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What's crazy is even if you think the country is going the wrong way economically what about Republican policies says it is better for the middle class?

America is just dumb and racist b.
People are too ignorant and uninformed to understand basic economic principles to ask that important question. Folks especially the Trump to Biden back to Trump voters just compared pre pandemic pricing to post pandemic pricing and made their choice. They don’t care how the sausage gets made they just care that it gets made. Quick soundbites promising quick fixes were very effective.
 
You honestly don’t see the difference between banning physical goods that come in through ports of entry that already have customs officials with banning IP packets?
yes there's a difference. iPhone dominates the us phone market, it won't be in the app store, it won't be compatible with future versions of android and ios. unless you constantly buy old phones the app will stop working on most devices.

app store, if all the monetization is turned off for creators there's no incentive to continue to create content for a dwindling user base. the app dies.

you are making this sound like its some impossible feat, when it actually isn't.


“Black Box” is a meaningless term here, but a nice bit of FUD. All ML algos are essentially black box and everything everywhere uses them. Honestly, it would be a lot easier for the CCP to control what people see if they didn’t use a “black box” algorithm.

obviously yes but difference is, you have zero ability to impact the decision making of the CCP. You do with an American company. Which makes Tiktok more of a black box than facebook, insta ect

We regulate tons of things that come from China. To quote you, “what makes this different?”

But this is a dumb argument. All of this will play out in the next two years. There’s nothing Biden could have done in a day that Trump couldn’t undo immediately, so the enforcement will ultimately be Trump’s to own anyway.

I get that everyone is all mad at Biden, but his actions here have no real effect one way or another.

It sets a precedent, and it encourages the "both sides are the same" attitude that makes politics toxic. Democrats have this problem, where they say things are huge problems, but don't act like. it makes them look like phony liars.
 
they are, the American people just don't seem to agree on how bad they are and what should be done about them.
I think this is simplifying it a bit. Our politicians have no idea on how to even regulate them, and this landscape is growing and shifting by the minute, and also wielding more power with an administration coming in that basically allows pay for play. Our system also really isn’t set up for nimble governing, which absolutely plays into the hands of the robber barons in such a hyper polarized time.
 
I think this is simplifying it a bit. Our politicians have no idea on how to even regulate them, and this landscape is growing and shifting by the minute, and also wielding more power with an administration coming in that basically allows pay for play. Our system also really isn’t set up for nimble governing, which absolutely plays into the hands of the robber barons in such a hyper polarized time.

sure i can agree that these are problems and it makes it hard to act. but imo that doesn't mean you throw up your hands at tiktok.
 
sure i can agree that these are problems and it makes it hard to act. but imo that doesn't mean you throw up your hands at tiktok.
My question was more rhetorical. Obviously the CCP poses a major threat, but forcing them to divest before serving them up to Musk, Zuck or the next technocrat is hilarious.
 
Won't save their ratings.

They need to adopt the 140-character; 30-sec video format for free.99 in order to compete for the eyes of the 60% of Americans who get their news from social media.
 
I'm just waiting for the TikTok replacement so I can scoop up those rare usernames like Belgium Belgium :pimp:
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It's certainly possible to scoop up some good during the initial phase of something.
My xbox gamertag is Brutality, which I scooped up on the day Microsoft reset a bunch of gamertags who had been inactive for an unspecified amount of time.
Mortal Kombat and Doom were my fav games to play over at my cousin's before I grew a bit older and my parents bought a Gamecube. I don't like the mechanics of the current Mortal Kombat game but am still very active in the Twitch MK community.
You have to be really rapid though, because you're fighting a war on three fronts.

On one side you're being attacked by the normies, the people flooding to a new platform looking to pick a cool username.
On the other side you have people like me but who are very aware of what to look for but aren't using advanced tools (autoclaimers etc)
Meanwhile the ones with the autoclaimers/turbo programs are mass grabbing everything they can think of. These are automated and use custom wordlists, which are of course limited by the operator's effort and creativity. My custom wordlists were massive so I had a very wide variety of everything even though not all of it was very desirable.
My custom wordlist is how I got BigKrit on IG and my favorite football (soccer) team Tottenham. 99% of autoclaimers nowadays will be hyperfocused on only the absolute most valuable names or usernames handy to monetize due to its username (example: hiphopnews)

My previous gamertag, Donor, literally got taken by someone else during the split few seconds where I changed it to Brutality and the moment where I tried to reclaim Donor on an alt account on a separate tab. I was later told off the record who took it and he basically had an autoclaimer running that included my gamertag and happened to come across the word "Donor" is the less than 10 seconds inbetween trying to swap it onto one of my other alt accounts.
In the community, turbo'ing/autoclaiming usernames known to be owned by people in the community is a bannable offense and to no surprise this was done by someone who had already been exiled for essentially the same thing.

In short, yes it is certainly possible to grab something nice but don't even bother going for the super obvious high value names. The only competition autoclaimers have is other people with autoclaimers. These programs have advanced a lot over the years and now cost thousands of dollars and are only sold exclusively on a case by case basis. Back in my days the older iterations could be bought for $200 for IG or $20 for a shockingly lucrative platform like Kik.

Examples of what not to do:
Greed = NO
Greedy = Still no, but closer to what you should be looking for if you desperately want to stay within a particular word or theme.
Penitentiary = Perfect, low value and very unlikely to be sought after, though not very valuable either if you intend to sell.

For a brand new platform, you'll literally have to be ready on Frame 1 or everything of value will be taken besides maybe some obscure and less common words or regional dialect terms.
Handy framework for valuation (depending on value of the OG)
Greed = "OG" (original)
Greedy = Semi-OG (semi-original due to being an adjective)
Greediest = Semi Semi OG (adjective straying even further from the "og" word)
 
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I was playing cod the other day and some dude got the kill cam best play with “mega choade”

I lol’ed been a minute since I heard choade
 
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Bessent, if confirmed, would not have the authority to raise wages, which would require an act of Congress. But Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who introduced a bill in the 117th Congress to raise the minimum wage to $15, asked Bessent, a hedge fund manager, to work with him and other lawmakers who want to implement a “living wage.”

“I believe that the minimum wage is more of a statewide and regional issue,” Bessent said during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.

“So you don’t think we should change the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour?” Sanders asked.

“No, sir,”
Bessent responded.

The national minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009, although 30 states and dozens of cities, including the District of Columbia, have increased the effective minimum wage, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
 
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It's certainly possible to scoop up some good during the initial phase of something.
My xbox gamertag is Brutality, which I scooped up on the day Microsoft reset a bunch of gamertags who had been inactive for an unspecified amount of time.
Mortal Kombat and Doom were my fav games to play over at my cousin's before I grew a bit older and my parents bought a Gamecube. I don't like the mechanics of the current Mortal Kombat game but am still very active in the Twitch MK community.
You have to be really rapid though, because you're fighting a war on three fronts.

On one side you're being attacked by the normies, the people flooding to a new platform looking to pick a cool username.
On the other side you have people like me but who aren't using advanced tools (autoclaimers etc)
Meanwhile the ones with the autoclaimers/turbo programs are mass grabbing everything they can think of.

My previous gamertag, Donor, literally got taken by someone else during the split few seconds where I changed it to Brutality and the moment where I tried to reclaim Donor on an alt account on a separate tab.

In short, yes it is certainly possible to grab something nice but don't even bother going for the super obvious high value names. The only competition autoclaimers have is other people with autoclaimers. These programs have advanced a lot over the years and now cost thousands of dollars and are only sold exclusively on a case by case basis. Back in my days the older iterations could be bought for $200 for IG or $20 for a shockingly lucrative platform like Kik.

Examples of what not to do:
Greed = NO
Greedy = Still no, but closer to what you should be looking for if you desperately want to stay within a particular word or theme.
Penitentiary = Perfect, low value and very unlikely to be sought after, though not very valuable either if you intend to sell.

For a brand new platform, you'll literally have to be ready on Frame 1 or everything of value will be taken besides maybe some obscure and less common words or regional dialect terms.
Oh no for sure. I know it's difficult to grab the rare ones especially if you're not using any tools. I was just taking notes from all of your stories haha. I have hit on some rare btc domain names but who knows if those ever take off.
 
**** is gonna be bad for a while.

Dems outlook for 26 and 28 and looking much worse than it did at this point in 2017 for 18 and 20.

But, a sign of hope is that the GOP still has a small majority and a very unpopular platform

Trump has much better instincts than the median Republican about how to win over the public

But Trump is old, undisciplined, and not running again.

There is a great chance enough people have buyer's remorse once the GOP starts cooking
 
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