Abeyance, I think you mean.

Grow up.

This is why the right came for Chevron, they can buy Congress. Much harder to buy a whole agency.

No.

Next question.

Takes time and money to explain the truth. Lying is free.

I suppose in a strict legal sense, fuck him though.

Dude thinks the cyber truck is cool, and not the dumbest fucking vehicle ever.

Nothing legit about him. He has no chance.

I think you’re right that you’re just out of touch and doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Oh my God, I forgot about that Pop-Tart movie.

Yeah it was absolutely Larry David’s show. But Seinfeld is a genius stand-up comedian in his own right.

He’s categorically wrong on his conclusion here.

Nothing weird about it. They have zero respect for international IP law.

I think you misread me. I’m in total agreement with you.

They are mapping network infrastructure and gobbling up whatever data they can find, and sending it back to China, where for sure they are feeding into an AI that is going to try and figure out the exact networks that need to be taken out to inflict maximum damage to the US.

I’m sure Congress and the FCC are looking at other apps and devs as well and this is probably just the beginning of more and more Chinese tech being frozen out of western economies, I know the US is also approaching this from a diplomatic standpoint, looking at requirements to keep data gathered by the companies out of China. It’s above my pay grade, especially the technical aspects. As I understand there already was a deal with tick tock for them not to ship the data to China, but they kept doing it anyway. This Act of Congress may be a cudgel for those diplomatic negotiations, as if to say if “keep fucking around and we will ban your shit one by one until there isn’t any left.”

“One as an example, two to show we can keep doing it.”

That’s why we have them friend, because it couldn’t. The system is based on punishing antisocial behavior.

Yup.

This is my understanding of it all as well. Like, if your parents never stfu as a kid or you never had a chance to really be alone and quiet and safe as a baby, your brain, your very concept of self, is hardwired for constant stimulation such that it’s uncomfortable not to have it, to the point of sitting their for 14 hours reading Wikipedia pages or whatever because it’s more stimulating that it would be to stop and wash the floors or so the laundry, or maybe just talking your fingers in class or letting your mind read every sign and bumper sticker while you’re driving. It’s also why all the most effective treatments are about emotional regulation.

That doesn’t sound right to me. ADHD is a constellation of shared symptoms, grouped together and given a name for insurance and diagnostic purposes and because the treatment overlaps. The cause of those symptoms are obviously multifactorial, heavily correlated with both genetics and childhood stress. Bad news if your mom or dad didn’t ever stfu when you were a baby, hardwired you to be uncomfortable without constant external stimulation and validation.

Schools at least where I live do a much better job of teaching kids to manage their emotions. And I hope parents of young children are doing a better job as well, seems like it to me, but I’m in a well off rural bubble.

I imagine TikTok sets back any progress and I’m glad it’s banned. TikTok brain is a real thing. Human beings are meant to be able to focus intensely in one purposeful thing for several hours at a time and with practice anyone can learn to be highly productive and attentive if they can find a time and place to be free from distractions, and anyone can have a super memory if they set aside time and purposefully train their memory; memory is a product of focus.

Nobody wants to see old people.

We can’t run a society on the things on which we run society!

Childless young people downvoting this, perhaps not able to admit they’re just like mom or dad?

For most of us I’m sorry but it’s true! Kids are mirrors; apples don’t fall far from trees. Not all of them. Some carry.