senseamidmadness @ senseamidmadness @beehaw.org

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"US government official agrees with position of US State Department propaganda, more news at 11"

Portable gaming died because of smartphone gaming, unfortunately

You have guessed right. The US government had a massive hand in the creation of modern social media, such as a significant amount of funding for Facebook during its startup phase. The intelligence agencies are mad that they can't pull data from TikTok or influence its algorithms, on top of the American social media companies wanting to kill off their foreign competition as much as possible.

This bill has nothing to do with data privacy because if Congress cared about that they would've banned other platforms too. It's about control and unfair competition.

The "data privacy" argument is bullshit and the people pushing for this law know it. That's what is being sold to people but it is not why this TikTok ban got passed. It got passed because American social media companies are pissed that TikTok is outcompeting them for the attention of young people, and because the US government has a heavy hand in what algorithms are allowed to push on Facebook and Google and others. A good portion of Facebook's initial funding came from government sources.

"Data privacy" is just an excuse. Lobbying from the intelligence agencies and social media companies is why it's really being enacted.

The history speaks for itself. China is less of a threat to other countries in the world than the USA is. Your idea that they're some international boogeyman that's going to take over the entire world and doom humanity is just you repeating "China bad and scary" State Department propaganda.

Even with China's human rights record being what it is, they don't export war across the entire world.

This comment was brought to you by the US State Department.

Tell me, how many countries' governments has China knocked over in the last century as compared to the US CIA?

How many countries did the US drop bombs on in the last decade, and how many did China?

It's not even close. In terms of physical violence the US is the world's #1 exporter.

Yep. The PS4 and Xbone are both very close to off-the-shelf AMD APU's as far as I remember; you could buy very similar processors for desktop use. Emulation would require a ton more power than the original chips, and the original chips are so close to desktop processors that it's more efficient and feasible to reverse-engineer the proprietary API's those console chips use.

What attempt?

I have seen the phrase "the Switch is a telemetry nightmare" on CFW websites

One might argue that it is, instead, the Lunchable that is the poor facsimile of a charcuterie.

Agree, and its very start was as a government-sponsored hit squad extrajudicially murdering bank robbers under the direction of an extremely troubled man. It's never strayed far from its roots.

There's never been a day where I regretted deleting my Reddit account and removing that site from my life. It's only gotten worse since I left.

Fair, but I think it'd be way more fun if we drove away the right-wing nutjobs instead of letting them win. They don't deserve the natural beauty of the South.

The American South is a diverse and beautiful coalition of Black, Latino, and working-class white people being held hostage by right-wing extremists and their propaganda.

Capitalists try not to assign monetary value to literally every single item, feeling, and natural occurrence on Earth challenge:

oops, failed again

Solidarity with workers everywhere. You love to see it.

Snap has always bothered me and this is another great reason why.

We absolutely can, but "organizing" doesn't mean the same thing to a Democrat as it does to me.

The largest suggestion in this article is: "call out the people who suppress voting and call them vote suppressors". Words have near-zero impact on the people passing these laws.

Peaceful methods simply will not work anymore. They've been tried for decades and the Republicans do not care. Their only goal is winning and in many states they have won in a semi-permanent way by redrawing districts and suppressing nonwhite votes.

Ah, shoot, forgot about that.

If it's a traditional lead-acid battery and is also the original factory one, just replace it. Lithium batteries are great as they save a bunch of weight, but they're expensive and don't handle the cold as well.

Hmm, gee, I wonder why the two "separate" parties agree so strongly on so many things. It's almost like they get bribed and controlled by the same people...