I mean the owners of meta and Twitter also want the current version of America to collapse too. They’re as much of a threat in that respect as any foreign country is.

I’m 100000% of the mind that this is purely a profit thing. Tictok got too big and no Americans are getting enough of a cut of that so they want to take it. Same with BYD. It’s a threat to American electric car makers so they need to “do away” with it.

It’s not even a national security issue… If it was the government would actually dig into the app and see if there was anything malicious in there. It’s a profit thing. They’re all mad that American companies aren’t getting a cut.

What national security issue is there with China having data about our location and not the same issue with American companies that poorly secure that data if at all and willingly sell it to anyone, probably even other Chinese companies?

It’s always about greed.

And the Magoo will say “good, then you always knew it was about fuck you I hate you liberals!”

You can never “gotcha!” an asshole. :(

So if it’s possible then it’s possible for the government to have that done by people that are capable.

That would tell me then that it’s more than likely not a national security concern, it’s a profit concern. Apparently Zuckerberg was a major actor pushing for this ban as it is, he supposedly kept harping on the security aspect. :/

So… My fellow Americans… Ummm… We should copy good things when we see them right? I mean we embraced the taco. So…

:P

Anyone know if it’s possible to take a program and “decompile” it? Like reverse engineering or something so it could be verified to be “clean?”

I imagine with all the resources the government has they could achieve such a thing if they were really concerned about national security and not really just worried about metas profits.

I mean what would Elon buying it have really changed about the actual code of the apps? It would just change who gets the profits, no?

You don’t need to move it, everyone knows you just download more RAM duhhhh.

:P

“Mr.Trump you need to understand us, we just really really like getting into groups and hating the others. It’s our favorite thing to do, just say fuck you liberal, fuck you Mexican, fuck you black person! But we don’t like consequences. So don’t do anything that hurts me! Just hurt everything else!”

But why would they lie to each other? I don’t block many communities so I stumble into their conversations too and they’re just talking to each other about it

IDK I read somewhere that some Chinese communications authority said that there was no plan to do that and they welcomed the interaction between people. To just be respectful and whatever.

But then again this is the Internet and we all know the famous quote:

“Don’t trust everything you read on the internet” -Abe Lincoln

Depending on how you view it you could install a translation extension/plugin.

I was thinking about checking out weibo now that I know the Chinese people have really been enjoying the interaction so I just installed a translation extension in Firefox and it seems to work really well. I haven’t been able to get an account so I haven’t tried to communicate yet, but I’d probably just use Google translate and write in English and then add the translation.

Damn it’s too early to see myself in a post like this lol

Apparently I’ve been this way my entire life, even as a kid I couldn’t take a compliment I’d just argue against it lol

Why is this the exact opposite of what I’ve been reading Lemmy users say about their experience? Especially the LGBTQ experience?

I’m not really a programmer but if I had to guess it looks like it was trying to update it’s own information about the user, trying to save the “fact” that the user thought watermelon was tasty. It saved it as a “food preference” which I guess is a parameter the system can recognize.

“Mommy, daddy, what were the 2020s like?”

Now if you can get the retiree and the preschooler to convince the baker you could have a pretty sweet cake connection! Quid pro quo, for every cake I’ll install a new app!

It makes me so fucking sick that Republicans lost their minds over Twitter banning people and removing content that violated their TOS and were claiming it’s all censorship of conservatives and that social media shouldn’t be biased, but now that every single goddamn social media site is full mask off Nazi loving the Republicans are happy as a pig in shit. Suddenly bias isn’t a problem. Musk literally owning Twitter and working in the goddamn administration isn’t a problem.

They had a fucking investigation into Twitter for less…

"This is the single most important economic issue of the day,” Bessent said. “This is pass-fail. If we do not fix these tax cuts, if we do not renew and extend, then we will be facing an economic calamity, and as always, with financial instability that falls on the middle and working class.”

An extension of this legislation would reportedly cost $4 trillion over a decade. Bessent previously said that he would cover this cost through other budget cuts. Trump has proposed extending the 2017 law’s tax cuts for individuals and another, larger tax cut for corporations."

JFC… “Gimme the money or the poor get the knife! Don’t worry about the deficit, we’ll just take away things from the poor!”

Soooo goooood… My go-to now for a really good really “bad” meal are Memphis style ribs with roasted brussel sprouts with butter and garlic.

…why can’t you be on sale now ribs lol

Honestly since I’ve learned about how the Chinese people seem to be taking it and really like the interaction with “us” I’ve been more interested in checking out weibo. That seems more similar to this and is more about communicating instead of pictures and videos of specific topics.

Just can’t make an account for some reason lol keep getting errors in Chinese even though I’m using the international site lol