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Look for this to be used as an excuse by the incoming administration to ditch electric vehicles and renewable energy.

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That’ll take care of the unemployment problem.

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If you expressed “negative sentiment” toward insurance companies on social media following the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last month, the government was watching.

Like, that’s just about everyone. Good luck with that!

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I just checked, and TikTok is indeed down in the US. I just tried to go there and got this message:

ETA: Also, fuck TikTok for the ass kissing third sentence.

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The ass-kissing sentence is not there in some instances. Don’t know what makes the difference. Red state, blue state?

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I dunno. I’m in a red state. Could be.

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It’s also no longer in the Apple app store.

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Xiaohongshu Is still in the App Store. I didn’t know if it still would be because I read that the same law that banned TikTok would also apply and I’ve read that bytedance’s other app lemon8 or something like that is also shut down in the US

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When NYC has bills up the ying-yang and 5 or 6 years on the NYPD force can earn one well over $100,000/year plus sweetheart pensions, being under-funded and under-staffed follows suit.

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Interesting. I used to play this game.

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That will be a fucking huge database!

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When I checked TikTok last night, I had the trump message. Today I have this:

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Accidents, not Russian sabotage, behind undersea cable damage, officials say
An emerging consensus among U.S. and European security services holds that accidents were the cause of damage to Baltic seabed energy and communications lines

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/19/russia-baltic-undersea-cables-accidents-sabotage/

https://archive.is/bFj1b

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Remember, he hasn’t been tried yet.

At this point, the charges are just more fanfiction.

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