I think that it was less: let’s find alternatives, than it was fuck you government TikTok isn’t Chinese enough. It was a direct answer to the government telling us which social media apps we were allowed to use. Also, 100% avoidable if they’d passed data protection instead. It really felt like the government enforcing private interests on its citizens.

Americans typically don’t like the government telling us what to do. It’s all fine if Facebook buys all the competition, but it’s another thing when the government makes the competition illegal because they won’t sell to zuck or musk.

Honestly, Redbook was sort of neat. I doubt it has much staying power as it was really just a protest, but it was sort of a historical feeling moment.

You should try this new messenger app.

They did Rambo the franchise a bit.

You mispronounced promote American interests.

They are owned by the cable company, so who knows.

It’s a safe bet. I wonder if enterprise pricing is that high.

Odd question: there’s an IT Crowd joke about Keira Knightly being in a movie where she was stabbed in the face, is that based off reality?

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Insurance companies have us so backwards we’re resorting to the old ways.

Modern medicine has simply become too expensive, embrace humorous medicine reject miasmas.

How do I invest in witchcraft?

I downloaded it lol

It’s unnecessarily limiting the audience. High school is relatable because everyone does it. Not everyone goes to college or works in such and such field.

When it comes to the human experience, we start to diverge pretty early.

I feel like I remember them focusing on the sensation around news and not the actual news. Anything news worthy was included as a matter of context.

I felt like Vice was as if Beavis and Butthead were reporters, they went to the heart of a story that wasn’t getting much coverage and asked about people’s butts.

Well yeah, but it’s the US government which hasn’t ever done anything problematic before. I’m sure it’s for everyone’s best interest. /S

Which if that were true, still wouldn’t matter.

It means more calories than we can justify for a meal in a 2000 calorie day.

J P Morgan was sort of one of the worst humans in recent history.

The largest teat in the whole country.

Yeah, so was second world because of Russia or because of communism? We need to redraw some stuff. Maybe use something other than number ranking for our definitions. I think we’re ultimately too attached to calling countries with brown people third, but this is a fight I can get behind.

Idk, that seems like a pretty shit take to me. It’s not the voting choice I made, but I can see where people are coming from. It’s not just the US selling arms to hostile occupiers, it’s running around with the Cheney’s and the general abandonment of the working and middle class.

The ancient Spanish basically all had a lisp. Nobody thought about it at the time and it eventually became the status quo and then correct pronunciation. I base this on absolutely nothing and will die on this hill.