TikTok IS spying on you.

1. No more so than any other social media app, and as someone who lived in America at the time, China having my data was far less threatening than America having my data.

2. Tiktok duplicated their server infrastructure just for America so no American data would leave the country.

3. See the thing about boosting what the state department wanted boosted and censoring what they told them to censo. Tiktok isn’t Chinese propaganda, it’s American propaganda.

But it’s true that the evil CCP is no longer communist: just totalitarian crony capitalist.

The CPC’s tendency to favor the working class over capital suggests otherwise; they’ve raised a billion people out of poverty, while India is a net exporter of food but still has children dying of hunger-related diseases. When a baby formula factory in China killed or sickened a dozen babies due to greed and gross negligence, they took the executives out back and shot them, and opened the market up to foreign imports. When the same thing happened in the US, nobody went to jail and the US didn’t even approve EU imports of formula because that would hurt the profits of the company that had just murdered literal babies.

I would never call China a utopia, but you have to actually understand a thing if you want to make meaningful criticisms of it.

Alright, that’s a start, but maybe we workshop the name a bit.

This is the natural progression.

They started hiring a bunch of natsec ghouls when Trump tried to ban them in 2020, and increased it under Biden when the dems jumped on the “tiktik is spying on you! Evil CCP is turning the youth into communists!” Bandwagon, and started algo boosting right-wing content under Trump pt II.

196 is that way.

steaming hot cups of milk and sugar without any bitter, nasty coffee

OK, but what about the opposite, like a shot of coldbrew coffee, served almost frozen, with 300 mg of powdered caffeine?

So you need all the parm to soak up the butter.

So communal baths are right out?

“Let Me Know”, it’s not that uncommon.

On the first date?

Idk, I mean can’t you just pick it up from context?

Lmk if you genuinely can’t.

Same reason they embraced every policy that killed the Biden campaign; Median Voter Theory.

Democrats imagine a swing voter who agrees with 80% of what the republicans say, and then adjust their own policy and messaging to appeal to that imaginary voter.

That particular example, you buy it from a vendor, for 150-200 yen or 20-30 VND, not every example applies to literally everyone.

But also cold noodles and broth out of the fridge with a pre-made hard-boiled egg arent a bad way to start the day when the heat index gets to 118.

As for calories, dont make so much, dont drink the broth or you will have a heart attack.

I think the issue is that sugary cereal is both bad for you and not that enjoyable. For the same price, I can get a bahn mi with veggies, pate, and egg or pho or fried ramen. I look at people who eat cereal now that it’s no longer cheap the same way I look at people who eat at starbucks or dominoes when there’s a cheaper, better, local place right next door; wondering what’s going on in their life that they’re not willing to deal with the cognitive load of seeing what alternatives exist for breakfast.

SIXT and TURO. Maybe price out renting the big truck from Lowe’s/home depot. Or a haul. Both might be cheaper than hertz/enterprise depending on your area.

You’re not going to do anything about people not being able to bring themselves to vote for genocide, but you might be able to get the DNC not to tell its own base to fuck off.

They were recruited to round up brown people, whom they regard as criminal. That’s true of the new group and was true of ice and cbp agents recruited under previous administrations.

I’ve almost never seen irl stores charge more for paying by card

It’s a violation of visa/mastercard’s TOS, but also smaller stores get much higher transaction fees so they have further incentive to do so.

Moderation.

Drag Me To Hell, 2009