170 million people

Where’s that number coming from. Maybe you mean the 165 billion installs , but that’s not active users and double counts people installing on multiple devices. Tik tok has 50 million dau Of those maybe 10% is actually “speaking” and creating content that the other 90% consume so around 5 million people.

And those 5 million people aren’t silenced, they can still go on to one of multiple apps that provide the same service and allows them to get there message out. He’ll they could come on to the fediverse and post blatant ccp propaganda and no one will do anything.

Full protectionism does cause problems with inflation and degrading the competitiveness of firms, but full neoliberal globalism leads to a race to the bottom on wages and working conditions.

The answer is somewhere in the middle, we shouldn’t be putting blanket tariffs on a country or the entire world. But we also shouldn’t turn away from possibly helpful protectionist policies.

Tarriffs can help in new and developing industries to make sure they aren’t strangled in the crib by foreign competition. A large reason for the success of the development of south Korean and Taiwanese economies was due to initial protectionist policies . The tariffs have to be understood to be temporary though but they can help in getting an industry off the ground.

I’d argue electric vehicles are an emerging industry that will be very important if the world shifts to a greener economy. Letting China take over that market and dominate it would be detrimental to the strength of our economy long term.

One of the main supporters for this was the UAW. Real rich people don’t care about this, if this hadn’t passed they wouldve just sold there shares in American auto companies and invested in Chinese companies, or moved manufacturing to China for higher subsidies, lower labor costs and even bigger profits, or use that as a threat to lower wages here. Under globalism capital is free to move to wherever there is the most profit.

This isn’t a rich vs poor situation, it’s a worker vs consumer situation.

On one hand this will slow the ev transition.

On the other car manufacturing is one of the few industries left in America with some union density and decent wages and having to compete with subsidized Chinese evs that are made with a fraction of the labor costs would destroy that industry.

Globalism hurts workers and helps consumers. One of the triumphs of neoliberalism is to get people to identify as consumers first and workers second.

Most of the workers are “migrants” from other parts of China and aren’t registered at Guangzhou so the authorities don’t know about them. It’s a lot like the “illegal” immigrants we have here in the u.s. , everything is done off the books and if the worker reports mistreatment there liable to be sent back. Even if some authorities come in for inspection then the workers are incentivized to hide from them or lie to keep there jobs.

Both the u.s. and China could be doing better to stop the exploitation but it’s fundamentally a cat and mouse game that becomes even harder if your dealing with scales of millions, or in the case China 10s or 100s of millions of people.

The only way to actually stop it would be to give the workers legal resident status so they can report to the authorities without fear of having to leave but neither seems willing to do it for political and economic reasons.

Biggest shock on here is Israel isn’t blue. I guess this as much of a fuck you for ruining my presidency Biden could muster on his way out.

That’s French guiana which is part of France. Not even some weird colonial situation like Puerto Rico, it’s a full department (province) with all the rights of mainland French departments.

You only need to be making / spending $50 a day to be in the top 10%, ~$19,000 a year. The world is extremely stratified and unequal and a majority of people would be lucky to make in a year what your average person in a developed country makes in a month.

Net worth is good for talking about redistribution but for carbon emissions income is better. Emissions are largely based on consumption of fuel for cars and planes, meat, energy for climate control of homes ( the larger the home the more energy needed) etc. Consumption is correlated to income level, not net worth. You could inherit a home worth half a million which might put you in the top 1% globally in net worth but if you’re only making $60,000 a year you’re consumption isn’t going to be near a person who makes $150,000 a year but has a lower net worth because they spend it all and have no savings.

Better get ready soon, looks like round 1 is about to happen with u.s. vs Canada once trump gets in.

This is what the tik tok ban should’ve been. If a foreign power is using algorithms to influence the public then the solution should be to open up the algorithms. This is one thing i think bluesky did right, algorithmic choice is important. That way if some crank like Elon gets control over one of these companies people can just switch and ignore his nazi propaganda algorithm.

They open sourced it a while ago when Elon first took over, looks like they abandoned that initiative though since there’s been no commits in 2 years. Maybe they’ll tell them to actually follow through and keep it up to date with there current internal branch.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

where did you even get that number from?

That’s the salary level at which h1b is uncapped. So ~70,000 h1b visas are allowed to make less then $60,000, but any amount can be approved if it’s “high paying” and above that salary. It’s supposed to make it so it’s more expensive to hire foreign talent, but that becomes irrelevant if it’s not actually high paying and most Americans demand well above that cap. Then there’s no incentive to hire Americans.

This is why a lot of people, even Elon, advocate for raising the cap to an actually high wage, and tie it to cost of living, because $60,000 in coastal California is poverty.

To be fair, Norway and those states rely heavily on hydro, which is great if you have the geography for it, but it’s not a route that can work for every region.

Excluding hydro renewable sources tend to cost more if you include storage currently, though that premium has been and is coming down.

Thankfully this is a community that was left on reddit. Same with the manosphere.

There seems to be a lack of gender culture war bs on lemmy that you see on a lot of other platforms. It’s good that there is a pretty progressive consensus on gender here. Probably enforced by a legion of trans people, and to that I say thank you for your service.

That’s because games require some engagement/ investment. Even if avatar has a mid plot you can still turn your brain off and enjoy the spectacle. But you’re not going to put mental effort into learning a boss with shitty mechanics to “save the land” you barely care about.

So it seems they invented a new category “toddler milk” full of added sugar and fat to hook the child and make them cry and pester there parents until they buy more and the child becomes obese before they can even say a word.

And the u.s. is mad the milk companies can’t push their baby drugs.

Not Netflix but pbs has a YouTube channel for shit like this called “eons”. Pretty good ~10 min videos about paleontolgy, archeology, pre-history etc.

It’s shocking in the sense young people are the ones least effected by our shit Healthcare system since they tend to be the most healthy, and have less interaction with it.

You’d expect the middle aged and older with chronic illnesses would be the most supportive of Luigi, but they have Stockholm syndrome from living under this shitty system their whole life. This is also reinforced by the cable news they watch telling them how tragic it was that a man with a wife and kids was murdered.

Meanwhile, young people are just laughing at memes and tiktoks of how hot and based he is.

They received $80B but haven’t spent it yet. Looks like they’ve spent $7B so far , and it looks like the Republicans rescinded $20B of it already.

Still not a great ROI but they could be spending the money on building infrastructure to recover more. I’m guessing they require some pretty good software to catch the cheats and that costs a lot to create but less to maintain. That plus general growing pains might mean they’ll take a bit to ramp up, but we might start seeing more ROI gains in the following couple years.

Also they’re using some of it to improve operations like creating the new free tax portal so you don’t have to pay through turbotax, h&r etc. So that’d be nice, maybe not worth $1B, but nice