Really?

I mean I understand whatsapp has E2E encryption but they sell all your metadata and account data and stuff dont they. Does telegram do worse?

I don’t know. I’m having a much better time getting friends to move to telegram than signal.

I prefer signal, but they all seem to prefer telegram as an alternative.

Not everyone can afford a laptop or a computer and torrenting is a pain in this ass on a phone with low storage.

Me coming back to my bike 30 seconds after leaving it with only the wheel locked.

It started off in the black community to refer to people who were aware of systemic injustices against black people.

To imply TikTok isn’t influencing people is baseless ignorance or deliberately misleading.

Either you’re not actually replying to me or strawmanning me because I said said this.

Social media + easily influenced kids is bound to have an effect.

Apart from that, all I said was that the poll showed correlation between tiktok use and favourable views of Russia/China. I said the poll didn’t show causation, not that it didn’t exist. And I was only talking about views of Russia/China not generally on if tiktok is influencing people.

What?

You do realise the far right is explicitly using tiktok and has been extremely successful there. They have awful nazi shit on it. Just the algorithm doesn’t shove it in your face if you’re a leftist à la Musk.

Social media + easily influenced kids is bound to have an effect.

But I agree this news doesn’t show causation just correlation.

When you don’t have an independent judiciary, or serious appeal laws, it’s pretty quick.

Fuck this. If anyone deserves to die in the souless arseholes in charge who let this happen.

His whole political career has been a conflict of interest.

It’s more that your argument is logically flawed and the person responding is pointing that out.

For what it’s worth I do think crypto is scammer’s paradise, but your original comment does not provide any real justification for that except a single example. Nor is saying “jump of a bridge” really polite.

I’m going to give you a five star review to balance it. (Swiss app store)

(bribing).

Didn’t some guy who has a 1 billion stake in Bytedance massively finance the Trump campaign, or am I misremembering?

It’s disappointing. As someone who’se worked as a health advocate for a particular disease, she was honestly my favourite NIH director. She genuinely listened and cared and met words with actions.

Her replacement is looking terrible.

The majority of the NIH’s Recover Cohort (the largest studied cohort of people with Long COVID) was vaccinated.

Recent literature reviews put the risk of getting long COVID at about 10% for vaccinated people and 12% for unvaccinated. So definitely it helps, but it really isn’t a miracle. And the studies showing vaccines had a therapeutic effect on long COVID itself failed replication.

The majority of people with Long COVID were vaccinated. (Because the majority of people were vaccinated and vaccination only slightly reduces chances of long COVID).

Also, many long COVID cases happened before the vaccines even came out.

So I don’t think your attitude of victim blaming really works here.

Legislative business in Minnesota’s 2025-2026 state House session began Tuesday at noon Central Time; or perhaps it hasn’t begun at all. It depends whom you ask.

The 66 members of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL)—Minnesota’s affiliate of the national Democratic Party—elected to the lower chamber did not show up Tuesday; these Democrats argue that work can’t begin until after a January 28 special election takes place to fill an open seat in a blue district.

With that seat unfilled, the Republicans lead the chamber 67-66. It’s a temporary advantage the party has vowed to use to try unseating Democratic state representative Rep. Brad Tabke, which could help them cement the GOP’s interim edge for the remainder of the term. Perhaps more importantly, Republicans used the Democrats’ absence on Tuesday to vote in a Republican House speaker.

I applaud your otimism in thinking it will be democratised and not a luxury for wealthy classes.

The Impressia for Pixelfed app has been serving me well the past 6 months.