TikTok/bytedance are controlled by a rival country. US based companies can, of course, help our rivals too but there’s some degree of separation that makes it a bit harder to address/discover.

Sorry you’re right, my mistake. I misunderstood the topic.

Lol. Just because I think Lemmy has some around a specific topic does not mean that Reddit doesn’t for sure have a shit ton more.

China trying to keep americans on a Chinese app vs an app they can’t control. Honestly, even here in Lemmy the conversation surrounding the TikTok ban looks like when bots and bad actors were appearing to support trump on Reddit in 2016.

China is still an adversary of the US with lots of human rights abuses and no qualms taking any advantage it can over the US. Zuckeberg isnt really much better, but he’s a harder problem to deal with

Not the person you responded to, but some polling indicated that something like 30% of people who didn’t vote for Harris, but did vote for Biden, chose not to vote due to the genocide in Gaza. That poll indicates that maybe some of those 30% may still not have voted for other reasons, but it was the main issue polled. https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling

EDIT: I misunderstood the OP to be asking why voters, overall shifted red. My comment below is basically irrelevant to this topic.

Not certain that makes sense, unless people are moving to different states. If people are just moving out of cities, to more rural areas in the same state, then we should see a redder shift of cities AND a blue shift in the more rural areas. The only way your statement can be true is if potential blue voting people from borderline blue, purple states moved to deeply red states. Like this, the purple states become more red, and the red state becomes more blue, but if it was a deeply red state, the amount of people would not have an electoral effect.

I’m leaning more towards less blue voting people voting this election based on the ~7million less votes Kamala got compared to Biden’s 2020 number, while trump had about the same number of votes in 2020 and 2024.

If you got any evidence though, i’d be interested in seeing it.

Interesting, so it seems because ATT doesn’t have fiber already setup in NY that they’re pulling out. If more states did this, they probably wouldn’t be able to handle pulling out, financially.

That will look a lot worse TBH.

How interesting, and annoying. Thank you for the post regardless.

or disable JS for the site. Doesn’t work for all sites, but if you’re able to ctrl-a, ctrl-c, then the JS block should work.

article is paywalled. I found a similar article with no paywall: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/walgreens-shoplifting-retailer-james-kehoe/

I really loved the event. I barely started playing when the event started, so I have nothing to compare it, but I thoroughly enjoyed the character stories, the free items, the encouragement to use different heroes, etc. I even bought 2 of the bundles! I don’t really have any critiques, as the whole thing felt very rewarding.

Source for this? My understanding was that usually snot color wasn’t a reliable indicator for anything

Jaha we need to add more stools to memes now

“officially” is an ambigious term here. Legally, 18 years old in the US. “completely” an adult? depends on a variety of factors. Most people under 25 aren’t allowed to rent a car by themselves in the US, so that brings up the age in regards to that. Regardless, I think this is a tangential question.

I think what you mean to ask, is at what age does a person make decisions for themselves completely, as we’re talking about this 19 year old being pressured into going into the sub. Well that depends on the situation of the person in question which is basically what I said in my previous post. Does this person live on their own? Provide income for themselves? How is their relationship with their parents? How confident is the person in themselves?

At 19 years old, many people are still reliant on their parents for many things, and also living with them. Arguments are way more impactful in this situation because you can’t just go home and leave, or you can’t ignore certain things because they may be ongoing or consistent problems. There’s probably already arguments happening in this relationship about how each person wants to handle different things. This may be a situation where the 19 year old thought, “I don’t want to cause a big argument over this” so they give in.

e: and I forgot where I was, i like that you are trying to say this 19 year old millionaire spawn has a low paying job, with no place.

You should at least reread things before commenting to not waste your time my previous post with added bold, and brackets:

At 19, even though you’re legally an adult, you’re probably still very reliant on your parents, [implied you] don’t have a very high paying job, and likely don’t have your own place.

We don’t know if this 19 year old has a high paying job. I doubt it since many people don’t have a degree at this age.

This is a ridiculous statement. If a 40 year old can’t tell their parents no to a trip, that’s a problem with the 40 year old. At 19, even though you’re legally an adult, you’re probably still very reliant on your parents, don’t have a very high paying job, and likely don’t have your own place.

I feel like the radar thing doesn’t make sense. The plane is invisible to the naked eye, which radar doesn’t rely on. If you got a box to somehow fly, and made the material invisible, radar would still pick it up flying through the air due to how radar works. That being said, I may be wrong about how the invisible jet works, and it could also have some materials that make it non readable to radar.

I’m honestly coming up with blanks for a plane that is invisible, but the occupants aren’t. I feel in anything related to air to air, that sort of invisibility is pretty useless because either you’re plane is invisible to all radar, which makes it being visible to the naked eye rather unimportant, or you’re not invisible to radar in which case it doesn’t matter that the ship is invisible since pilots don’t rely on their naked eye for plane detection. Against people without radar (random ground troops, random people) I suppose its sort of helpful.

That guy is tripping.your questions are along the same as the ones I have. A lot of unhoused people I have seen don’t have tents either.

Extremely misleading unemployment rate. The article is from 2020, during the height of covid

Cool! Have you made this before?