This is why I go out of my way to not drive by these big vehicles. I do not trust the overworked, and tired drivers, nor do I trust the companies they work for.

Reading through these comments… yikes guys. I use TikTok sometimes, and love the content it provides that YouTube does not provide. Seeing the straight up hate for the app, mixed with the misunderstanding of what the app CAN be if you actually use it, is chilling to say the least. If they were banning ALL social media apps, and their companies, I’d be all for this. As it is, I can not see why you would all be cheering so hard for TikTok to be sold to some American asshole, just for it to start getting enshittified, and then STILL sell your data to Russia, China, and anyone else who wants a slice. The fact you are all hating on TikTok so much, but not questioning our own American social media companies, and wanting them to be banned too, is frightening.

I’ve seen a few comments saying it is spyware. On iOS at least, there is an icon that pops up to let you know when an app is using your camera or microphone. Not only that, but when you start an app for the first time, it has to request to you the user if you want to allow it access to these things. I said no, of course, because when I first started using it, I fucking hated TikTok. Turns out, when you use it for like a week, it starts to get REALLY good at delivering content you want to see.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter, as I’m sure plenty of you will disagree, complain, and then go on using your American owned social medias, that are still hoovering up and selling your data.

The only differences being that China wasn’t making a cent out of me, nor do any of these equally shitty American social medias. Oh well, I guess we just really love our own little national narratives.

Cheers. May we outlast this crazy shit, or at the very least, not suffer when it all comes crashing down.

It’s interesting to see someone’s perspective as you.

I am on a slightly different path in that I have always not splurged on myself because I always wanted to know I was secure, but after the shit show that has been the last 6 years, I now splurge more than ever because I’m not even sure if I’ll be here tomorrow.

Truly, at this point, all that I ever worked hard for in life is so far out of my reach, I just really do not give a fuck anymore.

Use AI as a means to address real, and actual problems that could be fixed with data that shows the problem areas, what the areas problem is, and with just a tiny little bit of thinking, fix those issues so that you quell the entire problem of homelessness from the getgo? Ew, fuck no!

Use it to make the poor miserable peasants problems even worse, while not even considering the alternative that would be fixing the exact issue you are wasting tax money on and prevent it from happening nearly as much? HELL YEAH BROTHER!

It happened to me just two days ago. Beware!

Right! This seems to be the prevailing missing puzzle piece to most of these people’s thought process. They’re skipping over the fact that CHILDREN are WORKING instead of, oh I don’t fucking know, BEING CHILDREN?