda: If you're still reading this then it means you care whether you have, so you haven't. If you don't care whether you did, then you did.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
us IP address and all I saw was fluff, no tool.
"Knowing everything doesn't help..."
Never went to Facebook. Never read the articles. Never pretended they were news.
I'm good.
....I interacted with liberal divide-and-conquer propaganda on Slashdot during the aftermath of the 2016 election?
Oh, never mind, I figured it out.
My karma was manually wiped by site staff https://slashdot.org/~slshdtisctrldbysjws 18 mod up, 10 mod down = bad karma
It is programmed and improved by anyone, and it is often given away for free. Sounds like socialism to me.
Then you interacted with Russian propaganda.
This slashdot article is 100% propaganda.
Caveat emptor.
... when will you get it?
Hillary Clinton was unlikable, had nothing positive going for her, was a terrible campaigner, and oh yeah, both horrifically and comically mishandled classified information. And that's just for starters.
All that was real, no Russian anything needed. You lost because you sucked.
But please, keep deluding yourselves. It can only make your next loss more likely.
Wow...filter out all of the Anonymous Coward "propaganda" here and the comments section starts to look like an actual discussion of sorts.
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Then you didn't interact with "Russian propaganda". You may have interacted with a Russian click farm that had nothing to do with influencing the election and everything to do with making money, though.
I think I understand Facebook's mobile strategy now.
Self-check:
Don't have facebook - Check
Aren't easily swayed by popular opinion - Check
Thinks social media is like middle schoool all over again - Check
Thinks facebook is the new aol/geocities - Check
That was easy, I did not interact with Russian propaganda (or anything) on facebook.
Unless we move back.
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"You may have interacted with an unclean spirit and not known it! You may be tarnished! Your soul may be at stake! Come to the church, witch doctor, voodoo priestess to be checked out!"
I haven't seen such ridiculous propaganda about the dangers of, call, Russians, since the 50's but back then there was something to fear. Actually this propaganda is on the level of 1930s Germany about Jews. And millions of Americans actually believe this crap.
"OMG, I may have read some really crappy political ad (see Scott Adams who reviewed them to see how horrible they were) and I may now be unclean!!!
People remain ignorant superstitious idiots especially in America those on the left who are told over and over they are the smartest people in the world just as long as they believe and regurgitate what they are told to believe this week by a media whose daily propaganda has become cartoonish to anyone not in the cult of the Left.
look in the mirror, are you a retard that uses sites like facebook for your news? if so you probably should have your right to vote removed for the safety of others.
How about if I want to know if I've interacted with American propaganda? Or UK, or German, or Chinese, or EU?
I'll explain, since you pretend not to understand. This is bad because it it's a foreign government secretly creating and pushing propaganda pretending to be from US citizens.
Snowden is still a hero of the anti-authoritarian left. That he ended up in Russia was the US government's decision, not his.
It's truly weird how over a year after President Trump won the election, and nearly a year since he assumed power, the left is still oblivious as to why they lost the election.
It's not weird at all.
They need to justify ever more mechanisms for throttling molding the information that people see. Even though the mainstream media gave her a lopsided boost, even though the DNC sacrificed their down-ballot elections to get her elected *and* cheated in the run up to the election, even though Facebook and Twitter and Google were banning people, deleting accounts, and reading peoples' documents, despite an army of "correct the record" trolls... despite all that, she still lost.
They're putting in place the very mechanisms that will give them more control over the future narrative.
Their propaganda machine wasn't powerful enough, they're fixing it so that it'll be more powerful next time.
Let me just log into uber creeper website that TOTALLY deserves our trust as an authority on the "truth".
because that's some mighty fine Whataboutsim right there. It's also got nothing to do with the conversation, which is about Russian election interference which noone disputes was anything less than 100% pro-Trump.
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that successfully interfered in our elections and achieved all of their ends? Maybe you agree with the Russians that Trump should be president. But it still would have been nice for America to be able to decide it's president on our own.
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Got it, now where do I go to see if I've interacted with Israeli propaganda?
How do I report my local politician for having failed to sufficiently express their undying admiration of Israel?
If you actually think Russian influence caused Hillary to lose rather than Hillary herself.
Wow, that sketchy Julian Assange. How underhanded of him to release undoctored, truthful third party content!
No Russian propaganda, you say? Well that's put my mind at rest, a/c.
Didn't we already learn how to ignore those? What about X? What about Y? Deflect, distract, change the topic. Tough, Russian trolls. You've been found out and your tactics are old hat. Is spamming the same strategy really all you have left?
Yeah... CNN influenced me more than Russia.
It didn't take Russians to show us the smug, condescending assholes that love Hillary.
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i for one saw Hillary supporting propaganda on Facebook.
i didn't see any Trump supporting propaganda on Facebook.
This whole thing is the latest red scare. Hillary got caught rigging the DNC, and running guns to ISIS, yet we have this bogus story about Russia.
It might be time to just start filtering out sites based in the US.
Just because Stalin was a US ally means zilch.
The bodycount says Stalin homicided more people. He also had KZs, but called them GULAGs.
That is exactly what women are supposed to do:
pussy votes pussy.
Of course it is a mental desease to subscribe to Cultural Marxism and Feminism is just a branch of that.
So in the Marxist system you get raped in prison ?
Tell us more about your GULAGs !
Russians just have a thing against powerful blonde women who aren't their moms.
They were worried if Hillary gained power in the US that Putin might be deposed as glorious leader and replaced with their own hatchetfaced sexually ambiguous female leader, and the russia patriarchy would fall into chaos, especially when it came out how many of them ascribed to the bear+cub sexual identity behind closed doors.
So now your question should be: Is Putin a bear, or a cub?
All other nations subscribe to your Sodomist Philosophy Out Of Hollywood. Not.
Tell us more how you Marxists want to torture people as soon as you are in power.
The world needs to know exactly how brutish you SPARTAns are.
Except that this does not matter ACCORDING TO THE WIDELY KNOWN RULES.
Hillary thought it would be sufficient to preach to the commies of the west and east coasts. But that was not sufficient to get a sufficient number of GEOGRAPHIC UNITS.
Now tell us, is she dumb or is she just riding a horse too high ?
(1) The link does not link to the described tool. None of the comments I looked at said this, which indicates that NONE of the comments were from people who had made that much effort to know what they were commenting about.
(2) No mention of "Dark Money" or other explanations of how the elections of America have been rigged and gamed. That was a broader search beyond checking all the so-called insightful comments.
(3) No funny comments.
(4) Lots of trollage including bogus moderation. Doesn't really matter who's paying for it.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Just using Linux will put you on a "list".
You know what ? It is TOO CHEAP to create lists. That is the major reason they create them. They must feel important and get a paycheck. "I am responsible for the code which maintains LINUX_EVIL_USERS. May paycheck is 20k a month".
In the big picture of 200 billions per year for snooping, you can calculate how many useless computer scientists can create "lists" per year.
Can I have your excrement with more sexual expletives ? And some Sleep Deprivation (courtesy OBAMA) plus a bit of waterboarding ?
You are such nice people fighting for our future paradise where any deviants will be tortured in the most nasty manner.
It takes quite a bit of chtzpah to call Facebook a "social" giant. Black is white, high is low, and yummy is yucky.
We conveniently forget the "NGOs" of America, which are almost every year funding another coup d'etat somewhere. Or "color revolutions" and so on.
Always funny to see how much a whining bitch Americans can be.
There was a time in the late 80s, 90s and early 2000s when Anglosaxon-made Bullshit Ruled Supreme. The bullshit worked to nicely they could pull Gorbachev over the table. He believed the US corporatist nonsense so completely that they allowed Russian industry to go to the gutter while US+vasall corporations could take over Ex-Soviet markets. Damn the jobs of Russian workers.
After more than a decade of hardship the Russians and many others have learned to decode and deconstruct the US bullshit machine. That irks the US and their collaborateurs in Europe and around the globe.
That is how propaganda checks to interact with you.
Given that America has started civil wars in lots of nations (including Iraq and Syria), KARMA would imply it is now Americas turn for a nice civil war.
An industry of dozens of billions - the mainstream media industry - feels threatened. They know that their cushy jobs and the billions coming from the MIC and other corporations are at stake. The MSM mostly employs Cultural Marxists.
So they must discredit ANY form of citizen-journalism, including Facebook. If Slashdot mattered in the big scheme of things, it would be somehow denounced, too.
Just keeping a matter in discussion is a "sin" according to the MSM. Because the MSM has a "news cycle" and they want to determine the time period when a certain issue can be discussed. Discussing an issue "for too long" is against their plans.
I didn't interact with facebook at all during the election. I have it listed as an untrusted domain.
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I'm not on facebook! I'm smarter than that.
Man, Slashdot is turning into more like Presstitute Media.
Slashdot, leave the political propaganda alone
If you voted hillary, you already are in bed with the Russians, dictators, and despots. You are the propaganda machine.
No KEK here.. please move along.
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Can we get a similar tool to see all the Russian Trolls who post and upvote in the Slashdot comments? I can see at least half a dozen in this thread already...
All we have is YEARS of propaganda-- Bush had 8 years and investigated the whole time and for 6 years having more GOP controlled government ever. Found NOTHING. They only proposed solutions to problems they NEVER proved existed.
I've heard GOP strategist admit higher voter turn out kills them; they pray for rain and snow on election day. THE GOP FIGHTS EVERY ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY. Multiple days to vote? oppose it. Holiday to vote? oppose it. Easy process to vote? oppose it. They only sometimes allow something in specific situations where it is publicly known to help them (meaning it's so strong you can easily find why.)
Why don't we FIX social security numbers and most the Identity Theft problems in the USA (when other nations have already?) It's the GOP. seriously. A working Identifier system and Verification system would inevitably be used for voting. That is how much the GOP wants voting broken.
DRIVERS LICENSE / State ID. Yes, there are some illegals with them. There are SIMPLE solutions to that problem; but we are not even allowed to hear those without being drowned out with GOP propaganda. I've seen it 1st hand being involved in such issues lobbying and volunteering.
VOTER IDs are a SCAM... a HACK of the system. SIMPLE IS HARD TO HACK-- voter IDs are complex nightmares on purpose. No, they can't be done simple... the devil is in the details and even if you have perfect details; some corruption WILL happen to put in loopholes later! Which again is why it must be DEAD SIMPLE. Voter IDs are never simple!
Criminals are citizens and their alienable right to vote exists even if we stupidly infringe upon that right. it is NOT a privilege! When you take away voting rights of minorities (criminals) your actions prove you treat it as a privilege, not a right. Even more stupid is how many are in jail and when their "debt" is payed they still can't vote. You judge a society by how it treats the lowly. Criminals are a common excuse for many undemocratic laws. Illegals are a big one too. SIMPLE IS HARD TO HACK. proving citizenship is harder; I'm for it... but voting comes 1st, residency 2nd, citizenship 3rd. if you really believe in democracy, you would have your priorities straight.
Residency restrictions (double voting) is a bigger issue but it largely curbs illegals at the same time since they are similar problems.... devil is in the details. Yes, double voting is rare... but so are illegals. REMEMBER, it's been heavily investigated for decades by the same people claiming it is a problem. Now your state may be GOP fucked up so bad they created a problem on purpose, but some of us have fairly decent elections.
You want to fix things? Start with real IDENTITY THEFT solutions. It takes approx 2 years from breach to used identity (according to FBI) so plan now because recent breaches will start their impact then. If a foreign power is organized, they could bring down the nation with automated identity attacks. A crisis (the rate of theft now should be considered a crisis already) will need a solution and that is the time for a REAL solution to happen. Get prepared. LEARN.
Identifiers like Social Security should be PUBLIC knowledge and actually do not need to change (an upgrade to an easy to remember alphanumeric code with a larger number space but shorter length would be nice... and harder to filter out with regex.) They should be assigned to everybody; even dead people. Makes history easier, genealogy, etc. Your name and birthday mostly do this already; a serial number is same but better... but try telling the 666 freaks that. (maybe using base 36 instead of a number would help? at least it's shorter.) No encryption. keep it simple. Hey, Babylonians used base 60, so it's still simple enough. Don't think your face scan from a low res photo won't ID you well enough to anybody in the near future. Having a public # code doesn't mean you have to advertise it like your face.
Identity verification is a huge area which needs work. it MUST be
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We are inundated with political ads all the time. We don't always know who paid for them directly or indirectly or why.
When Obama was running they accepted untraceable contributions and no doubt used them to run ads.
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Stop this stupidity already
Did you login to facebook? Or otherwise interact, within 1 degree of separation, anything remotely affiliated with Mark Zuckerfuck?? Then YES, you interacted with Russian Propoganda.
Or the democratic thought police comes after you in case you found positive.
Anyone using FB as a primary news outlet is obviously too dumb to vote. Sadly, there seem to be a lot of them..
Organization? You must be joking..
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If you think socialism is "free", try doing it with a tax rate of 0%.
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
horrifically and comically mishandled classified information.
This speaks to a larger issue with Democrats in my estimation, one that has been growing and festering ever since the last of the conservative Democrats who were strong supporters of national defense in the first Cold War against the Soviets disappeared from the Democratic political scene. There used to be a name for these conservative defense hawk Democrats who existed in the 1980s and into the early 1990s, but it escapes me just this moment. The point is that Democrats, while paying lip service to military service and national defense, don't really understand or respect the details. You can see this lack of understanding and respect in several recent incidents:
1. The mishandling of classified materials by Hillary Clinton and her subsequent reactions to both cover it up and when that failed to downplay the issue with feigned annoyance that it even came up. Her response and that of many other Democrats was "meh, big deal. It's not important". This is a slap in the face to the many Americans who labor in defense of our nation, understand the importance of keeping secrets and follow the rules for handling classified materials to the letter and without exception, both because they are loyal and out of professional pride.
2. The Benghazi Incident and the "stand down" order. Again, the details here are murky and we may never know exactly what transpired because of the intense politics surrounding the incident and the actions taken in the aftermath. However, regardless of how you interpret the incident, it must be concluded that Hillary Clinton and by extension President Obama were at the very least incompetent in their handling of the incident. They lied about what happened, got caught in those lies and then reacted with "What difference does it make"? As if four Americans killed by terrorists was no big deal and we were all blowing it out of proportion.
3. The sabotage of the Hezbollah drug smuggling and terrorism financing investigation by the Department of Justice under President Obama after years of work by the DEA, FBI and CIA to develop the picture of a complex international criminal network rivaling the largest and most sophisticated ever, identifying the key players and then building cases against the persons high up so that the operations could be shut down. Again President Obama ordered the people working tirelessly in defense of our nation to "stand down" because he wanted a foolish nuclear deal with the Iranians and knew that breaking up the Hezbollah smuggling network, which was funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to terrorists in Syria and elsewhere and had funded insurgents who killed Americans during the most recent Iraq War, would annoy Iran and end the deal. Again, Democrats look the other way while terrorists smuggle cocaine into the United States, which by the way hits minority communities hardest, to finance terrorism abroad and all for a stupid deal with the Iranians which ultimately will amount to nothing and in fact has encouraged Iran to be more assertive and begin taking over the Middle East. As bad as Iran Contra ever was, but this time on the Democrat side of the aisle.
Russia Derangement Syndrome
...propaganda, via the mainstream media? Oh wait... it's ALL Jewish propaganda, just like this bullshit article about 'Russian meddling' in the election...
The elephant in the room
Oh my slashdot where hast thou gone?
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It's more effective than domestic propaganda, because it elected someone the mainstream media didn't want.
I'm not sure I buy into that argument -- even assuming the Roooosians wanted Donald Trump, and made a serious attempt to propagandize their way to the outcome they wanted.
If you're going to adopt that kind of reasoning, why not assume they propagandized for the primaries, too? That way, no matter who won -- Kang or Kodos -- they'd have one they liked.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
This is such BS.
Firstly, 140million "impressions" doesn't necessarily mean that's the same number of users, if you used both fb AND instagram you'll be counted twice.
Secondly, they are providing absolute numbers without context and trying to use this to imply a nonsensical argument, viz:
Russians are such masters of propoganda, with $100k of ad spend they could overpower $100 MILLION spent by the Clinton campaign. Lets accept this premise. Then the LEFT should be HAPPY, because we've just proven that Citizens United vs FEC is irrelevant. Corporations spending $100 Million cannot overpower $100k in spending (which grassroots could easily raise on gofundme).
Thirdly, some of this so-called russian propoganda occurred AFTER the election (so how could it have influenced the election?)
Fourthly, the statistic I saw showed of the 140 million impressions the 'Russian' ads made, were in context of a 3 TRILLION impressions total in that timeframe). Something on the order of 1 in 23,000. So the implication is, you've seen 23,000 pieces of ads on facebook, and of those 23,000, ONE influenced you to vote for Trump. That if fucking amazing. Now if only I could put 1 letter in this post and it will influence EVERYONE on slashdot to send me money.
Iran and Hezbollah have been rescuing Syria from terrorists not the other way around. If you don't like the outcome guess what that's the US proxy war against Syria backfiring. You tried to make it into yet another Libya/Somalia/whatever, you lost, get over it. I will have no trouble if you blame it on Obama and democrats though.
Earlier, it was W. Bush and his band of incompetent jackals who put Iran's influence on the rise.
End result, looks like we're seeing a broad alliance of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Russia and perhaps up to Turkey and Qatar, with China in the background ; while the camp of US, Saudi/UAE and Sunni terrorists is discredited. Israel just gets more grotesque - I don't mind that country much. They "won" but their victory is absurd, they're 1980s South Africa now.
The conspiracy has become accepted as fact. When I see this sort of thing I giggle some. The idea that we were affected and that we are worried about it enough to actually look up whether it affected us is so hilarious. That someone would or could think of making tool is sort of frightening and comedic at the same time.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
Mainstream media didn't want. We the people on the other hand are far more difficult to assess. He's there obviously because the people wanted him. I'm sure promises of draining the swamp is a big factor.
But what the mainstream media wants is irrelevant.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
Golly! It looks like my sarcasm indicator -- Golly! -- didn't work this time.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.