Also if China wanted, they could just buy it from meta or whoever. And really, does the PRC have any control over TikTok's US data? Last I heard they had to give it all over to oracle or someone, but idk I can't pay attention to all this shit
I downloaded rednote and tried to upload a video today and couldn't get it to work. The first couple of tries the video was choppy and out of sync with the sound and then I couldn't pick a cover, etc. I'm hoping they are just being crushed by increased traffic because I'd really like a proper global platform
Edit: so I was able to post a video and it seems fine. I think the editor is buggy because the video was definitely fucked when I hit post, but it uploaded without the choppiness
Firefighters in areas with regular forest fires don't have "surplus" equipment
They definitely do? Surplus is more than just extra shit sitting in storage until you need it. You gotta maintain that equipment, which requires people, time, and money. If the equipment isn't maintained it would be just as useless as not having it at all. Obviously there is a line somewhere when it becomes too costly to maintain surplus equipment and it's better to get rid of it.
I'm not saying LAFD is run well or defending any of this shit, but to call people morons (kinda ableist btw) over this is silly and you're wrong anyway
I get paid to do this what do you mean?
I lose them, but I have this pop socket thing on my phone that looks like a record and spins
Can you imagine parents of an autistic child spending $800 to help them?
Wish he would have died after vape naysh
Kids? That's the marines specialty
It's at least $50 billion a year for the IHS
Can someone provide an example of something Canada can do that the CIA can't other than like...vote in the UN or something?
Also autistic, so don't trust me too much on this, but maybe try something like a group chat with them first? Then you can either patiently wait for one of the friends to invite you to something or drop hints or straight up ask if anyone wants to hang out. If you wanna get wild, do it when your best friend is busy with something else.
Idk, I'm not good at having friends so I feel like my advice is probably bad here if you want to maintain your relationship with your best friend, but if the other people want to be your friend and you want to be their friend, your best friend should help that happen, not prevent it
Edit: hell, even if they don't want to be your friend he should help you anyway. Honestly I'm getting kinda mad at your friend rn
Haha I love textbooks! You can get a massive amount of info all in one place and as long as it's not a shitty book you can usually rely on the info to be relatively accurate. The reason I think an intro textbook is good for studying philosophy is that it will give you a broad look at the topic without an overwhelming amount of detail and typically there is some effort put into the order in which the info is presented, which matters a lot when we're talking about thousands of years and dozens of different philosophers. Like don't only read textbooks by Marxists, but it's not a bad place to start
We also don't have to decide what to put in the text as these books already exist. There are a lot of Marxist academics, especially in philosophy. Obviously there are disagreements and such, but idk what your point is tbh. I'm just saying to find an intro to philosophy book written with dialectical materialism in mind. Even one without a Marxist perspective would be useful to anyone trying to learn about philosophy.
I didn't think about this before, but an intro to philosophy textbook written by a Marxist would probably be a great resource for a sort of generalized understanding of the history of philosophy without all the liberal bullshit and hero worshipping. Plus you can just about always get a PDF of textbooks
Plato is a good place to start if you're already comfortable reading difficult texts. Mainly because of how influential he was to all of the other western philosophers. A more modern starting point would probably be Bertrand Russel, most of his stuff is easier to parse.
If you're purely interested in the historical context of these ideas and their influences on societies, I'd say read it mostly "in order" as the ideas tend to build on one another. If you're trying to understand some specific aspects of life or something, like you're interested in the philosophy part itself and not just the historical context then I'd say write your questions down and look for the authors who discuss them the most.
Anyway, Diogenes is the only ancient philosopher worth a fuck and the meaning of life is to overthrow our oppressors
Idk if these technically count as survival, but Satisfactory and No Man's Sky are both great. Ark has probably changed a lot since I played it, but I loved it once I found a good server
Future Democratic President Liz Cheney with Vice President...uh, one of W's kids?
Any time I see politicians in a row I think about those rad 2 for 1 shots you can do in video games
I wanted to say Tim Cain but I know that's wrong, but like...it's not really wrong
Can we bring back the 1780s and reboot the guillotine?