Now I know how I am going to tile my kitchen.

You gotta be able to delineate an US vs a Them to have a team. Race has been used, geography has been used, religion has been used. But one thing is sure, if you're a loner vs a bunch of teams one of the teams that IS able to delineate us vs them will win.

Are you an organism, or a collection of cells working individualistically?

They should make it a law that every site must be usable over Tor and they must accept any email address including throwaway ones, and not verify any phone number or other thing to be able to be certain of your identity. You get as much privacy as you want then.

Any regulation will be captured and abused against one side or another.

TikTok and other Chinese Communist Party controlled entities are uniquely vulnerable. I'm fine these are banned.

Basically the CCP can, on demand, make anything go viral on TikTok it wants or suppress any thing.

Of course the same is true for other social media, and these are susceptible to hostile foreign influence as well including from China. Even if China doesn't have direct control as with TikTok, it can define what 'advertisers will associate with'. If you have any exposure to China either by having assets in China, the desire to sell into China, or deal with companies with exposure to China and want to continue, you need to do what China says.

And China is far from the only foreign force at work, Everyone and their brother wants to influence the USA. it's just one of the biggest.

Power in the USA goes
1) Media are in charge - they shape what voters see
2) Voters vote in the way media has trained them to

If you want to control the USA to be you control the media.

There were a few minutes when peer to peer communication let the plebs start to form an opinion, but that's been clamped down upon. There are those that won't forget, and lemmings weilded through media training by those with money and power to do what they want. Much of the money and power is from places like China, Israel and others.

How about banning social media from collecting any identifying information such as name address etc?

Well it was done without any student debt slowly a little at a time over years. I took the first course with her because she was too young, but she did them all. My brother suggested it because he thought she might be good at it.

It may be that for a while people's bodies are harder to reproduce than their minds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

At least they wiped the screen of the phone down with magic alcohol that leaves an invisible film that is totally not just insurance that will prevent it from cracking or you can get a new phone by sending in the warranty papers you paid for but lost because you were under the impression there would be an actual physical barrier to the screen cracking.

China should take the lead in doing this and tell us how it goes.

I think the military hasn't cottoned onto that yet from what I hear - they're a bit olde fashioned.

My kid is starting college in the fall and completed a full course of welding certifications while in high school. So she'll be covered even if ChatGPT makes degrees worthless. And she can weld spikes on mad-max mobiles if SHTF.

They are a scam because they create new money to drive up the prices of things and then the things prices fall and people can't pay back the loans and the disaster is born by everyone while the profits were made by a few.

It' all very analogous to the goldsmith of yor printing out IOUs promising to be able to exchange them for gold int he future when the future is unpredictable.

Ultimately banks are in the business of underwriting risk and allocating capital. When it doesn't go according to plan ( there is never a plan systemically - see above ) the risk is born by the bank and ultimately if enough banks fail by everyone who has to bail them out. Banks are outsourced top down central planning because no society is ever or will ever have the discipline to use austiran economic theory. FDR will always eat a Herbert Hoover's lunch and make things worse.

Unironically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Memba when you had to pay tens of dollars for albums on media that wears out and we couldn't all just use youtube-dl to get mp3s? Come on, you know you want a giant disk that spins on a suitcase sized player.

Ballot mules stuffing boxes with harvested ballots could be found if they looked for phones that visited activist orgainizations and then more than two or three ballot boxes. The FBI should look into this use for the location data it purchased.

Also I want the following: A VOIp/Text recieving doohickey that will forward me calls and texts to a burner number of my choice, so I can roll with a phone I bought wearing a branch covidian mask with cash and all calls appear to go to my landline at home.

Thinking banks aren't a scam... At least Dai is overcapitalized... There's others too.. I think kava has one... not sure how it works.