Frosted Flake posted:

Wasnt Vine basically tiktok ?

Mr Hootington posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1639228233064538112?t=85v6aMBZkduVAVQ_QPuE_A&s=19

Duestch bank is getting pummeled

Frosted Flake posted:

Wasnt Vine basically tiktok ?

shrike82 posted:

the discourse about China versus US economic warfare is pretty abstract because the only effect the average person is going to see is cheapish midrange electronics

webcams for christ posted:

https://twitter.com/mhp_guy/status/1638182536818958337

webcams for christ posted:

concise argument:

https://twitter.com/somali_ics/status/1638696574787244032

shrike82 posted:

https://twitter.com/BusinessInsider/status/1639222077264887808?s=20

gradenko_2000 posted:

it's essentially the same scam they've been running with Huawei: China beat Qualcomm / Samsung to 5G technology, so just raise "security concerns" to have the US and as many other allies as possible refuse to use their hardware, because competing on an even field is unacceptable when you're losing

and part of those sanctions against Huawei included preventing their phones from being able to access the Google Store and Google services. Huawei has since found ways around this, but the idea was that this would be such a big blow to convenience and usability that people would stop using Huawei phones because they'd be crippled

but you only get the ability to cripple a company in that way because Google represents such a gigantic part of the smartphone and internet ecosystem

and that takes us back to China: the "Great Firewall" of the PRC is often touted as some kind of domestic social control measure - prevent Chinese citizens from reaching out into the wider world and realize how rotten their country and their government is.

what it really is, is internet protectionism. By preventing the likes of Google and Facebook from entering and operating in the country, China has created the conditions by which their own, locally-developed internet firms can take hold, in much the same way that you'd prevent, say, Nike shoes from entering your country so that local shoe factories can continue to exist, because otherwise they'd be outcompeted by globalized Western firms with rock-bottom prices

and you want your own domestic internet firms to have room to grow, because otherwise Facebook takes over, and not only does that mean any profits from social media get expropriated by the likes of Zuckerberg (at the expense of your own citizens) but the way that these social networks are run is at the behest of Western interests, whether it means Facebook gets to influence your elections, or as we've said with Huawei, they abide by American decrees to lock your phones out of their ecosystem in an attempt to maintain monopoly conditions

or to draw yet another comparison: Joko Widodo of Indonesia recently said that he doesn't want his country's government to continue to work with Visa/Mastercard, because he understands that these are Western countries, and they could pull the plug at any time as a means of punishing or blackmailing any country or organization that leans too heavily on them. And we know this to be true because they tried to do it with Russia!

finally, this brings us all the way back to TikTok: the US is losing social media share to ByteDance, in the same way that WeChat or Weibo would have lost out to Western social media if China had simply let the latter run unregulated a decade-and-a-half ago, and they want to tug on that leash... but they're doing so in such a cack-handed manner that it's not going to work

shrike82 posted:

the discourse about China versus US economic warfare is pretty abstract because the only effect the average person is going to see is cheapish midrange electronics

In Training posted:

multipolarity could lead to wild poo poo too. If OPEC ever fucks with the US again and engineers a 70s style gas shortage, who knows what would happen domestically.

DancingShade posted:

Yup. I'm glad you mentioned Widodo actually as that's a good example of a non aligned nation watching and reacting accordingly. A funamental economic system weaponised, people jump ship accordingly. That bag of tricks can't be re-filled and closed again.

Much like the UK likes to LARP about still being a world power empire (and people are far too polite to ruin their fun) the USA is next in line to start dressing up in world leader cosplay long after their day in the sun passes.

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mexi posted:

this is funny because I had an ex that was a chemistry major and she was a terrible cook. she cooked with the chemist mindset of throw enough in to get the job done and precipitate out the extra.

she made me banana bread once and it was so crappy it didn’t rise at all in the tin. luckily I have a bad allergy to bananas so I was able to give the “sorry babe I would love to but” excuse

Grapplejack posted:

This is insane to me because cooking is literally chemistry it's almost a 1:1, you have to be legendarily bad to know how all this works and gently caress it up

mexi posted:

this is funny because I had an ex that was a chemistry major and she was a terrible cook. she cooked with the chemist mindset of throw enough in to get the job done and precipitate out the extra.

she made me banana bread once and it was so crappy it didn’t rise at all in the tin. luckily I have a bad allergy to bananas so I was able to give the “sorry babe I would love to but” excuse

mawarannahr posted:

you have to know what tastes good, what things go well together, how to discern ingredient quality, where you can experiment a little and where you probably shouldn't, and the reasons for all the above

Mustached Demon posted:

that's exactly chemistry though

Grapplejack posted:

This is insane to me because cooking is literally chemistry it's almost a 1:1, you have to be legendarily bad to know how all this works and gently caress it up

Mustached Demon posted:

that's exactly chemistry though

SKULL.GIF posted:

STRONG ROBUST STABLE RESILIENT SAFE

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1639250192556871680

Nothus posted:

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1639247900759953408?s=20

Homeless Friend posted:

Mr Hootington posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1639228233064538112?t=85v6aMBZkduVAVQ_QPuE_A&s=19

Duestch bank is getting pummeled

SKULL.GIF posted:

Why is everyone walking out to say everything's fine all at the same time?

https://twitter.com/financialjuice/status/1639244041832509441

SKULL.GIF posted:

Why is everyone walking out to say everything's fine all at the same time?

https://twitter.com/financialjuice/status/1639244041832509441

Mustached Demon posted:

that's exactly chemistry though