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I agree with this. We can see the skew from that graph but it depends what data points we look at. Daily users probably skew younger than monthly or total users. I also agree that I don't think the median would get as low as 16 years but even having half of your users under 18 isn't a good sign.

That's why I said the claim in the first place is bullshit. Obviously TikTok will pick the best data points to make their argument. They have all of the data and can cheery pick something to make their case.

Ironically, this is probably far less relevant than the algorithms that they use to push content to people. For example, anyone under 14 in China can't use TikTok for more than 40 minutes per day but that restriction doesn't exist here. And those users are also shown different content (educational) instead of the regular content. So the algorithm in China for youth is different from the algorithm for youth here.

The CEO would be getting paraded around everywhere the way Jeff Bezos does, and Jeff Bezos' website has killed so much of what made American life viable before.

Stop doing the extra work. They can't afford to fire you. If they did, it was a burning ship destined to crash.

They're going to ban the hell out of this app and a lot of people are about to suffer some losses.

Tik Tok is the best platform for influencers. It's been paying the best and is steady. It's more focused on search. By result it's the easiest platform to grow any form of business on, whatsoever.

The alternative to Tik Tok is paying Meta for it's blue check mark system on IG, being in an app that doesn't emphasize search at all, and doesn't pay.

It's going to be a major win for Meta at everyone's expense.

Definitly not. Executive bonuses and stock buybacks.

Meta, the broken clock that's right this 1 time

Sure, it can be abused, but it's also easy to overturn someone that's doing something that people don't like. My HOA just swapped out the entire board and president because the residents didn't like the management company we hired because they were too stringent about writing infractions. Took a whole 20 people out of over 800 to vote the new board in.

In my experience, anybody who complains about their HOA is either too lazy to get involved and spend an hour a month to go to the meetings, or they're the kind of neighbor that nobody wants.

If you voluntarily leave they don't owe you severance. Its in their best interest to get people to quit vs firing them.

I did some projects (I’m in HVAC) at a few of these Apple sites. Just random brown buildings scattered throughout San Jose. Seemed odd considering the size of their HQ.

Of all the problems big tech represents, not paying their share of telecom fees isn't one of them.

Lobbying is legalized corruption

For anyone who has been praising Apple for not doing layoffs, this has been their workforce reduction strategy since the downturn began.

When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When there a no more fascists living in Florida, Meta will be dead, but not before.

Why do people keep moving here then? Even europeans relocate to the US for work.

I'd just like to point out that "pretty much anybody who wants to be president or on the board can do so with almost no opposition." is the unspoken preamble to every HOA horror story I've ever heard, and seems like a monkey's paw positive at best to me.

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ISPs have been collecting $1 / month per account for ... 20? Years. What did they do, spend it on lobbying?

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It's a bummer for sure, we squander a good amount of mankind's potential imo.

You might be able to start a union if enough of your coworkers realize they're a good idea.

The security is what bothers me. No system is secure. Corporations that focus massive budgets on the security of their data still manage to be breeched on a daily basis.

Its the same dumbasses that use facebook

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It’s humorous this comment of mine is getting downvoted enough though it’s 100% factual. Just goes to show thin-skinned butthurt people can’t handle the truth.