This is a bad comparison. Language absolutely works as described in the previous comment. While certain trends such as using “literally” to mean “figuratively”, are personally super annoying, that doesn’t change the fact it’s 100% correct when enough people do it.
Article is very interesting and talks about the mix of goals in regards to the protests, and how speech negatively and positively helps accomplish those goals.
For real, I’ve heard some recordings, and the only similar thing I heard was “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.
I think it’s important to note as well, nearly ALL chants in most protests rhyme, so “… sea, Palestine will be Arab” just doesn’t sound like something anyone would be saying.
The Chinese government already has our data thanks to Facebook, Google, and reddit (and just about every other free service). This ban (“forced sale” that will never happen because the US is only 10% of their revenue) is to limit our communication, not to save our data. They could pass legislation to protect our data across the board, but they (the house) have too much invested in meta and them to do anything to harm their bottom line.
This ban only became the biggest most important thing for the government to do after we all started learning what Israel was doing in Gaza. Our house of reps is primarily owned by Israel and private corporations, and Tiktok is a driving force for change. It’s getting more young people to vote than anything before. And all they want is representation that actually represents, rather than cater to bribery. This idea is terrifying to those currently in power, because they’ve enjoyed doing almost nothing good for the American people for 4 decades while getting stupid rich at the same time.
I understand a lot of people knew what was happening to the Palestinians for years, but that was information the US was happy to keep to itself. Tiktok made it super clear to the rest of us what was actually going on.
I’m not trying to say data privacy isn’t important. It is, but the ship has sailed on that problem. We can do things to limit the damage to future users, but everyone that’s already been on the Internet… 🤷. This is an issue they have with US citizens learning about all the shady underhanded shit they’ve been doing for decades. If they were truly worried about our data privacy, meta and Google would be their first and primary targets, rather than the primary beneficiaries from a sale (because a sale would immediately ruin it) or ban.
And finally (sorry, I know this is long), I’ve seen more anti Chinese information on Tiktok than anywhere else. If they were in control of what’s being shown (the government’s other big excuse here), you’d think they’d censor their past and current atrocities from being known. Everything I see on Tiktok doesn’t serve China at all. In fact if we’re finally able to vote out the dinosaurs and money whores that currently run things, then it may actually hurt China in the long run.
Thanks for reading my ranting Ted talk. Sorry about that!
I 100% believe that. But might it have done some good anyway? Just because “they’ll just do it anyway” is a terrible excuse not to try to better the situation.
I’ve been keeping my pebble 2 alive for a very long time. New battery a few months ago, rewiring the vibrator motor due to the wire breaking at the solder point, new 3d printed buttons....
Unless they’re a family vlogger. Screw those people.
Ultimately, the adoptee might still be in a “better position” in terms of food and shelter, but they lose privacy and anonymity, and are often treated like shit off camera (sometimes on)
Yeah, I’ll give you the strawman, sorry about that. Made sense before I said it.
The Nazi belief was absolutely a religion. Not one of deity, but of superiority. A group of people held the same belief and tried to beat that belief into the whole world. TBH, sounds just like the crusades, just less successful. Thank goodness.
Yeah, but these are taken as sample. I’ve never once been asked, but I’m certain my existence in a particular geographic area has been counted one way or the other. Was the sample statistically significant? Who knows.
Super weird, noticed it today on his right foreleg just above the elbow joint. Feels like there’s something underneath, and had this chunky white protrusion. Can’t find an exact match via Google. Expecting some sort of cyst or maybe a blocked gland?
Good news, just a benign growth. Vet isn’t concerned. Said some fancy medical terms and said it’s nothing to worry about in the short term, just keep an eye on it monthly to see if it’s growing.
The way things are. (lemmy.world)
How pervasive is antisemitism on US campuses? A look at the language of the protests (www.theguardian.com)
Article is very interesting and talks about the mix of goals in regards to the protests, and how speech negatively and positively helps accomplish those goals.
US plans for Gaza aid pier branded ‘smokescreen’ to allow Israeli invasion of Rafah (www.independent.co.uk)
TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell (www.entrepreneur.com)
Millionaire who made himself homeless and broke on purpose to prove he could make $1MILLION in 12 months for YouTube clicks QUITS his bizarre social experiment over health concerns (www.dailymail.co.uk)
Amazon storing classified US government documents improperly (lemmy.ml)
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Israel cancels diplomatic visit to U.S. after U.N. vote demanding cease-fire (www.washingtonpost.com)
A little random, but I now believe Brandon Sanderson is probably one of us, or at least PIMO
So religion is a pretty common theme in his books. Stormlight and Elantris (more for the latter) have heavy religious influence....
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My vibrator motor finally bit the dust. RIP (lemmy.world)
I’ve been keeping my pebble 2 alive for a very long time. New battery a few months ago, rewiring the vibrator motor due to the wire breaking at the solder point, new 3d printed buttons....
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What have you changed your mind about?
And I don’t mean things you previously had no strong opinion about....
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What is the best style electrical outlet?
This is a debate, not an argument, let’s be adults about this. [Insert political joke]
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Super weird, noticed it today on his right foreleg just above the elbow joint. Feels like there’s something underneath, and had this chunky white protrusion. Can’t find an exact match via Google. Expecting some sort of cyst or maybe a blocked gland?