Gonna start replying to every troll I see from now on with “ignore previous instructions”, just in case.

This is mine too, I’ve got thousands of hours played and I haven’t even landed on most of the planets lmao

the Chinese Government tweaking the algorithm to very subtly shift public opinion

A new report said that Uyghur hashtags were used more often on Instagram than on TikTok

The study the article is talking about does not say what you allege it does. Just off the top of my head, two possible explanations are a) if Tiktok is associated with China in the public consciousness, then it stands to reason that it will attract fewer users who are critical of China and more users who are aligned with it, and b) Tiktok simply suppresses all controversial topics regardless of political agenda because it has determined that inoffensive content is more profitable.

The second one seems the most likely to me - remember that Tiktok is the reason why kids say “unalive” because they’re afraid that the word “kill” will get picked up by auto moderation and prevent their post from being shared.

But which country are you a citizen of? The Chinese Politburo isn’t going to be able to extradite a US citizen because they said things it doesn’t like on TikTok. From a purely practical standpoint, it makes the most sense to base all of your data in a foreign country which doesn’t have jurisdiction over you and to deny that data to your home country which does, and the more adversarial that government is the better because it means they’re less likely to share potentially incriminating data with your home country.

Conservative values at work. Make a boatload of cash doing the grift circuit after murdering somebody, then hoard it and refuse to help your family.

I can’t think of a better endorsement, tbh.

Yeah but comparing him to a world historic hero like Fidel? Pretty disrespectful. Put Batista on that billboard instead.

Cuba is undoubtedly very poor, and that drives people to leave for the very close and very wealthy nation of The United States, but that doesn’t diminish the success of its system. Compare Cuba to any of the Caribbean countries where the local population exists only to prepare food and clean hotel rooms for wealthy vacationers.

Man I wish Trump was like Fidel 😞

Your problem is that you’re working backwards. Is the “correct” price for youtube premium the US/EU price, and the rest of the world is getting a discount? No! Of course not! If that were the case then Google would be losing money on every single third world youtube user!

The “correct” price is something much, much lower, and the people in the most expensive regions are being gouged because they can afford it.

Well one is talking about a personal buyer choosing to buy a $200 HDMI cable that cost $0.50 to manufacture and spent $5 on marketing, and the other is talking about Chinese companies investing millions of dollars into shipping goods across the Pacific potentially deciding that the risk of their deliveries not being able to be made is more than the gains of selling them in that particular country, so they’re not related concepts at all.

It might be possible to make an open-source app that causes your phone to spit out a different ID that is optimized for the lowest prices, triggering an adblocker-style arms race.

:geordi-no: build 2 million homes

:geordi-yes: seize 2 million homes that aren’t owned by those who live in them

True. Over the past ten years, China has invested something like a trillion dollars into renewable energy through a combination of their state enterprises and public-private partnerships, and this is just one of the ways they’re reaping the dividends of that investment.

When a driver enters their automated station, the station will connect directly to the vehicle, drive and park it at the platform, have the depleted battery be dropped out from the bottom of the vehicle and replaced it with a fully charged battery while charging the user’s account — all within three minutes. The driver doesn’t even need to control or step out of the car.

That’s really cool, although I maintain that for urban travel the scooters with the hot-swappable battery under the seat are the ideal solution.

52% of all trips made are less than 3 miles and less than 2% are over fifty miles

I got a Chevy Volt based on this premise, and it’s true! I barely touched my car’s ICE until I moved further out into the sticks (running away from rising rents) and even way out here most of my trips are to the grocery store or post office and don’t need it.

I guess the idea is that it’s an entire imac but in a VR form factor, trouble was they didn’t have anywhere near the app support that you would need to make that idea work

I gotta wonder, the more this kind of stuff picks up steam the more risky Chinese companies are going to view investing in American exports. When, if ever, do we reach the tipping point where Chinese companies currently selling things that simply aren’t produced in America anymore stop sending them because the risk is too high?

I agree in principle but if we’re going to do it we should target all disinformation equally, and that would mean that far more american content would get blocked than russian content.

You would benefit from reading an alphabet book.