House of Representatives Passes the TikTok Divestiture Bill by a Huge, <i>Bipartisan</i> Margin

House of Representatives Passes the TikTok Divestiture Bill by a Huge, Bipartisan Margin

The bill does not outlaw TikTok or shut it down. What it does is required the ChiCom owner of TikTok, a state-controlled entity called ByteDance, to sell the US part of the operation (I believe) to some non-China-controlled entity within (I think) six months or so.

If the ChiComs do not sell, then TikTok gets shut down.

But they have plenty of time to sell.

Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
BREAKING -- TIKTOK BILL PASSES THE HOUSE
352-65-1
15 R nos
50 D nos
That's a very, very big yes vote

Is this a good idea?

Well, there's no doubt that Red China is using TikTok both for purposes of espionage as well as a really vicious demoralization campaign against America's children. China has its own version of TikTok, but that platform encourages pro-social activities, studying, being dutiful to one's parents, etc.

The American version of TikTok is 24/7 transgender conversion therapy.

Oh, and the Chinese version of TikTok imposes a time limit on usage, so that children do not spend their entire f***ing young lives endlessly scrolling through crap content.

In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes," a tech expert stated that the U.S. version of TikTok -- a Chinese-owned social media platform -- is different than the Chinese version of the app, comparing the two experiences to opium and spinach.

Although they're both owned by ByteDance, Douyin -- China's version of TikTok -- offers a different version of the social media app that is unavailable to the rest of the world, especially for children.
"It's almost like they recognize that technology is influencing kids' development, and they make their domestic version a spinach version of TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world," Tristan Harris, a former Google employee, and advocate for social media ethics, said of China's approach to TikTok.
"If you're under 14 years old, they show you science experiments you can do at home, museum exhibits, patriotism videos and educational videos," said Harris, according to "60 Minutes," adding that children in China were limited to only 40 minutes a day on the app.
"There's a survey of pre-teens in the U.S. and China asking, 'what is the most aspirational career that you want to have?' and in the U.S., the No. 1 was a social media influencer, and in China, the No. 1 was astronaut," Harris said. "You allow those two societies to play out for a few generations and I can tell you what your world is going to look like."

It is widely agreed that TikTok mostly appeals to "teens" and pre-teen children, and is psychologically harmful.

TikTok and its possible harmful effects on the mental health of children and teenager users are being investigated by a bipartisan group of U.S. state attorneys general from coast to coast -- the latest issue for the wildly popular video-sharing app.
A nationwide probe was announced Wednesday by a number of states, led by officials from California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, Tennessee and Vermont. Officials plan to investigate if using TikTok is harmful to children and teenagers and if the company is violating state consumer protection laws in promoting its platform to young people.
The announcement came amid widening scrutiny of the video-sharing app, which is particularly popular among teens and younger children and is estimated to have 1 billion monthly users.
Tiktok and kids
U.S. lawmakers and federal regulators have criticized TikTok for its computer-driven algorithms, saying it pushes video content that can endanger the physical and mental health of young users. Last month, Texas opened an investigation into TikTok's alleged violations of children's privacy and facilitation of human trafficking.
"As children and teens already grapple with issues of anxiety, social pressure, and depression, we cannot allow social media to further harm their physical health and mental wellbeing," Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said in a statement.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta noted in a separate statement how "children are growing up in the age of social media -- and many feel like they need to measure up to the filtered versions of reality that they see on their screens."
"We know this takes a devastating toll on children's mental health and well-being. But we don't know what social media companies knew about these harms and when," Bonta said.

Though kids should get off all of social media, not just TikTok.

New research confirms the dangers of too much screen time for kids and teens: Those who play sports, take music lessons, or socialize with friends after school are happier and healthier than children who are glued to a screen during these hours.
"Screen time, where you are sitting and watching TV or playing computer games or scrolling social media for hours on end, is so detrimental because it's sedentary and usually not engaging," said study author Rosa Virgara, a research associate at the University of South Australia.

She and her colleagues looked at how nearly 62,000 kids aged 4 to 9 spent their time after school. These kids also completed questionnaires about their well-being. Children who played video games, watched TV and used social media after school almost always had lower levels of well-being than their peers who took part in after-school activities, the study showed.

Kids from lower socioeconomic backgrounds were less likely to play sports, take music lessons or hang out with friends than kids who came from wealthier households, but the study found those who had access to organized sports were happier and healthier as a result.

I imagine that applies to adults as well.

Andrew Huberman and Cal Newport just discussed social media causing attention deficit disorder and depression among kids. Newport notes that while TikTok didn't invent the dopamine-manipulating addictive algorithm, it seems to have perfected it.

On the other hand, of course, the left has agreed to the divestiture bill for TikTok because they have the Real Prize in mind: Twitter. They would like to pass the same bill to force Elon Musk to sell Twitter to representatives of the Democrat Party.

Republicans can object and say that the TikTok bill was only justified because it was owned by a hostile foreign nation, doing the bidding of that hostile foreign nation's intelligence services.

Democrats will say, no, the action was justified because TikTok "causes harm" and nothing causes more harm than Pepe the Frog memes on Twitter. They will say that Elon Musk is much, much more dangerous than Red China.

I mean -- what is more dangerous than Free Speech? Nothing, that's what. So we need to control it. "Free Speech" is only safe when it is fully controlled by The Regime.

On the other other hand, the Zaphod Beeblebrox spare hand, the right constantly argues that "we can't do x because that will free the left to do something horrible," but this argument has been proven hollow: The left is doing horrible things whether we grant a precedent they can claim to justify it or not.

The left is currently using lawfare to steal billions from Elon Musk. They're already gunning for him -- forcing TikTok to be American-owned doesn't give them a "precedent" to do that which they are already eagerly doing.

Oren Cass knocks libertarians for fighting for China's right to indoctrinate American children:

Oren Cass
@oren_cass
1/ Can't be overstated how badly isolated libertarians are in this TikTok fight, and how much their kicking and screaming is hurting their credibility in the conservative coalition.
2/ You oppose market intervention? What if a hostile, communist regime controlled America's largest media platform, would you intervene in the market then? It's an absurd hypothetical come to life. I guess credit to the libertarians, sort of, for sticking to their guns...
3/ But now groups like @Club4Growth, @FreedomWorks, @CatoInstitute, plus politicians like @RandPaul and @RepThomasMassie, find themselves hoisting aloft the Chinese Communist Party's banner in the name of "liberty," arguing for the CCP's right to a free market and free speech.
4/ Of course, the American tradition often honors the unpopular stand made on principle. John Adams defended the British soldiers accused of opening fire in the Boston Massacre. But Adams was insisting upon their right to an attorney, not their right to shoot dead the colonists.
5/ With China, the libertarians have chosen not only an unsympathetic client, but also one whose behavior contradicts the basic tenets of their case. Granting media control to the world's most notorious censor does not advance free speech.
6/ Inviting a Communist Party into our market, even as it bars foreign competition in its own, is no one's idea of advancing capitalism. At some point it's fair to ask, what exactly do these groups think they're defending? Is this really their conception of the free market?
7/7 Eventually, "principled" becomes dogmatic and doctrinaire. Libertarian groups like Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, and Cato were able to exercise significant influence within American conservatism by purporting to know the difference. But if they ever did, they no longer do.

I think libertarians should be dunked on for their dogmatic and attention-whoring ways, but there's no doubt that this precedent will be turned next on Twitter and Rumble.

And speaking of Rumble: Rumble, which I saw one Regime Media headline call "the controversial free speech platform" -- free speech is controversial! -- has announced its interest in buying TikTok, should the divestiture bill pass the Senate.

Rumble shares RUM, 8.39% rose 18.3% to $7.90 on Tuesday following its expression of interest in taking over TikTok.
The stock is down 14% over the past 12 months.
Chris Pavlovski, chief executive of the video-sharing site, said Rumble is ready to join a consortium with other parties seeking to acquire and operate TikTok inside the United States in the event that China's ByteDance divests its ownership in the video app.
Specifically, Rumble said it's ready to serve as a cloud technology partner. The offer comes a day after publicly launching Rumble Cloud, a cloud offering for businesses.

Does Rumble have anywhere near enough money to even be part of a consortium to buy TikTok? I dunno. This could just be a clever way to get out news about the start of its cloud service, which will compete with Amazon's monopoly control over cloud services.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:18 PM

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Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 13, 2024 01:18 PM (2yu8s)

2 They snuck in some weasel words to ban anybody:

(A) any of—

(i) ByteDance, Ltd.;

(ii) TikTok;

(iii) a subsidiary of or a successor to an entity identified in clause (i) or (ii) that is controlled by a foreign adversary; or

(iv) an entity owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by an entity identified in clause (i), (ii), or (iii); or

(B) a covered company that—

(i) is controlled by a foreign adversary; and

(ii) that is determined by the President to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States following the issuance of—

(I) a public notice proposing such determination; and

(II) a public report to Congress, submitted not less than 30 days before such determination, describing the specific national security concern involved and containing a classified annex and a description of what assets would need to be divested to execute a qualified divestiture.

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Part (B) sucks

Posted by: WillowViney at March 13, 2024 01:19 PM (gYAkw)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)

4 It's for your own good, plebes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 13, 2024 01:19 PM (rbKZ6)

6 I don't trust this bill...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2024 01:20 PM (Akjoo)

7 China won’t share the data so we have to take it over.
— US intelligence

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 13, 2024 01:20 PM (JRP2U)

8 Well, there's no doubt that Red China is using TikTok both for purposes of espionage as well as a really vicious demoralization campaign against America's children.

Ladies! Pay your rent with just pictures of your butthole!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:20 PM (IB/6k)

9 According to TikTok Palestinians are the greatest people ever and Jews the worst.

Posted by: Montec at March 13, 2024 01:21 PM (gFZ0w)

10 Is this a good idea?

ans ; no, good idea is to shut it own in the uS

Posted by: vic at March 13, 2024 01:21 PM (A5THL)

11 One thing is for sure: there will be no unanticipated consequences of having the government decide who can and cannot be in business.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:21 PM (CsUN+)

12 Also, Elon fixed Twitter so we need a new popular social media platform to control so we can properly interfere with the election!

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 13, 2024 01:21 PM (JRP2U)

13 The ole HQ's days are numbered I fear, unless pixy sells it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 13, 2024 01:21 PM (aD39U)

14 Andrew Huberman and Cal Newport just discussed social media causing attention deficit disorder and depression among kids. Newport notes that while TikTok didn't invent the dopamine-manipulating addictive algorithm, it seems to have perfected it.

Kids should go back to smoking Newports then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)

15 Out: Divestiture of TikTok

In: The Siege and Investiture of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria

Posted by: Lance Oyster Cult at March 13, 2024 01:22 PM (6iUmC)

16 So when do we force Manhattans to sell their media networks to Americans?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2024 01:22 PM (fPmxN)

17 Ugh - does this new topic post mean I can't talk about cannibals?

Posted by: Boswell at March 13, 2024 01:22 PM (K+UlC)

18 When you see the words bipartisan support.
You know it's bad.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at March 13, 2024 01:22 PM (VMFAF)

19 [From the previous thread:]
Tucker said that in a closed door meeting at the White House, AOC made the case that Elon "tampered" with the 2022 elections by changing the algorithm.

He also noted that a bill is working its way in Congress to say that the government can seize any social platform that it charges with "Election Interference".

Ohhhhhhh. That's the real purpose of the TikTok bill?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2024 12:52 PM (Yqpb4)

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See Sundance at CTH:

"HR7521 – The TikTok Ban Law (as written) is NOT About Banning TikTok, It’s About Information Control"

http://tiny.cc/3vfjxz

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 13, 2024 01:22 PM (iBnrP)

20 8 Well, there's no doubt that Red China is using TikTok both for purposes of espionage as well as a really vicious demoralization campaign against America's children.

Ladies! Pay your rent with just pictures of your butthole!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:20 PM (IB/6k)

That's OnlyFans not TikTok though TikTok sets the foundation for degeneracy.

Posted by: Burn it all to the ground at March 13, 2024 01:22 PM (tczCu)

21 Me thinks this bill will just be used by our precious democrat controlled government to stifle free speech and to take Elon out of the social media game.

I doubt i"m wrong.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 13, 2024 01:23 PM (17s+e)

22 11 One thing is for sure: there will be no unanticipated consequences of having the government decide who can and cannot be in business.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:21 PM (CsUN+)

Top. Men. Will be in charge. Top. Men. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Just Lily at March 13, 2024 01:23 PM (jTyQn)

23 Libertarian groups like Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, and Cato were able to exercise significant influence within American conservatism by purporting to know the difference. But if they ever did, they no longer do.

***

The country's gone down the shitter but hey at least pot is legal now for all the libertarians living above their parents' garage. Mission accomplished I guess.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 13, 2024 01:23 PM (wb1YC)

24 Bipartisan is two wolves from different packs and a lamb voting on how to F over the lamb.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:23 PM (KbCG3)

25 Ugh - does this new topic post mean I can't talk about cannibals?
Posted by: Boswell at March 13, 2024 01:22 PM (K+UlC)

Wait - this is post about Byte Dance - or is it.... Bite Dance? New wave pleasure eating in Port-a-Prince?

Byte Dance/Bite Dance - so cannibalism!

Posted by: Boswell at March 13, 2024 01:24 PM (K+UlC)

26 If they do pass this bill, and they do go after Elon, what's to prevent our side from going after Zuck? Aside from their spinelessness, of course.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:24 PM (CsUN+)

27 Let's assume this bill is passed and biden signs it into law. All the CCCP will do is "sell" tiktok to one of it's US corporations. Nothing is going to change the chinese communist party will still control tiktok and reap the profits albeit through a front company.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 13, 2024 01:24 PM (QNSds)

28 2 (B) a covered company that—

(i) is controlled by a foreign adversary; and

(ii) that is determined by the President to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States following the issuance of—

(I) a public notice proposing such determination; and

(II) a public report to Congress, submitted not less than 30 days before such determination, describing the specific national security concern involved and containing a classified annex and a description of what assets would need to be divested to execute a qualified divestiture.

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Part (B) sucks
Posted by: WillowViney at March 13, 2024 01:19 PM (gYAkw)

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I don't trust Congress or DC, but I get the feeling that Part B is being made too much of regarding something like X.

Musk is an American citizen, so there's no way that he could be considered a foreign adversary. He's been a citizen since 2002.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

29 If they do pass this bill, and they do go after Elon, what's to prevent our side from going after Zuck? Aside from their spinelessness, of course.

Posted by: Archimedes
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I really did just laugh out loud at your first sentence.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 13, 2024 01:25 PM (17s+e)

30 Let's assume this bill is passed and biden signs it into law. All the CCCP will do is "sell" tiktok to one of it's US corporations. Nothing is going to change the chinese communist party will still control tiktok and reap the profits albeit through a front company.

What would prevent the "buyer" from telling the CCP to pound sand?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:25 PM (CsUN+)

31 Definitely a Trojan Horse.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at March 13, 2024 01:25 PM (bNf8H)

32
On the other hand, of course, the left has agreed to the divestiture bill for TikTok because they have the Real Prize in mind: Twitter.

Not just Twitter but any 'website' they choose. The devil is in the details.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 13, 2024 01:25 PM (RKVpM)

33
Musk is an American citizen, so there's no way that he could be considered a foreign adversary. He's been a citizen since 2002.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

Much like the Panera Clause, they will post date it to pre-9/11 time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

34 Oren Cass knocks libertarians for fighting for China's right to indoctrinate American children:

Same sort who extol the virtues of "free trade" which means we take it in the ass from China's dirty economic practices (dumping, excises, tariffs, IP theft, etc) and do nothing to protect ourselves.

Posted by: They're dumbshits who think they're geniuses at March 13, 2024 01:26 PM (tczCu)

35 23 Libertarian groups like Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, and Cato were able to exercise significant influence within American conservatism by purporting to know the difference. But if they ever did, they no longer do.

***

The country's gone down the shitter but hey at least pot is legal now for all the libertarians living above their parents' garage. Mission accomplished I guess.
Posted by: Azathoth at March 13, 2024 01:23 PM (wb1YC)

=======

Serious libertarians try to square the circle of unlimited immigration with the existing welfare state with political reality and voting.

There aren't many of those.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

36 (B) a covered company that—

(i) is controlled by a foreign adversary; and

(ii) that is determined by the President to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States following the issuance of—

Posted by: WillowViney at March 13, 2024 01:19 PM (gYAkw)

well, Elon is African American so he can't be evil can he?

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 13, 2024 01:26 PM (nXhwP)

37 Musk is an American citizen, so there's no way that he could be considered a foreign adversary. He's been a citizen since 2002.
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Why do they hate African-Americans??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 13, 2024 01:26 PM (2yu8s)

38 Anything overwhelmingly desired by both the Big Government Party and the Other Big Government Party is incredibly bad. This is going to be a disaster.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at March 13, 2024 01:27 PM (PWI4f)

39 ------
Why do they hate African-Americans??
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 13, 2024 01:26 PM (2yu8s)

After all, they BUILT this country.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

40 TikTok seemingly rose to prominence out of nowhere.

Do you really not think the ChiComs will just launch some new platform that will enjoy the very same success thanks to the legion of morons infesting our country who can't get enough social media?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:27 PM (KbCG3)

41 I don't understand-

say this bill passes and the Resident signs it- what happens next? Millions of teenagers have this app on their phones. Knowledge me- I'm just an aging caveman.

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2024 01:27 PM (oCjPU)

42 O/T
"The judge overseeing the Georgia election-fraud case struck down six counts in the indictment on Wednesday finding that the language in the counts didn’t provide “sufficient detail” to former president Donald Trump and more than a dozen other co-defendants “to prepare their defenses intelligently.”

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 01:27 PM (V13WU)

43 33
Musk is an American citizen, so there's no way that he could be considered a foreign adversary. He's been a citizen since 2002.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

Much like the Panera Clause, they will post date it to pre-9/11 time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

=======

I would predict that there will be efforts to use it against Musk. It will turn into a protracted legal battle with injunctions against government action, and in the end, some years later, parts of the bill will be considered unconstitutional.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

44 Horde AA mind!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 13, 2024 01:27 PM (2yu8s)

45 Do you really not think the ChiComs will just launch some new platform that will enjoy the very same success thanks to the legion of morons infesting our country who can't get enough social media?

I think we can probably ban them more quickly than a new company can develop a following.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:28 PM (CsUN+)

46 That is the "Election Interference" case btw.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 01:28 PM (V13WU)

47 "42"

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 13, 2024 01:28 PM (Rbu5d)

48 They should have banned rock & roll too.

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2024 01:28 PM (0w5we)

49 The US government is totally trustworthy. To some anyway.

Posted by: DOYLE at March 13, 2024 01:29 PM (Z8Yh2)

50 There was a Tick Tock restaurant in Hollywood till 1988.
Affordable comfort food. Clocks of all kinds on the walls. But we can't have nice things in commiefornia.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 13, 2024 01:29 PM (nDOa2)

51 I just hope that some Republican staffer inserted a line item making tax withholding illegal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

52 For far too long, anything that passes with bipartisan support means that it is bad for the country and the GOPe are either in on it, or got hoodwinked.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 13, 2024 01:29 PM (JRP2U)

53 Libertarians should stick to smoking dope and voting for abortion, it's all they're good at anyway.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2024 01:29 PM (yikga)

54 *checks wallet

How much is TikTok ? I'll pay cash!

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 01:30 PM (V13WU)

55 They should have banned rock & roll too.

And all forms of dancing.

Posted by: Ren McCormack at March 13, 2024 01:30 PM (CsUN+)

56 somebody told me her niece wants a trip to Antartica as a high school graduation present. She was befuddled as to why a 17 yr old would want to go to Antarctica - for fun.

I said: 'I bet it's a TikTok fad"

we got on TikTok, and yep, many viral videos of young women pictured in the world's asshole..
One vid had 68M views.

Posted by: kallisto at March 13, 2024 01:30 PM (dCxaZ)

57 They should have banned rock & roll too.
Posted by: fd at March 13, 2024 01:28 PM (0w5we)

But GOD gave rock & roll to you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

58 > Part (B) sucks

Yeah, that seems poorly written. Is China legally a foreign adversary? I believe it's clear they are an adversary, but with their Most Favored Nation status and all, is it official?

Also, POTUS has to submit a report, but what happens then? Is there any check and balance, or is it just a perfunctory step?

What's to stop POTUS from using this to force a Rupert Murdoch type to sell?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:31 PM (Odg76)

59 One fifty is the best I can do.

Posted by: Rick Harrison at March 13, 2024 01:31 PM (aD39U)

60 Nowadays, bipartisan votes to pass a bill is only a good thing when the bill is one the Leftist Top Command wants put into law.

Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2024 01:31 PM (5fDan)

61

For far too long, anything that passes with bipartisan support means that it is bad for the country and the GOPe are either in on it, or got hoodwinked.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 13, 2024 01:29 PM

You nailed it, so I bolded it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 13, 2024 01:31 PM (RKVpM)

62 Vivek Ramaswamy was discussing this with Steven Crowder this morning. Minor disagreement between the two but worth a watch.

Posted by: JROD at March 13, 2024 01:31 PM (IlL6s)

63 somebody told me her niece wants a trip to Antartica as a high school graduation present. She was befuddled as to why a 17 yr old would want to go to Antarctica - for fun.

Tell me this is a girl who has never been told "no", without telling me this is a girl who has never been told "no".

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:31 PM (CsUN+)

64 we got on TikTok, and yep, many viral videos of young women pictured in the world's asshole..
One vid had 68M views.
Posted by: kallisto at March 13, 2024 01:30 PM (dCxaZ)

They went to Cleveland?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

65 56 somebody told me her niece wants a trip to Antartica as a high school graduation present. She was befuddled as to why a 17 yr old would want to go to Antarctica - for fun.

I said: 'I bet it's a TikTok fad"

we got on TikTok, and yep, many viral videos of young women pictured in the world's asshole..
One vid had 68M views.
Posted by: kallisto at March 13, 2024 01:30 PM (dCxaZ)

Imagine life where your butthole is always freezing.

What a world...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:31 PM (KbCG3)

66 *checks wallet

How much is TikTok ? I'll pay cash!
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 01:30 PM (V13WU)
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I'll chip in a quarter...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2024 01:31 PM (7fElN)

67 Video of the DR ejecting Haitians.

http://tiny.cc/fxfjxz

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:32 PM (Odg76)

68 same for when a coworker came in, totally befuddled that her 30 yr old daughter wanted to sell her modest home, buy an RV, and live in it. This may have been acceptable if she and her husband were alone, but they had a 3 year old kid.

My coworker couldn't understand this sudden fascination with living in an RV. Same deal with Antarctica, it was a TikTok fad.

Her daughter did sell the house, buy the RV, took the husband and a kid on this weird RV adventure, then they divorced and the daughter moved back to Ohio.

which is probably not too terrible of an ending when it relates to TikTok-inspired adventures.

Posted by: kallisto at March 13, 2024 01:32 PM (dCxaZ)

69 Time is passing, Clarice.

Posted by: Dr. Lector at March 13, 2024 01:32 PM (XeU6L)

70 TikTok seems to be an unmitigated bad.

If you don't want them to force a sale please suggest an alternative.
If you are arguing that it be shut down you need to argue that instead of arguing that this is the wrong way.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 13, 2024 01:32 PM (PApQp)

71 What would prevent the "buyer" from telling the CCP to pound sand?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:25 PM (CsUN+)

A lead allergy? Driving an EV while near a body of water? A sudden cache of pedo porn appearing on your computer?

The Chinese are an inscrutable people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2024 01:33 PM (uvymP)

72 >>> "I think libertarians should be dunked on for their dogmatic and attention-whoring ways, but there's no doubt that this precedent will be turned next on Twitter and Rumble."
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That's what MTG said.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 13, 2024 01:33 PM (EwPAO)

73 Musk is an American citizen, so there's no way that he could be considered a foreign adversary. He's been a citizen since 2002.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

Much like the Panera Clause, they will post date it to pre-9/11 time.
Posted by: Sponge

Elon Musk is truly African American.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:33 PM (IB/6k)

74 @53 People's Hippo Voice-Take time to go watch Crowder with Vivek about this bill. Vivek gets into details and concerns over the bill.

Posted by: JROD at March 13, 2024 01:33 PM (IlL6s)

75 They went to Cleveland?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm not really sure about this, but I believe Cleveland is the Armpit of the World.

Posted by: kallisto at March 13, 2024 01:33 PM (dCxaZ)

76 Why isn't it 'tock-tick, tock-tick'?

Posted by: Mike Hammer,etc., etc. at March 13, 2024 01:33 PM (XeU6L)

77 When multinational mega-corporations start defending my right to do business and speak, I'll start to worry about their rights.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2024 01:33 PM (yikga)

78 Video of the DR ejecting Haitians.

http://tiny.cc/fxfjxz
Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:32 PM (Odg76)

When you don't want your country turned into a disastrous shithole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)

79 The American version of TikTok is 24/7 transgender conversion therapy.

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* Peter Schweizer's latest book -- and already #1 best-seller -- has entered the chat *

"BLOOD MONEY: How the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye to China Killing Americans"

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 13, 2024 01:34 PM (XtxGS)

80 Video of the DR ejecting Haitians.

I know CBS thinks this will make people feel sorry for the Haitians and want to bring them here. In fact, I predict it will make them say "this isn't so hard, why don't we do it?".

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:34 PM (CsUN+)

81 Twitter is more dangerous than cannibalism.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2024 01:34 PM (KvVN8)

82 78 When you don't want your country turned into a disastrous shithole.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)

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...You leave the Dominican Republic and become a warlord in Haiti?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

83 but the study found those who had access to organized sports were happier and healthier as a result.
_________

That may be true now, I'm afraid. But the main form of play used to be UNorganized sports. We'd play pickup baseball all day long. And it wasn't just my age group. There are interviews of old ballplayers that say that.

We also played guns, in various settings, all day long. And we had no direct parental supervision, though in fact there was normally someone's mom watching from her home. But not directly telling us what to do.

None of that would be permitted today. Some years ago there was construction going on where I walked the dog. I didn't once see kids playing on the site. That would NEVER have happened in my day.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2024 01:34 PM (1bNHn)

84 Tell me this is a girl who has never been told "no", without telling me this is a girl who has never been told "no".
Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:31 PM (CsUN+)

Sounds like this girl has been told "no" so much she wants to go to the land of "NO!"

Once, lonely in the Navy, I thought about joining VXE-6 out of Christ Church, New Zealand - 6 months was spent by the squadron "on the ice" as they say...someone talked me out of it...

Posted by: Boswell at March 13, 2024 01:34 PM (K+UlC)

85 Rumble sucks.

I get constant lockups and can't watch videos on my phone.

But the ADS. THOSE stream with flawless perfection......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

86 I am against anything our idiot government wants to do. That is my compass and it seems to work pretty well.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2024 01:35 PM (KvVN8)

87 I don't believe you will be pleased with the way this bill is written. Ask yourself why Democrats and Biden support it? That's because like the Patriot Act, it is based on pathos not fact. They're hoping you won't realize that it gives power to the president and IC to shut down websites and apps that oppose them. It's a big government hammer which allows them to censor and control in a way the courts have been telling them they cannot do. It also allows the IC an ability to indirectly take over control of any website or app they deem a "danger".

Like the "Bipartisan" Safer Communities Act, this is another Trojan horse for the deep state.

Sean Davis at the Federalist had a very enlightening stream on this pointing out the flaws. This is the biggest own goal in recent memory.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:35 PM (eMh8N)

88 TikTok seems to be an unmitigated bad.

If you don't want them to force a sale please suggest an alternative.
If you are arguing that it be shut down you need to argue that instead of arguing that this is the wrong way.

My alternative: TikTok in America must follow EXACTLY the same rules as TikTok in China. If they don't, they forfeit a huge bond.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:35 PM (CsUN+)

89 52 For far too long, anything that passes with bipartisan support means that it is bad for the country and the GOPe are either in on it, or got hoodwinked.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 13, 2024 01:29 PM (JRP2U)

It means that few RINOs voted for it and the rest of the Republican Parry voted against it.

Posted by: vic at March 13, 2024 01:36 PM (A5THL)

90 I'm not really sure about this, but I believe Cleveland is the Armpit of the World.
Posted by: kallisto

T'aint Arkansas.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:36 PM (IB/6k)

91 On the other other hand, the Zaphod Beeblebrox spare hand, the right constantly argues that "we can't do x because that will free the left to do something horrible," but this argument has been proven hollow: The left is doing horrible things whether we grant a precedent they can claim to justify it or not.

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Yes, I roll my eyes every time some morons here make that argument.

Same with “we gotta protect the billionaires”.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 01:36 PM (++4z6)

92 ... comparing the two experiences to opium and spinach.

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Sounds like the Obama household.

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 13, 2024 01:36 PM (XtxGS)

93 Somebody on X was saying this bill lets the goverment shut down any website they deem as being influenced/controlled by a foreign government.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 13, 2024 01:36 PM (z/ifB)

94 I'm fine with this. But no amount of Congressional action is going to stop this kind of thing if parents won't police their kids' behavior. And if the contention is that they can't or won't do that, then nothing will really be effective at keeping kids away from predatory social media (which is all social media).

Posted by: Parenting is Passe at March 13, 2024 01:36 PM (9pcIx)

95 Jill Biden is protecting a serial sexual harasser in the White House. Not Joe, a different one.

http://tiny.cc/sxfjxz

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:36 PM (Odg76)

96 Rumble sucks.

I get constant lockups and can't watch videos on my phone.

But the ADS. THOSE stream with flawless perfection......

***

"Yeah, but does Rumble broadcast their ads at 331 decibels no matter what your current listening level is? I think not."

- YouTube

Posted by: Azathoth at March 13, 2024 01:37 PM (wb1YC)

97 But Google is untouchable because they are of the left ... or actually of the oligarchs. Google has been controlling thought and altering elections for over a decade, but for the "good guys" (i.e. totalitarians).

Posted by: illiniwek at March 13, 2024 01:37 PM (Cus5s)

98 That may be true now, I'm afraid. But the main form of play used to be UNorganized sports. We'd play pickup baseball all day long. And it wasn't just my age group. There are interviews of old ballplayers that say that.

We also played guns, in various settings, all day long. And we had no direct parental supervision, though in fact there was normally someone's mom watching from her home. But not directly telling us what to do.

None of that would be permitted today. Some years ago there was construction going on where I walked the dog. I didn't once see kids playing on the site. That would NEVER have happened in my day.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2024 01:34 PM (1bNHn)

My father, in his late 60s, told me that basically during the summer, you left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on. Was nothing to get full lineups together for a game of pickup baseball.

Cool to think about.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:38 PM (KbCG3)

99 Once, lonely in the Navy, I thought about joining VXE-6 out of Christ Church, New Zealand - 6 months was spent by the squadron "on the ice" as they say...someone talked me out of it...

Posted by: Boswell at March 13, 2024 01:34 PM

I wanted to go but there was only one of my rate (PN) on the winter over ice party. The line was extremely long for that spot and I did not get picked.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 13, 2024 01:38 PM (QNSds)

100 Jill Biden is protecting a serial sexual harasser in the White House. Not Joe, a different one.

http://tiny.cc/sxfjxz
Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:36 PM (Odg76)

He's banging her.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)

101 Musk is an American citizen, so there's no way that he could be considered a foreign adversary. He's been a citizen since 2002.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

They'll just "deem" him a foreign adversary.

Posted by: This is a post-law society at March 13, 2024 01:38 PM (tczCu)

102 Look at who the potential buyers for Tik Tok would be in the US. You won't be pleased. It is all the usual suspects Google, Fakebook and Microsoft.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:39 PM (eMh8N)

103 My father, in his late 60s, told me that basically during the summer, you left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on. Was nothing to get full lineups together for a game of pickup baseball.

Cool to think about.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

T'is true. One might go home for lunch. But that was just to choke down a sammich.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:39 PM (IB/6k)

104 Jill Biden is protecting a serial sexual harasser in the White House. Not Joe, a different one.

Some sources also said they consider it “hypocritical” for Biden to keep Bernal on his staff after the president vowed on his first day in office to fire aides “on the spot” if he hears that they have shown “disrespect” to people in their professional conduct.

“It reflects poorly on the president and the first lady,” said one of the sources who described verbal torment.

“They talk a big game about integrity, decency, and kindness but when you work for the Bidens, you experience anything but that,” said another former White House adviser, who, like other sources, asked for anonymity in order to speak candidly and for fear of retaliation.

“They choose to surround themselves with bullies who run around the White House like mean girls, making the president and first lady look like phonies to everyone in Washington because everyone on the inside talks about what happens there on the outside.”

Is there any doubt the long knives are out? Funny how this wasn't printed in Y1 of the Biden admin.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:40 PM (CsUN+)

105 I honestly don't know much about Tiktok.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 13, 2024 01:40 PM (rWwta)

106 If Mitch is for the bill it must be good for America.

Posted by: DOYLE at March 13, 2024 01:40 PM (Z8Yh2)

107 "Yeah, but does Rumble broadcast their ads at 331 decibels no matter what your current listening level is? I think not."

- YouTube
Posted by: Azathoth at March 13, 2024 01:37 PM (wb1YC)

Brave browser FTW.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2024 01:40 PM (uvymP)

108 102 Look at who the potential buyers for Tik Tok would be in the US. You won't be pleased. It is all the usual suspects Google, Fakebook and Microsoft.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:39 PM (eMh8N)

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So, Facebook will run it as well as they run Threads, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

109 This is a complex issue with a lot of nuance. I'll reserve judgment until Jimmy "Barbecue" Chorizier weighs in on this.

Posted by: Wally at March 13, 2024 01:41 PM (gxvf+)

110 I wouldn’t have minded going to Antarctica, during its summer, when I was younger.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2024 01:41 PM (9yWhg)

111 Look at who the potential buyers for Tik Tok would be in the US. You won't be pleased. It is all the usual suspects Google, Fakebook and Microsoft.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:39 PM (eMh8N)

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So, Facebook will run it as well as they run Threads, huh?

Perhaps if they start baking bread...

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:41 PM (CsUN+)

112 Rumble's market cap is $3B, and they are losing 44 cents per share. There is 22% of float shorted, which seems very high. Probably billionaire oligarchs trying to sink them?

Posted by: illiniwek at March 13, 2024 01:41 PM (Cus5s)

113 Best way to force the issue is require payment or tax for use of social media. Do it on a per minute basis, a dollar a minute oughta work.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (++4z6)

114 I honestly don't know much about Tiktok.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 13, 2024 01:40 PM (rWwta)

You are qualified to be in Congress.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (KvVN8)

115
Brave browser FTW.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2024 01:40 PM (uvymP)

I get adblocker warnings on yootoob, but then just refresh the page and can watch unabated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)

116 (2) COVERED COMPANY.—

(A) IN GENERAL.—The term “covered company” means an entity that operates, directly or indirectly (including through a parent company, subsidiary, or affiliate), a website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application that—

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Websites, apps, pretty much anything.

Posted by: WillowViney at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (gYAkw)

117 67 Video of the DR ejecting Haitians.

http://tiny.cc/fxfjxz

can't check from work, so i'm'a assume this involves a trebuchet.

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (v3pYe)

118 Bi-partisan. That tells you everything you need to know.

We will regret this.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (JeYYB)

119 68 same for when a coworker came in, totally befuddled that her 30 yr old daughter wanted to sell her modest home, buy an RV, and live in it. This may have been acceptable if she and her husband were alone, but they had a 3 year old kid.

Posted by: kallisto at March 13, 2024 01:32 PM (dCxaZ)

That's all over YT, too. Probably FB, but I don't partake of that slime.

I think it's a terrific way to see the US...for a month, maybe.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (Rbu5d)

120 6th grade girl in Central Indiana testifies at a school board meeting about a boy who was allowed to be in the girls locker room. She's eleven or twelve.

This shit's everywhere and school admin needs to face consequences.

http://tiny.cc/6yfjxz

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (Odg76)

121 I wouldn’t have minded going to Antarctica, during its summer, when I was younger.

A friend of mine went there to work on various radar problems, but got sick. She did not have a good time.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (CsUN+)

122 I have this thing, where my kneejerk reaction is, any time congress does something "bipartisan," I believe it's something terrible and wrong.

Generally I don't have any opinion about Tickle Tock, as it's mostly young people doing young people things, some of which is dangerous, and some just merely awful and stupid.

I think you could do something about the app and its spyware, but hell, if Google and Farcebook and Apple and everyone else is spying on us, why not Chi Nah.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 13, 2024 01:43 PM (dGCAG)

123 I wanted to go but there was only one of my rate (PN) on the winter over ice party. The line was extremely long for that spot and I did not get picked.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 13, 2024 01:38 PM (QNSds)

I was a supply officer, I put in for it while stationed in Sasebo, Japan and got picked up right away. I got a call from a "Navy" supply guy CONUS who gave me the sweet talk - he loved it! Pork Chops are loved there, the weather ain't that bad, chicks are great, CC is beautiful you get whatever you want afterwards, etc etc...the whole spiel. Another guy I respected in the Navy told me I was nuts...stop being nuts.

Posted by: Boswell at March 13, 2024 01:43 PM (K+UlC)

124 Willowed:

The Voodoo Boys is just a gang in Cyberpunk. They aren't specifically Haitian but they borrow a lot of characteristics. They aren't more technologically advanced than many other factions, but they have many skilled netrunners and have established their own data fortresses/subnet. They're also incredibly foolish in their ambitions but one Netwatch operative was able to give them conniptions. All in all they aren't glorified in the least.
Posted by: Oldstoke

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Which isn't the point at all.

The point is that, to casual gamers and people that can't find Haiti on a map, Haitians are awesome and smart and super duper cool with Wakanda levels of mad computer skillzzz

The exact opposite of reality. Because DEI.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 13, 2024 01:43 PM (Wg1x4)

125 95 Jill Biden is protecting a serial sexual harasser in the White House. Not Joe, a different one.

http://tiny.cc/sxfjxz

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:36 PM (Odg76)

So, is this POS Friend of Jill > Every person in the World except Jill? Could Joe fire this POS? Nope. So, POS Friend of Jill > POTUS Joe.

Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2024 01:43 PM (5fDan)

126 65 56 somebody told me her niece wants a trip to Antartica as a high school graduation present. She was befuddled as to why a 17 yr old would want to go to Antarctica - for fun.

She probably can't find Antarctica on a map, or properly identify it as a continent.

Posted by: It's got like lots of ants! at March 13, 2024 01:43 PM (tczCu)

127 Best way to force the issue is require payment or tax for use of social media. Do it on a per minute basis, a dollar a minute oughta work.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (++4z6)

excellent !! ace should institute it on this site - what a great money making idea ! ace, Monetize This !

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 01:43 PM (V13WU)

128 Black people did not build the country. ~~Illegals~~ Undocumented built the country.

https://tinyurl.com/z2w38ab4

Posted by: huerfano at March 13, 2024 01:44 PM (qeiBW)

129
This shit's everywhere and school admin needs to face consequences.

http://tiny.cc/6yfjxz

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (Odg76)

If by consequence, you mean a Louisville Slugger to the back of the head.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)

130 Generally I don't have any opinion about Tickle Tock, as it's mostly young people doing young people things, some of which is dangerous, and some just merely awful and stupid.

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I was somewhat indifferent until I learned that TikTok is banned in China.

It was about then that I realized it was a weapon of war.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 13, 2024 01:44 PM (Wg1x4)

131 "Musk is an American citizen, so there's no way that he could be considered a foreign adversary. He's been a citizen since 2002."

Look at the way the bill is loosely written. The president and his cronies could state they "believe" he's operating against US interests ergo he's being controlled by foreign actors who are a danger to US interests. It's conceivable they could, for example, say that any content seemingly that "supports" Russia is antithetical to "our" national interests and ergo influenced or indirectly controlled by foreign interests

I'm laying it out there righy now before people claim after the bill is passed this wasn't their intent. It is.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:44 PM (eMh8N)

132 An embassy hostage crisis would complete my Oh, Lord It's Really the 1970s All Over Again Bingo card blackout.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2024 01:44 PM (M+gBW)

133 Black people did not build the country. Illegals Undocumented built the country.

Are you forgetting the vital contributions of trannies?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:45 PM (CsUN+)

134 > He's banging her.

Dude's obsessed with cock size and frequently asks if people think other guys are gay.

He's a fairy.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:45 PM (Odg76)

135 132 An embassy hostage crisis would complete my Oh, Lord It's Really the 1970s All Over Again Bingo card blackout.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2024 01:44 PM (M+gBW)

Thankfully, we still have Jimmy's wisdom and experience to guide us through.

Wonder what he's doing today?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:45 PM (KbCG3)

136 Black people did not build the country. Illegals Undocumented built the country.

https://tinyurl.com/z2w38ab4
Posted by: huerfano at March 13, 2024 01:44 PM (qeiBW)

They built the country AND are the reason our economy is growing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)

137 My father, in his late 60s, told me that basically during the summer, you left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on. Was nothing to get full lineups together for a game of pickup baseball.

Cool to think about.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:38 PM (KbCG3)

I'm a decade younger, and this is exactly how it was then, in the summer and on weekends. We'd just be gone all day. Sometimes we'd take a lunch, sometimes someone else's mom would feed us.

Posted by: We'd often be nowhere near home at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM (9pcIx)

138
Dude's obsessed with cock size and frequently asks if people think other guys are gay.

He's a fairy.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:45 PM (Odg76)

So he pumps her fartclam. He's banging her.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)

139 127 Best way to force the issue is require payment or tax for use of social media. Do it on a per minute basis, a dollar a minute oughta work.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (++4z6)

excellent !! ace should institute it on this site - what a great money making idea ! ace, Monetize This !
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 01:43 PM (V13WU)

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I wouldn’t count AoS as social media but if there is an issue the law could be written so the tax only applies on apps or sites with revenue over some limit.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM (++4z6)

140 Here's an idea. How about people be parents and keep their kids off social media, or stop being egotistical, self absorbed social media addicts who spend all day posting their very important life and thoughts instead of living in the real world.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM (eMh8N)

141 My father, in his late 60s, told me that basically during the summer, you left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

You had approximately 2 minutes from the first click until full brightness.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM (IB/6k)

142 I think it's a trap - especially after Z's stage show in Congress - but IDK for certain.

Evan 7257 says on Twitter: Someone should write how the TikTok bill is a shot across the bow at Musk - not aimed at Twitter but aimed at Space X and Starlink.

Posted by: L - Confident they're planning & playing their best rope-a-dope gamed at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM (GshMh)

143 somebody told me her niece wants a trip to Antartica as a high school graduation present. She was befuddled as to why a 17 yr old would want to go to Antarctica - for fun.

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Imma see them penguins dance!

No, seriously, the Global Warming folks have fetishized these places to such a degree that it's not really surprising.

I'm not saying this against anyone's family members:

When you can identify the flora and fauna of your county we'll discuss a trip to Antartica.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM (Wg1x4)

144 I honestly don't know much about Tiktok.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 13, 2024 01:40 PM (rWwta)

You are qualified to be in Congress.
Posted by: ... at March 13, 2024 01:42 PM (KvVN

And if you are an adult and you DO know much about Tik Tok, you're qualified to be on Epstein Island and in the Biden Administration.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 13, 2024 01:47 PM (dGCAG)

145 Hot damn, that has GOT to be the most massive pair of updates ever posted to the sidebar, Ace.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 13, 2024 01:47 PM (wtvvX)

146 "I'm laying it out there righy now before people claim after the bill is passed this wasn't their intent. It is."

Forget it dude, the last few years never happened.

Posted by: DOYLE at March 13, 2024 01:47 PM (Z8Yh2)

147 You had approximately 2 minutes from the first click until full brightness.

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I can still remember the BZZZZZZ

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 13, 2024 01:47 PM (Wg1x4)

148 My father, in his late 60s, told me that basically during the summer, you left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on. Was nothing to get full lineups together for a game of pickup baseball.

Cool to think about.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:38 PM (KbCG3)

I'm a decade younger, and this is exactly how it was then, in the summer and on weekends. We'd just be gone all day. Sometimes we'd take a lunch, sometimes someone else's mom would feed us.
Posted by: We'd often be nowhere near home at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM

Same! Kids have it easier in many ways today. But way worse in many respects.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 13, 2024 01:47 PM (GYmDu)

149 103 My father, in his late 60s, told me that basically during the summer, you left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on. Was nothing to get full lineups together for a game of pickup baseball.

Cool to think about.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

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I'm in my early 60's. During the summer we left the house after breakfast (cereal) and would stay out until dinner (strict 5:00), then out until dark. In the northwest that's around 10:00 pm. My childhood was a dream. Bikes, gulches, woods, friends, neighbors who knew everyone.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2024 01:47 PM (JeYYB)

150 131 Look at the way the bill is loosely written. The president and his cronies could state they "believe" he's operating against US interests ergo he's being controlled by foreign actors who are a danger to US interests. It's conceivable they could, for example, say that any content seemingly that "supports" Russia is antithetical to "our" national interests and ergo influenced or indirectly controlled by foreign interests

I'm laying it out there righy now before people claim after the bill is passed this wasn't their intent. It is.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:44 PM (eMh8N)

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Sure, but I seriously doubt it survives a court challenge. Musk isn't a foreign adversary, and the use of "and" at the end of (B)(i) makes it a prerequisite before anything else.

Also, if we're at a point where a court would allow it, then we're just at a point where every law is an enabling act that allows the president to do whatever it wants anyway. Which, it seems like we are.

So, one more law like this isn't going to make a dent in the direction of the country.

But remember, the problem is Trump's tone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

151 Fox News hosts criticize TikTok and then show a TikTok commercial.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2024 01:48 PM (63Dwl)

152 Baby don't hurt me...

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyChIEW_dVg

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at March 13, 2024 01:48 PM (X4yCj)

153 Officials plan to investigate if using TikTok is harmful to children and teenagers and if the company is violating state consumer protection laws in promoting its platform to young people.

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"This product can expose you to communists Governor Newsom and Chairman Xi, who are known to the State of California and Rest of The World to be cancers."

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 13, 2024 01:48 PM (GwTP3)

154 TIKTOK SAID PUSSY

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 13, 2024 01:48 PM (Wg1x4)

155 Hot damn, that has GOT to be the most massive pair of updates ever posted to the sidebar, Ace.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 13, 2024 01:47 PM (wtvvX)

M R DUCKS.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

156 The problem is that there is no good solution. TikTok pushes narratives that are anti-American, virulently anti-Semitic, anti-family, etc.

But that's called free speech.

Yes, I want it banned or changed, and I understand that my desires are antithetical to the freedoms we hold dear.

Sh*t.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2024 01:49 PM (gSZYf)

157 Fox News hosts criticize TikTok and then show a TikTok commercial.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2024 01:48 PM (63Dwl)

"TikTok cured my cancer!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

158 137 My father, in his late 60s, told me that basically during the summer, you left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on. Was nothing to get full lineups together for a game of pickup baseball.

Cool to think about.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:38 PM (KbCG3)

I'm a decade younger, and this is exactly how it was then, in the summer and on weekends. We'd just be gone all day. Sometimes we'd take a lunch, sometimes someone else's mom would feed us.

Posted by: We'd often be nowhere near home at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM (9pcIx)

I was lucky to be one of those kids.

But our parents were even more lucky...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 13, 2024 01:49 PM (wtvvX)

159 95 Jill Biden is protecting a serial sexual harasser in the White House. Not Joe, a different one.

http://tiny.cc/sxfjxz
Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:36 PM (Odg76)

Looked up the guy.
He's shorter than Dr Mrs Homewrecker Jill.
So I guess one might understand how he harrasses other staffers about the size of their penis.
I dunno.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 13, 2024 01:50 PM (Rbu5d)

160 >>> 150
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But remember, the problem is Trump's tone.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

He had TWO scoops!!!!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at March 13, 2024 01:50 PM (llON8)

161 140 Here's an idea. How about people be parents and keep their kids off social media, or stop being egotistical, self absorbed social media addicts who spend all day posting their very important life and thoughts instead of living in the real world.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM (eMh8N)

Unfortunately it will not happen. Too many parents are afraid of being killed or maimed by a social media-deprived child. Welcome to the End Times.

Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2024 01:50 PM (5fDan)

162 Honestly, please wear a "kick me" sign if you agree with the Tik Tok bill. The last few years have been characterized by bills and legal processes meant to weaponize tools said to be targeted at "foreign actors" against US citizens. This is the same paradigm.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:50 PM (eMh8N)

163 OK, guys, the best way I can explain it is this: China released the virus to install the current government of the US. Do you trust them to actually manage the bill allegedly meant to handle the threat of Chinese influence or are they just going to pass it and then use it against other platforms like X or rumble or Spotify?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at March 13, 2024 01:50 PM (qteiO)

164 didn’t provide “sufficient detail” to former president Donald Trump and more than a dozen other co-defendants “to prepare their defenses intelligently.”

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 01:27 PM (V13WU)

So Fani was essentially filling filings with gibberish just to make the complaint have more charges? Wonder if the badly written stuff was what BoyToy was billing in 24 hour increments for.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 13, 2024 01:50 PM (XjtdB)

165 I wouldn’t count AoS as social media but if there is an issue the law could be written so the tax only applies on apps or sites with revenue over some limit.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM (++4z6)

so you are for creating new and better taxes ? like "temporary" income tax to fund the war ?? good to know

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 01:50 PM (V13WU)

166 I was somewhat indifferent until I learned that TikTok is banned in China.

It was about then that I realized it was a weapon of war.
Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 13, 2024 01:44 PM (Wg1x4)

I think the best way to view Chi Nah is that they are a hostile nation, with a desire to capitalize on the stupidity of the west, for profit and adventure.

And they're mostly succeeding where they are, because there's so much stupidity in the west.

In other words, they're not at war with us, they're taking advantage of us, because we're too dumb not to let them.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 13, 2024 01:51 PM (dGCAG)

167 Tik Tok Divestiture Bill = Patriot Act

Posted by: JROD at March 13, 2024 01:51 PM (IlL6s)

168 103...T'is true. One might go home for lunch. But that was just to choke down a sammich.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:39 PM (IB/6k)

Yes, indeed. it was great fun.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 13, 2024 01:51 PM (Rbu5d)

169 When you can identify the flora and fauna of your county we'll discuss a trip to Antartica.
Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples

That was Bambi and that Skunk, right?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2024 01:51 PM (9yWhg)

170 Tik Tok Divestiture Bill = Patriot Act

Posted by: JROD at March 13, 2024 01:51 PM (IlL6s)

For our democracy......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)

171 "TikTok cured my cancer!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

———

TikTok helps me spread the good news of Jesus Christ!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 01:52 PM (++4z6)

172 didn’t provide “sufficient detail” to former president Donald Trump and more than a dozen other co-defendants “to prepare their defenses intelligently.”

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 01:27 PM (V13WU)

So Fani was essentially filling filings with gibberish just to make the complaint have more charges? Wonder if the badly written stuff was what BoyToy was billing in 24 hour increments for.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 13, 2024 01:50 PM (XjtdB)
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Yeah, that doesn't sound right..."We're charging Trump for crimes that he will not be able to defend against."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2024 01:52 PM (7fElN)

173 I'm in my early 60's. During the summer we left the house after breakfast (cereal) and would stay out until dinner (strict 5:00), then out until dark. In the northwest that's around 10:00 pm. My childhood was a dream. Bikes, gulches, woods, friends, neighbors who knew everyone.
Posted by: Seems Legit

We were the last of the Leave It To Beaver generation.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:52 PM (IB/6k)

174 "...but there's no doubt that this precedent will be turned next on Twitter and Rumble,"

True. So, the problem is too many American kids use smartphones without limits. Adults, too. And I'm surprised that Americans are letting their country be destroyed?

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 13, 2024 01:52 PM (56v4m)

175 Fang Fang sighting!

http://tiny.cc/vyfjxz

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:52 PM (Odg76)

176 The problem is that there is no good solution. TikTok pushes narratives that are anti-American, virulently anti-Semitic, anti-family, etc.

But that's called free speech.

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I agree that people saying stupid things is free speech, and I loudly support it as one of the ones that likes to do it.

I don't know that algorithms to promote child sex abuse is free speech.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 13, 2024 01:52 PM (Wg1x4)

177 Remember all that aid money to Haiti that magically disappeared under the Clintons.....me neither

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 13, 2024 01:53 PM (U1NaE)

178 Progressive Dems are blocking the Ukraine discharge petition. House Democratic leadership’s plan to throw its weight behind a discharge petition that would force the Senate supplemental on the floor is running into a progressive roadblock.

Left-wing members upset with the devastating war in Gaza are hesitant to back the petition thanks to $14 billion in unconditional aid that would go to Israel if the proposal is adopted.

So frustrating! Tying controversial items together is just dumb. It's a carrot to dangle in front of Bibi for whatever good it would do. REALLY need to get aid to Ukraine!!!

Ukraine is at the risk of falling if we do not get them more aid right fucking now. Israel will continue their assault with or without our aid, so this is a false choice.

why the fuck are we throwing tens of billions at Israel? They were attacked by terrorists on motorcycles and hang gliders. And yes, it was a disgusting terrorist attack. But is there some threat to the existence of the State of Israel I'm missing here?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 13, 2024 01:53 PM (JCZqz)

179 Fang Fang sighting!

http://tiny.cc/vyfjxz
Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 01:52 PM (Odg76)

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at March 13, 2024 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)

180 It's nice to argue about the free speech aspects of this bill.

But that is irrelevant.

Free speech is a twitching corpse.

I mean, the former President is facing multiple felony indictments, where any conviction will basically be a life sentence, for the "crime" of saying the election was stolen.

And you are next.

So yeah, argue free speech all you want.
But it's irrelevant.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2024 01:53 PM (yikga)

181 Theoretically, the solution is to strengthen the family unit (tall order, and abhorred by our current version of socialists) , so the parents are the guardians of their children's virtue. Because of it is not tiktok it is something else, nyah ??

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 01:53 PM (V13WU)

182 141 My father, in his late 60s, told me that basically during the summer, you left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

You had approximately 2 minutes from the first click until full brightness.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM (IB/6k)

Speaking of carefree childhoods, just went outside to find my four-year-old son and new puppy both peeing on the same bush.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:54 PM (KbCG3)

183 For any of you feeling too good today, here is an assessment of our upcoming military purchases.

What War, Exactly, are we Preparing for?
ignore the hype men; follow the money

https://tinyurl.com/33ptszst

Try to leave Ukraine out of it.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:54 PM (CsUN+)

184 I honestly don't know much about Tiktok.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 13, 2024 01:40 PM (rWwta)
......

Me neither, except my grandson showed me some clips of girls bouncing their sweater puppies around.

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2024 01:54 PM (v0R5T)

185 "But remember, the problem is Trump's tone.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:47 PM (GBKbO)"

I know you're somewhat being facetious. But I will point out that right now Democrats are not only subverting the justice system, but their jurists are ignoring the law and SCOTUS. At least three or four federal courts have completely disregarded the very clear 2A case Bruen, and ignoring not only the prescribed judicial tests, but saying SCOTUS got it wrong, so F them.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:54 PM (eMh8N)

186 149 103 My father, in his late 60s, told me that basically during the summer, you left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on. Was nothing to get full lineups together for a game of pickup baseball.

Cool to think about.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

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I'm in my early 60's. During the summer we left the house after breakfast (cereal) and would stay out until dinner (strict 5:00), then out until dark. In the northwest that's around 10:00 pm. My childhood was a dream. Bikes, gulches, woods, friends, neighbors who knew everyone.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2024 01:47 PM (JeYYB)
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I am a decade older, and was on the water. Otherwise, the same thing. Except dinner was more flexible, as our fathers all commuted.

But I do not envy today's kids. And then, when you reach puberty, it gets worse. Well, early adolescence was always worse, but not quite so bad as today. In my day girls didn't have tats, piercings, green hair, or penises. Better in every way.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2024 01:54 PM (1bNHn)

187 Imagine life where your butthole is always freezing.

What a world...
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:31 PM (KbCG3)

Not something we worry about, thank Gaia.

Posted by: Chasten Buttgieg at March 13, 2024 01:55 PM (PiwSw)

188 I agree that people saying stupid things is free speech, and I loudly support it as one of the ones that likes to do it.

I don't know that algorithms to promote child sex abuse is free speech.
Posted by: Nikki Haley's

That's not. That's a crime.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:55 PM (IB/6k)

189 185 I know you're somewhat being facetious. But I will point out that right now Democrats are not only subverting the justice system, but their jurists are ignoring the law and SCOTUS. At least three or four federal courts have completely disregarded the very clear 2A case Bruen, and ignoring not only the prescribed judicial tests, but saying SCOTUS got it wrong, so F them.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:54 PM (eMh8N)

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And don't forget Detroit saying there are 1,000 ballots in a box with 10. Also AZ effectively turning off signature verification. Also, GA counting hundreds of thousands of ballots without any chain of custody. Also Philly being...*points to all of Philly*.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

190 We were the last of the Leave It To Beaver generation.

Yep. Things were not perfect but what a grand time to be a kid.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 13, 2024 01:55 PM (V8he0)

191 Transplanted Haitians were protesting outside of the Clinton Foundation in Harlem. I know this was happening a few years ago, don't know if they still protest.

The Clintons straight-up stole that money, hundreds of millions.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (JeYYB)

192 182 141 My father, in his late 60s, told me that basically during the summer, you left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

You had approximately 2 minutes from the first click until full brightness.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:46 PM (IB/6k)

Speaking of carefree childhoods, just went outside to find my four-year-old son and new puppy both peeing on the same bush.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:54 PM (KbCG3)
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You should have filmed it for one of Ace's Cafes.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (1bNHn)

193 See, we just can't abide any social media platform that our very own intelligence community didn't develop and control. They don't get to screw up our kids. Only we get to screw up our kids

Instagram is every bit an equal menace.

Posted by: Oldstoke at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (VSMdC)

194 But the ADS. THOSE stream with flawless perfection......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

I've only used it on my desktop. Works well there. Never seen an ad. Didn't know they had ads.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (XjtdB)

195 Speaking of carefree childhoods, just went outside to find my four-year-old son and new puppy both peeing on the same bush.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

OOH-RAH!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (IB/6k)

196 172 didn’t provide “sufficient detail” to former president Donald Trump and more than a dozen other co-defendants “to prepare their defenses intelligently.”

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 01:27 PM (V13WU)

So Fani was essentially filling filings with gibberish just to make the complaint have more charges? Wonder if the badly written stuff was what BoyToy was billing in 24 hour increments for.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 13, 2024 01:50 PM (XjtdB)

I fear the this is simply the first stage of the white judge cutting the baby in half. Friday he'll rule Fahnee and Sweetdick can continue running their show trial.

Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (5fDan)

197 I avoid TikTok but this is long overdue. Stop indulging the whims of the CCP.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (4olE8)

198 so you are for creating new and better taxes ? like "temporary" income tax to fund the war ?? good to know
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 01:50 PM (V13WU)

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It’ll be a permanent tax on a known on net destructive activity.

If people have to pay for the use of it they would be more careful how they use it.

Another way is to outlaw advertising on the social platforms. This would basically force the platform owners to charge for the use of their service.

I’m flexible.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (++4z6)

199 Tik Tok Divestiture Bill = Patriot Act

Posted by: JROD at March 13, 2024 01:51 PM (IlL6s)

For our democracy......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 13, 2024 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)

Or else the terrorists will win.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 13, 2024 01:57 PM (dGCAG)

200 Speaking of carefree childhoods, just went outside to find my four-year-old son and new puppy both peeing on the same bush.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:54 PM (KbCG3)
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You should have filmed it for one of Ace's Cafes.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (1bNHn)
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Who's really in charge between the boy and the dog? Or was the boy showing the dog how it's done?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2024 01:57 PM (7fElN)

201 "And don't forget Detroit saying there are 1,000 ballots in a box with 10. Also AZ effectively turning off signature verification. Also, GA counting hundreds of thousands of ballots without any chain of custody. Also Philly being...*points to all of Philly*.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:55 PM (GBKbO)"

I think we're writing the plot for your next book. But it's real. 🤔

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:57 PM (eMh8N)

202 And don't forget Detroit saying there are 1,000 ballots in a box with 10. Also AZ effectively turning off signature verification. Also, GA counting hundreds of thousands of ballots without any chain of custody. Also Philly being...*points to all of Philly*.

At least we have a new team at the RNC who are emphasizing election integrity. Will they successfully crack down on cheating? I don't know, but they're certainly making the right noises. That's progress.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:58 PM (CsUN+)

203 201 "And don't forget Detroit saying there are 1,000 ballots in a box with 10. Also AZ effectively turning off signature verification. Also, GA counting hundreds of thousands of ballots without any chain of custody. Also Philly being...*points to all of Philly*.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:55 PM (GBKbO)"

I think we're writing the plot for your next book. But it's real. 🤔
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 01:57 PM (eMh8N)

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Just remember, we need a better candidate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

204 My Catholic grade school ruined lunch hour. They took it away and gave us 30 minutes to eat at our desks. School was run by the same tyrannical pastor who forbade 8th graders from attending boy-gitl parties and dances.

An eighth grade girl was expelled for attending one in a private home. 1960s.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 13, 2024 01:58 PM (56v4m)

205 My father, in his late 60s, told me that basically during the summer, you left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on. Was nothing to get full lineups together for a game of pickup baseball.

Cool to think about.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

T'is true. One might go home for lunch. But that was just to choke down a sammich.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:39 PM (IB/6k)

And after dinner you might go right out to the street near your house till it got pretty dark if you were an older kid. Partly because it took a while for the house to cool down enough to stand...we used to have one fan.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 01:58 PM (eoQWY)

206 Stop indulging the whims of the CCP.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (4olE

Which is accomplished by not having the U.S. government in bed with them, not banning apps.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 13, 2024 01:58 PM (dGCAG)

207 200 Speaking of carefree childhoods, just went outside to find my four-year-old son and new puppy both peeing on the same bush.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:54 PM (KbCG3)
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You should have filmed it for one of Ace's Cafes.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (1bNHn)
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Who's really in charge between the boy and the dog? Or was the boy showing the dog how it's done?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2024 01:57 PM (7fElN)

Boy started, dog chimed in. He's a good pup.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 01:58 PM (KbCG3)

208 I avoid TikTok but this is long overdue.

What about your precious bodily fluids?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:58 PM (CsUN+)

209 202 At least we have a new team at the RNC who are emphasizing election integrity. Will they successfully crack down on cheating? I don't know, but they're certainly making the right noises. That's progress.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 01:58 PM (CsUN+)

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My cynicism is *reaches very high up*.

I'll believe it when I see it.

But with a strong history of courts simply refusing to take up cases, my doubts are strong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

210 76 Why isn't it 'tock-tick, tock-tick'?

Posted by: Mike Hammer,etc., etc. at March 13, 2024 01:33 PM (XeU6L)
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That's the Irish clock, runs counterclockwise.

Posted by: Ciampino - wheels, gears, levers and all at March 13, 2024 01:59 PM (qfLjt)

211 I don't have tic tok on my phone and don't care to. Regardless, any bipartisan bill makes me queasy.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2024 01:59 PM (JeYYB)

212 Stop indulging the whims of the CCP.
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Which is accomplished by not having the U.S. government in bed with them, not banning apps.
Posted by: BurtTC

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Sorry citizens, but those shockingly small checks have already been cashed.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 13, 2024 01:59 PM (Wg1x4)

213 I don't know if there is a solution to this.
Even if you limit it to "foreign owned," China could create a business with no official ties to China, but with all Chinese expat citizens and their own money.

Wait, there is one solution -- parents.

I think tiktok should be unilaterally declared a hostile company and disbanded. There is nothing salvageable in their business plan, since the plan is corruption and destruction of US society. But beyond eliminating this threat we need to figure out how to get society to create parents that are able to raise kids.
Maybe that means undoing the whole women's lib movement. It certainly means eliminating no-fault divorce and state schools.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 13, 2024 01:59 PM (ZAqUC)

214 Trump on the wrong side of history once again.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2024 01:59 PM (eYF7X)

215 People need to realize that absolutism about ANY policy just won't work. And that includes free speech, unfortunately. And of course any action you take will have unfortunate consequences.

Welcome to human life. Whatever one comes up with, another can pervert.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2024 01:59 PM (1bNHn)

216 So I'm surfing music videos on youtube and it occurs to me that "Wooly Bully" is one of my favorite songs

also, Taylor Swift stole Juice Newton's look

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2024 01:59 PM (oCjPU)

217 @197 NR Pax-....and indulge the whims of the United States government/Deep State doing the very thing the CCP is doing? This bill was lobbied for by Facebook, Google and other American social media companies.

Now what?

Posted by: JROD at March 13, 2024 02:00 PM (IlL6s)

218 My cynicism is *reaches very high up*.

*picks jaw up off floor*

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2024 02:00 PM (CsUN+)

219 217 @197 NR Pax-....and indulge the whims of the United States government/Deep State doing the very thing the CCP is doing? This bill was lobbied for by Facebook, Google and other American social media companies.

Now what?
Posted by: JROD at March 13, 2024 02:00 PM (IlL6s)

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So, they want to buy TikTok and then over-update it until it's as usable as Google+?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

220 This should be called the TQA - TikTok Quashing Act.

Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2024 02:00 PM (JunzL)

221 China has its own version of TikTok, but that platform encourages pro-social activities, studying, being dutiful to one's parents, etc. ...
Oh, and the Chinese version of TikTok imposes a time limit on usage, so that children do not spend their entire f***ing young lives endlessly scrolling through crap content.
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It wasn't always this way. When it started, Douyin was exactly like TikTok. TikTok is, in essence, the direct descendant of Douyin.

The CCP noticed what Douyin did. They saw the exact same things we see with TikTok. It started primarily with tweens and teens making silly videos and dance videos. Then it developed into overtly sexual content and politically-charged content. As that was happening, addiction set in. As that was happening, attention spans of Douyin users started to plummet.

The CCP intervened aggressively with Douyin. No more sexy dance videos. No more politics. No more unlimited time. Hard censorship and hard limits on usage.

Yet ByteDance did none of that - not even usage management to help prevent addiction - for the foreign version TikTok.

Just like with COVID, Red China took wildly different actions at home vs. abroad with ByteDance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:01 PM (HnUIn)

222 173 Back when I was a kid we didn't wear bike helmets. I we got concussed we just laid on the sidewalk, until someone came for us at suppertime.

Today some kids can run around outdoors all hours without supervision. We call them ghetto rats.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 13, 2024 02:01 PM (wBaIH)

223 It’ll be a permanent tax on a known on net destructive activity.

If people have to pay for the use of it they would be more careful how they use it.

Another way is to outlaw advertising on the social platforms. This would basically force the platform owners to charge for the use of their service.

I’m flexible.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (++4z6)

"known net destructive activity".....do we really want to introduce this criteria? really ?? especially to income redistribution scheme like taxation ? democrats think that guns are exactly that - "net destructive activity..."

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 02:01 PM (V13WU)

224 If pizza smoke can be declared a health hazard, why not internet for kids?

Surely a smartphone in the hands of a teen does more harm than "microplastics" every could.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 13, 2024 02:01 PM (ZAqUC)

225 Same! Kids have it easier in many ways today. But way worse in many respects.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 13, 2024 01:47 PM (GYmDu)

It can be argued that having it 'easier' IS way worse.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 13, 2024 02:01 PM (Rbu5d)

226

I remember leaving the house in the morning and coming back for dinner. No lunch. Too busy.

Might be why when I signed up for the draft I weighed 135 pounds and was all muscle and six pack. Still have my draft card, and wish someone would tell me I don't have to have it on my person at all times. It's gettin' old and frayed and Nixon's signature is all but gone.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 13, 2024 02:01 PM (RKVpM)

227 I fear the this is simply the first stage of the white judge cutting the baby in half. Friday he'll rule Fahnee and Sweetdick can continue running their show trial.
Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (5fDan)

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So was this separate court challenge that was under the radar. I don’t see the judge doing this without a defense challenge to the charges.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 02:01 PM (++4z6)

228 Ukraine is at the risk of falling if we do not get them more aid right fucking now
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Fascinating look into the world informed solely by corporate media.

See, it's not the lack of men or equipment, it's merely a few more pallets of money they need.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2024 02:02 PM (yikga)

229 228 Fascinating look into the world informed solely by corporate media.

See, it's not the lack of men or equipment, it's merely a few more pallets of money they need.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2024 02:02 PM (yikga)

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Digital dollar bills make the best bullets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:02 PM (GBKbO)

230 75
I'm not really sure about this, but I believe Cleveland is the Armpit of the World.

Posted by: kallisto at March 13, 2024 01:33 PM (dCxaZ)
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But does it have Lume control?

Posted by: Ciampino - wheels, gears, levers and all ... at March 13, 2024 02:02 PM (qfLjt)

231 The new team at the RNC just dumped a whole bunch of overpaid consultants and are putting the money into legal ballot harvesting. So there's hope they've finally realized the new game is to get votes across the finish line. Perhaps doubling down on this process will cause the federal courts to get their heads out of their asses and prompt SCOTUS to get off their flabby asses and acknowledge some of this crap is within the interest of the federal government including making sure a person is eligible to vote, two months worth of election "day" and massive mail in ballot schemes. Or not.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:03 PM (eMh8N)

232 there are solutions, we just haven't thought of them yet ! (and no, pay per view tax is not one of them)

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 02:03 PM (V13WU)

233 Though kids should get off all of social media, not just TikTok.
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Social Media is no place for kids. If I thought that our government could do anything that isn't counterproductive and destructive cronyism, I'd support legislation banning use of the platforms by minors.

But it can't, so I don't. But I *do* think there should be aggressive campaigns to promote the idea among parents. If I were rich, I'd start a limited-purpose foundation to do it.

Kids shouldn't have their own unrestricted cell phones. They shouldn't have their own computers or TVs in their rooms. No unsupervised "screen time." No private "screen time." Strict time limits on total "screen time."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:03 PM (HnUIn)

234 229 228 Fascinating look into the world informed solely by corporate media.

See, it's not the lack of men or equipment, it's merely a few more pallets of money they need.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2024 02:02 PM (yikga)

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Digital dollar bills make the best bullets.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:02 PM (GBKbO)

I believe this is more a perfect encapsulation of the leftist worldview.

All problems are solved by the introduction of money.

The track record speaks for itself!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 02:03 PM (KbCG3)

235 Why aren't the lunatics howling over a ban outside of Congress? What platform will they migrant to - or have they already migrated to? What will Libs of Tiktok & others who've built business following TT do?

Again, Z's act in Congress maked me wary, though I use none of those platforms. Why can't parents parent, for heavens sake? The Chinese already have millions of personnel files from OPM.

Posted by: L - Confident they're planning & playing their best rope-a-dope gamed at March 13, 2024 02:03 PM (GshMh)

236 So was this separate court challenge that was under the radar. I don’t see the judge doing this without a defense challenge to the charges.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Yes, it was a separate motion by defendant lawyers--basically the indictments for those charges failed to distinguish between lawful and unlawful activities so the defendants could not reasonably mount a defense.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:04 PM (hKOIV)

237 173 Back when I was a kid we didn't wear bike helmets. I we got concussed we just laid on the sidewalk, until someone came for us at suppertime.

Today some kids can run around outdoors all hours without supervision. We call them ghetto rats.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 13, 2024 02:01 PM (wBaIH)

We used to have a game where the kids with bicycles tried to run over the kids without like a game of tag. Pretty fun.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:04 PM (eoQWY)

238 I think libertarians should be dunked on for their dogmatic and attention-whoring ways, but there's no doubt that this precedent will be turned next on Twitter and Rumble.
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Those aren't foreign firms, so they'll need a different precedent.

Like the other precedents they already have - like icing them out of financial transactions and hosting services or, if push comes to shove, just attacking them with state-sponsored hackers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:04 PM (HnUIn)

239 233
Kids shouldn't have their own unrestricted cell phones. They shouldn't have their own computers or TVs in their rooms. No unsupervised "screen time." No private "screen time." Strict time limits on total "screen time."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:03 PM (HnUIn)

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My kids don't have any of those things. The worst is Junior decided to watch YouTube when we're not around. We're conditioning him to limit that kind of mindless watching to the DudePerfect app, but it's something to keep an eye on.

Also, since we've moved, he's actually gotten friends in the neighborhood and spends most days playing outside.

He's benefiting most from the move that way. I think he may end up being kind of normal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

240 The CCP intervened aggressively with Douyin. No more sexy dance videos. No more politics. No more unlimited time. Hard censorship and hard limits on usage.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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Our problem is, how do you give that power to the US government without giving that power to the people who want to censor us (meaning, us personally -- you and I and ace and Musk.) ?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 13, 2024 02:05 PM (ZAqUC)

241 We used to have a game where the kids with bicycles tried to run over the kids without like a game of tag. Pretty fun.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:04 PM (eoQWY)
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Well, if there was any doubt as to whether you're a male, there isn't anymore. I can't imagine girls coming up with this game...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:05 PM (HnUIn)

242 We actually had a bell atop a pole by our back door that my Mom would ring when it was time for me to come home for supper. Could hear it all over our small town.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2024 02:05 PM (9yWhg)

243 103...T'is true. One might go home for lunch. But that was just to choke down a sammich.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2024 01:39 PM (IB/6k)

Didn't have to carry a water bottle anywhere either. Plenty of garden hoses around the neighborhood.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 13, 2024 02:06 PM (jTyQn)

244 "known net destructive activity".....do we really want to introduce this criteria? really ?? especially to income redistribution scheme like taxation ? democrats think that guns are exactly that - "net destructive activity..."
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2024 02:01 PM (V13WU)

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Like I said, if taxation is a sticky issue, they could outlaw advertising on social media sites for example.

And guns are regulated for da youts.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 02:06 PM (++4z6)

245 My father, in his late 60s, told me that basically during the summer, you left the house in the morning and came back when the street lights came on. Was nothing to get full lineups together for a game of pickup baseball.

Cool to think about.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

T'is true. One might go home for lunch. But that was just to choke down a sammich.
Posted by: rickb223

And it was baloney on white bread with miracle whip.

Tuna fish was for the high falutin' peeps. Baloney never fell.out of the sandwich or monkey meat for that matter.

Posted by: mpfs at March 13, 2024 02:06 PM (wMSZ1)

246

Kids should come to my new social media platform, DikTalk...

Posted by: Don Lemonparty at March 13, 2024 02:06 PM (HRQvT)

247 178...They were attacked by terrorists on motorcycles and hang gliders. And yes, it was a disgusting terrorist attack. But is there some threat to the existence of the State of Israel I'm missing here?
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 13, 2024 01:53 PM (JCZqz)

[facepalm]

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 13, 2024 02:06 PM (Rbu5d)

248 Again, Z's act in Congress maked me wary, though I use none of those platforms. Why can't parents parent, for heavens sake? The Chinese already have millions of personnel files from OPM.
Posted by: L - Confident they're planning & playing their best rope-a-dope gamed at March 13, 2024 02:03 PM (GshMh)

Well once your kid has a cell phone you'd have a time making sure he didn't have the app installed and running.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:06 PM (eoQWY)

249 "We used to have a game where the kids with bicycles tried to run over the kids without like a game of tag. Pretty fun.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:04 PM (eoQWY)"

Whatever happened to BB gun tag, only two pumps allowed?

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:06 PM (eMh8N)

250 I haven't read the bill, but I hope Libs of Tik Tok are still able to post because that is hilarious stuff.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at March 13, 2024 02:06 PM (MeG8a)

251 Ukraine is at the risk of falling if we do not get them more aid right fucking now

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Fine.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 13, 2024 02:07 PM (Wg1x4)

252 For the whole of my life the GOPe has told me they can't solve the issue of the day because the left might go do something crazy in turn nominally because of that solution.

And every time the GOPe has turned the other cheek, ran off the kill, or showed the belly the left then turned around and did something CRAZIER then whatever the GOPe claimed they would do.

So. F*ck that. Do what's right. Stop worrying about how the left will pervert it.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2024 02:07 PM (ibTVg)

253 248 Well once your kid has a cell phone you'd have a time making sure he didn't have the app installed and running.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:06 PM (eoQWY)

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Flip phones.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

254 Our problem is, how do you give that power to the US government without giving that power to the people who want to censor us (meaning, us personally -- you and I and ace and Musk.) ?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 13, 2024 02:05 PM (ZAqUC)
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You don't. I can get behind eviscerating TikTok because it's a foreign company and the US government has wide latitude in trade regulations. There's no real new precedent here.

Like I put it in comment 233, if I had any faith whatsoever in the government, I'd support law to make social media (another can of worms - it would need to be defined) forbidden for minors. But I don't, so I don't.

I would like to see aggressive campaigning directly to parents to have them intervene, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:07 PM (HnUIn)

255 Just remember, we need a better candidate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I nominate Godzilla. Mothra for VP.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:07 PM (hKOIV)

256 I fear the this is simply the first stage of the white judge cutting the baby in half. Friday he'll rule Fahnee and Sweetdick can continue running their show trial.
Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2024 01:56 PM (5fDan)
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Mine to. If he allows her to stay on, can the defense bring it up during trial.

Posted by: WisRich at March 13, 2024 02:08 PM (G0vdT)

257 We actually had a bell atop a pole by our back door that my Mom would ring when it was time for me to come home for supper. Could hear it all over our small town.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2024 02:05 PM (9yWhg)

Ours was a little one that fell off the door, so Mom set it on the sill outside and could get more range with power ringing the bell.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:08 PM (eoQWY)

258 "Migrants" in Ireland smash up a Hotel because their food was too spicy.

http://tiny.cc/lzfjxz

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 02:08 PM (Odg76)

259 Wow. Some of you are old. Could you perhaps add some turnip recipes from the Depression to the food thread this weekend? JK. JL.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:08 PM (eMh8N)

260 They were attacked by terrorists on motorcycles and hang gliders. And yes, it was a disgusting terrorist attack. But is there some threat to the existence of the State of Israel I'm missing here?
Posted by: Intercepted DU

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hahahaha

We have literal philistines who live in a specific territory so sickened with hate and anger that they yearn to engage in acts of war against Israel using homemade hang gliders and motorcycles.

No, there's no threat.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 13, 2024 02:08 PM (Wg1x4)

261 255 Just remember, we need a better candidate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I nominate Godzilla. Mothra for VP.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:07 PM (hKOIV)

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Mechagodzilla and King Ghidorah.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

262 I nominate Godzilla. Mothra for VP.

I'm going to go with The Greys.

And we can offer them the whole of the population of San Francisco for their probing needs. Its really a win/win/win scenario for everyone involved.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2024 02:08 PM (ibTVg)

263 I haven't read the bill, but I hope Libs of Tik Tok are still able to post because that is hilarious stuff.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at March 13, 2024 02:06 PM (MeG8a)
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Tumblr and various parts of the Fediverse (Mastadon, in particular) will always provide bottomless wells of content.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:09 PM (HnUIn)

264 248 Well once your kid has a cell phone you'd have a time making sure he didn't have the app installed and running.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:06 PM (eoQWY)

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Flip phones.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

they still make those? Now flip phones have more screens than regular ones.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:09 PM (eoQWY)

265 @255 whig-what? No love for Hedorah(The Smog Monster)?

Posted by: JROD at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (IlL6s)

266 Mechagodzilla and King Ghidorah.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I could live with that but no Stay Puft Marshmallow guy as the nominee or VP. Too mushy in his opinions.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (hKOIV)

267 Wow. Some of you are old. Could you perhaps add some turnip recipes from the Depression to the food thread this weekend? JK. JL.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:08 PM (eMh8N)

If Lileck's book is correct, the main thing in the depression was jello with horrible things inside.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (eoQWY)

268 Recall the scene in Hot Tub Time Machine where the kid is flabbergasted when the guy didn't get the girl's cell number or even text her.

Yeah, that's how it worked back then.

I also note how creepy every public event is today as so many are not participating by even watching but are watching it as they record it on their phone.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (yikga)

269 264 they still make those? Now flip phones have more screens than regular ones.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:09 PM (eoQWY)

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Yup.

https://tinyurl.com/yrtxuyz8

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

270 231 The new team at the RNC just dumped a whole bunch of overpaid consultants and are putting the money into legal ballot harvesting. So there's hope they've finally realized the new game is to get votes across the finish line. Perhaps doubling down on this process will cause the federal courts to get their heads out of their asses and prompt SCOTUS to get off their flabby asses and acknowledge some of this crap is within the interest of the federal government including making sure a person is eligible to vote, two months worth of election "day" and massive mail in ballot schemes. Or not.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:03 PM (eMh8N)

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I have the strange feeling that Repubs will be rounded up for ballot harvesting on technicalities that the Dems get off scot free for.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (++4z6)

271 266 Mechagodzilla and King Ghidorah.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I could live with that but no Stay Puft Marshmallow guy as the nominee or VP. Too mushy in his opinions.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (hKOIV)

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Stay Puft for Secretary of the Interior.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

272 Some of you are old. Could you perhaps add some turnip recipes from the Depression to the food thread this weekend? JK. JL.
Posted by: Marcus T

Next, you'll be asking to look at my Betty Grable pinups, won't you?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (9yWhg)

273 I have a friend who didn't want his kid to have a phone. The kid was persistent and said he "needed" a phone to call in case of an emergency. The guy went on Verizon and got a flip phone. It mostly sits in the drawer.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (eMh8N)

274 265 @255 whig-what? No love for Hedorah(The Smog Monster)?
Posted by: JROD
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Must of forgot that one. Nominate Hedorah to Scotus.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (hKOIV)

275 Fang Fang sighting!

http://tiny.cc/vyfjxz
Posted by: bonhomme

She's no Anna Chapman. https://tinyurl.com/3hekv6ch

Mmmm. Redhead honeypot. Sucks out your soul AND.....uh, government secrets.

Posted by: The type of door in the floor of a stage at March 13, 2024 02:12 PM (JCZqz)

276 270 I have the strange feeling that Repubs will be rounded up for ballot harvesting on technicalities that the Dems get off scot free for.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (++4z6)

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For damn sure.

But, I do remember some small case in CA over the past few years where Republicans set up a ballot harvesting box themselves that Democrats fought because parties shouldn't be allowed to do that.

Of course, the CA law says that they could and Democrats were doing it all the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

277 Well once your kid has a cell phone you'd have a time making sure he didn't have the app installed and running.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:06 PM (eoQWY)
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Robust parental controls exist, and the networks can do even more. If there were market demand - something I would like to try to generate - they would do so.

But you *can* lock down a kid's cell phone. No apps that aren't on the approved list. You can also often manage time-of-day restrictions and contact list filtering (you can't contact anyone who I don't approve).

Most people don't, but it can be done today, at least to some degree. The technical problem to make it really feature-rich isn't particularly great, but there is major effort expended to make sure that demand for that never manifests.

And yeah, some really clever kids will get around it and some foolish parents will make easily guessable passwords. Is what it is. You don't design mass products for the margins.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:12 PM (HnUIn)

278 This is merely breast beating DC style.

There must be an Hawaiian federal judge on standby

Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2024 02:13 PM (RHGPo)

279 Stay Puft for Secretary of the Interior.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Well done with chocolate and graham crackers.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:13 PM (hKOIV)

280 Hey, don't knock depression era cooking. I learned to cook and bake from scratch thanks to my grandmother and mom. Grandmother raised 10 children through the depression into WWIi. Eight of whom were boys.

Posted by: mpfs at March 13, 2024 02:13 PM (wMSZ1)

281 279 Stay Puft for Secretary of the Interior.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Well done with chocolate and graham crackers.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:13 PM (hKOIV)

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Gipsy Danger for Secretary of War.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

282 It's the future of media.

Posted by: At least I think so at March 13, 2024 02:13 PM (JwKr4)

283 Mmmmmm…Anna Chapman…mmmmmmm…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2024 02:13 PM (9yWhg)

284 Some of you are old. Could you perhaps add some turnip recipes from the Depression to the food thread this weekend? JK. JL.
Posted by: Marcus T

Recipe? You don't need a recipe. Just pull them out of the ground and brush the dirt off on your jeans.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 13, 2024 02:13 PM (jTyQn)

285 Imagine kids being exposed to dangerous ideas from a place they trust. Imagine.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2024 02:14 PM (KvVN8)

286 264
Flip phones.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

they still make those? Now flip phones have more screens than regular ones.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02

I don’t know about Android, but I have a slew of ability to control what my child has access to on her iPad as well as time limits for use. I can block apps, I can only allow certain apps, I can make it where she has to request time for YouTube, I can chose what is available or not avail if I shut the thing down (kindle, or ability to text me). I can be alerts for permission to add a contact. I can chose what level of content she can see based on age. Parents just have to use the tools.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2024 02:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

287 > Those aren't foreign firms, so they'll need a different precedent.

The bill doesn't just affect foreign owned. It also affects foreign distributed, maintained, updated, or hosted.

Source:
http://tiny.cc/wzfjxz

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 02:14 PM (Odg76)

288 Some of you are old. Could you perhaps add some turnip recipes from the Depression to the food thread this weekend? JK. JL.
Posted by: Marcus T
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learn to eat beets.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:14 PM (hKOIV)

289 Rumble is a good bet right now, I've already bought a substantial amount.

Here's hoping the bet pays off.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 13, 2024 02:15 PM (JIdXK)

290 Destroy Elon Musk FOR THE CHILDREN

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2024 02:15 PM (KvVN8)

291 285 Imagine kids being exposed to dangerous ideas from a place they trust. Imagine.
Posted by: ...

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Schools, Libraries, local institutions featuring Drag Queens, ......

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:15 PM (hKOIV)

292
I don’t know about Android, but I have a slew of ability to control what my child has access to on her iPad as well as time limits for use. I can block apps, I can only allow certain apps, I can make it where she has to request time for YouTube, I can chose what is available or not avail if I shut the thing down (kindle, or ability to text me). I can be alerts for permission to add a contact. I can chose what level of content she can see based on age. Parents just have to use the tools.
Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2024 02:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

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Google has Family Link which allows parents to control your children’s phones, apps, etc.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 02:15 PM (++4z6)

293 I remember poke salad and fried bologna.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at March 13, 2024 02:15 PM (MeG8a)

294
She's no Anna Chapman. https://tinyurl.com/3hekv6ch

Mmmm. Redhead honeypot. Sucks out your soul AND.....uh, government secrets.
Posted by: The type of door in the floor of a stage

You, Sir, are a very bad man.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2024 02:16 PM (9yWhg)

295 Schools, Libraries, local institutions featuring Drag Queens, ......
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:15 PM (hKOIV)

"You can trust the doctor, sweetie."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2024 02:16 PM (GkFGh)

296 The bill doesn't just affect foreign owned. It also affects foreign distributed, maintained, updated, or hosted. ...
Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 02:14 PM (Odg76)
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That's harrier, depending on how it is defined.

Most major infrastructure is multi-national. Content hosting networks, for example, tend to be global for a number of very good technical reasons. If Akamai is hosting nasty memes (they surely are - loads of places using their CDN), automatically caching them throughout the world, are they in-scope for destruction?

Just as an example off the top of my head.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:16 PM (HnUIn)

297 He's benefiting most from the move that way. I think he may end up being kind of normal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

Good news. I know you were concerned he would suffer from the move.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 13, 2024 02:16 PM (XjtdB)

298
They'll just "deem" him a foreign adversary.
Posted by: This is a post-law society
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'All of the earmarks...'

Posted by: Mike Hammer,etc., etc. at March 13, 2024 02:16 PM (XeU6L)

299 Recipe? You don't need a recipe. Just pull them out of the ground and brush the dirt off on your jeans.
Posted by: Just Lily
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Smilex pods underground are similarly efficacious as edibles.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:16 PM (hKOIV)

300 238 I think libertarians should be dunked on for their dogmatic and attention-whoring ways, but there's no doubt that this precedent will be turned next on Twitter and Rumble.
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Those aren't foreign firms, so they'll need a different precedent.

Like the other precedents they already have - like icing them out of financial transactions and hosting services or, if push comes to shove, just attacking them with state-sponsored hackers.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:04 PM (HnUIn)

Also, precedent is something you worry about when you have the rule of law or the hope of it. But we're very far from a place of neutral principles universally applied. Refraining from doing something because you don't want to set bad precedent makes a lot less sense where we presently are. Here, we just need to get from A yo B as best we can as often as we can.

Posted by: As a lawyer, I'd like to hear less legalistic argle bargle at March 13, 2024 02:16 PM (9pcIx)

301 "You can trust the doctor, sweetie."
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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My skin just crawled.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:17 PM (hKOIV)

302 You laugh. But I once learned how to find wild beets in Europe.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:17 PM (eMh8N)

303 How much ability is in a slew of ability?

Posted by: More than a furlong? at March 13, 2024 02:17 PM (JwKr4)

304 @291 whig-My parents trusted The Pink Panther and The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show

look how I turned out!

Posted by: JROD at March 13, 2024 02:18 PM (IlL6s)

305 My skin just crawled.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:17 PM (hKOIV)

Mine did writing it.

And i don't even have kids.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2024 02:18 PM (GkFGh)

306 Dear Ms Chapman, I am an executive at a major American tech company and I saw your profile and really think you could be a good interviewer for me.

Just please be patient because I have an issue with babbling about whatever technology I am working on when around a pretty, perhaps naked, redhead.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2024 02:18 PM (ibTVg)

307 >>> 287 > Those aren't foreign firms, so they'll need a different precedent.

The bill doesn't just affect foreign owned. It also affects foreign distributed, maintained, updated, or hosted.

Source:
http://tiny.cc/wzfjxz
Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 02:14 PM (Odg76)

*shocked face*

Hmm, would that include sites on domains such as .nu?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 13, 2024 02:18 PM (llON8)

308 273 I have a friend who didn't want his kid to have a phone. The kid was persistent and said he "needed" a phone to call in case of an emergency. The guy went on Verizon and got a flip phone. It mostly sits in the drawer.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:11 PM (eMh8N)

——-

So the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie had a scene where the boy wanted a cellphone. So the parents got him a “Ladybug” flip phone that had two buttons “Home” and “911”.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2024 02:18 PM (++4z6)

309 Gator got my granny.

Posted by: Poke salad Annie at March 13, 2024 02:18 PM (JwKr4)

310 I remember poke salad and fried bologna.
Posted by: gourmand
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'Salat', I think...
I have plenty of it on the property. When the burning times come, everyone will be envious of my diet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer,etc., etc. at March 13, 2024 02:18 PM (XeU6L)

311 231 The new team at the RNC just dumped a whole bunch of overpaid consultants and are putting the money into legal ballot harvesting. So there's hope they've finally realized the new game is to get votes across the finish line. Perhaps doubling down on this process will cause the federal courts to get their heads out of their asses and prompt SCOTUS to get off their flabby asses and acknowledge some of this crap is within the interest of the federal government including making sure a person is eligible to vote, two months worth of election "day" and massive mail in ballot schemes. Or not.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:03 PM (eMh8N)

But...but...what about all those fabulous lunches, limos, and floral bouquets!!
--overpaid consultants

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 13, 2024 02:19 PM (Rbu5d)

312 To helps the poor persins of coller in Hatey we be sending 100 Brattleboro Gay Pride T-Shirts to that county. What has you city done to helps these poor peeple suffering because of Trump ????

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at March 13, 2024 02:19 PM (15lwl)

313 You know, turnips are delicious. No idea how they got a bad rap. Probably red propaganda.

Posted by: I could use some more turnip recipes, smart ass at March 13, 2024 02:19 PM (9pcIx)

314 297 He's benefiting most from the move that way. I think he may end up being kind of normal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

Good news. I know you were concerned he would suffer from the move.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 13, 2024 02:16 PM (XjtdB)

=======

I was disappointed that he was going to stop karate before he could complete it. I did talk to a school here about getting him in, but he never seemed that excited about going back, especially since they used a different curriculum.

Also, I've had to change schools, but never in the middle of the school year. That wasn't easy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

315 If you are on a foreign hosted domain. This will sweep you up. Guaranteed. They want you on a U.S. domain with servers they can control and shut down using US law and courts.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:19 PM (eMh8N)

316 Just remember, we need a better candidate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini

We had one...but you bastards wouldn't support her! She was trying to bring respectability back to the GOP!!!

Posted by: The Bulwark at March 13, 2024 02:20 PM (JCZqz)

317 Gipsy Danger for Secretary of War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Why not.
Gotta be better than Austin as SoD.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:20 PM (hKOIV)

318 whig-My parents trusted The Pink Panther and The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show
----

I was a fan of 'Fractured Fairy Tales', on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show.

Posted by: Mike Hammer,etc., etc. at March 13, 2024 02:20 PM (XeU6L)

319 I don’t know about Android, but I have a slew of ability to control what my child has access to on her iPad as well as time limits for use. I can block apps, I can only allow certain apps, I can make it where she has to request time for YouTube, I can chose what is available or not avail if I shut the thing down (kindle, or ability to text me). I can be alerts for permission to add a contact. I can chose what level of content she can see based on age. Parents just have to use the tools.
Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2024 02:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

Good to know though as a cat any kittens are pretty uninterested in social media.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:20 PM (eoQWY)

320 We had one...but you bastards wouldn't support her! She was trying to bring respectability back to the GOP!!!
Posted by: The Bulwark
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Didja mean Killary?

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:20 PM (hKOIV)

321 304 @291 whig-My parents trusted The Pink Panther and The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show

look how I turned out!
Posted by: JROD at March 13, 2024 02:18 PM (IlL6s)

Speaking of, how's your ticker?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 02:20 PM (KbCG3)

322 317 Gipsy Danger for Secretary of War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Why not.
Gotta be better than Austin as SoD.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:20 PM (hKOIV)

======

Austin can't punch a kaiju in the face. He can't fight back against the hurricane.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

323 Some of you are old. Could you perhaps add some turnip recipes from the Depression to the food thread this weekend? JK. JL.

Could I interest you in a Beetabaga fajita On a pita?

Posted by: Cliff Claven at March 13, 2024 02:21 PM (ZAqUC)

324 > Robust parental controls exist, and the networks can do even more. If there were market demand - something I would like to try to generate - they would do so.

My kid has an iPad for some school things and for games while we're in the room. We tried to use the "robust parent controls" on the iPad. They're total shit. They randomly just ... go away on occasion. They don't always block websites that are explicitly on the block list. They're a massive pain in the ass to set up. I'm a developer and it took me a couple of hours to dig through all of the documentation, and I still found massive info holes.

Also, and this boggles my mind, DNS settings are PER NETWORK. I can't just update my kid's DNS settings to always use Cloudflare's kid friendly DNS. I have to set that up for my kid's home network, then set it up AGAIN for my kid's school network.

And this isn't some rinky-dink third party software. It's Apple's own iPad parental controls.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 02:21 PM (Odg76)

325 You know, turnips are delicious. No idea how they got a bad rap. Probably red propaganda.
Posted by: I could use some more turnip recipes, smart ass at March 13, 2024 02:19 PM (9pcIx)

Same as Brussels sprouts i guess. Sweet and delicious if done right. Overcooked, they smell like a neglected sump pump pit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2024 02:21 PM (GkFGh)

326 Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 02:08 PM (Odg76)

Food in *Ireland* was too spicy? Were these Skandi refugees?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 13, 2024 02:21 PM (XjtdB)

327 >>> 315 If you are on a foreign hosted domain. This will sweep you up. Guaranteed. They want you on a U.S. domain with servers they can control and shut down using US law and courts.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:19 PM (eMh8N)

Grave Threats To Our Precious Democracy!!!

I'm old enough to remember when we had this thing called "Radio Free America" broadcasting to then-communist countries.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 13, 2024 02:21 PM (llON8)

328 Gipsy Danger for Secretary of War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

Dept of Smores for Wars

Posted by: Boswell at March 13, 2024 02:21 PM (K+UlC)

329 whig-My parents trusted The Pink Panther and The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show
----

I was a fan of 'Fractured Fairy Tales', on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,etc., etc. at March 13, 2024 02:20 PM (XeU6L)

Our parents used to MAKE us watch Bullwinkle because they liked it. Jonny Quest was totally trustworthy, having Nazis or spies around every corner was character building.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:21 PM (eoQWY)

330 El Salvador drops income tax from 30% to 0% for international investments and money transfers.

He really wants to transform El Salvador

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 13, 2024 02:22 PM (4/8il)

331 323 Some of you are old. Could you perhaps add some turnip recipes from the Depression to the food thread this weekend? JK. JL.

Could I interest you in a Beetabaga fajita On a pita?
Posted by: Cliff Claven at March 13, 2024 02:21 PM (ZAqUC)

Recipes are one thing. I'd like to know how many of you currently have at least one shovel whose handle is being held together by duct tape.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 13, 2024 02:22 PM (KbCG3)

332 Also, I've had to change schools, but never in the middle of the school year. That wasn't easy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 13, 2024 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

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I had to do it, probably around his age. Moved from NY to CA in February or March. I mostly remember kids making fun of my east coast accent.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 13, 2024 02:22 PM (DRSnL)

333 318 whig-My parents trusted The Pink Panther and The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show
----

I was a fan of 'Fractured Fairy Tales', on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Liked those too. Rocky and Bullwinkle was one of the few smart cartoons along with Road Runner/Bugs.

I could take or leave Pink Panther.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:22 PM (hKOIV)

334 I'm old enough to remember when we had this thing called "Radio Free America" broadcasting to then-communist countries.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 13, 2024 02:21 PM (llON

Radio Free Europe. I grew up not so far from an (or the) tower farm for it.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:22 PM (eoQWY)

335 She's no Anna Chapman. https://tinyurl.com/3hekv6ch

Mmmm. Redhead honeypot. Sucks out your soul AND.....uh, government secrets.
Posted by: The type of door in the floor of a stage

You, Sir, are a very bad man.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2024 02:16 PM (9yWhg)

What is that thing beside her?

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 13, 2024 02:22 PM (rWwta)

336 Brussels sprouts sautéed in a pan with EVOO and a few hunks of bacon.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:22 PM (eMh8N)

337 And this isn't some rinky-dink third party software. It's Apple's own iPad parental controls.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 02:21 PM (Odg76)
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Yup. And Apple's are superior to Android's.

These are all *very* solvable problems, but there's little incentive to solve them because there's very little demand that they be solved.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:23 PM (HnUIn)

338 @318 Mike Hammer-There's one I haven't thought of in a long time, Fractured Fairy Tales. I remember watching UnderDog right before The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show came on. Memories.

Posted by: JROD at March 13, 2024 02:23 PM (IlL6s)

339 Turnips are best eaten raw with some salt. Cooked turnips depend on other ingredients.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 13, 2024 02:23 PM (FmapG)

340 Recipes are one thing. I'd like to know how many of you currently have at least one shovel whose handle is being held together by duct tape.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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Lost my assault shovels in a tragic canoe accident. Same sorry thing with my kitchen knives--now I have to use my teeth to prep veggies for cooking.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:24 PM (hKOIV)

341 Pink Panther could be funny, but I generally preferred The Ant and the Aardvark.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 13, 2024 02:24 PM (9yWhg)

342 THey will count Ace as SM

Posted by: vic at March 13, 2024 02:24 PM (A5THL)

343 Brussels sprouts sautéed in a pan with EVOO and a few hunks of bacon.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:22 PM (eMh8N)
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It's pity to have to throw away perfectly good olive oil and bacon, but sometimes what must be done, must be done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:24 PM (HnUIn)

344 Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank said he was interested in buying it.
He would be fair and leans towards the right.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 13, 2024 02:24 PM (NpAcC)

345 He really wants to transform El Salvador
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

He should consider importing tens of thousands of unvetted Haitian migrants!

Posted by: Retarded Leftist that drinks the Kool Aid at March 13, 2024 02:25 PM (JCZqz)

346 I see Liz Peek said on Fox if we don't make abortion our number one issue and recruit Nikki Haley to cross cross the country taking about it on behalf of the GOP we lose the election.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:25 PM (eMh8N)

347 Breaking news... Hunter Biden forms media company, in negotiations to take over tik tok. 🤡 🌎

Posted by: Because Obviously at March 13, 2024 02:25 PM (YJT3m)

348 259 Wow. Some of you are old. Could you perhaps add some turnip recipes from the Depression to the food thread this weekend? JK. JL.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2024 02:08 PM (eMh8N)

no, but i got parsnip and sunchoke recipes that'll bloat yer goat.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at March 13, 2024 02:25 PM (Rbu5d)

349 I kknwww ir

NOOD

Posted by: vic at March 13, 2024 02:25 PM (A5THL)

350 336 Brussels sprouts sautéed in a pan with EVOO and a few hunks of bacon.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Easier to just raise cabbage. Raised brussel sprouts last year but found Broccoli and collards did better in our soil as far as yield.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:25 PM (hKOIV)

351 NOOD

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 13, 2024 02:25 PM (llON8)

352 Is this the same bill that provides the government the power to imprison people for using a VPN to access websites that are deemed to be "a threat to our democracy"?

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 13, 2024 02:26 PM (DTX3h)

353 Parsnips are great in my beef stew.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2024 02:26 PM (KvVN8)

354 I saw Bloated Goat open for...

Posted by: Oh never mind at March 13, 2024 02:26 PM (JwKr4)

355 Mrs O'Leary's cow burned down Chicago. Maybe Kevin can repeat the family legacy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 13, 2024 02:27 PM (dsdmx)

356 Posted by: Mike Hammer,etc., etc. at March 13, 2024 02:18 PM (XeU6L)

Just remember to boil it in 3 changes of water to get the toxins out.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 13, 2024 02:27 PM (XjtdB)

357 324
And this isn't some rinky-dink third party software. It's Apple's own iPad parental controls.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 13, 2024 02

I haven’t had any of those issues and I am the opposite of a programmer. Maybe I am not having the limits tested enough by my child yet. And that yet is big, because I have no doubt that day will come. I have heard people saying Bark is a great parental monitoring app, but I haven’t had to use it personally.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2024 02:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

358 304 @291 whig-My parents trusted The Pink Panther and The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show

look how I turned out!
Posted by: JROD
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Well, you never bought firearms nor explosives from ACME so that is a start.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2024 02:27 PM (hKOIV)

359 Some of you are old. Could you perhaps add some turnip recipes from the Depression to the food thread this weekend? JK. JL.
Posted by: Marcus T

Recipe? You don't need a recipe. Just pull them out of the ground and brush the dirt off on your jeans.
Posted by: Just Lily at March 13, 2024 02:13 PM (jTyQn)

There was a type of plant that grew on lawns, looked like clover but smaller that tasted of lemon. Apparently it wasn't poison because none of us died.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2024 02:28 PM (eoQWY)

360 My kid has an iPad for some school things and for games while we're in the room. We tried to use the "robust parent controls" on the iPad. They're total shit. They randomly just ... go away on occasion. They don't always block websites that are explicitly on the block list. They're a massive pain in the ass to set up. I'm a developer and it took me a couple of hours to dig through all of the documentation, and I still found massive info holes.

Also, and this boggles my mind, DNS settings are PER NETWORK. I can't just update my kid's DNS settings to always use Cloudflare's kid friendly DNS. I have to set that up for my kid's home network, then set it up AGAIN for my kid's school network.

And this isn't some rinky-dink third party software. It's Apple's own iPad parental controls.
Posted by: bonhomme

-

On purpose. We're going through this right now, too.

They WANT to be able to track and sell every single thing.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 13, 2024 02:28 PM (Wg1x4)

361 These are all *very* solvable problems, but there's little incentive to solve them because there's very little demand that they be solved.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 13, 2024 02:23 PM (HnUIn)

That's a competition issue - supply creates demand in a a vast majority of markets. No one knew they needed electricity until it was invested - candles were fine. When there is a diminished innovative competition, then innovative differentiators are equally diminished.

Posted by: Boswell at March 13, 2024 02:29 PM (K+UlC)

362 the Zaphod Beeblebrox spare hand

*shakes the gripping hand at Douglas Adams*

Posted by: the moties at March 13, 2024 02:32 PM (hSwza)

363 248. Well once your kid has a cell phone you'd have a time making sure he didn't have the app installed and running.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yeah, true. But I'm from the 'My house, my rules; respect me or fear me' era, and that'll never change.

The job then & now is not to be their friend, but parent, aunt, guardian, pita. Like I've said before, haven't raised any saints but I'm steady, dependable. They've really fought some rules hard, but they & those around them regularly seem to respect the steadiness.

And as they say, do not start her... 😬

Posted by: L - Confident they're planning & playing their best rope-a-dope gamed at March 13, 2024 02:33 PM (GshMh)

364 We seem to be unable to get away from the two extremes of the Republicans and the Libertarians. Both have many good ideas. Certainly both are far, far better than the Democrats.

But the Republicans can't ever seem to find a hill worth dying on and end up being muddled by the squishes and donors.

While the Libertarians are only too happy to fight to the death about the right of mammoth corporations and oligarchs to be able to do anything they want, yet most reluctant to visualize or take a stand for common sense self preservation from powerful enemies.

Posted by: RM at March 13, 2024 02:36 PM (urbih)

365 I can chose what level of content she can see based on age. Parents just have to use the tools.
Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2024 02:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

Sounds good!

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 13, 2024 02:37 PM (spBV2)

366 Mike Hammer-There's one I haven't thought of in a long time, Fractured Fairy Tales. I remember watching UnderDog right before The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show came on. Memories.
Posted by: JROD
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Hmm. How about Crusader Rabbit?

Posted by: Mike Hammer,etc., etc. at March 13, 2024 02:37 PM (XeU6L)

367
There was a type of plant that grew on lawns, looked like clover but smaller that tasted of lemon. Apparently it wasn't poison because none of us died.
Posted by: Oldcat
----

Probably oxalis. Certainly edible, I pick it and use in salads during the summer. Also known as Wood Sorrel, or locally here 'Sourgrass'. Looks very much like clover.

Posted by: Mike Hammer,etc., etc. at March 13, 2024 02:42 PM (XeU6L)

368 Good post, Ace. Check out Raheem Kassam's review at the NationalPulse on this issue.

Posted by: Danimal28 at March 13, 2024 02:47 PM (klw0w)

369 There’s more freedom to say whatever you want on TikTok than any other social media platform I have ever used,

Posted by: Denny Crane! at March 13, 2024 03:12 PM (HanCV)

370 I think it is a threat to the American communist kleptocrats.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at March 13, 2024 03:13 PM (HanCV)

371 Doe this mean Gavin Newsom will not be able to get puberty blockers?

Posted by: Bonzo at March 13, 2024 03:22 PM (EBbHR)

372 Came to see if Ace sided with the neocon propaganda campaign once again, and sure enough. This bill has nothing to do with TikTok, it's about the censorship regime plain and simple. Read the bill. The bill’s definitions give it broad potential application, just as with the Patriot Act, FISA, and AUMFs, etc.

Posted by: Tex Jarman at March 13, 2024 04:12 PM (CJGEh)

373 If China is the problem, why do all of our things have "made in China" stickers on them? If user privacy is the problem, why is Big Tech exempt? What is to stop Apple or Google or Facebook or anyone from collecting the same data and selling it to the CCP or whoever they like? While you're at it, care to point out what the precise security threat is in the first place? Anybody can read the source code for TikTok, kindly identify the offending lines of code that make it into a tool of espionage. They have access to nothing all the other apps have access to. Anything beyond that is data unique to their system. So, what, a list of friends and followers and such, this is what we're worried about? How is the CCP going to use a list of Jonny's favorite tiktok videos to takeover our country? Fucking idiotic. And you really think they don't already have access to effectively the same information by virtue of the fact they manufacture every fucking thing we own and use in our everyday life? You think they don't know the purchasing patterns of every single American? The brazen stupidity with which normally smart people defend and promote these lies is Idiocracy-level astounding.

Posted by: Tex Jarman at March 13, 2024 04:21 PM (CJGEh)

374 The constitution is not a suicide pact. F Tiktok.

Posted by: leber at March 13, 2024 04:24 PM (rovGg)

375 This is all our skullduggering, treasonous, word-twisting, carpetbagging Congress needs to pass: "Any person who owns or attempts to own any property, system, service, license, trademark, copyright, et. al., or operates or conducts any political, commercial, charitable, religious, or social activity, et. al., within the territorial and maritime boundaries of the United States and in order to support or serve the interests of a foreign power shall have committed an act of war against the United States and shall be guilty of treason as defined in 18 USC § 2381, unless such ownership or conduct is granted specific permission by Treaty with the United States or in a diplomatic visa pursuant to (cite USC?), the full contents of which the Secretary of State shall publish immediately to all citizens without redaction or restriction."

[Why don't you ever draft something like this, MIT-Boy Massie, hmm? Is your armchair academic patriotism not inspirational enough to do more ever than stir a stick in the mud?]

Posted by: Tom SteChatte at March 13, 2024 04:58 PM (onmdL)

376 DNS settings are PER NETWORK. I can't just update my kid's DNS settings to always use Cloudflare's kid friendly DNS. I have to set that up for my kid's home network, then set it up AGAIN for my kid's school network.

Posted by: bonhomme

Although your DNS settings will normally get inherited from your network by default (for example via DHCP), you can learn how to program your kid's device to override it and use your own preferred DNS. It takes some research but it is definitely do-able.

Posted by: WillowViney at March 13, 2024 05:15 PM (d3MA1)

377 How is this whole thing not a bill of attainder?

If you're going to do something about it, do something that is 1) within your constitutional limits, and 2) actually addressing the broader problem.

Posted by: GWB at March 13, 2024 05:41 PM (69JzL)

378 The bill gives the executive branch power to shut down so called foreign sites.

Ban all data harvesting.
This bill is an anti sanity time bomb

Posted by: Deserttrek at March 13, 2024 08:31 PM (480Qo)

379 Am I the only one who thinks there's an issue of trade reciprocity here? The CCP blocks tons of American websites/ services. No way would they ever allow an American Tik Tok in China.

Posted by: GVRon at March 14, 2024 05:59 AM (sG/VA)

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