2035 is 11 years away, an election period is 6 years... yup, it's gonna be someone else's problem while making me look awesome.

Let's do that!

1. Put ads everywhere
2.???
3.Profit.

Considering Roku doesn't have their own ad network, I am sure Google is giving them sweet deal to entice corporate suicide.

Crap nobody wants gets sold cheaply before it becomes a paper weight. Film at 11.

Do you know by what mechanism microplastics result in physiological harm?

Our civilization cannot eliminate use of plastics. Many attempts to substitute already caused numerous issues. This treaty misses key point - plastic waste management and lack of recycling is by far bigger issue. More so,

My take is this effort is the result of Canada running out of money and looking for new things to tax. Otherwise they will be investing into domestic plastic recycling instead of shipping it to third-world countries.

The limits of free speech is where you abuse it. And you know it.

Twitter files and follow up court cases leave little doubt in my mind.

For decades I built my own PCs. My current PC is now almost 4 years old and I only updated video card. I don't think there is a case for upgradable PCs anymore.

I am 100% in agreement that TikTok harms kids. This is not why forced sale was imposed on it.

I think it has been said before in this thread, but nothing of value...

From what I read they shuffled board, changed people at bunch of C-level positions to US nationals, agreed to keep data in US, agreed to cooperate with national intelligence community. So it is simply not true that TikTok leadership did not attempt to do anything to stay in business in US.

While I am not at all sympathetic to TikTok, I am concerned if this ban will create precedent and give more power to the government. It only took few years from deplatforming Alex Jones to claiming that some inconvenient facts are malinformation and censoring people for posting counter-narrative messages. The same trajectory applied to this situation will get us Ministry of Truth running all social media.

I am certain Twitter/Musk is going to be exactly where TickTok is today by the end of 2025. Probably over some kind of FUD over Chinese business ties at Tesla or Russian business ties at Space X.

It's not exactly better, but at least less fucked up.