ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔 @ GlassHalfHopeful @lemmy.ca

Even a fragment of the infinite is boundless. Hope always endures. 🌌

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Admittedly, there is so much about this that I don't understand. I most definitely don't think that the solution is using billionaire owned data harvesters. I haven't used social media like this for over a decade because it's clear how we and our information is used and abused.

At the same time, I'm unfortunately all too acquainted with authoritarian states. For people to hand over their data to such a state--intentionally--is just mind boggling to me.

So, yes, you're right. I'm misunderstanding a lot. I am not able to wrap my head around how the content of TikTok and/or other billionaire owned media platforms are worth everything that one has to give up to use them. I actively avoided such companies and, as such, the allure of the content doesn't draw me in. Sure, there are things that I miss, but I don't see the exchange as worth it.

Perhaps for some, the move to RedNote is a protest against the arbitrary banning of a single app among a sea of so many others doing the same thing. Perhaps it's meant to expose the intent of the US and Western governments knowing they will inevitably fold (as the US currently seems to be doing), then the ends will just restore things to the way things were before... which is still terrible. Perhaps it's just addicts chasing their next fix. I'm sure there's lots of reasons driving it. From the outside though, it all seems crazed.

There is so very much about all of this that I will never understand. Well, I suppose I do understand enough about human nature to get it. It simply disturbs me. And all the while, the billionaire corps are going to do everything in their power to acquire and use people's data for their own gain. Governments will leverage it with ill intent. And people will willingly let them.

Dang. There was a brief hope. Just for a moment. 😁

This is news to me. It really balances it out for all services and media types (e.g. over the air, streaming apps)?

This is one of the primary reasons I use captions. I do not and never will have the equipment necessary to maximize the audio experience. Even if I did, I think I'd still struggle for many other reasons.

So captions it is. I feel lost without them if they are missing. I very regularly look at them to catch missed words and such. They also reveal a lot I would not have never heard in the first place anyway. My kids grew up with them and also get irritated when captions aren't available. You just sort of come to rely on them without realizing it.

Oh you haven't heard? The president of the United States is the "Leader Of The Free World." And Canada will be getting the added boon of joining their Union as the 51st state. He's making everything great again, whether people or nations realize they need it or not.

He's fixing TikTok. Fixing Ukraine. Yadda yadda.

Our Saviour.

/s

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I did some reading on this. Looks like the UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty and the 1972 Liability Convention define the "launching state" as being liable for damage caused by space objects, both on Earth and in outer space. Off the latter:

In 1978, the crash of the nuclear-powered Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 in Canadian territory led to the only claim filed under the convention.

Anyway, for the US, the FAA requires companies to carry liability insurance for potential damages caused by their launches. U.S. law caps the company's liability. The government may cover damages exceeding this cap, but only up to a certain amount.

Basically, SpaceX would likely be responsible for initial claims up to their insurance limits. Beyond that, the U.S. government would step in. Considering how wealthy Mr Musk is, I don't think taxpayers should be paying a dime to clean a his mess... but the US government is contracting SpaceX.

I feel like this can be true, but if it is... they're dropping the ball in so many other places that genuinely matter.

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No.

Good for Daniel. 💜

Here's to hoping for more and more attention!

The news tends to drive things like this, so I don't know how many people are really "flocking" to this Chinese application. This is also so artificial. Forces are driving this and people don't seem to notice.

Regardless of the number, I'm completely baffled. They don't even understand why the US government is doing this in the first place.

These folks are jumping off a sinking ship and grabbing steadfast to the first piece of flotsam that they found... which ironically suffers from the same exact problems that the ship did in the first place. It will inevitably suffer the same demise. It's crazy that those holding on don't seem to understand that.

If you want to keep TikToking or whatever it is people do on that platform, you should join the closest Western version, preferably owned by a multi-billionaire in the US. Their platforms will be protected no matter how much data is stolen and how much privacy is violated. The goal wasn't to stop the communist Chinese government, but ensure that Americans maintain a stranglehold over these vices so that they can benefit from them. People are being used and just don't care.

It sure would have been nice if more people join the fediverse in response to things like this, but alas... it's not quite mature enough yet. They can't look for something like Loops because it just isn't ready. They go to things like BlueSky, completely oblivious to the fact that it can't be what they really want. They don't even know what they want. They just follow the lemmings before them.

Someday this will change for the better. Maybe. Perhaps not.

I'll never personally understand short form video and influencers and everything else around that. But for others, it's a huge deal... at least that's what the media seem to be making it into.

I mean... perhaps this is unintentionally the begining of something good and they just don't realize it yet.

Good luck TickTockers. Even if the platform remains, you're still being taking advantage. The opportunity is now, and you're blowing it. Something completely entrenched has finally been disrupted. You could take advantage of something better, but you're choosing not to.

Why would the taxpayers be liable?

But to what end? Would SpaceX be found liable for anything? Would any penalty matter?

I read it like 11 years ago and remember nothing more than that I absolutely loved it. 😁💜

This is the correct response. See a PCP.

And then... Immediately report back what's actually happening because this is quite interesting.

Good grief. This post's thumbnail is huge and hard to look at.

You don't say? Please, tell us more words.