Propagandists must spend a fortune influencing the wealthy. If enough is known about them, they might even be targeted by advertisements at the individual level by fine-tuned demographics.

Cobwebs/Penlink seemed much more tailored to that, but these companies also have an incentive to exaggerate their products’ capabilities as much as they can get away with.

I was frustrated by the lack of low sodium options in processed foods before I cut them out entirely.

I went to visit family recently, and they were sipping on a carton of Bright and Early by HI-C with an orange on the label. I had to look. Ingredients: High-fructose corn syrup, citric acid. NO JUICE

Disgusting.

I haven’t felt the need to just yet. That feature would’ve come in handy on Reddit when Kanye and Formula 1 were taking over.

I went back to check things out for the first time in a while and realized just how awful it is in comparison to Lemmy. It’s an incomprehensible clusterfuck of bots and influence campaigns. As long as engagement and new account numbers look good on paper to appease shareholders, I guess.

I’m most interested in their video that covers the use of social media to advance policy.

A straw man won’t be of much use to you, either. I didn’t have ‘Bingo’ on the list of things I expected to do today.

Mockery aside, I hope you’ll come to reflect on my critique and improve your argument-waging skills. Given how it was handled up front, I don’t expect anything constructive to result from deeper engagement.

I am, but again, what about it? Now that I’ve pointed out your original fallacy, your continued attempt to stick to TikTok’s impending ban as the focus of our conversation might just constitute a red herring. It was never pertinent to the point regarding TikTok being sued for privacy violations that you were originally trying to make, which is what I was addressing.

Tiktok is facing a nationwide ban.

Nobody said anything about a ban. Just earlier you were implying that being fined for privacy violations constitutes discrimination against TikTok. You’re shifting the goalposts, evidently because you weren’t aware that other similar companies had already faced such fines as well.

What about them?

Google already got fined $170M for COPPA violations in 2019. Twitter was fined $150M in 2022 for disregard of privacy laws. Meta settled for $1.4B in a privacy suit just last week.

The governor isn’t really a major subject of the article. At least, I didn’t see it that way. I would recommend reading it.

Could you get me up to speed on what part of AP’s report is fake?

If I have to buy a “new” car someday, I’m cutting off every antenna I see.

They had hoped it would demonstrate that fence-riding hardliners could be swayed to Trump’s side. All it did was show that one was willing to sell out and fake it for a chance at the high chair.

With all the donor money passing hands to make Trump’s campaign happen, the VP choice might have been over his head. Vance seems more like a pick the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025) would’ve made imo.

Shouldn’t you also reinstall the boot loader for the same reason as you’d bin the phone?

Speak of the devil. This article is from two days ago.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/

They tried to search my laptop when they went through my car at the border, and were greeted with an encrypted boot screen. They tried to interrogate me twice. Glad to know nobody else will have to deal with that now.

“So, you’re a tech guy, huh? I bet you’re smart.” 😐 …

“Are you into politics? Who’d you vote for?” 🫤 …

“I’m just trying to have a friendly conversation with you.” 🤐 …