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This is all about pressuring Bytedance to sell to any of the large US companies dying to get that user base. Remember that one party is currently loaded with tech bros with no ethics.

Bytedance seems willing to play chicken and hit the wall as a gamble about coming out of this less hurt than anyone else.

RFK Jr eating a McDonald's cheeseburger.

How to pass the loyalty test and yet fail at the same time.

Because it's a test. A test of how far the "loyal" ones are willing to go, and to see who they can't count on moving forward.

Does he mean the US Customs Office? The C in CBP?

The Customs Office that already collects tarrifs? That publishes a Harmonized Tarrif Schedule alongside the US International Trade Commission to facilitate smooth international trade?

So, like, THAT kind of thing? What a novel idea!

Know what else sounds like a good idea? Knowing how the government you already RAN for 4 years works.

In theory, but in practice the BBB is usually a pay-to-play sort of racket where as long as a member doesn't have active litigation happening, you can likely swing an A+ rating and still be a terrible company. It's business oriented, not consumer.

While this might have been true for a while, but payola is alive and well. My spouse has Spotify and still has to listen to music podcasts for real discovery. Otherwise she's one more person swatting down Espresso playing over and over.

I feel like stuff like this is always aimed at average people and the data collection is what offsets the price to make it the cheapest option. Only new money would use it to chase trendy things like this. They end up being slight convenience with added work and expectations on the consumer.

High end appliances aimed at real wealth are usually more about how they can be built in to the house design. Rich people will pay more for a thing that makes the house look like a magazine, and will last years.

Why would a rich person want a fridge that tells them they need to buy milk when their actual human assistant does that?

shit ton

I see what you did there.

If it's a baby from Nigeria, it's from a very small group on the border with Cameroon, one of the rarest gorilla subspecies there is. Returning it would be putting it back into possible poaching. Poachers likely killed its parents to get the baby.

Same.

There's a song by the Armenian band Ladaniva that's just a few lines about a mountain home with a table that sits under a fig tree for the season. It's relatively vague imagery with beautiful haunting vocals. Makes me ugly weep every time. No idea why. It's the only song that has ever affected me like that. But there's something about the idea of just a homey, simple life and how gar away that is that makes it seem all the more important.

Yeah, that was the last straw TBH.

I occasionally have to do some OSINT-ish research online, and it keeps getting harder and harder to get what I nerd from Big G. So much noise and trash. 2019 was the year they jumped the shark.

Yeah, same with my dad. Best thing that ever happened to him was a Nigerian scammer tried to hijack his account and FB suspended the account for 6 months.

But then a week later he had some new account with no friends just for the reels. ಥ_ಥ