Habahnow @ Habahnow @sh.itjust.works

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I agree with a of your points that we should be reducing the negative impacts of cars to society (reducing/removing parking minimums, better zoning, etc) but I don't feel this is a red herring at all. Large vehicles are a problem for all the reasons the article indicates. Those issues should be addressed, and what your talking about is a while other problem that also needs to be addressed.

Wait so you were logged into sensitive accounts? If you weren't, then your accounts wouldn't have been as compromised?

Thanks for the suggestion on the quote.

Are you suggesting their should be a publicly owned social media instead? I don't quite see people being very happy about all privately owned social medias being banned working out well in the US.

I think what we do agree with is that currently, social medias are too influential with little oversight. Just seems like you feel that there isn't enough oversight over a private company to ever fix the issue.

"put him on the phone, he'll do it once I talk with him!

But Does he stutter for real? or is that just fake? "

Regulations, subsidies, contracts - the government has a whole arsenal and near limitless resources to keep companies working within the US’s interest...

What is threatening about TikTok isn’t China’s control over it, but the US’s absence of control.

This feels like double speak... The US can both control a company with near limitless resources, but also the US has no control over.. a company. All of that applies to Facebook as well. Again the main difference being, China has part ownership of tiktok and therefore direct influence that the US doesn't have on many companies. The US doesn't have the kinds of control levers that a more authoritarian government like China has. Facebook, a large company can fight the US in courts to protect themselves. TikTok can not do the same with China.

They could buy data from Facebook, except that Facebook has limitation on what data they provide, not to mention Facebook doesn't have an incentive to negatively affect the US (doesn't mean their incentive to extract profit doesn't lead to them damaging the US in other ways ) unlike companies that are owned by China. Facebook doesn't want to end up banned in the US, nor considered a political ally to another country, and especially not China. With TikTok, China can directly influence what kind of information they extract, and what kind of information comes out from the app. Through Facebook there's significantly more hurdles.

Are you seriously saying that a government having partial ownership of a company exerts an equivalent amount of influence as a government that has no ownership of a company?

You're right, I misspoke. A better way to put it is embargo'd by many vendors of advanced technologies that Russia doesn't manufacture. China is an obvious trading partner of theirs, but Russia is dealing with a smaller available supply of all of these components and other countries know this which means they are going to have to pay higher prices, vs Ukraine being supported by NATO countries and more able to purchase directly. The point remains, Russia needs to pay more to secure the components that they do not manufacture meaning their money doesn't go as far as Ukraine's

I know the EU/Nato wants to pass another 60ish billion to Ukraine as well so that would make things more similar. BTW this is with dollars that can be used to pay for products almost anywhere in the world vs Russia's ruple which isn't as easily accepted throughout the world, and also the fact that they're basically embargo'd by most of the world. So really, that 140 billion figure is worth less than what MxM11 said.

Weirdly, they only focus on budget instead of mentioning the fact that Russia is losing more soldiers than Ukraine is (meat shield strategy) which is of course counteracted by the fact that Russia has about 4 times the population than Ukraine, but also technologies being used in the battlefield (Ukraine is increasingly using more advanced technologies as the war continues, while Russia is doing the opposite).

Things aren't looking great for Ukraine, but they aren't looking any better for Russia either. Considering that Russia is 2 years into a war that, according to them, should have only taken a couple of days. Things will get worse as Russia tries to control more Ukrainian land, as taking control of land is one thing, but maintaining it from people that don't like you is also hard work.

I'm not aware of any either. But we know that TikTok is still partially owned by the Chinese government, unlike Facebook or other social medias. Why would we put ourselves into a situation where an adversary has their software installed into millions of devices in the US, with the ability to influence what those same users see and hear, as well as having the ability to extract information through the application? Not to mention, China wouldn't allow the same in their country (hell they don't allow any companies to operate there without partial China ownership and influence). We know that the US government doesn't trust Chinese hardware (Huawei) within the country, why would Chinese software be any different?

Honestly, I feel the whole world is treating China way too nice when you consider how much they screw over everybody else in trade. China wants to be able to freely access other countries markets, while completely limiting and discouraging any other country's companies from accessing theirs. If China wants to play that game, then they should be getting an equivalent response: No free trade, no easy access to our markets.

The TikTok ban is a bad thing? Israel for sure is, but considering the current situation in congress, getting the Ukraine funding passes along with other legislature is amazing.

What do you mean a nothing burger? It being related to Kamala directly? sure seems unrelated, but I'm definitely curious what was going on that other agents had to handcuff the agent.

They willingly gave them all up with their nukes

Hard disagree. Nuclear weapons are for deterring certain military actions, not ongoing ones. Giving Ukraine nukes just adds to the likely hood of a nuclear war. Currently the West is trying to show that countries without bikes nukes can still be protected if we all work together to protect a country's sovereignty

Where?

Idk, I think the idea of selling trucks want bad. Americans love trucks. That being said, the execution seems very poor.

I can't think of a time this didn't happen to me while playing Tetris

Not certain I agree with that last scene. Probably should have said,"wow technology is amazing!"

I've played Wesnoth and had quite a bit of fun, but what makes it the best hex grid strategy game for you?