I recently had a medical issue that required 5 doctors visits, a blood test, an ultrasound and two weeks worth of medication. In total this cost me around $30 USD.
If you’re running known malicious apps by Big (Ad)Tech, you should also be reprimanded.
first off that's not the case right now and there is no proposal in government to do such a thing. Second, what evidence is there that TikTok is capable of being of any harm to the network compared to standard software like M$ Windows or just general bootleg software? If a ban is warranted, which I don't believe it is, it should be applied properly and not singling out that one app you personally don't like.
Did you know a lot of research is both posted on and based on those "time wasting" sites such as Youtube, Twitter and TikTok? Since social media is such a big fixture of our societies, social scientists basically depend on them for a lot of cool research that is now getting blocked by nonsense. Not to mention that "state networks" means literally public Wi-Fi. How terrified are you of TikTok that you're more afraid of it hacking your Wi-Fi than literally every other proprietary software?
That is some old ass debunked nonsense. See here. "Westerners" from the North can't even be bothered to read a bit before spewing racist conspiracy theories.
No country has a perfect history, go back far enough and we all have dark periods in how we’ve treated people.
Mate, this is not history. It's right now. Unless you're ten you should even remember shit like the start of bombing of Libya which goes beyond even local politics. How much dodgier is China compared to "The West" even if you do believe the Zenz conspiracy, when the big leader country of that has let Native life expectancy drop 10 years during the pandemic, or how even European indigenous cultures like the Catalan get jail for daring to make a referendum on independence?
To all weirdos thinking that the UK of all countries cares about free speech, have a read. It's already silly when you do this for the USA, worse yet abroad.
That ban also applied to public universities in Texas, which moved to block TikTok from campus Wi-Fi networks and school-owned devices. Texas A&M and the University of Texas were among the colleges that complied with the ban, limiting access to the hit social video app across their campuses.
They are literally barring its use through public university Wi-Fi. Not even needing to get into the hypocrisy of banning TikTok but not similar shit like Instagram, or the fact that both university students and professionals use TikTok both for social connections and for work, it is a clear curtailing of a form of communication over others through the government. Would banning lemmy.world from some public internet connections not be an infringement on the unalienable right to assemble and speech? RTFA.
It's because liberals have cult of personality as the only way they can understand politics. So the only way they can mock or demean the Russian government is by projecting some kind of made up personality on Putin, despite being unwilling to ever read or listen to a thing he says. You could probably voice over Putin in faux Russian and they probably wouldn't be able to tell that that wasn't his actual voice. It's related to how they can only understand their political opponents as dumb/senile/angry/weak as that's the only thing they usually consider in electoral politics, actual ideology be damned.
If you are a citizen of the USA, you can just book a plane before the draft. Down South you don't have to get visas most of the time and you can then just overstay your inexistent visa. Might be some trouble and cost adapting but it's better than dying in Ukraine and I don't think it'd be that much cheaper to go to Mejico that the alternative becomes prohibitive. You can even do the ol' "Actually I just enrolled into university so I can't fight" trick since Argentina and a few others have plenty of open admission zero-tuition universities.
this might be relevant for your privacy. As for the posters, I don't have concrete ones to recommend, but if you're in the USA it might be cool to look into posters for Latin American communist parties in Spanish, or for historical ones from the BPP/Rainbow Coalition. They might respond better to those than to ones written in Russian.
If you want to learn more, actually go read about it. Including the "biased" ones as if the foreign ones don't have their own biases as well and are therefore more credible. This one from them is part of series of long articles on the attempts of the USA and Canada to do a repeat of 2004. Here's one explaining how the FRG9 came to be. Another one (CW: dead child) details the circumstances of the fuel crisis and the seizing of the fuel terminal. Yet another (CW: blood) details the ongoing Bwa Kale movement. And if you like documentaries, this "biased source" has made a "boots-on-ground" 3-part documentary series (CW: all of the above and a lot more) on the events of last year with interviews with Cherizier himself.
Now, if your interest is so big and yet you'll disregard off-handedly a news source because it presents a bias you don't agree with on, it truly is shame as you might never actually learn what is going on.
I apologize for the inconvenience, but as an AI language model, I don't have direct access to books or copyrighted materials like "The Bedwetter" by Sarah Silverman.
Pack it up, guys!
On a serious note corporations abusing authors' copyrighted work is on an entire different level to civilian piracy and I hope they get seriously shafted over it. Same thing for Bing and Bard. All of chatGPT is built on dubious or outright illegal datasets and there is no reason huge multinationals shouldn't at least pay and inform the authors of those works. But in reality the blame will probably be shifted to the libraries.
Ukraine will definitely be able to protect Europe from any Russian forces, and it doesn't matter who commands them. We will protect. The security of Europe's eastern flank depends only on our defense.
Ukrainian soldiers, Ukrainian guns, Ukrainian tanks, Ukrainian missiles are all that protect Europe from such marches as we see today on Russian territory. And when we ask to give us the F-16 fighters or the ATACMS, we're enhancing our common defense. Real defense.
We went from "Europe will protect Ukraine" to "Ukraine will protect Europe" really quick didn't we? Are Ukrainians now aware that they're just dying to maintain an union they're not part of? Can't the all-mighty Europeans protect themselves anymore?
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