He seems to lack competence in many ways, but some of the guys around him are a whole lot more conniving and potentially effective.

It’s also not likely Trump feels any urge to hire a somewhat moderate(ish) cabinet of professionalls like he did last time. I assume he learned his lesson given that they all eventually turned on him.

So let’s see. I think he’s spent the past 4 years surrounding himself with some bad hombres, to borrow a saying, and now he’s ready to act with fewer guardrails.

Yeah there’s so many manufacturers of various connectors that it can be really tricky to nail down the exact model numbers

Looks a lot like MX23A series

https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/206/B_0094_2E_MX23A-1132557.pdf

Kinda true, how this thing even worked, nobody knows

I hate that my first thought is insurance will use this as a way to avoid paying out

I gotta work this weekend.

I subscribe too. I’m an expat in a SE asian country where the subscription cost is a bit lower so, I do have that going for me. (~$5.50)

My consumption of YouTube is primarily through the official app on my Xbox. I also have a Pihole but it doesn’t work for YouTube.

This subscription lets me watch the creators I want to see, on the device I want, with the least amount of friction.

Thanks for your patience while I researched the details.

Yes, I’m free for a lunch meeting last Friday. See you then.

Finding the way from here to there is one of man’s oldest jobs. He’s quite good at it overall. In fact, had he not been proficient, your ancestry wouldn’t have produced you.

Now, man is cooped up in a cubicle, or best case a small box with a transparent glass window view of his old world. Now he’s asked to give long hours of “jumping on calls”, “circling back”, “thinking outside the box”, and chasing the “low hanging fruit” all in exchange for tiny green pieces of paper.

He’s standing in the shadow of his former glory.

For god sakes woman, let the man find the way today.

That is lightening strike “fuck you in particular” god energy

The authors also assessed 14 lifestyle factors commonly associated with physical and mental health, including smoking, alcohol use, physical inactivity, poor nutrition and sleep, finding most were significantly associated with all three mental health measures.

It seems like we conclusively know now that physical health is crucial to support mental health. Exercise, nutrition, sleep, limited stimulants and depressants, and yes, maintaining a healthy weight are core factors to fight depression - perhaps more effective than any pharmaceutical available - and other mental health decline.

I see this often. That tells me I’ve done enough scrolling and it’s time to get back to work.

I usually browse /all and top 6 hours

Now Elon can like his favorite OF creators without anybody knowing it’s him.

The only 3rd party reddit app I know that is still free is RedReader. Might be others too.

Sucks they refuse to let up on the API ban but it’s cool, we needed to get off reddit anyway.

My doom scrolling is way down over the past year.

Will be interesting to read the arguments and hear what experts have to say.

There is some precedence that corporations do have first amendment rights.

A hypothetical argument from TikTok is they think they are allowed constitutional rights, in this case to publish whatever they want, in the act of doing a commercial activity and that the law which was passed to force a sale to a local owner is a violation of their right to speak freely.

I suspect TikTok operates in the USA under an American registered entity that is wholly owned by a foreign entity. Whether that grants or removes any such constitutional rights seems unclear.

Next, it doesn’t seem like the law intends to block TikTok’s “speech”, rather it specifically allows the executive branch to block this particular type of foreign entity from doing business on American soil on the grounds of security, enforced most likely by blocking it from doing business with the app stores. This also has precedence - a lot of it, in fact - when it comes to security. The US blocks all kinds of foreign businesses from trading with American businesses. Like arms dealers and drug dealers.

So TikTok will need to defeat the idea that even as a foreign businesses they don’t need to be subject to the whims of the executive branches power to block foreign businesses AND that even congress doesn’t have the power to write a law that gives the executive branch this power (because, ya know, they just DID write that law).

And then TikTok will need to win on the idea that somehow their rights have been suppressed.

Seems like a long shot to me and the precedence that would be established by making it difficult for Congress to write laws that give the executive power to block foreign entities because it risks their unlikely right to speech in the US seems a bit whack.

I saw a website that was selling Reddit bot services to companies that want to review their products. They would just send a swarm of bad accounts in there and make nice comments. Even replying to their own comments.

After that I stopped trusting almost every Reddit review (⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

*Edit: meant to say bot accounts but leaving it

Missing the days of Consumer Reports. I think the velocity of new products is too high for them to be relevant for more than a few months once they release a report anymore.

TikTok hasn’t shown themselves to be particularly politically savvy so far.

As popular and as well loved as their platform is, they are getting kicked in the ass by the powers that be.

I think their survival now is predicated on them finding more powerful allies.

Terms of Sale:

Buyer agrees to sell user data to TT DataVacuum, LLC

Buyer agrees to install For You page algorithm updates per the requirements of TT DataVacuum, LLC on a quarterly basis.

Btw our lawyers are still setting up our new LLC with nominee directors. Dont worry, totally American.

That makes perfect sense. If the driver looks up to notice that he’s in a dangerous, unfixable situation, slams the breaks, disconnecting the autopilot (which have been responaible for letting the situation develop) hopefully the automaker can’t entirely say “not our fault, the system wasn’t even engaged at the time of the collision”