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sexual_tomato

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  • Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • It's free in the US, so there's ~360 million potential users they decided to make things harder for

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  • Ironic because this is the second time I've seen this image posted

  • Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • They used to allow their client to be used to send unsecured SMS. Then they stopped. Whatever they thought they were doing, they killed the simplest path to onboarding laypeople they had. I kinda gave up on signal after that.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against 'shockingly dim' Trump White House

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  • I chose this one because it had the piracy community

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  • I'm a pachycephalosaurus guy myself.

  • Sarah McBride laughs off Trump’s anti-trans executive order: ‘He just declared everyone a woman’

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  • The simple existence of XY females (Swyer syndrome, 1 in 100,000 females) and XX males (de la Chapelle syndrome, 1 in 20,000 males) makes this binary declaration imperfect.

  • Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID

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  • Cool, now provide solutions that exist today for every other country

  • Maybe someday

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  • You mean they signed up for an app that actually works and generates a feed for you vs one that doesn't do either of those things?

  • Walgreens CEO Distressed to Learn That Locking Everything Up Keeps People From Buying It

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  • But the power tools are locked up and make noise. Bolt cutters are silent and not locked up in store.

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  • It does get stuck in a rut sometimes. If you kill the app and come back to it lsome time ater, that signals that they need to shake things up so your "randomness factor" (my term) gets boosted the next time you start scrolling.

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  • I have kids. I don't see how that's relevant here.

    Children shouldn't have social media accounts in my opinion. Nothing to attack or break into if it doesn't exist.

    A coworker shouldn't know enough or otherwise have enough access to your child such that they can break into their accounts.

    Failing all that, parents need to have frank discussions about the potential dangers of internet fans turning into real life people, and some of the more severe potential consequences.

    Even without those three layers of failure, your kids need to know about basic online account security, like using unique strong passwords and two factor authentication.

    That all being said- I don't know the people or the situation. But from your short account of things that's what I see as wrong with the situation.

    In general, the social networks of today are optimized for extracting value and attention from adult brains; an incomplete adolescent brain stands no chance.

    Kids can still socialize electronically just fine in group chats with the advent of RCS implementation on both major phone platforms.

    Not sure what kids in cages have to do with anything or why they were mentioned.

  • Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: 'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’

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  • If they had more than 2 people working at a time it wouldn't be a big deal

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  • If making Mr Weebl laugh at my TikTok comments is wrong I don't wanna be right.

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  • Name them!

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  • Tiktok shows you more of what you engage in and throws some randomness in there so you don't get stuck in a local minimum. It's like when YouTube's algorithm kinda worked and you could see how it'd possibly be better; bytedance actually pulled it off instead of enshittifying.

    And it takes time for the algorithm to learn your tastes. If you're a mouth breather at heart you're gonna get mouth breather content no matter how much you try and change it. If you're a perv and linger on thirst traps... You're going to see more thirst traps.

    With your described scenario, that's not unique to tiktok- that can happen on any platform when the child is unsupervised. It could have been twitch, Roblox, Instagram, Snapchat, it myriad other platforms; the real problem there is inattentive parenting.

    I've learned about more shitty local government practices from tiktok than any other platform. I've been exposed to points of view I'd never otherwise see. Random videos have triggered just as much progress on my mental health as years of therapy. I've found people far more articulate than me explaining shit that combats my family's far right talking points in a way where they actually listen and change their mind, and vice versa.

    I've also consumed an inordinate amount of white hot memes and mountains of brain rot lol

    But yeah. The TT algorithm is a mirror (given time). It reflects your persona back at you with the type of content you see.

  • Pick 3

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  • I feel like teleportation gets you an ability that makes money just fine. Hell, just invulnerability makes you valuable for cleaning up nuclear accidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima.

  • [AlphaPhoenix] built a 1,000,000,000 fps video camera to watch light move

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  • Yes he talks about that in the video. The researchers used $500k+ of equipment. He built a similar thing for under $1k

  • What is something you thought you knew your whole life and only just recently found out you were wrong the whole time?

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  • If you can't tell, then you don't have one.

  • What literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?

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  • My favorite spoonerism growing up was when someone in church would say "Bow your eyes and close your heads". I haven't been to church in 15 years but it still makes me chuckle thinking about it.