The world was now too different from when he was incarcerated.

He derailed himself two weeks later.

Laptops, cuz I like to travel a lot and…4 years later now, I can still play the new games or go back to the old ones whenever I want to.

It’s very convenient.

If I was in one place, I’d probably get a PC just cuz it’s usually cheaper for the same hardware.

But I love traveling and I don’t love extra possessions! And I love playing games now and then.

Bummer, I didn’t downvote you.

I think that’s the nature of the beast here, don’t take the fake Internet points too seriously.

The phrase “privacy nightmare” gets thrown around a lot, but an online service taking pictures of your screen every few seconds does not sound worth the risk of exposure of personal information.

As for someone needing physical access to your device in order to access those screenshots, there’s no way that’s correct.

If they’re locally stored on your machine, those screenshots can be accessed by an intruder.

Seems like a long walk for an extremely limited scope of benefit.

Drowning a baby in bathwater.

What is the stated reason for this proposed function?

This is the first I’ve heard of this terrible and invasive idea.

You haven’t entered a discussion, you’ve cried incredibly short-sighted neoconservative talking points that I’ve completely taken apart in my other reply to you.

I attacked your ridiculous comment, not your character, unlike your personal insults.

You’re labeling me a “reactionary” because I didn’t call you any of the slurs you listed.

You might want to sit in that a while.

Actually, I have time, so let’s dismantle your comment.

"Keeping thieves and robbers from entering your house is not, ‘immobilizing yourself.’ "

Nobody said it is.

“The idea that America would be immobilized by taking care of itself instead of carousing around with the rest of the world is just silly.”

Something nobody said again, but:

Thinking that having literally enough land to fit people and resources to perpetuate some contemporary level of technology ignores all of history and every metric of national success.

You know who had overabundant physical resources and separated themselves from other civilizations?

Incans.

“Canada could also seal off its borders and in a thousand years from now still be going strong.”

So we ignore Canada’s transportation imports, machinery imports, electronics imports, plastics imports, energy imports， services that alone account for 1/3 of Canadian GDP, then Canada will “go strong”?

5 winter months a year without cars, oil or modern manufacturing to compensate for the weather, not to mention financial services, infrastructure services, science in every form; they’re sunk.

Oh and we can’t forget that you are wishing away Canadian exports, which also account for 1/3 of Canadian GDP.

Your canadian isolationist whim has zero legs to stand on and 1.5 trillion dollars of debt annually.

“International relations are the cause of war” in the same way that air is slowly poisoning you to death.

Such a zoomed-out, irrelevant statement ignores literally every significant factor of conscious reality.

There are two hundred ish countries.

Show me the thriving utopias that refuse to interact with any other countries.

You’re arguing the international merits of “separate but equal” while ignoring how much the United States and other countries have benefited from open borders.

You are wrong top to bottom here on every short-sighted jingoist allegation.

“Afraid of your neighbor’s dog? Never leave your room, add a harness to your bed and strap in, wear plate armor at all times”.

Not exactly practical.

There are ways to improve security without immobilizing yourself.

Blocking the widespread distribution and use of an app that sends personal and national data to a hostile government actively collecting and using that data to conduct digital and electoral attacks is not immobilizing, it’s a simple step with zero downside that safeguards hundreds of millions of people.

Yikes, what a flawed set of premises.

" What if Canada did the same thing to the US? They did!"

No, they didn’t. Canada tried to boost Canadian media presence on American streaming platforms.

Making sure gooby gets an international viewing is very different from transmitting information to an overtly hostile government known for cyber attacks on its international peers.

“The platform isn’t a national security threat”.

It’s a fact that the app TikTok is based off of, Douyin, sends the private data of every user straight to bytedance, owned in powerful minority stake by the Chinese government and that tiktok did the same thing with US user data until they promised they stopped a couple years ago.

As of January 2024 however, whoops, US citizen data(names, birthdates, location) is still being sent back to bytedance: https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-pledged-to-protect-u-s-data-1-5-billion-later-its-still-struggling-cbccf203?mod=followamazon

It’s not some baseless concern, it’s a national security consequence against data disclosures that were already carried out and have continued to this year despite assurances 2 years ago that data leaks to bytedance are not happening.

“Instrument of soft power”

Marvel movies becoming super popular internationally is an example of soft power. Gathering the personal information of users with a continuing precedent attacking US digital infrastructures and democratic institutions is not soft power, it is hostile statecraft.

I am not a proponent of monolithic tech companies nor am I particularly aligned against international competition in tech supremacy, but this ban isn’t about theoretical cultural competition.

This tiktok ban is about the recent gathering of personal information that can be used to assess and attack digital infrastructures and electoral behaviors by entities that are continually attacking digital infrastructures and electoral processes, entities focused on consolidating power not within some international free market of soft cultural influence but by gathering and consolidating power and using that power to forward state ambitions.

Lives on his back

I don’t use it, but the option is there in settings to hide read posts since I started using jerboa months ago, so I’m assuming it works okay

“Take his lead” is on there too in a couple movies, nice.

Thanks, that’s a cool site I’ve never heard of.

I agree that it’s used, I’m sure that if we looked in movie scripts or novels, we would find examples of that phrase, but I can’t find a single dictionary that agrees that the phrase is a legitimate phrase, and that’s what really boggled my mind.

Boggled and boondoggled over here.

Yeah, taking the lead I think is a pretty common expression, meaning that you’ll take the initiative, but I’ve used " taking their lead" to mean that another person has taken the lead and someone else is following them.

Which is apparently not real at all, but I only became aware of this because another Lemmy put up a TIL post that explained how they thought that was an expression and discovered after using it their entire life that it was not in any dictionary.

Just like me

I would like to see a shaka sign rather than a fist.

I’m not sure, but that makes sense.

I’ll have to take your lead on that.

I just found out that you can’t take someone’s lead in order to behave like they are behaving, you can only follow their lead.

I thought that taking someone’s lead, “I’m taking their lead”, is an actual expression, while apparently it is not.

I’m glad someone mentioned the string theory thing, I just thought it was a conceptual Google Chrome logo.