I’d still prefer to know what the experts are saying and ignore redditers, as at least when Cramer says to invest in something I know it’s days away from collapse. Who knows with some weirdo telling me how to invest and then going to make memes where his gerbils are dressed as Spider-Man pointing at each other.

To be fair, professionals don't know anything either and if they do, they're definitely keeping their mouths shut.

Watching the market react to things like this really puts in perspective how little I understand any of this.

But I'm stubborn so I'll keep trying

I think it's more that the people coercing TikTok is the CCP. The real issue is national security, not individual privacy.

Man, a search on Reddit for First Republic has a discussion 6 days ago where the top comment absolute assured a concerned individual that the bank is solid as fuck. Remember, taking financial or legal advice from stranger on Reddit is probably not the best choice out there.

https://reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/11nr2xv/_/jbovup4/?context=1

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No contagion fears though am I right?

Now go and get your money lil duffelbag bird 🎶

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These pigeons have no chill

Five star hotels in Newark are rated that high because they have breathable air.

Thanks, Carolyn Bryant.

Am I the only one who clicked only to be extremely disappointed by the lack pictures of the pigeon w said backpack?

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I would adore universal Healthcare. I can not fathom it coming here with our countries fascination with asshat Republicans.

It says homemade, but I'll bet it was an Osprey pack.

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Thanks for the pic. I was hoping for something a little more Jansport-y.

Tiny birdy backpacks? That's so innovative and clever - I say let the inmates have their drug-pigeons. Just out of respect for their game.

Put airtag in backpack and let it fly back home.

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Meant the first time they caught a pigeon with a backpack... But apparently it happens a lot

Anyway, they wanted a pic so location is less relevant than the method and an example of the backpacks used

> We’ve already seen examples during the Hong Kong protests of different videos showing up based on if you searched about demonstrations in English vs. Chinese characters

You serious? You can search for that in English and Chinese on YouTube and you'd get very different results. The hashtags and titles are in different languages dude.

>we should not be comfortable allowing the CCP to easily manipulating what we’re paying attention to.

That's literally China's "excuse" for banning social media from the U.S. "Malicious foreign influence" as they call it, which is par for the course for a country with no freedom of speech.

So far no one has seen any evidence that TikTok uses its algorithm for any political manipulation (in fact you can drown yourself in anti-CCP propaganda on there if you want), so start building our version of the Great Firewall when all the accusations are just things that "could" happen is very concerning.

What's next? Start banning more apps and websites from countries that are not U.S. allies?

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