Ah, ok. So we’re doing whataboutisms. Got it.

I’ll go next: China is pushing its authoritarian influence outside its borders by setting up Chinese police stations in foreign countries like Canada, to put pressure on Chinese abroad from saying or doing anything that would put a negative light on the CCP by threatening harm to family members still living in China.

You’re turn.

There have been multiple studies that have demonstrated that pro-CCP content outweighs anti-CCP content by at least 3 to 1. Even on profiles that prefer anti-CCP content the pro content still gets suggested at a 3 to 1 ratio.

No american with an IQ above a glass of undrinkable tap water likes their government or thinks their country is worth anything.

Complete false dichotomy. This isn’t a “my government can beat up your government” squabble.

The reality is that ByteDance has offices for CCP officials in their buildings. The Chinese government has a direct line of influence on the people who work at that company. A government that has openly hostile relations with the West (not even just the USA).

This isn’t a discussion about whose government is better. It would be equally inappropriate for a US entity with direct control from the US gov to directly influence Chinese people via an algorithm to push propaganda. The Chinese firewall prevents such a thing from existing or having any significant impact, whereas the opposite isn’t true.

Well, the American one doesn’t have an incentive to turn its own people against its own government with propaganda. As is happening with Tiktok and pushing pro-CCP and anti-American content.

And even if the only concern was spying, it’s like saying “well a creep on the street snapped a nude photo of me through my windows, so I may as well take my own nudes and pass it around the neighbourhood.”

why should I give a shit about that at this point?

I guess we should just all lie down and die.

Honestly, this is one of the saddest and scariest comments I’ve read in a while.

“I’ve already had one McDonald’s burger that’s bad for me, I may as well only ever eat McDonald’s burgers! Why should I care at this point?”

China is the most capitalist country on the planet

What the hell did I just read?

Link to download? I checked the Play store and there’s a billion apps called Loops

Edit: I found it

https://loops.video/

That’s not entirely true. The push for KYC came because spam started going crazy. You have no clue how bad spam is right now. And believe me, you don’t know. Take the worst case scenario you can think of, and multiply that by 100, and that starts to describe the state of spam emails for the past decade.

It’s not. It had nothing to do with it. Nvidia was all in with Linux as soon as they realized their hardware could be used for data processing and AI. That realization was way more than a decade ago.

Nvidia was “forced” to integrate Linux into its ecosystem

100% bullcrap.

Nvidia’s servers for data processing have always run Linux. And you know what those servers run? It’s not Windows, that’s for sure. So why would they write multiple versions of a driver for the same hardware interface? Their servers use the same drivers that you would use for gaming on a Linux desktop system.

In fact, no version of Windows is supported on their DGX servers, and AFAIK you can’t even install Windows on it (even if you managed, it wouldn’t be usable).

Long story short, a vendor we were working with (about 6 or 7 years ago now), was working on their Linux version of their SDK. We wanted to do some preliminary testing on Nvidia’s new T4s that at this point were only available via Nvidia’s testing datacenter (which we had access to).

During a call with some of the Nvidia engineers I had to ask the awkward question of “any chance there’s a Windows server we can test on?”. I knew it was a cringe question and I died a little during the 10 second silence until one of the Nvidia guys finally replied with “no one uses Windows for this stuff”. And he said it slowly like the reply to such a question needed to go slow to be understood, because who else would ask that question unless you’re slow in the head?

Nvidia has always been hostile to the Linux community or negligent to say the least

People say “hostile”, but I think a better word is arrogant. They wanted to force the industry to use their own implementations they owned or pioneered like egl-stream instead of open standards. But AMD and Intel have proven that open source graphics drivers not only work, but benefit from being open so that the community can scratch their own itches and fix issues faster.

there are no major comprehensive studies that definitively show microplastics are a danger to the body

I’m not sure what your criteria for “major comprehensive study” is, but there are countless studies linking microplastics to all sorts of things. Most arterial plaques are full of microplastics. The massive drop of male fertility rates (50% globally) has been linked to microplastics. Microplastics have been demonstrated to interfere at the cellular level by mimicking hormones.

The specifics of everything that they’re doing to us is still unknown. But we know many bad things microplastics definitely are doing.

We’re WELL past “are microplastics bad?”. We’re at the point of figuring out how badly screwed we are.

He looked at his fingers and thought “I hope no one eats these. I better do something about that.”