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  • You're moving the goalposts. Claim was "Chinese owned". It is not, it's a privately held company - here's a list of investors making up about 60%* of the institutional investor ownership:

    • BlackRock
    • General Atlantic
    • Susquehanna International
    • Bank of China
    • Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
    • Tiger Global Management
    • Hillhouse Capital Group
    • Primavera Capital Group
    • Sequoia Capital China
    • SoftBank Group

    Then the founders and the employees each hold about 20% ownership.

  • People were sarcastically making the comment about sharing their data with the Chinese government. AFAIK there has been zero evidence that this had been happening in the first place.

  • Frankly, if you were on TikTok at all, I don't think you were following who I was following. It's like YouTube. You can post stupid meme dance videos, you can post lectures by historians. I don't appreciate the condescension. When you are seeing things on there - primary source evidence, not any kind of propaganda - that directly contradict what you hear from conventional media, you're forced to develop skills to account for the disparity. Otherwise, without that info, you just stay in a bubble - which was precisely the intention of the ban.

  • Not sure what you mean. We see the problem with FOX viewers. You look at the people using TikTok for news (myself included), there's actually strong media literacy because they're learning about what deceit looks like.

  • Biden's campaign actually spent months claiming they had stopped inflation (though the inflation, particularly "price inflation", basically all happened during/under his admin, though as a result of Fed policy, supply chain issues, whatever degree of corporate price gouging, etc.).

  • I had to go back and re-read the history of dimensional lumber. 2x4 was an actual 2x4 cut until recommendations by the Forest Products Laboratory (American Lumber Congress?) in 1919 to balance functional and economic requirements (1 5/8 x 3 5/8). It's neither the shrinkage nor just milling after drying, they literally just cut it smaller. And if my last 20 trips to big box stores with lumber are any indication, they don't care about cupping or warpage either.

  • It's not really the age itself, it's not a competence issue, there's just so many old people because that's a demographic that's overrepresented in the few people whose soul has completely rotted out and are willing to sell out humanity for some marginal personal benefit, and having the skill set to be able to do it.

  • It's because the actual cut is 2x4, and the wood shrinks. The typical shrinkage is known and accounted for. It is a treat when a house has an actual 2x though, i.e., it was cut divided by the shrinkage ratio, or cut dry. Related to why framing is done "on center", i.e., "16 on center".

  • Less importing cheap labor means higher prices. Welcome to math. Americans expect no effort and lives of luxury because they're at the center of an empire - except of course the ruling class increasingly reaps the rewards, and the money doesn't recirculate into the economy due to how it's structured, so we just slip into poverty. Neither major party will fix this, by design.

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  • CNN: (actual quote): "cringeworthy hecklers", then the host went on to say how he had no idea who these people (White House press corps regulars) were. In some of the most jarring propaganda I've ever seen from them.

  • I don't count any of them as "good president" with a 800B annual military budget. Or the rest of the totalitarian federal budget they rubber stamp without fail. There's a lot of shit baked into the federal government that they never, ever veto in the budget, dark as all fucking hell, that Americans just ignore.

    I would say, the genocide revealed who he already was, in a very clear way, but the signs and the evil deeds were already there.