Politics And Current Events

Post by **Troy Loney** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:23 am

I thought banning tik tok was a GOP thing? I am pretty sure that was a Haley policy proposal.

It is awfully discouraging now how Biden really just wants to adopt all the center-right republican positions. I am about 99% convinced that this administration thinks that if they get more positive segments on Morning Joe and the Bullwark, they'll win the election.

Post by **dodint** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:31 am

Banning TikTok was a failed Trump Executive Order. Not sure how it got on his radar though, if that's what you meant.

Post by **NTP66** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:35 am

I, for one, would not care one bit if TikTok were banned.

Post by **Troy Loney** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:37 am

dodint wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:31 am Banning TikTok was a failed Trump Executive Order. Not sure how it got on his radar though, if that's what you meant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/us/p ... k-ban.html

Post by **dodint** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:37 am

I need to learn more about it before I take a stance. But it looks to be the exact same thing as the Huawei phone ban which nobody seems to care about.

Post by **DigitalGypsy66** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:41 am

TikTok is banned on SC state government networks. Evidently, on Texas government networks as well as my son sent me a Tiktok last week while I was staying at a conference on UT-Austin's campus.

Post by **willeyeam** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:06 am

my home life would be greatly improved if the gf did not have tiktok, get er done Joe

Post by **count2infinity** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:34 am

She'll just move to Instagram Reels, Ulfster.

Post by **CBear3** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:38 am

I feel completely ambivalent, especially considering every other social media platform has the same short video format available.

Post by **Morkle** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:56 am

I watch way more deaths and violent acts on Instagram compared to Tik Tok.

Post by **AuthorTony** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:07 am

Morkle wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:56 am I watch way more deaths and violent acts on Instagram compared to Tik Tok.

Post by **Morkle** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:25 am

AuthorTony wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:07 am
Morkle wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:56 am I watch way more deaths and violent acts on Instagram compared to Tik Tok.

you scroll long enough, you are 100% guaranteed to see some ****.

Post by **NTP66** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:27 am

Guess I'm glad I use neither.

Post by **tifosi77** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:21 pm

I scroll sort of a lot, and I have never seen deaths on IG, let alone, er, 'watch' them.

Post by **NAN** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:41 pm

I'm only seen some morons break bones jumping off roofs on Instagram. I've never used TikTok.

Post by **skullman80** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:54 pm

My IG feed is filled with random 80's/90's nostalgia, people making fun of corporate bosses, metal music, and sports pretty much. The random idiot doing something dumb, but never deaths or really even any sort of violence.

Post by **tifosi77** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:08 pm

My IG is basically fighter planes and things that jiggle. It's like I'm 14.

Post by **nocera** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:23 pm

It's based on your search algorithm and your follows. So Morkle, you got some explaining to do.

Post by **tifosi77** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:35 pm

The only jiggly things I actually search for and/or follow are food related accounts. But I you go to my Search menu.......... seriously, it's like I'm a 14 year-old who just figured this out.

Post by **nocera** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:36 pm

tifosi77 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:35 pm The only jiggly things I actually search for and/or follow are food related accounts. But I you go to my Search menu.......... seriously, it's like I'm a 14 year-old who just figured this out.

Uh huh. "I swear, honey, I have no idea how those posts got there."

Post by **Ad@m** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:49 pm

Morkle wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:56 am I watch way more deaths and violent acts on Instagram compared to Tik Tok.

Rotten.com?

Post by **Morkle** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:19 pm

tifosi77 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:21 pm I scroll sort of a lot, and I have never seen deaths on IG, let alone, er, 'watch' them.

Well consider yourself lucky. I see like 1-5 car crashes, and people getting hit by cars like multiple times a day. It's annoying, and I don't know what I did to get on that side.

Post by **count2infinity** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:14 pm

Very good video given the recent state of the union rebuttal:

Post by **Pavel Bure** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:06 pm

count2infinity wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:14 pm Very good video given the recent state of the union rebuttal:

Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug. My wife calls me a weirdo because when I see something (whether I agree or not) I try to dig in a bit. I’ve found it’s become exhausting a lot of times.

My rules have evolved a bit though,

1. I don’t believe anything on its face from twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Reddit, etc. Even with that approach I’ve been duped before and will be duped again.

2. I do my best to follow the source vetting process anyone that went to college learned. Again, exhausting.

3. I always remind myself that viral things, videos, short videos, whatever on the internet are either trying to sell me something or trying to elicit an emotional response. (This is why I can’t stand Toktok or Reels or any of that stuff. The Tradwife things are just ick and are so good at making working moms feel like garbage.)

It really feels like everything we see these days is carefully curated to sell, bring out emotion, or is made of bots searching for karma.

Post by **DigitalGypsy66** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:26 pm

Someone posted about their home owners insurance going up for seemingly no reason. Now, car makers are reporting driving habits to insurance companies. Good times.

Kenn Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives a leased Chevrolet Bolt. He’s never been responsible for an accident.

So Mr. Dahl, 65, was surprised in 2022 when the cost of his car insurance jumped by 21 percent. Quotes from other insurance companies were also high. One insurance agent told him his LexisNexis report was a factor.

LexisNexis is a New York-based global data broker with a “Risk Solutions” division that caters to the auto insurance industry and has traditionally kept tabs on car accidents and tickets. Upon Mr. Dahl’s request, LexisNexis sent him a 258-page “consumer disclosure report,” which it must provide per the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

What it contained stunned him: more than 130 pages detailing each time he or his wife had driven the Bolt over the previous six months. It included the dates of 640 trips, their start and end times, the distance driven and an accounting of any speeding, hard braking or sharp accelerations. The only thing it didn’t have is where they had driven the car.

On a Thursday morning in June for example, the car had been driven 7.33 miles in 18 minutes; there had been two rapid accelerations and two incidents of hard braking.

According to the report, the trip details had been provided by General Motors — the manufacturer of the Chevy Bolt. LexisNexis analyzed that driving data to create a risk score “for insurers to use as one factor of many to create more personalized insurance coverage,” according to a LexisNexis spokesman, Dean Carney. Eight insurance companies had requested information about Mr. Dahl from LexisNexis over the previous month.

“It felt like a betrayal,” Mr. Dahl said. “They’re taking information that I didn’t realize was going to be shared and screwing with our insurance.”

In recent years, insurance companies have offered incentives to people who install dongles in their cars or download smartphone apps that monitor their driving, including how much they drive, how fast they take corners, how hard they hit the brakes and whether they speed. But “drivers are historically reluctant to participate in these programs,” as Ford Motor put it in a patent application that describes what is happening instead: Car companies are collecting information directly from internet-connected vehicles for use by the insurance industry.

(Free share article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/tech ... =url-share)