While I am sure this is annoying for the users of Tik Toc, I don't see it as a very effective means of stopping thee content providers who are pro-Palestinian from voicing their opinions.  There are other plaforms they can migrate to.  Personally, I don't find the short video format to be that great anyhow.

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Quote from: RE on Jan 14, 2025, 01:40 PMWhy don't all those Tik Tok users form a cooperative and start their on Social Media platform?

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Because they prefer to consume,  not create.

The young are by nature conservative.  They only rebel against their parents.  On other issues they are for the most part good little fascists.

Why don't all those Tik Tok users form a cooperative and start their on Social Media platform?

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Clips from the Tic Tok reaction pepper this video.  Justified anger.

As K-Dog I'm allowed to seriously weigh in.  Censorship issues spawned this website.  Americans DO NOT understand that all American communications must be monitored by the deep state.  Servers must be controlled by Bezos on the front end, and homeland security on the back end. With a dashboard of buttons there to yank your chain.  Anything else is un-American.  Being American is all about minding other people's business.  You need info to exploit other people, and in America it seems, that is what it is all about.

Homeland security can't interrupt your TikTok feed and terrorize you as they have done to me over Netflix.  So Tic Tok has to go.

Learn the rules of the FSOA so you know what to do and how to adapt.  Go anywhere on the net and you are likely on a fully instrumented commercial platform.  Being here is a rare exception.  Here there is ONLY 24-7 surveillance (I don't customize your viewing experience), and I watch the bots that do the dirty work of watching us.  If things get too controversial the 'US Service Plan' kicks in and we loose the controversial content.

Which I may be able to restore, or not.


I hate this bitch.


* It saddens me that other people have not rolled their own platform as I have done.

QuotePresident Trump opposes banning TikTok in the United States at this juncture, and seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office," his lawyer Dean John Sauer wrote in a brief to the Supreme Court.

Once TicTok has a homeland security dashboard, the liar in chief of the FSOA will be fine with the new arrangement.

Cost estimates are continuing to rise, AccuWeather now puts it at $250B-275B.  That is almost triple Katrina and in the neighborhood of the bailouts during the 2008 financial crisis.  There's no way the insurance companies can cover that kind of loss.  Money printing is going to be necessary.

Despite this, all the officials repeat the usual post-disaster platitudes about it being only property that can be rebuilt and replaced and there will be disaster relief loans etc etc etc.  Meanwhile, FEMA is already denying applications but don't worry it's just because everything isn't filled out correctly on the paperwork so call them up and resubmit and eventually maybe you'll get some help when they figure out where the money will come from because they don't have it now which is why they are rejecting any paperwork that is getting filed now.  Not sure how much money FEMA has in their bank account to dish out, but I guarantee it's not $250B.

Of course the fires are still ongoing and everyone is still in the emergency shelter phase so the complaining hasn't really started yeet.  Wait until a month or so after the fires are out and they still don't have housing or rebuilding money and/or can't find a contractor to even clean up the rubble.  It's going to be just like the aftermath of Katrina, except now it's not poor black folks in NOLA slums it's upper middle class entertainment industry people.  They will not be happy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/13/la-fires-wildfire-economic-losses

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Further evidence of the collossal FRAUD that is Tesla and Elon Musk.  Much like El Trumpo who sold himself as a Bizness Genius who built his fortune from nothing despite in fact having inherited his father's RE slumlord empire and gone bankrupt 5 times, Elon in reality sells a shitty product out of a company built on boatloads of debt and goobermint subsidies.

The only thing more pathetic than these guys are the people who vote for Trump and who buy Elon's EVs.  Alsp pathetic is a system that rewards people like this and showers them with money and power, when what they really deserve is a jail cell, shunning and a life sentence cleaning toilets with their tongues.

Poster boys for the waning days of Capitalism.

https://electrek.co/2025/01/13/elon-musk-misrepresents-data-that-shows-tesla-is-still-years-away-from-unsupervised-self-driving/


Elon Musk misrepresents data that shows Tesla is still years away from unsupervised self-driving

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I never really believed all the stories about driverless cars being a ready for prime time technology, and it appears the truth is finally starting to leak out.  This is particularly important in the case of Tesla, since any chance at profitability for that company was Elon's promise of a Robotaxi service rather than selling the cars for individual ownership.  If actual functioning driverless cars are still decades away, so is any chance Tesla will ever turn a profit.

Also over-hyped apparently is AIs ability to replace homo saps in ntekllectual work like writing newz stories.  At least an inaccurate piece of journalism won't kill anyone in a car crash,  but definitely getting facts wrong if it's say doing work on a legal case could end  up with somebody getting wrongly connvicted and sent to the electric chair.

Given the amount of investment though in these technologies they have become TBTF, and instead of writing down the 100s of Billions already spent as losses, they'll double own on it and throw Trillions more down the toilet.  To give up on it now,companies like Nvidia would be worthless and so would their overvalued stocks.   Think Dot Com crash on steroids.

Coming soon to a theater near you.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-13/why-ai-investors-should-worry-about-the-self-driving-car-crash?leadSource=uverify%20wall

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It shouldn't be any more of a surprise homeless people will be blamed for the fires than it might be true.  Somebody has to be blamed, and homeless people are an EZ target.  Finding which homeless person it was that started a particular fire is unlikely  though.  It will however give them an excuse to make outdoor fires a crime without a special permit and another thing the cops can charge them with to arrest them.

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You missed the point.  Of course a homeless person could start a fire.  Homeless people start fires all the time.  But why would someone publish an article about 'homeless people' starting the LA fires without ANY facts.

The arrested people did not start any of the wildfires.

Who started the fires?  The arrested people did not start the LA fires, so what is the point of talking about two economically challenged people who have no more connection to the LA wildfires than the suspects named in the muzic.  But that they both smell bad.

Somebody has an agenda.






Perhaps we need to burn some witches to properly explain things.









Homeless witches.

Quote"Justice will be swift. It will be firm, and the maximum punishment will be sought," Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman told NewNation's Ashleigh Banfield, adding that any suspected arsonist could be charged with homicide and sentenced to life in prison.

All the DA needs are suspects.  I suggest not being in the wrong place at the wrong time.  It would not be good.

Somebody get the DA a dog to take care of.  Please.

QuoteThere was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that, every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husband's necks. Anything can happen.

Santa Ana winds have a long history.

Wicked Windstorm today with hurricane force winds 100+MPH.  The window in my room blew open after about an hour of being buffeted by the wind despite the lever being locked down, the vibration eventually loosened it.  Big mess.

I've also lost the regular broadcast TV channels which we get from an antenna on the roof, but I'm still getting the free streaming channels that come over the internet connection.  Probably won't be fixed for a day or two.  We didn't lose power here, but a few neighborhoods around Anchorage and the Mat Valley did.

We've had unseasonably warm weather for a couple of weeks and added a lot of moisture yesterday giving us the wind and heavy rain.  Almost no snow on the ground, the snow we got in Nov and Dec has mostly melted off.  On the positive side, we haven't run out of NG yet this winter.

https://alaskapublic.org/news/anchorage/2025-01-12/high-winds-temps-cause-outages-flooding-in-southcentral-alaska

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