halcyoncmdr @ halcyoncmdr @lemmy.world

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And half the time it's not even that fast anymore either.

Might as well order a burger from an actual restaurant, to go, for the same amount and pick it up on the way. Half the time they'll even bring it to you curbside.

Interesting that this template seems to be being used in every department with absolutely no changes. Not sure if that's because they're trying to do the absolute minimum required, or because they can't change the template at all.

They should probably work to finish all those NEOM projects first. They've got a pretty big chuck o' change announced for that already, something around $1.5 Trillion already.

Fuck... Most of it was on video, because most of the Capitol has surveillance cameras. We watched it happen, live on TV.

The fact any of these vultures still have a job trying to claim otherwise just shows how effective Republican propaganda is.

See you say no apocalyptic event, but we've done almost nothing to slow climate change, and that will destroy humanity in less than a century much better than we can directly do ourselves. The event has already started, and we're ignoring it.

His plan is to fuck them over anyway, just so other organizations know that it won't make a difference. They're an enemy if they ever air anything against him.

That's because the Democratic party has been conservative for decades, regardless of the bullshit they've been saying. The only "liberal" parts have been some social stances for over 20 years. As soon as economic issue come up its been full speed ahead for whatever businesses want.

I'm going to use it to poke at every MAGAt that according to their God Emperor, they are female and if they don't identify that way then they must be trans. Try and break through the brainwashing they've cultivated. If he's so clearly wrong about that then what else is he wrong about?

Never trust someone with two first names. Been following that advice my entire life and I've yet to find an exception, they're always a piece of shit and usually prove that very quickly.

Been getting mixed reception with the Bellamy Salute … probably because this is fucking serious.

Even IF we were to give him the benefit of the doubt, the Bellamy Salute was abandoned specifically because of the Nazi use of a similar salute. AND that salute is older than Musk, so there's no history to claim there. Combined with his recent public praise and support of the far-right parties in Germany specifically, it really leads to one conclusion.

Even if we give him the benefit of the doubt despite all of that, and maybe claim that he's trying to "take back" a previous American flag salute to make it American again... it reminds me of the this scene from Clerks 2 (NSFW - language). Elon is most definitely not the person that can bring that salute back.

Did they? Or did Apple and Google pull the app because the law went into affect today and Trump isn't actually president yet. All they had at the beginning of the day was a one day promise from Biden to not enforce it.

Tencent happen to own large portions of nearly every video game company on the planet to start with, and a ton of other large companies, 600+ of them in fact. Large enough positions to directly affect board decisions if they wanted to. And that assumes overt sudden changes and not more subtle things.

That won't stop Apple and Google from keeping it pulled from app stores until things are more concrete.

TikTok only blocked access and put that notice up in the app after their partners decided that a statement from the outgoing administration 24 before the transition wasn't enough for them to not comply with the law.

Yeah. You might want to look into some other foreign owned companies as well. Tencent owns a metric shit ton of "American" companies for instance, I bet there's several on that list that would surprise you.

No it won't. Biden is already out of office as far as normies are concerned. He has been since the election, but definitely within 24 hours of inauguration. TikTok stops working and the next thing they see is Trump having a huge party with a shit ton of pomp and circumstance for his inauguration as he gets into the White House. And then TikTok still doesn't work when they open it up. Maybe he brings it back, maybe he doesn't. Voters don't pay enough attention to separate his inauguration and the TikTok ban happening 24 hours apart, they'll bundle it together as one event.

Unless he gets a massive cash infusion from Bytedance in the next 24 hours, he won't give TikTok an extension on day one in office. He's the kind of person that expects his payment up front.

So everyone will instead see it stop working as President Trump takes over, and then it continuing to not work after. Some may give him the benefit of the doubt, but they weren't ever going to vote for anyone else anyway, he's their God Emperor President and they've confirmed their world view around him being perfect.

Heck, he might try to spin it as some sort of promotional opportunity for Truth Social.

You think Trump is going to give China a bribe to keep TikTok running?

Not sure why you think it's an own goal. Biden didn't set the day for it to take effect, that was written into the law by Congress. You could say it was an own goal because Biden announced he wasn't going to enforce it, but that seems to be the opposite of what you're trting to claim And even with that decision to not enforce the law for 1 day before the Trump admin takes over, none of the companies TikTok works with like Apple or Google to list it in the app stores gave a shit about that lack of enforcement because of the uncertainty.

Not to mention Trump being the start of the ban in the first place. He was President when all of this started to work it's way through the process, even if Biden was the President when it actually made it through Congress, with bipartisan support. Trump only changed positions because he wants TokTok to pay him to continue to allow it to continue.

I mean... That just proves my point.

The feds told them to stop, but they were taking bets on it.

Any bets on the bribe amount? I'm sure some place is taking bets. Vegas will bet on anything.

So how much of a bribe you all think Trump is gonna take to get it back up and running? And will it just be for a rolling 90 day delay with continued payments? Subscription Presidential bribes.