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Blind Fury (1989) was my guilty pleasure. 6.3/10 on imdb.

Contains a death scene like Darth Maul's but predating it by 10 years.

Trump brilliantly figured out the best ways to get votes, and it worked. He has no reason to do anything he promised because either he just stops democracy (I don't think so) or goes away in 4 years and is not allowed to run again -- either way, he doesn't need to care that much about popularity. The number one reason he wanted to become president was to get immunity from the numerous crimes he had done.

That's why I think the tariffs are not going to happen. It would directly hurt the richest corporations. Why would they do it? Because they promised to? Okay

If we hypothize that we're already in a sort of cyberwar where different nations apply these platforms to influence the people of other nations to their selfish gains, TikTok can be thought of being the enemy whereas Youtube/FB/even Twitter are sort of friendly.

Or well, that's how it should be, but in the real world all of these platforms are used by the enemy to influence us. With TikTok they just hold all the levers.

Military sent to Ukraine

You really think Trump is going to do that? I like your optimism.

He should lose sleep from getting executed for treason, for handing the western world to Putin on a platter.

TikTok gathering data and selling it to whoever is a problem but it's not the problem.

The problem of TikTok and many other social media is that it drains our energy and motivation. It's like digital weed, creates the feeling that there's no reason to change things. We can just consume things.

Oh, there goes that neighborhood.

Debbie does Dallas would've been a rather mediocre high school drama without the sex scenes.

No, actually...

... but seriously, the Internet is so different from real life that no comparisons make sense. Opinions that would have been uttered by the craziest village idiots in a local gas station 30 years ago are now distributed and magnified by the social media machine. In the past, you could see with your eyes, hear with your ears and even smell with your nose which people you really really should not listen to, but in the internet, those people look exactly like you and me.

And it's all sapping your energy and time, the most precious resources you have.

That's why blocking is fine, even whole instances if they are shown to be crazy enough.

Also, I would like to point out that the creators of the clients for the first community platforms (usenet) recognized early on the importance of shutting people up (killfiles).

Save your sanity and do Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmy.ml

Also perhaps block me if you strongly disagree with the above.