Or dropping the first “r” and being blinded by ska porn.
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Or dropping the first “r” and being blinded by ska porn.
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Trained for years on Skyline 3-Ways.
Dr Steve Brule, for your shoulder health…!
I’m sharing a screenshot of the two together as “how it started / how it’s going”.
Oh how far we’ve come…
https://theonion.com/what-biden-can-do-to-win-over-gen-z-1851427528/5/
The artist is SpookToons ( https://spooktoons.carrd.co/ ), and here’s the link to their original BlueSky post for the image: https://bsky.app/profile/spooktoons.bsky.social/post/3kyjhptojhe2h
Asking the person you’re debating to look up your own citations is certainly one way to converse. But ok, let’s go for it.
In Aug 2023, Forbes published an article describing the proposal of “unfettered access” you referred to:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/08/21/draft-tiktok-cfius-agreement/
In June 2024, the Washington Post reported that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) turned down the proposal and includes some broad reporting as to why:
The article isn’t very technical, but it mentions some interesting responsibility angles that the US wouldn’t want to back themselves into:
The second article explains this somewhat, but I’m admittedly painting some conjecture on top regarding how a malicious actor could behave. I’ve got no evidence that Byte Dance is actually doing any of that.
But going back to the “influence the public” angle, I’m struggling to see how different TikTok is versus NHK America (Japan’s American broadcasts) or RT (American media from the Russian standpoint) aside from being wildly more successful and popular. But I guess that’s all there is to it.
I’d prefer our leaders also be transparent with us regarding their concerns about TikTok. The reductive “because China!!1!” argument is not compelling on its own.
Do you have any citation for that?
Does ByteDance publish TikTok’s transmission protocol to demonstrate transparency?
Skibidi Toilet is old hat by now, but this was the first I’d heard of “What the sigma”.
I’m getting 50% Dr. Thaddeus “Rusty” Venture vibes.
Excuse me, that’s Vice President Trump.
Hang on one second babe…
(clap-clap)
Nobody ever put mushroom duxelles in my corndogs. I feel cheated.
My head canon for the kids anime film Penguin Highway is that the plot is about a visitation by >3 dimensional beings. Adventures in flatland, but we’re living in flatland.
Gonna need you to take about 20% off the top there Dashie.
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I started paying attention to this stuff back when Dolby Pro Logic was new, which was a pretty clever way to get surround effects using only left and right audio channels. Left and right channels went directly to the front left and right speakers, but it also compared wave forms coming from the left and right channels. Any wave forms that matched got sent to the center channel (like most on-screen dialog) and any that mismatched got sent to the rear surround speakers (noise, ambience, etc). It wasn’t perfect by any measure, but it was a pretty clever hack.
If your analog control requires your entire hand, it’s interesting.
If your analog control requires several pointing fingers, it’s interesting.
If your analog control requires your thumbs, it’s shit.
Now get the fuck out of my office!