Honestly, I'd take it over what we have now, or are about to get. Those people were at least smart enough to elect the best candidate.

My wife was de-uterized a few years back (mostly for other reasons), but it's been the best.

Unfortunately it always seems to be the dumbest that breed most.

Ahh bummer, thanks for the update. Hopefully it doesn't make it too difficult to vote

My wife and I tried, looks like we lost the presidential for KY, not super surprised, but disappointed.

Glad we won prop 2 though. We don't have kids, and they're not in our future, but they already keep taking too many funds from public schools.

Anyone have the result for prop 1?

All we need to do is freaking STOP standing in the way of the UN. How many times has the US vetoed the UN in attempts to assuage the horrors being visited on these Gazan people.

Your comment lead me to this article (CNN), because I kept hearing stuff like bytedance is primarily owned by American or non-chinese companies, blah blah blah. So I appreciate you prompting me to look further into it. Seems pretty cut and dry that you're correct. (Wasn't just this article that pointed it out, but it was the most inclusive and concise one I found)

All that said, what information can china get from the app that they don't already have, or can already purchase from any of the other data collectors/sellers available? Is it just the fact they can do it for free?

There's also the option that perhaps the CCP will decide (or maybe has already) to influence what Americans see on the app. Perfectly feasible, but in my experience, it shows you what it knows you like to see. My feed is primarily related to human rights, recent politics, American history, science and tech, and cute dog/cat videos. My wife's feed is primarily horse/animal, music, entertaining things. creepy old dudes complain all they see is half dressed teenagers dancing (we all know why they're seeing that). If they're interfering with the algorithm to influence American politics (like Russia did with Facebook), I think they're doing so poorly.

No no, I mean, if you're turning 18 on November 4th (or maybe even the 5th), you can register to vote earlier in the year. But you're only eligible for elections AFTER you're 18.

This was my thought as well. I get the feeling she's been fairly quiet on the subject until now due to the power AIPAC has in our politics. If she spoke out this whole time, I'm sure they would have thrown all their financial and political power against her.

I hope we're right.

Did you mean "demoNcrats"? That's the term the kids are using these days. I swear, the nicknames are the only things remotely clever about trump supporters.

Fair point, but if they were at all actually interested in American privacy, they'd not only target TikTok. Facebook, Twitter and Google have all been actually proven to have leaked or sold user information to anyone that'll pay (including American adversaries).

While I don't disagree that the risk is there with TikTok, all they can bring to bear against it is speculation and what-ifs. They have concrete proof of other companies willingly doing what they're afraid TikTok MIGHT do.

I don't think you can blame Twitter and TikTok for that. People who like Tate's toxic masculinity incel garbage will find somewhere that feeds into their preferences.