If you want to create an argument against Tesla this is not the way to do it, they are by far THE SAFEST car on the market despite their full autopilot failure.

Personally really been enjoying Kagi for the past year.

Relevant videos if anyone wants to see the violence for themselves. Its an absolute joke that most US media sources are framing this as a “Clash” or “Violence erupts”. This is an attack on peaceful protestors.

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1785637622582309038?s=19

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1785622283161067568?s=19

https://twitter.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1785664176406642996?s=19

The article talks about why they’d prefer to shut down if you take their word it. Essentially the US is such a tiny portion of ByteDances revenue, it would be more optimal to shut down then to risk the sale of their algorithm. Assuming they’re using relatively similar algorithms on Douyin, and they don’t want whoever they sell to to turn around and sell to their Chinese competition, which is where the real money is being made for ByteDance.

Hard to pin the blame singularly on one when the other is complicit in the same system.

Platforms such as TikTok operate on “pushing” content the algorithm wants instead of users “pulling” content they want to see

This is just outright wrong, like hilariously wrong and if you used the platform for more than 10 minutes you’d see that. Tiktok is the ONLY social media that feeds me content I want to see as accurately and often as I want. It will even adjust the videos I see within the same 30 minute session to feed me more of what I’m favoring within that 30 minute session.

There is not any other single social media that does this.

The can very easily apply to every single social media.

Unfortunately not many reporters are reporting on this sincerely besides TheHill and Newsweek, although it’s slowly becoming more sincere.

Here’s an opinion piece that describes the situation when it originally started last year and contains a pretty accurate non biased overview.

Most recently there was a SCIF held on January 10th with the UAP caucus, and the IG regarding the Grusch claims. NY times article where some Congress people substantiating a few of Grusch claims.

Also very important to note, in general this is a very non-partisan issue (Republicans are definitely the most outspoken though). A UAP bill was put forward by Chuck Schumer in December to be included in the NDAA, which would declassify UAP materials that didn’t expose national security, and force all UAP materials to be returned to the US Government. It was unfortunately gutted by the House during negotiations (specifically by Congressmen lobbied by defense contractors). Take that as you will, but I think the fact that this is being discussed to be codified in law and not entirely hidden behind the executive branch with zero oversight is great for the public.

the continued belief in and resources spent on said unsubstantiated conspiracy is frustrating.

It’s very important to note here that the ICIG (Office of Intelligence Inspector General) who far out ranks Kirkipatrick and the AARO rated the whistleblowers claims urgent and credible.

Several Congress members then held a classified meeting with the same ICIG and determined that Gruschs claims have validity.

It’s a quite misleading to say this is entirely based on false information and claim it’s nothing more than a conspiracy theory that we shouldn’t be wasting resources on.

No, the whole point is to throw something insanely over the top and fictional out there (Peru aliens) in order to group the borderline plausible (Grusch report to Congress) with insanely over the top. These happening at the same time tries to lop Grusch in with the first group, despite him being incredibly credible and denying everything to do with the first group, yet the first group dominates the news cycles.

Sorry for the acronyms, there’s been quite a bit going on on Capitol Hill these past 6 months regarding, well aliens.

NHI - Non-human intelligence

UAP - Essentially UFO

MIC - Mitary industrial complex

ICIG - Inspector general of the intelligence community (Referring to US)

And I’m referencing American tax payers. We funnel quite a bit of money into the Department of Defense who then funnels quite a bit into the MIC. This isn’t even necessarily include anything anamolous, it’s just the American system.

Honestly sounds like the Peru mummies have been a mass disinformation campaign by the MIC/Executive branch to detract from the actual ongoing UAP/NHI discussion in Congress with Grusch and the ex ICIG and to prevent any oversight bills from passing.

Im sure they’d much prefer to sit there and call everyone crazy and keep raking in billions of non-auditable tax payer money.

Realistically this graph wouldn’t include Snapchat, as it’s less of a “social media” than the others. Most people nowadays use it strictly as a messaging platform.

This is actually the problem with mid sized communities. If there’s two political communities and their content is 70% overlapping then you’re obviously going to unsubscribe from one as your feed becomes cluttered. But then you’re missing that 30% of content from the other community.

One single god God, perhaps what makes a god a god? I do believe we form a network or web of connected consciousness. Who’s contained within this web and how interactions work on it is where it gets interesting.

But honestly it’s not a huge deal, I swapped an esim in under 3 minutes last week

physical sim card trays

Seems like a backwards move IMO. honestly haven’t needed a tray in ~6 years

Being able to rip the battery out when the phone locks up

How often does your phone lock up that that’s necessary? I used to have lockups a lot more but android is damn stable now, haven’t had one in years.

Needing to make sure it’s actually off and can’t be remotely powered on

Do you disconnect your PC’s PSU?

When it’s 3 years old and the hardware is still well up to the task but the battery lasts 4 hours.

Fair, but if you’re getting 4 hours SOT after 3 years, it’s just not a great phone. My current Note 10+ still pumping out 10 hours SOT and I’m a HEAVY user.

Honestly in 2015 I’m totally on your side for this, but in the last few years I’ve never felt the need to hotswap batteries, and only slightly felt the need to replace it in general.

Just curious, what situations do you find yourself in relatively frequently that a hot swappable batter would be more convenient?

Nowadays w/ 15 SOT I don’t think I’ve actually needed one minus camping where I don’t really use my phone much anyways.

Tagging onto this: Does anyone know of the easiest way to backfill Immich with photos from Google photos all at once besides manually downloading them from the Photos site?