Skip Navigation
What will happen to all the USA TikTok creators once the ban on TikTok takes effect?
  • I think the reason is less about "i, an individual, am getting my data harvested" (though certainly still a factor) byt more because China is still very much considered an enemy of the US, and they are not only harvesting americans data in a very invasive way - as in, recording pretty much everything you do on your phone, not just in the app - but an adversarial government now has access to all of that. Additionally, because the chinese "free market" has been effectively neutered in recent years, high chance that the CCP is able to influence TikTok's algorithm to affect what people see and push propaganda. People should be concerned about it in the same way people should be concerned about russian bot farm, but more so, because there isn't an audience of millions feeding russian bot farms their personal information.

  • US surgeon general declares gun violence a public health crisis
  • Once again we're being subject to the deep state's WOKE agenda! First they tell us that RESPIRATORY ILLNESS and UNPASTURIZED DAIRY PRODUCTS are dangerous to control us and give us gay autism, and now they're trying to brainwash us by scaring us away from our GOD GIVEN SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS!! Little snowflakes scared of a little lead?? Like this little semi-automatic riffle that I had somebody in Tennessee buy for me even though I have no use for it?? Scared of the wittle bullets I'm putting in? Scared of having a cute wittle gun pointed at you? Scared of resting it under your chin, like so? Scared of putting a wittle bit of pressure on the tr

    (disclamer: this was supposed to be a "proverbially shooting yourself turned litteral" joke please don't ban me)

  • After getting money from billionaires, Trump says he will give unlimited green cards to foreigners to work American jobs
  • I know that it's probably just some combination of A. His sugar daddies want cheap labor and B. Democrats are leaning onto border controls so now he has to be contrarian, but you know what, if this gets republicans to embrace positive immigration reform, I'm here for it.

    Still not voting for him though.

  • Why do you choose to continue living?
  • The most effective ways to die sound painful, and even for the "painless" ones, if you fuck it up you either suffer way too long or get slapped with insane medical debt and locked up in a loony bin for a ehile (usa). While I don't fear death itself or have a strong emotional attachment to the life I'm living right now, my life's in no way bad, so it's still an easy choice for me.

  • "He couldn't even remember me": Trump has "severe memory issues," says author who interviewed him
  • Bro I am the worst at remembering people. When I visit my hometown I sometimes get people coming up to me to say hi and I literally have no idea who they are. I can count on one hand the number of people I would actually recognize from this place I lived for 20 years of my life. Yes, I probably have some sort of cognitive dysfunction myself (on top of my serious introversion), but when it comes to "trump alzheimer's" I am far more swayed by him rambling about sharks out of nowhere

  • Trump threatens to cut off aid to Ukraine 'prior to taking the White House as president-elect'
  • Jesus I had to read your first sentence twice lmao. Initially thought it meant "it won't matter who wins" as opposed to "your question is void in the event that Trump wins", which made me think you were somehow arguing that Trump could do all that even if he lost

  • What's your most favorite place you've ever been to?
  • Kyoto. Absolutely beautiful, awesome cultural landmarks, and when I went pre-covid - we stayed in an air bnb - it had a cool large-town vibe despite being one of Japan's major cities. I liked it much better than Tokyo.

  • What's something you want to stop doing but can't actually stop?
  • Dude, same. On top of that, I also struggle with imposter syndrome and a work for a company with a burnout culture, which a recipe for constantly kicking your own ass for not having literally everything done always, so I force myself to try to be "productive" the whole time, which always, ALWAYS backfires, but the guilt from watching everyone else work themselves to death is just too much. I'm hoping to switch to a remote job with a company who values employee wellbeing over "the grind" soon though.

  • Flexible Display
  • Of course there aren't any reviews (not that I'd automatically believe them, anyway). While it sounds super exciting, I'm not super willing to spend almost 300USD for unverified tech. Somebody should send link this to Gamer's Nexus to review lol

  • How does it feel being in a relationship?
  • OP did, in fact, confirm elsewhere in another comment. Still doesn't guarantee he's from a mental-health friendly nation, but it is kinda crazy that he was indicating that the USA was somehow inherently better for building relationships than other places...

  • Advice on wall insulation

    Hi all,

    I am in need of some advice regarding diy wall insulation for my currently uninsulated house. The situation is like this: The house is 80y/o, wooden frame, stucco siding. My main concerns are minimizing wall damage, and minimizing fire-spread risk.

    For these reasons, I had wanted to go with blown-in mineral wool, but the olny 2 brands I could find (Rockwool and ThermaFibre) have discontinued their blown insulation. I've heard about using perlite for insulation, but it seems that it's a bad idea for drywall due to how loose the grains are (drill a hole, lose your insulation), and the only advice for binding it is to use concrete, which is probably way too heavy (and permanent) for use inside drywall. I also can't add insulation externally because of the stucco siding.

    I'm really at a loss here. I feel like my requirements aren't so unusual that there isn't already some product or technique out there to cover my use case, but I can't find anything still in production. If anybody has any ideas whatsoever, I'd love to hear them.

    UPDATE: I did start looking into the sheeps wool recommendations, HOWEVER, in that time I found scrap mineral wool available from ATS that I'll be able to use as loose fill. Thanks for trying to help, everyone!

    9
    JoJo bizarre adventure memes galore @lemmy.world Hazzia @discuss.tchncs.de
    The Single Most Jojo, non-Jojo thing I've ever seen
    2
    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)HA
    Hazzia @discuss.tchncs.de
    Posts 2
    Comments 858