Social Media: The God That Failed

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tragabigzanda wrote:
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tragabigzanda wrote:Amazing what daily ice baths can do to the human brain.
and looking directly at the sun for ten minutes to start and end your day.
:haha: does he do that too?
it's one of his bio hacks for better sleep.

he preaches it. does he do it himself? jury's out.

he popped up on a couple of podcasts I used to listen to, and talked about all his junk science.

I shouldn't say that. Who knows what works and what doesn't? I will say that after that story about him came out, and it turned out he was just some dude who used his platform to bang multiple chicks at once, which he has a right to do, I figured he was just like every other cult leader.
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BurtReynolds wrote:Saw something about the CEo shooter having a botched back surgery that made him crazy. I can relate to back pain making you crazy.
It'd be too perfect if he went nuts after an Ayahuasca trip. I suppose they don't let you do that unless you have founding equity in something or other.
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Techbroin' is harder on your head than on your feet.
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He’s an Ivy League grad from a rich family. I wonder what set him off?
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Keep your kids off of TikTok.
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Doesn't Facebook and Twitter do the same thing?
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B wrote:Doesn't Facebook and Twitter do the same thing?
The ultra-short format videos have a measurably different effect on attention and stress. Haidt wrote a #1 NYT best-seller on the topic:

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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They're all doing that now though
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and no one cares about that anyway
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Suck it Trump, this thing has got to go
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I see the final stage of selling TikTok to Elon is nearly complete.
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Honest question,

What stops a new, identical Chinese app from popping up and replacing TikTok?
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B wrote:Honest question,

What stops a new, identical Chinese app from popping up and replacing TikTok?
The backend compute power, then it will need to get popular and hope the advertisers come back before users revert to instagram or something like that. Not much else
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Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:Honest question,

What stops a new, identical Chinese app from popping up and replacing TikTok?
The backend compute power, then it will need to get popular and hope the advertisers come back before users revert to instagram or something like that. Not much else
So, safe to say that this ban doesn't do anything to protect US citizens' data. It just smacks down the current, most obvious risk.
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B wrote:Honest question,

What stops a new, identical Chinese app from popping up and replacing TikTok?
It’s already here and it’s called Rednote.
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Stop trying to make fetch happen, Bammer.
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