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And facebook tells its users to vote. Encouraging people to make their voices heard and engage in the democratic process is a good thing.

This is nothing to do with national security.

"Do not blindly trust quotes from the internet" -Aristotle

A lack of engagement is a solvable problem. Become the engagement you want to see.

If manipulating content were the issue they would have introduced a bill banning that practice. Banning a few specific countries from operating does not prevent sites from manipulating content.

If the text of this law said that the app "Tiktok" and company "ByteDance" cannot operate in the US, it would be trivial create a new company called, "BitSamba" which operates the "Tuktuk" app, and this specific law would not apply to them.

That is why the bill uses the term "entity that is controlled by a foreign adversary." Try reading at least one more bill, or any municipal code, then you might start to understand. This is how laws are written. Lawyers are very good at finding loopholes, which is why laws are specifically written defensively to avoid unintended loopholes.

The language of this bill will apply to tiktok. Tiktok is the most notable app that will be effected by it. Which is why everyone who knows what they're talking about has been calling this the bill that bans tiktok because that is what it does.

Especially the authors of this bill that but the part about it banning tiktok in the first page summary for all the legislators who don't actually read the full text.

If the bill identified tiktok and byte dance by name they would just rename the app and company to avoid the regulation.

The fact that this law identifies byte dance in the overly verbose and broad language typical of how laws are written does not change the intent.

It sounds like this is your first time reading the full text of a bill, and you are drawing uninformed conclusions.

The bill literally mentioned tiktok and bytedance on the first page when first introduced. They wrote the bill to ban tiktok.

According to the article, they didn't renew 14,180 house policies, the article also links to another article where 72,000 policies were not renewed. 86,180 uninsurable houses are awknoladged by the article.

But, california has 13 million households. This means that 7 tenths of a percent of calofornia's houses became uninsurable this year.

Insurance companies choosing to not insure a tiny fraction of the most at risk houses is not them "pulling out of California's troubled homeowners insurance market" (sic) nor is it an "exodus."

This article has some major spin, and greatly overstates the importance of what's happening. They mention a big number of houses without context, to try and convince you this is a deeply concerning thing. Unless you own one of the forest houses in question, this isn't abig deal.

The international fixed calendar is basically what's described here. But it adds one day to bring it to 365, that day is called year day, and its an extra day, not a day of the week just a bonus day. Leap years get a second extra day 6 months later.

I support any protest that blocks car traffic. The fact that the protesters are protesting something important is a nice bonus.

What we really need is to give everyone fully-automatic knives to prevent this sort of thing from happening.

no u

Sell the twitter.com domain name you coward.

Biologically it is a twitter and nothing can change that.

How? Who do I vote for to make that happen?

anyone who types /s lacks courage

The Ewoks say hi.

Your proposal is flawed because it's neither a regressive tax that specifically targets young people, nor does it have pointless administrative expensiveness, neither is it possible to corruptly outsource that wasteful administration to for profit companies.

Student "loans" are the much more american option.

It works for the Cirrus because that plane is tiny. A parachute big enough to safely land a commercial jet is not feasible.

If a commercial plane has a failure, say an engine failure as in the news story, the pilots with fly the plane with the other engine to a safe landing.

If the Cirrus has an engine failure it becomes a glider. If there's no airports nearby you'll have to ditch in a field somewhere. There is a lot less redundancy in general aviation.

If you're a new pilot buying your first plane, having a parachute on the plane is a nice feature.