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I keep reading how great TikTok is for the disabled community. Does this mean they stopped hiding videos from people with visible disabilities?
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The Artificial Kid posted:America is talking about America, I’m including the west. Ah ok, I think I misunderstood your original post. I think you weaken your argument when you frame this as a concern with China influencing the west when tiktok is used a lot outside of western countries. If we're talking about states that control social media applications, we're talking about China and the US (which is what I thought you meant). If we're talking about the influence of Tiktok there's a heap of non western countries that you're excluding with that framing. Top 5 users: US, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Vietnam. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1299807/number-of-monthly-unique-tiktok-users/ A better framing would be to say "hundreds of millions of minds globally" if you're talking about tiktok specifically. Because it includes influence being of considerable concern to a bunch of non-western countries, some of whom (India for example) have already banned or placed restrictions on tiktok, which supports your argument. hooman fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Mar 15, 2024 |
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Mar 15, 2024 06:39
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Be aware the EU already fined TikTok €345 million for privacy breaches of children's data and that's before addressing their illegal transfer of personal data to China - under GDPR there's basically just no way to make that legal, since *both* China and the USA have completely inadequate privacy laws. The European Data Privacy Board just ordered the European Commission to stop using Microsoft 365 since it breaches GDPR by design. TikTok will get hosed by EDPB because as an EU resident I have rights that my personal data not be sent to anywhere lacking proper protections like China and the USA. The current attempt to paper over that fact for the USA will lose in court *again* (Schrems III, anyone?). Rust Martialis fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Mar 15, 2024 |
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Mar 15, 2024 07:24
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Spoke Lee posted:I keep reading how great TikTok is for the disabled community. Does this mean they stopped hiding videos from people with visible disabilities? Between that and the discussion in another thread about the level of self censorship raising to basically a new dialect I don't know why people ITT are defending it as a unique bastion of leftist discourse among the youth?
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Mar 15, 2024 07:29
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Kagrenak posted:Between that and the discussion in another thread about the level of self censorship raising to basically a new dialect I don't know why people ITT are defending it as a unique bastion of leftist discourse among the youth? One of the worst information effects of "social media", meaning most social media, is not just the creation of echo chambers, but specifically the false impression those echo chamber spaces give that they are representative of either the broader platform or broader discourse. It's a great multiplier for radicalizing someone, though, because it very rapidly detaches them from other social standpoints. A lot of the same elements that make TikTok "good" or popular are the same ones that cause its negative effects.
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Mar 15, 2024 08:01
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So that Boeing quality whistleblower who was found dead in his truck the morning he was suppose to finish testifying? Totally normal coincidence right? https://abcnews4.com/news/local/if-...abc-news-4-2024 quote:When Jennifer needed help one day, Barnett came by to see her. They talked about his upcoming deposition in Charleston. Jennifer knew Barnett filed an extremely damaging complaint against Boeing. He said the aerospace giant retaliated against him when he blew the whistle on unsafe practices. Yeah what a strange coincidence.
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Mar 15, 2024 08:46
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The chuds are mad at the Black Rifle Coffee, hopefully they can manage to cancel it lol quote:Conservatives are calling for a boycott of Black Rifle Coffee after discovering that some of its employees donated to left-wing causes.
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Mar 15, 2024 12:13
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hooman posted:I don't think that other countries should be passing laws forcing American divestment of meta and google Does America have investment in meta and google? Not that there aren't serious security concerns for many American corporations in regards to the American government, and it would absolutely be reasonable to pass laws to limit that susceptibility in widespread, widely used apps, just that the government doesn't actually own or sit on the board of the companies or anything to my knowledge, so "divestment" probably isn't the right word.
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Mar 15, 2024 13:23
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mobby_6kl posted:The chuds are mad at the Black Rifle Coffee, hopefully they can manage to cancel it lol The party of “stop being a snowflake” sure is soft.
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Mar 15, 2024 13:38
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mobby_6kl posted:The chuds are mad at the Black Rifle Coffee, hopefully they can manage to cancel it lol lol, well yeah no poo poo. its a decent sized company and i am sure a bunch of people in it are there for the money and arnt massive weird true believers. i guess what do you call the chud version of rainbow capitalism.
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Mar 15, 2024 13:39
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Goddamnit, North Carolina. So Michele Morrow was our local Moms for Liberty poo poo candidate (home schooled her kids, has no idea what she's doing, has multiple times publicly asked for the execution of presidents, etc) lost last year in the local school board elections. But that hasn't stopped her from trying. She's now the GOP candidate for Superintendent of our entire Public School System. She upset the incumbent in primaries. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/politics/kfile-gop-nominee-north-carolina-public-schools-michele-morrow-executing-democrats/index.html
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BonoMan posted:Goddamnit, North Carolina. So Michele Morrow was our local Moms for Liberty poo poo candidate (home schooled her kids, has no idea what she's doing, has multiple times publicly asked for the execution of presidents, etc) lost last year in the local school board elections. she might very well lose. NC isnt some state going blue like PA but they dont seem to like the Qanon/uber fundie types. helps that robinson will probably hurt the GOP alot in NC. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Mar 15, 2024 |
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Mar 15, 2024 14:09
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https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1768399246854692869 What is going on with this woman, is she broke?
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Mar 15, 2024 14:12
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1768399246854692869 possibly, the GOP is getting bled dry with money and has been for the last couple years.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:she might very well lose. NC isnt some state going blue like PA but they dont seem to like the Qanon/uber fundie types. helps that robinson will probably hurt the GOP alot in NC. I don't know. I hope so. She lost in Wake county b/c it's a blue island... but statewide? poo poo she might win.
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Mar 15, 2024 14:15
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1768399246854692869 Eh, even rich people do paid promotions all the time
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Mar 15, 2024 14:16
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1768399246854692869 How is this not a violation of using her office for profit?
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Mar 15, 2024 14:17
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Bird in a Blender posted:How is this not a violation of using her office for profit? Turns out you can just ignore those laws SD Governor Salary is $126k which I imagine goes along way in Pierre
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Mar 15, 2024 14:18
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Feels like grifting taken in the wrong direction. Only strong daddy is supposed to get away with hocking steaks, bottled water and so on and even then it was his Brand™®. This is just low-rent selling out to anyone with a check to cash.
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Mar 15, 2024 14:19
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zoux posted:Turns out you can just ignore those laws Pierre is actually really expensive. Or at least for a small town in the middle of SD. I've had a couple friends who have lived there in the past and it sounds like it's a lot of rich politicians that drive up the price. Heck, just looking up the average home price shows that it's $270k. Granted, making $126k is still fairly comfortable there
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BonoMan posted:I don't know. I hope so. She lost in Wake county b/c it's a blue island... but statewide? poo poo she might win. maybe but she is a true believer nutjob who wont moderate out. the last couple elections have shown people are loving tired of the morality police qanon nuts who ban books and scream at kids and then dont keep the lights running.
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Mar 15, 2024 14:23
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Kalit posted:Pierre is actually really expensive. Or at least for a small town in the middle of SD. I've had a couple friends who have lived there in the past and it sounds like it's a lot of rich politicians that drive up the price. Heck, just looking up the average home price shows that it's $270k. $126k salary with an average home price of $270k is not that expensive.
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Mar 15, 2024 14:32
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1768399246854692869 She isn't flagging the post #ad, so she might be if the feds come after her (they won't).
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It is apparently not illegal in South Dakota for her to do that, but a consumer group is suing her for the dentist commercial and accusing her of violating FTC disclosure rules because she doesn't make clear in her posts that this was an advertisement that she was compensated for.quote:Governor Kristi Noem sued over video promoting dentists who fixed her teeth https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/kristi-noem-dental-ad-lawsuit
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The National Realtor's Association has agreed to settle with the DOJ over its lawsuit about access to MLS housing data and 6% Realtor commission fees on homes. The NRA has said this could cost millions of middle class realtors significant amounts of their income and remove up to 600,000 jobs, while the DOJ argued that it artificially inflated housing prices and acted as an effective cartel because over 80% of home sales were through realtors using the MLS system. This is potentially a huge shift toward flat fees paid to realtors. Some studies expect it to reduce the average income realtors received from commissions by 33% and reduce the average cost of buying a house by about 4% https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1768652053956509765 quote:Realtor settlement on commission-fixing could create seismic changes in how Americans buy homes Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Mar 15, 2024 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:So that Boeing quality whistleblower who was found dead in his truck the morning he was suppose to finish testifying? Totally normal coincidence right? Boeing "can't find" any documentation about the work on the door plug and isn't cooperating with the NTSB either. They must have terrible QA practices (none?) for this being covered up so much. Im glad I don't have to fly for work or personal reasons because I wouldn't trust anything involving Boeing right now. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-admits-it-cant-find-records-on-the-alaska-airlines-door-plug-work/ quote:It was sent Friday to Cantwell on behalf of Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun after a dramatic Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday in which the chair of the NTSB, Jennifer Homendy, scathingly testified that Boeing was not fully cooperating in the federal safety agency’s investigation of the accident on that flight. quote:The NTSB investigation focuses on two major issues: Who did the work on the door plug, and did they follow proper procedures?
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gurragadon posted:Boeing "can't find" any documentation about the work on the door plug and isn't cooperating with the NTSB either. They must have terrible QA practices (none?) for this being covered up so much. Im glad I don't have to fly for work or personal reasons because I wouldn't trust anything involving Boeing right now. Good christ heads need to roll over this poo poo. The brief time I worked in aviation years and years ago I had to sign for every single tool I took out of the cut-foam tool racks, sign out every last nut, bolt, hinge, whatever I was going to use for whatever process was on the work sheets, have two-person integrity at all times checking off the steps of every procedure taken, and then sign back in every single tool I used and worn/broken/replaced nut, bolt, whatever was used during the process. That poo poo was kept on file for five years and they made goddamn sure we knew it. That paperwork either absolutely existed and they've  lost it all, or they're very, very, very specifically not generating that paperwork anymore on purpose.
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gurragadon posted:Boeing "can't find" any documentation about the work on the door plug and isn't cooperating with the NTSB either. They must have terrible QA practices (none?) for this being covered up so much. Im glad I don't have to fly for work or personal reasons because I wouldn't trust anything involving Boeing right now. Reminder that Nikki Haley, while on the board for Boeing, helped kill an initiative to force Boeing to disclose more of its spending to influence regulators so this probably goes beyond terrible/nonexistent QA and instead just goes straight to the fact that Boeing has been playing fast and loose with regulations for years and now the chickens come home to Boeing needs to be shut down or nationalized immediately. I know neither of those things are going to happen but it's nice to think about sometimes.
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Boris Galerkin posted:"He wasn't concerned about safety" Of course not, he was a former Boeing employee 
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1768399246854692869 She's probably just ahead of the curve. The GOP has been, functionally, a giant scam operation for many years now. See: podcasters selling supplements
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The NRA has said this could cost millions of middle class realtors significant amounts of their income and remove up to 600,000 jobs The job really should not exist in the form that it does. Realtors ask for fees far in excess of the value they provide, and they persist mainly because of gatekeeping.
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Tiny Timbs posted:The job really should not exist in the form that it does. Realtors ask for fees far in excess of the value they provide, and they persist mainly because of gatekeeping. A 6% fee in my city averages at over $35,000 per home lmao.
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Tiny Timbs posted:The job really should not exist in the form that it does. Realtors ask for fees far in excess of the value they provide, and they persist mainly because of gatekeeping. Good news! According to the NRA, a whole lot of them won't exist anymore because of big government after this. They aren't wrong that a lot of middle class older ladies make a solid living from being a realtor and this is going to significantly cut into their income. I would not be happy about that, but the payment structure really made no sense. Does it requires 9x more effort or knowledge to sell a high demand $2 million beach house than it does an older $250k house? Not really. Sucks for the ~1.6 million people who get paid that way, but the average person was paying about $18k more for a house than necessary to fuel that compensation.
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Which governor is going to start promoting their OnlyFans first and why is it Ron DeSantis?
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So realtors will have to actually provide value now instead of just saying “better offer all cash over asking, this is the only house for sale around!” and collecting checks? Neat.
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Mar 15, 2024 18:32
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Push El Burrito posted:Which governor is going to start promoting their OnlyFans first and why is it Ron DeSantis? TBH, my money's on Abbott. He's pre-emptively working on boosting his numbers by banning PornHub in the state
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Knowing capitalism, it's a monkey paw outcome where the first company to come out with an app to replace realtors will become the next Intuit/Uber/Airbnb that we all hate but can't avoid.
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Isn't that 6% taken from the seller's side of things? Which in theory prices should come down because of the reduced fees but in reality won't they still try and get the current prices and pocket the difference in reduced fees? How would this actually bring house prices down?
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D-Pad posted:Isn't that 6% taken from the seller's side of things? Which in theory prices should come down because of the reduced fees but in reality won't they still try and get the current prices and pocket the difference in reduced fees? How would this actually bring house prices down? They'll try to get as much money as they can no matter what, this doesn't change that. This just takes away their ability to say "Oh, fees are eating up all that part of the price so the seller's not getting that much, we can't negotiate down any further" while giving buyers incentive to demand a better price since they know that 6% isn't assumed any more. It's just like any other "Won't they keep prices high instead of passing cuts on" or "won't they just pass that tax/fee on to the buyer?" argument. They'll try, but as long as everyone knows the new structure it affects negotiations.
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D-Pad posted:Isn't that 6% taken from the seller's side of things? Which in theory prices should come down because of the reduced fees but in reality won't they still try and get the current prices and pocket the difference in reduced fees? How would this actually bring house prices down? The economic theory will be that the market will dictate the price and the sellers will want to undercut each other rather than lose the sale, so their incentive is there to accept less on the sale price if they’re still pocketing the same amount as before. In practice does this work the same with home sellers listing probably their most valuable asset as it does with groceries or other retail items sold at volume? Idk, ask an economist.
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