I think the reason is less about “i, an individual, am getting my data harvested” (though certainly still a factor) byt more because China is still very much considered an enemy of the US, and they are not only harvesting americans data in a very invasive way - as in, recording pretty much everything you do on your phone, not just in the app - but an adversarial government now has access to all of that. Additionally, because the chinese “free market” has been effectively neutered in recent years, high chance that the CCP is able to influence TikTok’s algorithm to affect what people see and push propaganda. People should be concerned about it in the same way people should be concerned about russian bot farm, but more so, because there isn’t an audience of millions feeding russian bot farms their personal information.

Rock the vote, let’s rock the vote ba-by

Rock the vote, let’s tip vote O-VER~

Once again we’re being subject to the deep state’s WOKE agenda! First they tell us that RESPIRATORY ILLNESS and UNPASTURIZED DAIRY PRODUCTS are dangerous to control us and give us gay autism, and now they’re trying to brainwash us by scaring us away from our GOD GIVEN SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS!! Little snowflakes scared of a little lead?? Like this little semi-automatic riffle that I had somebody in Tennessee buy for me even though I have no use for it?? Scared of the wittle bullets I’m putting in? Scared of having a cute wittle gun pointed at you? Scared of resting it under your chin, like so? Scared of putting a wittle bit of pressure on the tr

(disclamer: this was supposed to be a “proverbially shooting yourself turned litteral” joke please don’t ban me)

I know that it’s probably just some combination of A. His sugar daddies want cheap labor and B. Democrats are leaning onto border controls so now he has to be contrarian, but you know what, if this gets republicans to embrace positive immigration reform, I’m here for it.

Still not voting for him though.

An 8-1 ruling is like, 5 broken clocks going at slightly different paces being right at the same time though! That’s pretty impressive, right?

Accidentally change the result by being the only voter lmao

Something something broken clock

Because they fight literally everything Biden does in court.

The most effective ways to die sound painful, and even for the “painless” ones, if you fuck it up you either suffer way too long or get slapped with insane medical debt and locked up in a loony bin for a ehile (usa). While I don’t fear death itself or have a strong emotional attachment to the life I’m living right now, my life’s in no way bad, so it’s still an easy choice for me.

All hail Wall Street

Bro I am the worst at remembering people. When I visit my hometown I sometimes get people coming up to me to say hi and I literally have no idea who they are. I can count on one hand the number of people I would actually recognize from this place I lived for 20 years of my life. Yes, I probably have some sort of cognitive dysfunction myself (on top of my serious introversion), but when it comes to “trump alzheimer’s” I am far more swayed by him rambling about sharks out of nowhere

Jesus I had to read your first sentence twice lmao. Initially thought it meant “it won’t matter who wins” as opposed to “your question is void in the event that Trump wins”, which made me think you were somehow arguing that Trump could do all that even if he lost

Kyoto. Absolutely beautiful, awesome cultural landmarks, and when I went pre-covid - we stayed in an air bnb - it had a cool large-town vibe despite being one of Japan’s major cities. I liked it much better than Tokyo.

I am polite, most of the time. Wouldn’t really consider myself nice tho.

Ah, resting bitch voice

there is just not enough time and energy left to get my ass in front of an IDE again.

The solution here is to revert to coding with punch-cards

The dark web stole my (copyrighted) identity

Dude, same. On top of that, I also struggle with imposter syndrome and a work for a company with a burnout culture, which a recipe for constantly kicking your own ass for not having literally everything done always, so I force myself to try to be “productive” the whole time, which always, ALWAYS backfires, but the guilt from watching everyone else work themselves to death is just too much. I’m hoping to switch to a remote job with a company who values employee wellbeing over “the grind” soon though.

OP did, in fact, confirm elsewhere in another comment. Still doesn’t guarantee he’s from a mental-health friendly nation, but it is kinda crazy that he was indicating that the USA was somehow inherently better for building relationships than other places…

Damn, had zero interest before but now I’m gonna go out of my way to actually buy his game