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Leaks suggest at least one of those counts will be a felony. To be confirmed soonish.

Here's another take I find compelling: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ddb/restrict-act-insanely-broad-ban-tiktok-vpns

I read and listen a lot. I believe that bit may have been from Bob Costa’s reporting, but please don’t hold me to it.

Claim victory, regardless how pyrrhic.

Of course he did. It seems they have far more damaging documentation than just the Cohen testimony so this may be moot. He’s already raised over $2M since announcing he’d be arrested last Tuesday and I’m sure he and his minions will bilk his hordes out of at least $10M more just this weekend given the announcement today.

Rumor is he actually wants a photo of himself being led away in handcuffs bc he can use the imagery to whip up the base about an out of control and misused justice department (which will be the MAGA narrative no matter what despite their own chants of Lock Her Up! 73x at every single rally in every single town in 2016) Fingerprints are digital now, though.

Of course each individual drop contributes to the water in our bucket which itself will eventually overflow, but change at the scale we need requires more buckets more than it requires more tiny drops.

It’s actually 12 per day. Leading cause of death among US children, above car crashes and cancers and other similar. https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/blog/gun-violence/17-facts-about-gun-violence-and-school-shootings/

+1 nice

If they have sufficient control of the legislature, yes. There’s a hierarchy here: Corporate governance >> County / City governance >> State governance >> Federal governance >> AI algorithm large language model mind control / new world order governance (that last one won’t actually be a thing until Tuesday, but the deployment is ahead of schedule)

Most people are normal people. It’s sort of embedded right there in the word itself. Normal.

Not entirely true. Humans tend to self-enforce when they see a risk of potential punishment for a behavior.

Tiny D over there is basically methadone for people with a Trump habit.

glad you're here to point this out for us

Obviously since he ignored you several times about it

I wasn’t quibbling. I was correcting an inaccurate claim. We’re in full agreement that the way we use resources matters far more than how many of us exist.

Another potentially interesting path to pursue here is how TikTok also seems to put our brains into a more hypnotic state. I seem to recall studies coming out showing how (maybe?) delta waves and general flow states change in the brain depending on how the algorithm feeds videos to us, and we’re enormously prone to suggestion and influence when in those states… our normal defenses are far less effective. I’ve read it and heard it in enough different places and from enough different sources now that I find it compelling. Meta and Twitter and Fox News et.al obviously try to achieve the same thing, but they’re like preschool flag football players compared to TikTok’s NFL brutes.

Pro tip: One of those words you used twice in your post has fallen out of parlance and tends to be considered unacceptable. Try liberal or woke next time. They’re the latest moniker for the misinformed folks not burdened with an abundance of education.

42 Or a cold shower

Maybe more addictive, but your point is sound. Primary difference I see is where data is hosted and consequently how it gets protected / exploited. This takes nothing away from your crisp question, though. A lot of this is modern day Cold War drum beating.

They don’t. We’re at around 7B people today and forecasted to go to approximately 11B in the next hundred years. Any projections claiming doubling of current numbers are outliers and can safely be taken with a grain of salt. https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-projected-reach-98-billion-2050-and-112-billion-2100

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.” Joseph Heller, Catch-22