If you want a bit of a laugh I saw this on xhs: What is the strongest military US, China, Russia? (many chinese netizens) Clearly South Korea they dared to build a country on top of a US military base
Anything funny you have seen recently?
There was Roseanne, but I don’t know if that was popular outside the US (ignoring Roseanne Barr currently and the “revival”)
Most American politics is just theater(at the electoral level). Trump not really having any hard alliances, working with Meta, and seeing that the ban wasn’t super popular it was probably easy to unban hoping he can get them to sell, but even if they don’t he still comes out on top. All the millionaire geriatrics in the house, congress, Biden, and supreme court just thought “China bad” would be good enough to either kick them out or get them to sell. Most of the time that would work, but younger people are not on the same program (yet).
I don’t really think it is some GOP conspiracy or long con by Trump, all this just seems like taking very obvious opportunities and capital just moving along.
Given the “reasons” TikTok was banned them censoring and adjusting the algorithms for anything relating to american politics is pretty expected.
Is TikTok and US AI tech really seen as real leverage? They seem more like distractions and spectacle. Tarrif’s, sanctions, the fed etc I could see making significant compromises but I don’t really know enough about the situation and what their analysis of how much the economy would be helped etc.
I thought Meta was out of China because they didn’t want to follow Chinese law so got kicked out, would they really change the laws for Meta? (Maybe Meta has changed its mind and would rather be in China than not)
and the supreme court unanimously upheld the law. This was completely bipartisan with overwelming support from both sides(for politicians, normal people are more split on the issue)
…i dont feel like everything is assaulting my dopamine centers to fight for attention…
One video on xhs (giving an overview for the new audience) said that the algorithm isn’t centered around the “rich get richer” effect and tries to give a much more even distribution, which I imagine dilutes all the “dopamine assault” content developed to game tik-tok (profit motive) type algorithms (and other addictive qualities) plus probably makes it more useful as a search engine.
You should have a way to screen shot, and at least on my android it has a translate option open up (mine is vol down and power at the same time)
After “big” events (at least as american reporting) I like to see what chinese commenters think about them, I might have to get the app just for that. I remember like a day or 2 after “the Adjuster” there were some comments confused about why Brian Thompson/CEO was killed and shouldn’t the killer be going after shareholders which I thought was funny but also has its own insight from being further from the situation (pretty sure Brian was a big shareholder anyways)
This reminds me of the famous “paper tiger” Strong-Mao interview I recently read(short read btw, like a page or two and honestly lots of parallels to the current Palestine/Israel+USA can be made).
If the “paper tiger” concept is useful and general, which I am not sure it is tbh, certainly dangling the threat of removing/lessening trans rights (of imperial core people) at the expense of many thousands of Palestinians lives is a type of “paper tiger” pointed inward(Mao’s case seems way more dire, one of the poorest most exploited countries in a war with US supporting one side and the fear of nuclear weapons is in the air… huh sounds a little like Palestine/Israel). Trans rights are not given by a couple of politicians, they are decided and fought for by the people as pretty much all rights have. People should be a little more brave, and not be put into a box of “we got to vote blue or else our rights” and maybe that isn’t the way to get trans rights and maybe we can get both trans rights and not genocide Palestinians at the same time…
Maybe he is fishing for Juche Necromancy secrets so he can live forever