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by wumeow 2y ago
Everyone got played by what is effectively joint CCP/Trump propaganda and they’re cheering about it. Bleak, bleak, bleak.
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by wumeow 2y ago
Maybe, but it’s back now. It was performative.
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by wumeow 2y ago
You get one guess for who caused the spike on this graph of global deaths. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067361...
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by wumeow 2y ago
This shutdown is performative, by the way. The law prohibits the distribution, maintenance, or updating of the application. There's no reason to disable the app for users who already have it installed except to generate outrage. No one
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by wumeow 2y ago
??? He's said he'll do this and there are a couple of ways he legally could?
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by wumeow 2y ago
Trump will bring it back in a couple days, it won't be gone long enough to have a large effect.
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by wumeow 2y ago
> The Biden administration has given a large amount of subsidies to the chip industry, and U.S. enterprises have thus gained an unfair competitive advantage and exported relevant mature node chip products to China at low prices, which ha
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by wumeow 2y ago
> Chinese people being amazed that we really do need to pay for ambulance rides and that it’s not just govt propaganda. That viral post is incorrect! Ambulance rides cost money in China! You are not immune to propaganda!
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by wumeow 2y ago
Because that’s all you know! You are so myopically focused on every shitty thing that the US has ever done that you’ll believe anything that disparages the US, even when it comes from a foreign power trying to undermine you. For instance:
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by wumeow 2y ago
This isn’t exaggeration btw. Gen Z is basically a cooked generation at this point.
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by wumeow 2y ago
> I can't tell if people just don't know that this is happening, or if they take their memes way too seriously. I sort of wonder if they don't know it's happening because they get their news from Tiktok and Tiktok is
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by wumeow 2y ago
They copied TikTok.
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by wumeow 2y ago
I remember trying out TikTok and realizing in horror that it was a slot machine for video content.
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by wumeow 2y ago
Still 40 minutes left til launch.
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Power Causes Brain Damage(theatlantic.com)
3 points by wumeow 2y ago|0 comments
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by wumeow 2y ago
Someone needs to launch a rover up there who’s sole purpose is to rescue other landers.
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by wumeow 2y ago
On one hand, you have the Chinese users who are either eager to evangelize for China or unable to complain about China due to censorship rules. On the other hand, you have the American users who hate America and love to complain about it. I
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by wumeow 2y ago
> The once common symptoms of loss of taste and smell are becoming less common. > He believes that the progressively falling numbers of new long Covid cases is a further indication that this may be happening. Bad news if you suffer f
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by wumeow 2y ago
Again, an offhand comment about an email from the DHS is given all the weight in the world while a direct statement from Cloudflare is nitpicked to death.
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by wumeow 2y ago
Love the double standard here. An offhand comment about an email from the DHS is considered strong evidence that Cloudflare was "started from day one to be a government spying program" while anything Cloudflare could say to deny i
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by wumeow 2y ago
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-prism-secure-ciphers/ > At CloudFlare, we have never been approached to participate in PRISM or any other similar program. > To date, CloudFlare has never received an order
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by wumeow 2y ago
Many commenters just hate America.
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by wumeow 2y ago
It’s an addiction. They need their fix somehow.
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by wumeow 2y ago
If any of these people would bother to read the law, they might see that it also applies to Xiaohongshu. > RedNote's Chinese name, Xiaohongshu, translates to Little Red Book, but the app says it is not a reference to Chinese communi
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DJI No Longer Blocks Flights over Airports and Military Bases(hntrbrk.com)
45 points by wumeow 2y ago|31 comments
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by wumeow 2y ago
> When it came to the ACE3 attack, however, Roth said that while Apple “saw the attack complexity and said that they don't see it as a threat - I agree with that sentiment but wanted to at least have reported it!”
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by wumeow 2y ago
And time. People with a bll level 76% above baseline will wonder in ten years why they have coordination problems and trouble thinking.
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by wumeow 2y ago
That’s the whole point of this article. Many people will consume multiple servings of protein shake per day for most of their life, and they’re contaminated.
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by wumeow 2y ago
Any amount of lead is harmful. There is no such thing as too low.
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by wumeow 2y ago
The only way to be sure you’re not being poisoned is to get your blood tested. “Safe” brands are considered safe if they test below a certain amount of heavy metals per serving, but any amount of heavy metals is toxic, you probably consume

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