They did not. Years before this, ever heard of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, Discord, Snapchat, Reddit, Tumblr, Dropbox, Medium, Wikipedia, Pinterest... .etc? China banned them all way before Trump became president. We can talk if some of them can get unbanned from the Great Firewall. The world is still *too generous* when it comes to banning Chinese products. A lot more can be done. Huawei, ZTE, TikTok should only be the beginning.

This is only true for countries with 2 parties and a FPTP system. Many governments adopt proportional representations with many parties, they see much less flip flops between opposites. Therefore, the flip-flopping has nothing to do with a government being democratic. It has much more to do with how democracy is implemented.

As a long time EV owner, I've found out that the old relic of a 12v battery still determines whether your car can move or not, and I bet a couple of more EV owners can chime in with their own experience - yes, there's no spark plugs and coils, but unfortunately something is still in the way of making it a completely serene experience until they get vital functions of the car off the 12v batteries, or even better, just get rid of it.

Their system of government is fully capable of producing diplomats like Lu Shaye. Who brings nothing but trouble to his master, ruins his master's scheme to divide the West, and exposes how inefficient that system of government is you are such a fan of. They're able to make quick decisions on resource allocations, sure. What is much less certain, is that whether their "longer term objectives" is even well agreed within the party, much less achieved eventually.

Which open standard are they embracing, extending, and extinguishing? (that's what this term came from, in case it wasn't extremely obvious)

> So you have no idea I think this statement is vastly exaggerated. I know exactly how much battery is used up and how much it draws if I leave my car plugged in. Quite sure I won't learn any lesson the hard way nor do I need to look anything up. I'm saying that the decrease does not affect me enough to be a concern. -50%? That's fine as long as the battery capacity is high enough to begin with.

Correction: sounds like it was the "speed-ups" that was explained. So could dark matter both speed up and slow down things at different scales?

slow-down of stars around their galaxy -> dark matter became a possible explanation slow-down of binary system involving blackholes -> it's where the dark matter is hiding! If this research purports to explain where the dark matter is, that doesn't sound right to me. It's more like these binary systems exhibits a similar slow-down previously observed, which were explained away with dark matter.

I drive an EV, never parked inside and our climate sometimes drops to -15F, no problem. You don't need a heated garage.

Running on synthetic fuel from captured carbon is fine. As long as the cars are not able to run on natural fossil fuel. If the cars can still practically run on old fuel, this is a total BS.

Instability due to seemingly random power draw led to frustration that never ended. Switched back to RaspberryPi, rock solid. So, thanks, but no thanks.

This is an intentional attack, and nothing less than revoking their signing key would be done. Of course most of the users are in China and don't even download it from Google. Practically it amounts to nothing.

It should not take more than a day for a competent tech giant to find this out, perhaps give it another day to decide whether to suspend download, and one more day to execute. 3 days tops. Day 4: automatic removal of such app on all devices with a one click confirmation from the user.

I believe the opposite will happen. I'd certainly more inclined to do business in the EU if their officials don't have TikTok installed.

This. There shouldn't even be a discussion. Business / Government devices should not have Social Network apps installed, except when your job function actually requires using them on a mobile device. It is basic security sanity. Of course, knowing TikTok is effectively controlled by an authoritarian government, I'd scrutinize it even more than other Social Network apps, even on personal devices.