I wouldn’t mind having a horse for transportation, but got damn are they expensive (both financially and physically) to maintain.

How the hell did anyone but the rich afford horses before the car‽

Huh. Didn’t expect that lol

That’s really just sticking your head in the sand, in a way “pulling up the ladder behind you” in regards to new users. I’m not saying Lemmy needs to grow at an explosive rate, but we should still have healthy growth. And the Tankie Triad is against and sometimes straight up hostile to new users who aren’t tankies

I’ll have you know at least 20% of my shitposts have been posted while I was outside.

So there!

Lol did you see the one where they’re complaining about Lemmy “censorship” because their shit takes get downvoted to hell lmao

The company is targeting the Dodo and Thylacine (though this article didn’t mention that one)

But other things have influence too.

As far as non-American companies influencing American politics go, not to TikToks scale

If Russia bans Youtube are we going to call them draconian for it? Saying we are going to ban something because we ended up with political outcomes we didn’t like that we don’t want to spread is what authoritarian regimes do.

Not entirely, to cross the line into a authoritarian regime you have to consider what happens if someone does access banned apps/information and how difficult the country in question makes it.

In Russia or China if you’re caught accessing something forbidden, you’re probably not going to be heard from again. Not to mention the constant VPN switching you have to do to escape “the firewall”

In contrast Americas ban amounts to having the app delisted from app stores with no penalties to its citizens if they choose to access it regardless AND no VPN is required as the ban is not enforcing a countrywide blockade

You’d be surprised at what your skin just… absorbs

Ya know your comment reminded me that the great depression is what led to the New Deal which brought the most significant worker reforms and regulations in US history.

So maybe a Great Depression 2 would suck, but after we might get New Deal 2: Electric Healthcarealo so…there’s that

recontextualize where you were, then finally get to some fun task

This is my hang up, the other parts are pretty meh with the advent of SSDs and such and I’m old enough to remember how long things took in the before times lol

But man, games are much more complex now and once you’ve lost that inertia it can take awhile to get going again on a game because of that whole recontextualiztion process and if it’s been long enough, re-familirizing yourself with controls and everything too.

At this point I’m just hoping he doesn’t plunge us into The Great Depression 2: Electric Breadaloo

So great we stuck it to bLuEMaGa on that one single issue amiright single issue voters?

Inb4 they make it so you have to add money in person for “reasons”

It’s not just the spying, but also the amount of influence they have.

They’ve been implicated as a big reason for the sudden rise of far-right candidates in Romania (iirc, could be wrong, but it’s def an Eastern EU country) when just weeks before the election they were polling extremely poorly.

If China wants a far-right government in some country they can easily tweak the algorithm to promote far-right misinformation and propaganda and because the app is so popular with millions upon millions of people it’ll have devastating effects.

Subway Surfer might include spying BS, but it’s not going to be able to influence shit or spread propaganda like TikTok can

“lol” said the Republicunt Texas Legislature, “LMAO”

Oh holy fuck, that’s a must watch every time I’m led to it LMAO

my grow tent

One of these days I also need to get around to starting my grow operation myself lol

Essentially yea, the laws enforcement mechanism as-is is just having the app delisted from app stores

Everything else is of TikToks own doing

I hope by “send letter” they meant digitally, otherwise he’s just gonna use it as toilet paper

I’ve already started teaching my own kids this, but how to recognize AI generated shit because that’s going to get dangerous as time goes on

Lemmy.world/modlog

And then filter by your username