Yes true. I allow Reddit because I actually have a ton of friendly interactions on it and usually makes me laugh! Fair point though. I deleted twitter, Facebook and insta permanently and haven’t looked back, those are all huge wins for me and my mental health

Shows how easy it is to get sucked back in. I catch myself all the time sinking back to the habit.

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True you are correct, no normal distribution curve here. Standard normal curve occurs with many natural phenomenon. Intentional actions don’t have to follow a standard normal curve, and usually don’t.

For instance, the speed limit on the interstate by me is 75mph. It’s just my subjective measurement but I’m guessing at least twice as many people are driving 85mph than those that are driving 65mph. Human beings have intentional behavior, so this is just one of many instances that doesn’t follow a standard normal curve.

So you think briendoesitallbad and I are the same person or a self-aware bot? What bot have you seen that can craft those specific questions? And you've never spoken to me, so what am I supposed to have already seen to become a lost cause?

I’m surprised it’s taking this long. I figured this would have been nixed right away. Its a stupid move but on par for the new ownership over there.

Good resources will quit and bad resources stay. Not a great move

Yep. It’ll be pushed back again and again and again and eventually they’ll release something that looks nothing like the cyber truck called the Model Tee and it’ll be fine. The cyber truck, like the roadster, will be lost to history.

Don’t forget about nature: we strive to be green! Now, all of you get in to you cars and spend 2-3h / day burning diesel.

You must return to the office for reasons that are definitely NOT that we spent an obscene amount of money on this office space, and you are making us look bad.

Its really simple, If you value your job go to work as required.

I can see this getting support while requiring ID for porn gets criticized.

> I’m 28 and know a lot of people including myself that suffered a mental health crisis from social media consumption and I don’t touch it with a 10 foot pole now.

You say this yet you're on a social media account that you seem to post very regularly to. I don't understand.

Yeah but when you get long covid from work Apple will drop you, and then your career is over.

your whole reply is based on a 1% thing that happened once in your life, lol. what a joke.

No, teens are on Tik Tok just as much, if not more than Snapchat

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If an employee plainly refuses to follow workplace policies, how is this not ground for termination?

They tax the business end of the service.

The reality is the economic benefit to a local economy of having stable and accessible internet infrastructure is above and beyond what they collect in taxing the service.

If those tax dollars disappeared overnight and internet became a public utility backed by the state, the expansion of that service would create an economic boom which is just as taxable as the service itself.

Think about the tens of thousands of businesses which use this infrastructure and get taxed. That supersedes the taxation of a single company or group of companies providing the service.

As I already said, if you haven't already seen it all you're a lost cause. Or a chinese bot/propagandist.

“Adults have more important things going on and there are dozens of alternatives that aren't owned by a country that views us as it's mortal enemy and banned our social media without hesitation”

A reason TikTok is particularly popular is because it’s not controlled by our government or big tech that dominates U.S media. On TikTok you are exposed to news and content that the media simply does not cover. For example, how much U.S media coverage do you see of the France protests against raising the age of retirement? You see it a lot on TikTok, rarely covered otherwise by the media. I wonder if there’s a conflict of interest?

And saying adults have more important things to do is so pretentious, you’re on Reddit right now so you’re already invalidating your own implication of social media being some low form of entertainment.

If you haven't already seen it all you're a lost cause.

It's tricky because TikTok are talking about 150 million users but are those people that installed the app once, monthly, or daily users? My guess is total users. Those distributions are likely to skew differently. Distributions could also mean a very large gap between the median and mean or one that differs by only a year. We don't have enough information and the only people who do won't give us that information. I don't doubt that the median age is on or above 18 but that also depends on what we are looking at. Daily/Monthly/Total users.

Even if it was 18 or 20, that would put almost half of their users in school and at that point content pushing algorithms become really important. A lot of the protections for children either started in January this year or a commitments for things that they will do.

To be fair. My criticisms here aren't just about TikTok. I have the same problems with all social media companies and trust them to respect people's privacy about as far as I can spit. The only times that they have done things in favor of the privacy of people, and more especially children, is when they have been compelled to by law. Their business model relies on the data that they acquire from users.

Exactly. My performance speaks for itself. What the hell do they care if I'm sat in my scivvies in my comfy gaming chair in my own home. Job gets done. I'm paid for the job, not for showing up. If it was the other way around, believe me I'd be there every day, showing up on time and getting exactly zero work done, lol.

Also in the almost very top when it comes to wages, but health insurance and time off wise, it majorly sucks compared to most developed countries.

Yup, this is my point. Don't take attendance like college. Measure accomplishments.