House passes TikTok ban bill, but its Senate path unclear
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok if its China-based owner doesn’t sell, as lawmakers acted on concerns that the company’s current ownership structure is a national security threat.
The bill, passed by a vote of 352-65, now goes to the Senate, where its prospects are unclear.
TikTok, which has more than 150 million American users, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese technology firm ByteDance Ltd.
The lawmakers contend that ByteDance is beholden to the Chinese government, which could demand access to the data of TikTok’s consumers in the U.S. any time it wants. The worry stems from a set of Chinese national security laws that compel organizations to assist with intelligence gathering.
Chyna released a terrorist app that made kids do stupid dances and cut off their sex parts!
Nancy Pelosi supports this bill, so I have a hard time riding with the devil.
“This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It’s an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-Tac-Toe. A winner. A winner.”
— Rep. Pelosi
(100% true accurate quote straight from the drunk’s mouth.)
Social media videos push baseless conspiracy theory that blue items were spared from Maui wildfires
CLAIM: Only blue items survived the Maui wildfires and lasers do not impact that color, suggesting the island was actually hit by a directed energy weapon “attack.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The wildfires didn’t spare only blue things, with photos and videos clearly showing buildings and objects of many colors both survived and perished. And while lasers can affect various materials differently, one powerful enough to do such damage would still burn items of any hue, according to an expert. More importantly, there is ample evidence that Maui was ravaged by fires, while the notion that a weapon or laser was involved has been repeatedly debunked.
THE FACTS: False claims that a directed energy weapon was the real cause of the devastation on Maui have been circulating online since the fires in early August, despite all evidence to the contrary.
The latest iteration of the baseless conspiracy theory uses cherry-picked images of the aftermath to falsely suggest that only blue items “survived” the blaze — and that this is somehow proof that the Hawaiian island was hit by a laser that either sparked the fire or did all the damage itself.
FAKE NEWS! PAINT EVERYTHING BLUE!
“Tic-Tac-Toe. A winner.”
WTF? I’ve never been that drunk.
Heh…I thought he was kidding:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nancy-pelosi-goes-viral-with-tic-tac-toe-speech/ar-BB1jPVH6
She’s optimistic about the Donkeys’ chances later this year… lush with victory.
Nancy Pelosi likes sex on the beach!
Sounds of velcro have traumatized me
I’m sure it looks like a stack of old steak-ums. With cheese.
In related news, YouTube is trying to block Invidious.
Is it a series of tubes?
Given what Massie said on it, I hope it dies. Just the sort of thing they would use to sneak in official “disinformation” powers.
Looks like it will pass based on the House vote.
I also doubt that any of them besides Massie read it.
It’ll pass unless they table it until after the election for political reasons.
THE FACTS: False claims that a directed energy weapon was the real cause of the devastation on Maui have been circulating online since the fires in early August, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Easier to say it was space lasers than to admit that Maui County’s fire department was woefully incompetent (just like pretty much every other government program run by Hawaiians).
If I’m going to believe a conspiracy theory — the one that the current government doesn’t want the prior owners to move back so they can sell the land to richer developers and dramatically expand their tax base is my front runner.
CLAIM: Only blue items survived the Maui wildfires and lasers do not impact that color, suggesting the island was actually hit by a directed energy weapon “attack.”
It’s aliens.
I’m not saying you’re fishing for Swiss to post that meme image…..
You mean it wasn’t Trump’s fault?
Or Trump is an alien. Or just controlled by
the Hairone….You have your mind-control chain of command mixed up, Trump is being mind-controlled by Netanyahu and Putin, its Putin that the aliens are controlling. Jeeze.
The correct term is undocumented extraterrestrial visitors.
We have officially entered the territory where it’s crazier to not believe in aliens than it is to believe in them.
Heh.
I admit it has been a long time since Re-mag and Optics and all… but “That depends entirely on the laser” is my understanding there. Lots of sci-fi where laser adaptive panels to change reflectivity versus absorbance because of just such things over the years… This one was particularly good at the start.
CLAIM: Only blue items survived the Maui wildfires and lasers do not impact that color, suggesting the island was actually hit by a directed energy weapon “attack.”
Yeah, okay.
Google “Blue waffle project” and prepare to be amazed.
No no no
That’s Amy Winehouse lyrics. Not relevant to the conversation.
Well, since I would have expected that to be about the Blue Man Group going to breakfast while listening to the Alan Parsons Project… I suppose I’d pretty much have to be.
Blueberry waffles for breakfast with the parson? Have to wear pants and clean shirt
“Tic-tac-toe.”
Is that like, “Game, set, match.”?
More like ‘we came, we saw, TikTok (1st Amendment) died’
At Haleakala National Park atop Maui’s tallest peak, the buildings are impregnable to fire, since they’re constructed of the native rock.
Even the public restrooms use locally quarried igneous rocks. That’s why they’re called lavatories.
The Park’s IT infrastructure is sorely out of date, though…. as I understand it, they’re still running Caldera.
That was magmificent.
These puns are not putting os on solid ground.
They are kind of igneous though.
Ah ah, I see what you did there.
I wasn’t aware of that conspiracy theory. Thanks for bringing my attention to it AP, and for letting millions of others know about it too.
Who’s going to believe that?
The top executive of the major insurance company Chubb defended underwriting former President Trump’s appeal bond in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit Wednesday.
“When Chubb provides an appeal bond it has nothing to do with the underlying merits or with favoring any of the parties in the case,” Evan Greenberg, Chubb’s chair and CEO, wrote in a letter to customers who inquired about the decision.
“As the surety, we don’t take sides, it would be wrong for us to do so and we are in no way supporting the defendant,” he continued. “We are supporting and are part of the justice system plumbing included in this case.”
He’s obstructing justice.
The word “justice” has a different meaning now. Just like “democracy”.
It’s Democratic Justice.
Justice League of Democracy
Letitia James replied that she hasn’t seen a Chubb in years and wouldn’t know what to do with it anyway…
Fani Willis, on the other hand, is all over it.
Needs to look in the wide angle mirror
“That’s what you think, LOL.”
— Tish
That’s Evan.
Google his father for more fun times. Or his brother Jeff.
“I fully realize how polarizing and emotional this case and the defendant are and how easy it would be for Chubb to just say no,” Greenberg wrote. “However, we support the rule of law and our role in it. We considered this the right thing to do and we frankly left our own personal feelings aside.”
Ten bucks is ten bucks.
Hate speech
Britain’s Conservative government said Wednesday that the party does not plan to give back 10 million pounds ($12.8 million) it received in the past year from a donor who made comments about a Black lawmaker that have been condemned as racist.
The government is under pressure from some of its own lawmakers to return the donation from IT entrepreneur Frank Hester, who said during a 2019 company meeting that Diane Abbott, Britain’s longest-serving Black legislator, made him “want to hate all Black women” and that she “should be shot.”
Hester, chief executive of healthcare software firm The Phoenix Partnership, was the Conservative Party’s biggest donor in 2023. His company has been paid more than 400 million pounds ($510 million) by the National Health Service and other government bodies since 2016, according to The Guardian, which broke the story of Hester’s comments.
Off with his head!
OK then.
“Alberta dad asks judge to block his daughter’s euthanasia, saying the 27-year-old’s autism makes her ineligible, in latest chapter of Canada’s mass lethal injection crisis
The daughter also suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to the father, who says euthanasia is not the answer to her problems.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13192553/Alberta-dad-judge-block-daughter-euthanasia-autism-Canada-lethal-injection.html
WTF, Canada?
You know who else euthanized mentally handicapped people?
Spartans?
“Elon Musk CANCELS Don Lemon’s X show claiming it ‘lacks authenticity’ after sitting down for interview where fired CNN host asked him about ‘using ketamine'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13193121/Don-Lemon-Elon-Musk-canceled-X-interview.html
LOL
About Maui’s wildfires. They just don’t want to admit that the Jews could do something like this, and they know the Jews have a monopoly on space lasers.
Not lasers. Lightning.
And here I thought it was aliens who were all about Thunder….
No wonder young men are checking out.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/611864/lgbtq-identification.aspx
Young women are prone to doing things they perceive as popular because they are popular!?
No. Way.
Next you’ll be telling me female sexuality is more fluid than that of males.
Now tell me about LUGs…
Interesting choice of words.
Do you have two points? Can we draw a line and calculate the slope?
We have a trend!
/s Former Analyst.
In the 90s, I was assured that the percentage of the population that was gay was 10%.
So no change.
’70s army said the same thing
…the left has been equating heterosexuality with Nazis.
If current trends continue the human race will go extinct.
Eventually, even without said trends.
Women are much more prone than men to social pressure, misplaced empathy, and social contagions. This’ll pass after a while.
There is also way less stigma if a woman claims she’s bi.
I’m amazed that every news outlet feel compelled to make sure we know about the long vowel in “ Shōgun”, but makes no mention that 95% of the public will pronounce “gun” like the word for a firearm instead of like “goon”.
“Show Goon” sounds like a hockey movie where you get to see Elizabeth Berkely’s minge.
Show Goon is the sequel to both Striptease and Slap Shot.
I see on Xwitter that Dylan Mulvaney has a pop song and video out. Apparently people who make a career out of attention need to find new ways to get attention. I’m not linking because I really like all of you. I played about 5 seconds of it and I would never dream of subjecting any of you to that. So if you see the video out there, please keep the sound off.
Is it worse than Fart, that SF subjected us to earlier?
Yes and no. Mulvaney’s fart is so autotuned as to be unrecognizable as him. (Or someone else sang it entirely.) But then Ice Spice has that extra chromosome advantage in crafting a truly stupid and worthless song, while Mulvaney’s is just vapid to the point of disappearing in a puff of Axe vagina spray.
I believe the female version is called Axe Wound Spray.
That’s Axe GASH Spray to you, bub.
“Pink Sink Scrub”
She walked into my office, the scent of dilation lube her only perfume. I looked at her Adam’s Apple and her huge hands and I knew this dame was trouble. Whiskey-voiced, she asked, “Are you Mr. Marlow?”
“Mr. Marlow was my father’s name,” I said. “You can call me xxxRedxxx.”
“That’s a lovely name,” she rasped. “I’m Tiffxni Gerxld. I’m sure you’ve seen my name in the papers.”
“I don’t read the papers, ma’am. I’m functionally illiterate.”
Fuck you.
Down, down, to hell- and say I sent thee thither!
Now Im imagining a Calvin Klein commercial for CK Dilation Lube.
They don’t make fake stories like they used to: OWASSO TEEN NEX BENEDICT DIED BY SUICIDE, SAYS MEDICAL EXAMINER REPORT
That said, sad she never got any help for whatever was troubling her.
Benadryl and prozac overdose? I didn’t even know that was possible.
Enough of any SSRI can kill you.
How exactly do they determine it was suicide and not just an OD?
I imagine the lethal dose might be outside the plausible range of accidental.
People do abuse both of those things. Suicide implies intent. Given that the story is that they were going about their day as if everything was fine when they collapsed, I don’t see the intent here.
The medical examiners may simply rule it a suicide because it was self-inflicted. I don’t know. But that’s now the public perceives it.
Taps out in paragraph two.
I will continue to ignore this story until the media stop injecting their biases into it (but then it wouldn’t clickworthy.)
My friend’s XX decided she was a “they,” and picked the name Lux. What is it with punchy syllables with X in them as names?
Was she reading the results of test marketing with focus groups for prescription drug brand names?
There can be no other explanation. #Xarelto #Effexor #Fluoxetine #Xanax
“Ask your doctor if Lux is right for you…”
I always thought former Dayton Dragons outfielder Beau Amaral‘s name sounded like a prescription drug. At the time, our doctor was the Dragons’ team doctor, so I asked my doctor if Beau Amaral was right for me.
He didn’t get it.
Break him in easy with “it hurts when I do this”.
Late to the party on this one, but…
Lux? How mid-20th century (Lux Soap was big back then).
On what planet does this make sense?
https://youtu.be/aBflExNpySA
Oh right, Planet GM. I swear their engineers are fucking retards. Every choice they make is the wrong one.
My wife’s Acura requires the intake box and muffler mess to come out. Looks like at least a half hour job for a do it yourself and at least 15 or 20 minutes of book time.
Se also battery replacement on the Dodge Avenger (which I have personally experienced).
I had to remove the front tire to change the headlight bulb in my wife’s friend’s Mazda.
JFHC
While you’re in ther you might as well replace the spark plugs.
https://youtu.be/ZFp2WQsf4qY?si=19LGNa9k-YMoP5qB
Geezus. “Why is he rotating his tires? I thought this was spark plug change video. Oh…”
My truck at work has a single battery. GM has a single engine compartment layout apparently with dual battery setups so there’s an empty battery tray in front with the battery jammed under windshield cowling on the passenger side. Negative terminal is pretty much inaccesible for getting a good clamp on it for jumping another vehicle. Or getting knocked against the positive clamp. Fucking idiots.
BMW and Benz arent much better.
Their engineers seem to think that using 3 different screws on 1 component is ideal.
I recall a buddy of mine in high school working on a 50s car (don’t remember the make, model or year) where he could actually stand within the engine compartment while maintaining whatever. I don’t think I can get my hand inside my 2020 Honda CRV engine compartment.
1A auto does a great job with how to videos. Good new for me is that they tend to use an old Ranger for a demonstration.
They helped me with doing the steering gear on my truck.
I’m craving pizza and dirty water hot dogs…think I’ll book a trip to thr Port Au Prince of America
Why would you go to NYC for pizza and hot dogs?
oh yeah, KMFDM.
Good time to listen to Professional Killer.
Related. Here we goooooooooo!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b4lHWn7t_y0
whoa.
These gentlemen are generally optimistic. They are also clearly young. /blackpill
I had to go over to Indiana (EWW!) today, so Im just now getting caught up on the AM lynx and Wednesday lunch.
My hives have subsided considerably since I crossed over into Ohio.
But- the japanese hex chrome cat is likely already dead.
While the article says hexavalent chromium is acidic, Cr+6 isnt. However it’s often in a solution of chromic acid found in electroplating.
Which is not kind.
RIP Kitty-san.
Indeed. Horrible. It probably tried to lick itself clean and died quickly.
::shudders:: Poor kitteh!
Eew? Excuse me?
Well not the part YOU’RE in, obviously.
Hey, now – it depends on where in Indiana you had to go. I’ve lived in Fort Wayne, Richmond (well, on campus at Earlham, so not really REAL Richmond,) and Muncie. They weren’t so bad. Even poor little Metamora is charming in its own faded way.
I hope you didn’t get shot, what with all those guns in Indiana.
But- the japanese hex chrome cat is likely already dead.
I’m amazed he lived long enough to climb out of the tank, if he really did fall in.
We used to joke about disappearing people at the chrome shop.
Foundries and steel mills have a surprisingly high rate of suicides.
When I did work for Ford in Cleveland (open-hearth cupola furnace) guys said that people died at a rate of around 2 or 3 even 7 years. 7 years seemed to be the amount of time it required someone to become complacent. The same guys also added, “well, then you have the holidays…”
Distraught employees will just jump into the melt.
/totally anecdotal
It’s why the Cleveland motors are heavier than those from Windsor?
Nah.
Its the metric system.
Makes sense!
TFW you’re reminded your back yard faces a wheat field. #JohnDeere
Modern dance with limited use of the existential crisis reach.
Citizen Free Press are losing their marbles over Rand Paul opposing the Tik Tok bill, and have multiple headlines asserting that Sen. Paul took a couple of million dollars from an American who owns a large chunk of Tik Tol.
My view is that, if Rand Paul opposes a bill, then there is probably a good reason.
He has a pretty good track record on opposing government overreach.
Even if I disagreed with Rand, there’s no universe in which anything in his track record suggests he’d be for this bill.
I know, right?
“The only reason he opposes this is because of money” is nonsense.
Mark Levine was all upset today about the fake conservatives in the house who voted against the bill.
Real conservatives are the ones blackmailed by the intelligence community.
Yesterday he disparaged libertarianism re opposition to the tiktok bill.
Young Tom turkeys pecking on the window, I took the trash can of corn in a day or two ago, before a bear might show up and toss the can around. Now the turkeys are loudly showing their disappointment or displeasure.
Appears the turkeys segregate by sex and age group this time of year. Old Toms are chasing the girls, the younger fellers band together, like teenagers at the Quik Stop.
And so begins your turkey army.
A couple years ago, a lady smashed my rear passenger fender. We popped it out but now the fiberglass is cracking, so I guess I’m gonna figure out how to fix it because it looks trashy.
Trump loses!
Donald Trump lost a significant number of votes to Nikki Haley in the Georgia Republican primary despite running essentially unopposed.
The former president won Georgia on Tuesday with 84.5 percent of the vote, as well as winning Mississippi and Washington.
OMG humiliation.
I’m thinking about posting an ad on Craigslist.
Firster seeking legitimate time traveler
While I am able to traverse the Firstline in six different dimensions simultaneously, I could use an assistant experienced in both Firsting and time travel. Matter is urgent and necessary to save the Firstline and prepare the way for The First That Shall Change Everything by way of coordinated and dynamic Firsts placed strategically throughout the Firstline. Needs the ability to clearly follow instructions. Pays in experience and prestige. Can promise a rank post-First that will be in proportion to the number of Firsts you implant in time. Legitimate and sincere inquiries from Firsters only.
Best case scenario
Any additional delays from this disqualification motion inures only to his benefit. And the longer it takes for the twice-impeached, quadruple-indicted, disgraced one-term ex-president to face accountability, the more jaded and disenchanted Americans become with the equities (or lack thereof) in our judicial system.
A new DA on the case could also decide not to pursue the existing RICO charges and other offenses that have been charged against Trump and his co-defendants. Prosecutorial discretion allows for a new DA’s office to review the charges and decide if it wants to continue along the path that Willis set forth at the beginning of the case.
The hysterical anguished shrieking from the MSNBC shit flinging howler monkeys would be a giant dollop of whipped cream and cherries on top.
“the twice-impeached, quadruple-indicted, disgraced one-term ex-president”
The mean girls in the media are at it again.
Alright….I was kinda on the fence but I concede on the Tik-Tok thingy. It would be an exercise in futility and a huge power grab by an already out of control govt.
If the Chinese want info on every American they can just buy it from our own companies and our intelligence secret police.