redshirt posted:

No doubt. But I assume the only reason Boebert was ever elected is the area is deeply Chud.

Grey Cat posted:

There goes my source of buff lesbian lumberjack videos that were occasionally forwarded to me.

Sedgr posted:

Only 30% of respondents under 45? Oh wow if you poll old middle income whites that volunteer for polling Trump seems to do OK for some reason.

Strong Sauce posted:

someone on joe biden's team knows banning tiktok would be a catastrophe for him right? they have that cool social media manager making tweeters telling him, "joe if you don't veto this bill we won't be able to sell more red eye mugs"

SlurredSpeech609 posted:

https://twitter.com/bidenhq/status/1767730090656301308?t=UKR1TShxVeunp4_vn5gZrw
Pretty funny how at the end he gloats about inflation going up so the fed cant cut interest rates. What a turd.

Strong Sauce posted:

someone on joe biden's team knows banning tiktok would be a catastrophe for him right? they have that cool social media manager making tweeters telling him, "joe if you don't veto this bill we won't be able to sell more red eye mugs"

NoiseAnnoys posted:

lol won’t someone think of the feelings of the “Taiwan belongs to us” app?

Strong Sauce posted:

Not caring about anything as long as it doesn't affect your old person activities. God drat Patriot American. Thank you for saving this country.

Catastrophe posted:

lmao

Sorry, sorry, sorry I don't want to derail much more but I can spot that JW artwork that I grew up seeing every single darn day from a mile away, still. That one is from an invitation to The Memorial. A lot of other religions call it Easter. But the JW tradition is to sit around solemnly observing the story of Jesus dying instead of there being a rad egg-laying bunny.



(they still knock at my door and slip hand-written notes and pamphlets like this under my door to this day because my parents gave a local congregation my address in hopes that it'd make me rejoin their cult)

Nessus posted:

Post ITT every time you have a deep rooted sentiment regarding a social media platform

Counted posted:

Yeah, you're right, missed that part in the report about an opt-in panel. This got me was curious so I very quickly and roughly looked up if they had a page about their respondent panels and found this.



Nothing says accuracy like a poll answered by a combination of people who are likely rushing through the answers to get enough points for that sweet, sweet Gamestop gift card and people who go out of their way to fill it out on their website.

Waffle House posted:

Please do not post or surf while driving.

Scags McDouglas posted:

Um, sir. If I may.

Losing TikTok is not exactly on the same plane as issues such as losing healthcare, or reproductive rights, or representation.

So yes in this one instance, it's not happening to me and I absolutely do not care.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

JW are loving nuts. it started as a weird burned over bible study thing but then some nutjob took over and made it awful. they get alot less poo poo and scrutiny because they are as an org nonviolent and nonpolitical(everyone sucks) but its a bunch of gross batshit stuff. a pretty good video from a survivor of them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpMjgarN7VQ&t

Catastrophe posted:

kazil posted:

lol he already said he'd sign it

Scags McDouglas posted:

Um, sir. If I may.

Losing TikTok is not exactly on the same plane as issues such as losing healthcare, or reproductive rights, or representation.

So yes in this one instance, it's not happening to me and I absolutely do not care.

ImpAtom posted:

"I don't care if something is happening as long as it isn't happening to me" is genuinely kind of lovely even if it isn't objectively important.

Like I have no strong opinions on Tik-Tok either way but I don't think it should be objectionable to say "This isn't a useful or meaningful action, it's one grounded in xenophobia and racism and will have no real impact on the actual potential negative parts of Social Media, all it does is upset and demotivate potential younger voters for no actual benefit."

I donno. Mentally this reminds me a lot of the "We need to ban D&D/violent video games/the hip hop" poo poo that was around when I was growing up.

Harveygod posted:

Bizarrely, this flier helped save my mother-in-law's life.

Several years after seeing the Photoshop Phriday of this image, I saw one on the wall of my mother-in-law's boyfriend's apartment. I was so excited to see one in the wild that I took a picture and sent it to a goon friend.

Fast forward to a couple of years ago: My mother-in-law was alone and having a mental health crisis, so we had to call an ambulance to go get her. The problem was that none of us knew the address of the apartment. I remembered taking the picture of the flier and was able to get the location from its metadata.

tldr: Photoshop Phriday saved my mother-in-law's life.

Bone Crimes posted:

So they take a subset skewed to be 'representative' based on a (national?) poll, from a subset of people who want to be paid. Then with the subset that responded (from the previously selected subset) they further weight the responses by demo & voting records to match a perceived population?

Seems like a random sample to me!

MrMojok posted:

Watching MTG complain about being banned from twitter, her Facebook posts being “shadowbanned,” and saying “Remember all the bad influence Mark Zuckerberg had on previous elections.”

I sure do remember that Marge, Boomer Facebook was a huge reason why Trump was elected!

Harveygod posted:

Bizarrely, this flier helped save my mother-in-law's life.

Several years after seeing the Photoshop Phriday of this image, I saw one on the wall of my mother-in-law's boyfriend's apartment. I was so excited to see one in the wild that I took a picture and sent it to a goon friend.

Fast forward to a couple of years ago: My mother-in-law was alone and having a mental health crisis, so we had to call an ambulance to go get her. The problem was that none of us knew the address of the apartment. I remembered taking the picture of the flier and was able to get the location from its metadata.

tldr: Photoshop Phriday saved my mother-in-law's life.

Catastrophe posted:

An old friend of mine who was a fellow band member of mine is behind Witness Underground and other anti-JW efforts after also experiencing the abuse and hypocrisy rampant in that org's foundation. This isn't the place to get into the grimy details but that cult is rotten and disgusting from head to toe.

PKMN Trainer Red posted:

I have never once used TikTok, nor do I care about it in particular (because I am an old crusty loser) but I think a nice compromise would be one TikTok per book. If you read a real person book, you can do a fun time TikTok as a treat, thank you.

Strong Sauce posted:

ding ding ding. this is basically "ban violent video games and rap" and "hot coffee" poo poo all over again. but now that they're influencing kids to think about genocide and how the US propagates it.. well better ban it now!

PKMN Trainer Red posted:

I have never once used TikTok, nor do I care about it in particular (because I am an old crusty loser) but I think a nice compromise would be one TikTok per book. If you read a real person book, you can do a fun time TikTok as a treat, thank you.

Bottom Liner posted:

The JW church in our town got busted for abusing basically all of the children for more than a decade. Super hosed up "religion"

Pook Good Mook posted:

Does no one have critical thinking or reading comprehension about the Tiktok bill? It's a mandatory divestment bill, not a per se ban bill. The Chinese company is allowed to make as much money as they want from a sale and once they don't own it anymore the app will be back. Frankly, they are likely to sell their stake before it even gets to Biden's desk once they see the writing on the wall.

Data Graham posted:

What's really going to be funny is when TikTok is banned in America, America will be the only country where TikTok is banned, and it will remain insanely popular everywhere else

Here in the land of FREEDOM, we will have voted ourselves into being banned by the government from doing something everyone else does every day and thinks nothing of it.

We're already a backwater in terms of health care and social safety net and even technology, but till now people have been able to say "well it's because we're free to not have government services, we pay less taxes so "

But this will be way harder to spin. We'll just have voluntarily and intentionally made ourselves a shithole

LifeSunDeath posted:

imagine defending tiktok. lmao. just LOL!