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Chevalier

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What goes around comes around. Chinese leaders understand this because of the philosophy of Taoism and yinyang and cycles. Western leaders being avid producers and consumers of cocaine and heroin are simply unable to predict second order effects. They effectively can’t imagine how they would have felt if they hadn’t had breakfast this morning,

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Theres a great bit in Heller’s “Catch 22” where he talks about how the war profiteering capitalists worked in both the American and nazi governments, where an American capitalist officer named Milo Minderbinder rents the planes used to bomb his own base,
Intel: In return give me $19 billion

US: Okay no problem to sweeten the pot I'll give you a loan of $11 billion interest free and non payable.

AMD: ME TOO!

US: Talk to the hand, you're not white enough.
Yep, this is the reason why I advocate confiscating all territories of the five eyes save their ancestral island.
 

luminary

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The social media penetration of bytedance is amazing.
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Half the population of US and Indonesia watch tiktok. 2/3 of Vietnam's population watches tiktok.


Are you sure that person who wrote this works in tech? Any person who actually works in the weeds of high tech should understand that innovation has always been done in steps since it is based on previous research and generations of development. Also, Steve Jobs is a great marketer and visionary, but solelygiving him the title of a "disruptor" is laughable.
Just look at the cesspool that is Blind app community. Silicon Valley code monkeys and defense contractor welfare recipients are some of the most ignorant people you'll ever meet.
 
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Temstar

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The social media penetration of bytedance is amazing.
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Half the population of US and Indonesia watch tiktok. 2/3 of Vietnam's population watches tiktok.



Just look at the cesspool that is Blind app community. Silicon Valley code monkeys and defense contractor welfare recipients are some of the most ignorant people you'll ever meet.
TikTok is part of the circus half of "panem et circenses" in the US now. If it gets sold to someone else and it keeps operating then the people won't care. If however bytedance retreats from the US and shutdown TikTok because of the ban on sale of algorithm from CPC then it could have unpredictable societal impact. Even Roman Emperors know you don't screw with panem et circenses.
 

TK3600

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TikTok is part of the circus half of "panem et circenses" in the US now. If it gets sold to someone else and it keeps operating then the people won't care. If however bytedance retreats from the US and shutdown TikTok because of the ban on sale of algorithm from CPC then it could have unpredictable societal impact. Even Roman Emperors know you don't screw with panem et circenses.
The ban is for its dissents on Israel. Roman Emperors do not have a Jewish overlord do they? If the country fall apart then so be it. Its Jewish ruler may escape with their money elsewhere.
 
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