nervous merica

I find that people who use tiktok as their personal diary and going viral for the most idiotic takes is quite valuable.

It keeps reminding me that there is a significant part of the population who are truly awful human beings. And proud of it.

We already have precedent from India on this, and absolutely nothing happened. People just moved to other alternatives that were somewhat worse than tiktok, but otherwise generally comparable.

ByteDance left India in wake of similar legislation. That is a massive growth market with way more users.

Likely reason is that primary value of ByteDance is their massive recommendation algorithm superiority over everyone else. That is where almost all of their value comes from. Losing almost any single nation's market share pales in comparison to having to sell the algorithm to a foreign entity.

China never had capitalism. It moved from a nationalist pseudo-feudal system to a communist one, which is still in place.

More accurately, they do not want their algorithms copies by alphabet and meta. Youtube and Facebook/Instagram video recommendations are way, WAY worse than tiktok's. It's why tiktok won the short video war.

Youtube is hanging on the long video first mover advantage, where many long form video producers are dependent on higher revenues Youtube can offer. Youtube shorts are a meme for a reason.

Past discussion has stated that basically every large PRC Chinese company operates under a charter that allows the government to basically influence or take over the company at will.

Stop thinking of China as a Communist state. Start thinking of it as one giant company where the Politburo is the board of directors and the Inner Party are shareholders, and all of the people in China vary somewhere between employee and liability.

>problem lay with the right-wing Christian theocrat-wannabes who are afraid of two dudes in bed together

It used to. But today, games have the same attitude to male heterosexuality that people you hate with such passion have for homosexuality. So the entire structure inverted, and while serving heterosexuals means getting around 99% of the market, making a point not serving them does the opposite.

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>lest the viewer get an un-Godlike stiffie

That's your projection. Their argument is that it's against commandments of the God. Same as Islam. And no, in spite of the meme of your side being "homosexuality is inherent, heterosexuality is learnt and needs to be unlearned" (notably also found in peer reviewed academic papers in woke social sciences), turns out that instead of becoming gay because you all women have been uglified and masculinized in Western games, instead of going gay heterosexual men just buy them a lot less. Leading to the current crisis in video games industry, where massive projects crash and burn once woke come in and hit every attractive women, including those scanned from attractive models with an uglification demand. We don't even have male and female body/face models any more in fact. It's all "body type A" and "body type B" because of woke, because stating that there are males and females is offensive to them. And and the current ongoing trend is to forcibly fuse male features into female models, because just like you projected above, woke do believe that if you do that, you may give heterosexuals "un-Godlike stiffie" and they become their clients and join alphabet people.

Just because you unplugged the bible from your religious circuit doesn't mean that that circuit doesn't get filled by something else. Something much, much worse. One who hunts monsters beware, for when you gaze into the abyss, abyss gazes back into you. And among destructive religions, top position in genocide, slavery and torture is held by by various Marxist denominations.

Fire risk.

Exceedingly important in last mile of deployment, where consumption can be somewhat unpredictable and you can't rely on the fusing to work properly on each line.

I'm sure it is in your magical world. In real world on the other hand, it's the point from the downvolting to 230V, not to even talk about 110V systems where using anything else would necessitate active cooling of cables in most places with any meaningful demand. Try hooking up a small apartment building with residential voltages and watch the your cute hollow core cable melt and burn under load.

>I have never seen a single utility that charges a flat grid access fee to residential consumers, anywhere on Earth.

This is why I can tell that you do not understanding anything about grids. Your understanding is that of a person for whom electricity comes from a socket, and you pay for it. So your association is that "you pay grid for electricity, because that's what they base the bill on". It's that of a dumb consumer. This is why the accurate stereotype of a typical green is a person who thinks food comes from a supermarket, electricity from a socket and water from a tap. Because you are just that abstracted from what it actually happening.

In reality, grids are logistical companies that sell logistical services. They're fairly similar to rail companies in how they function, as they're also typically natural monopolies. The fact that their billing mechanism typically exists as a function of amount of goods they transfer doesn't make them people who make money selling goods. They don't sell you electricity. They sell you transit services. People who sell you electricity are electricity producers. In many sane nations, including mine they attempt to cure this idiotic misconception you have about grids being ones who sell you electricity by legally mandating separation of bills. Where transmission companies and producers don't just charge you differently, but you can choose who you buy your electricity from based on pricing. And then you pay a fee per unit of kWh transferred to grid company on top of that. Because you're not paying latter for electricity. You pay it for transit services.

Compare US coal emission to global carbon emission, it's nothing.

So, you majored in basket weaving?

I am not actually joking that much. These things are something the religio-fascists and other totalitarians assholes love to force on everybody.

Does not apply here because you are too thick to understand what Clarke was actually saying. But you can shove your condescending attitude up your ass.

expensive quality vehicle are made in China, sure. Tesla and such, they'd pass USA standards.

But those cheap car-shaped gocarts and golf carts you see doing hilarious rolls and ricochets in youtube videos, no

or people like you who can't do math and realize the carbon contribution from U.S. coal plants is now negligible