Gyges posted:

A quick google tells me that you would have to eat over 5-7 pounds of tuna a week just to hit maximum limits. That is an absolute fuckload of tuna sandwiches for ol' Wormy to be wolfing down to reach 10X safe recommendation.

Blorange posted:

I'm seeing a lot less than that, a 200 pound man can eat 2 3oz sandwiches a week. Having sandwich every day could easily get to 10 times the recommended levels over a few months.

I had no idea that tuna is that practically inedible due to mercury contamination.

Gripweed posted:

The obvious conclusion is that he was lying about where the mercury was coming from.

small butter posted:

What are fake chronic diseases?

uninterrupted posted:

Why do you think 8 million Soviets deaths were valued less than 7 million Jews?

small butter posted:

What are fake chronic diseases?

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Wait, how widespread are these worms

7c Nickel posted:

https://bsky.app/profile/taniel.bsky.social/post/3krx2u3w5ai2d

Toss this on the pile with the other special election results. Ottowa County 2020 was 60%/40% for Trump in 2020, and just recalled a Republican County Commissioner 60%/40% in favor of a Democrat.

zoux posted:

single-mode fiber posted:

I'd like to think that if I had a brain worm, I would just get one of those fake doctors for hire like Trump had saying how insanely healthy I am, and never admit to the worms. But, maybe a consequence of the worms is that it stops you from being able to think like that.

golden bubble posted:

https://twitter.com/DavidNir/status/1788007936289017920

She dropped out of the race weeks ago and double digit % of primary voters would still rather choose her over Trump.

Rust Martialis posted:

Oh no, dig *up*

zoux posted:

Interesting that China is forcing ByteDance to leave billions on the table rather than expose their proprietary algorithms to an outside entity. They let the owner of Grindr sell in 2020.

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TikTok accounts for a small share of ByteDance's total revenues and daily active users, so the parent would rather have the app shut down in the U.S. in a worst case scenario than sell it to a potential American buyer, they said.

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The U.S. accounted for about 25% of TikTok's overall revenues last year, said a separate source with direct knowledge.

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TikTok's daily active users in the U.S. also make up just about 5% of ByteDance's DAUs worldwide, said one of the sources.

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/michaelsobolik/status/1787902538928304338

Interesting that China is forcing ByteDance to leave billions on the table rather than expose their proprietary algorithms to an outside entity. They let the owner of Grindr sell in 2020.

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/michaelsobolik/status/1787902538928304338

Interesting that China is forcing ByteDance to leave billions on the table rather than expose their proprietary algorithms to an outside entity. They let the owner of Grindr sell in 2020.

zoux posted:

So then why block the sale

DeadlyMuffin posted:

Careful. Denying that the Soviets were actually the main victims of the Holocaust can get you a fancy new avatar.

Jimbozig posted:

Yeah, if the government of China made a law saying that Google or Facebook had to sell its proprietary algorithms to a Chinese company outside its control, I would expect that company to refuse as well. I don't think this is remotely surprising.

And if they did refuse and China banned it as a consequence, I think we would simply call it a ban and not do a weird dance of "oh, but Google could have avoided it if they just let a Chinese company operate as Google in China, so it's not really a ban."

single-mode fiber posted:

I'd like to think that if I had a brain worm, I would just get one of those fake doctors for hire like Trump had saying how insanely healthy I am, and never admit to the worms. But, maybe a consequence of the worms is that it stops you from being able to think like that.

zoux posted:

So then why block the sale

tractor fanatic posted:

1. This is extortion (sell to us or we ban you), and both the PRC and ByteDance don't want to submit to extortionary demands
2. ByteDance wants to protect their brand and IP from dilution, and prevent the rise of international competitors

Magic Underwear posted:

I hate when the big mean government extorts me by closing down my restaurant unless I have a working freezer to put my meat in. If my customers want to eat my food I should have the right to sell it to them free of interference.

Magic Underwear posted:

I hate when the big mean government extorts me by closing down my restaurant unless I have a working freezer to put my meat in. If my customers want to eat my food I should have the right to sell it to them free of interference.

Magic Underwear posted:

I hate when the big mean government extorts me by closing down my restaurant unless I have a working freezer to put my meat in. If my customers want to eat my food I should have the right to sell it to them free of interference.

Rust Martialis posted:

What, people are still parroting the Soviet line that the Jews weren't a special target of genocide but were simply "peaceful Soviet citizens"?

Rust Martialis posted:

What, people are still parroting the Soviet line that the Jews weren't a special target of genocide but were simply "peaceful Soviet citizens"?

uninterrupted posted:

I'm perfectly conscious that Jews and Soviet citizens can be the same people. That doesn't change the fact that more Soviets than Jews died in the Holocaust, but Biden chose to highlight antisemitism instead of anti communism, the later being the cause of objectively more deaths, to facilitate and justify the current Holocaust.

No, stating that only Jews died in the Holocaust is Holocaust denial

tractor fanatic posted:

It's extortion because TikTok has done nothing wrong. There's no data or privacy law they are violating, this is purely a matter of ownership. This is the big mean government saying you need to sell your restaurant to someone who lives in town.

tractor fanatic posted:

It's extortion because TikTok has done nothing wrong. There's no data or privacy law they are violating, this is purely a matter of ownership. This is the big mean government saying you need to sell your restaurant to someone who lives in town.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

They haven't been proven to have done anything criminal. They've done plenty of things that are arguably morally wrong. For example, concealing their algorithm and feeding a shitload of suspect information to little kids (like every other social media company)

Magic Underwear posted:

I disagree completely, they continued to ship American data to China and therefore to the CCP even after they claimed they stopped. I don't see anything wrong with insisting that foreign companies play by our rules if they want to operate here. Since we have no good ways of enforcing data privacy laws on Chinese companies our choice is to capitulate or to exclude them.

Zore posted:

I mean this is literally why China does not have Facebook or Google.

Magic Underwear posted:

I hate when the big mean government extorts me by closing down my restaurant unless I have a working freezer to put my meat in. If my customers want to eat my food I should have the right to sell it to them free of interference.

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In Ohio, the state elections chief has said the Republican-led Legislature has until Thursday to approve an exemption to the state’s 90-day rule, which sets this year’s ballot deadline at Aug. 7. No bill appears to be forthcoming, but leaders of both parties haven’t entirely ruled one out. The state House and Senate both have voting sessions scheduled for Wednesday.

mawarannahr posted:

This is why he is renowned as an advocate of overlooked causes and you are renowned for posting on a forum. You and he are not the same.

koolkal posted:

So I read through the Tiktok complaint (https://sf16-va.tiktokcdn.com/obj/e...-account=public, it's a pretty easy skim with much of it just making arguments from a variety of angles (they even mention Lamont at one point which is a pretty important one that I've posted about previously) and giving a bunch of background on Tiktok and the Tiktok ban bill. But one part I found interesting is a reference to a CFIUS agreement that has been mentioned in the news previously but without much followup: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/08/21/draft-tiktok-cfius-agreement/?sh=6e0739b7112a

This agreement would apparently have been secret anyway, the text at least. But according to Tiktok's complaint, the government stopped responding last year. This is pretty interesting since a CFIUS agreement would have essentially meant the government would have special oversight over Tiktok unlike other social media companies and would represent a much less harsh measure compared to just forcing it to sell. And the agreement would have apparently included the ability to shut down Tiktok if certain provisions weren't met. I would be very interested to see what happened here because it's not clear why the government allegedly stopped working with Tiktok on this agreement. And this agreement would arguably go much further in addressing national security concerns beyond Project Texas. But of course it would likely not curtail any "pro-terrorist" speech since that is still covered by 1A and is a reason given by numerous lawmakers as to the reason for the ban.

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changes to the app’s U.S. terms of service and moderation policies