See you say no apocalyptic event, but we’ve done almost nothing to slow climate change, and that will destroy humanity in less than a century much better than we can directly do ourselves. The event has already started, and we’re ignoring it.

His plan is to fuck them over anyway, just so other organizations know that it won’t make a difference. They’re an enemy if they ever air anything against him.

Been getting mixed reception with the Bellamy Salute … probably because this is fucking serious.

Even IF we were to give him the benefit of the doubt, the Bellamy Salute was abandoned specifically because of the Nazi use of a similar salute. AND that salute is older than Musk, so there’s no history to claim there. Combined with his recent public praise and support of the far-right parties in Germany specifically, it really leads to one conclusion.

Even if we give him the benefit of the doubt despite all of that, and maybe claim that he’s trying to “take back” a previous American flag salute to make it American again… it reminds me of the this scene from Clerks 2 (NSFW - language). Elon is most definitely not the person that can bring that salute back.

Did they? Or did Apple and Google pull the app because the law went into affect today and Trump isn’t actually president yet. All they had at the beginning of the day was a one day promise from Biden to not enforce it.

That won’t stop Apple and Google from keeping it pulled from app stores until things are more concrete.

TikTok only blocked access and put that notice up in the app after their partners decided that a statement from the outgoing administration 24 before the transition wasn’t enough for them to not comply with the law.

No it won’t. Biden is already out of office as far as normies are concerned. He has been since the election, but definitely within 24 hours of inauguration. TikTok stops working and the next thing they see is Trump having a huge party with a shit ton of pomp and circumstance for his inauguration as he gets into the White House. And then TikTok still doesn’t work when they open it up. Maybe he brings it back, maybe he doesn’t. Voters don’t pay enough attention to separate his inauguration and the TikTok ban happening 24 hours apart, they’ll bundle it together as one event.

Unless he gets a massive cash infusion from Bytedance in the next 24 hours, he won’t give TikTok an extension on day one in office. He’s the kind of person that expects his payment up front.

So everyone will instead see it stop working as President Trump takes over, and then it continuing to not work after. Some may give him the benefit of the doubt, but they weren’t ever going to vote for anyone else anyway, he’s their God Emperor President and they’ve confirmed their world view around him being perfect.

Heck, he might try to spin it as some sort of promotional opportunity for Truth Social.

Not sure why you think it’s an own goal. Biden didn’t set the day for it to take effect, that was written into the law by Congress. You could say it was an own goal because Biden announced he wasn’t going to enforce it, but that seems to be the opposite of what you’re trting to claim And even with that decision to not enforce the law for 1 day before the Trump admin takes over, none of the companies TikTok works with like Apple or Google to list it in the app stores gave a shit about that lack of enforcement because of the uncertainty.

Not to mention Trump being the start of the ban in the first place. He was President when all of this started to work it’s way through the process, even if Biden was the President when it actually made it through Congress, with bipartisan support. Trump only changed positions because he wants TokTok to pay him to continue to allow it to continue.

I mean… That just proves my point.

The feds told them to stop, but they were taking bets on it.

Any bets on the bribe amount? I’m sure some place is taking bets. Vegas will bet on anything.

Here’s a couple ideas for dealing with the housing crisis situation, one of the primary causes of the homeless issues in the first place. Since all we ever seem to do is fail at handling symptoms instead of of causes.

1. Foreign companies cannot own private housing.
2. Domestic companies cannot own more than say 2-3 private homes, this includes any companies that can be connected through another business or individual. This allows individuals to have second homes or a rental property but means rental businesses are dead, they handle larger condos and apartments. Separate homes are meant for families and individual households.
3. Tax vacant housing at high rates to facilitate homes actually being loved in. We have largely enough housing for everyone to have a place, but a lot of it sits unused as bullshit real estate holdings.
4. For larger cities, tax vacant retail and office space at a high rate and give incentives to remodel it for more housing. Have maximum vacancy time-frames to incentivize utilizing the spaces instead of just setting bullshit pricing no one will ever pay while “looking” for tenants year after year.

But none of this will happen. Because the oligarchs have their money invested in real estate holdings that don’t move or get and use, so they require little to no maintenance. It’s a large reason why half of NYC looks like a shit hole with boarded up retail spots for decades while a cupboard under the stars costs $1800/mo to rent.

Country borders are just lines on a map. They don’t exist in the real world.

If only everyone was able to experience the overview effect, a lot of our issues could potentially fix themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

It’s gotten to the point where you need to have an attorney on retainer just to get real answers from these companies. Instead of saying you’ll get an attorney to the underpaid customer service rep with no power who can’t care less and people threaten legal actions with no follow through constantly… an actual attorney sending a letter calling the company out for their failure to address your issues gets you put into a separate system where they know you actually have representation they want to avoid.

Those monthly retainer services are surprisingly cheap too if you just need something verified or a notice sent once in a while. Many companies even offer discounted legal retainer services as part of their benefits packages.

Didn’t Houston have historic massive flooding from Hurricane Beryl? And insurance companies are still fighting and having to pay out for Hurricane Harvey back in 2017.

Your house is only one data point, and not the largest part of the calculation. Your neighborhood, county, and city infrastructure have a lot more to do with your insurance than your specific home. And the Houston area has a terrible track record with flooding.

He’s right. Let’s get rid of the part that doesn’t function well. His entire industry.

All it does is put barriers between patients, their doctors, and the care they need while increasing costs with no actual benefit to anyone other than the insurance executives. Nearly every job in the industry would still be needed under a universal health care system, there just wouldn’t be a middle man increasing prices by billions every year so they can make a profit.

Order it from another store with curbside pickup, don’t have to even get out of the car on the way back home.

I don’t understand why they don’t just use a pickup ticket system. Costco does it for some smaller high end electronic products now. Hell, Toys R US did it decades ago with all of their video games and consoles. You just take the paper ticket to the cashier to pay and then the receipt to a pickup window where ALL of those products are kept.

Instead they choose the objectively worst option, extra hardware spread randomly around the store for each product, and spreading already shaky customer service even more thin with large waiting times for a manager with the keys to arrive.

Definitely, but it’s built into the existing system as it sits, and was implemented slowly over decades. This isn’t new by any measure, it’s just finally starting to be addressed.

Believe it or not, Deere has been right at the forefront (on the wrong side) of the right to repair fight. They’re one of the most egregious anti-repair companies on the planet, even more than Apple.

Almost the entire rural Republican base gets screwed by Deere daily. Now that there’s an official attempt to fix the issues, killing it would be a direct attack on those supporters.

And as much as Trump doesn’t actually give a shit about anyone else, it would signal that the Republican party, as an extension, don’t actually give a single shit about them either. Something that base has been clinging to like a life preserver in an ocean for years.

Seems pretty fucking basic here. No quorum means no business can be done. It’s the first step of any sort of meeting to conduct official business.

They’re performing fake business to show to their dipshit constituents that don’t pay attention and will believe whatever they’re told.

IIRC Lemon8 at least will have to stop just like TikTok. It isn’t TikTok specifically that is being banned. Rednote likely is affected as well.

They’re jumping ship to other sinking ships because the media has been providing incorrect information about what’s happening, as per usual now.