🎶Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face🎶

TBF, that would be a great thing to have as an option. The real shit should obviously still be legal, but it would be nice if people that are using it for pain management or other therapeutic reasons were able to get the full benefit while also keeping a clear head. Or for me, I only like to get high occasionally, as when I do it too often I get panic attacks. If I were injured and needed something for chronic pain management, I would love to have non-psychoactive weed as an option.

I’m not terribly worried about false positives with a device like this, unless it happens repeatedly to the same person — there are a whole lot of undiagnosed, asymptomatic heart conditions out there, so even if it gets them to the cardiologist on a “false alarm”, I would imagine that some nontrivial percent of those people could find something that they didn’t know to look for by getting their heart checked out.

Yeah it was really awesome, it’s a shame that it comes with the baggage of Samsung’s awful UI.

Yeah it really is awesome as a secondary input, I loved my Note.

It would absolutely have to be a different pencil, the existing one is way too fucking big. I loved the one on the Note, it slides right into the body of the phone so you just always have it.

Size of the company, and by how much money they made doing the thing you are fining them for. If the fine is a tiny fraction of the money they made doing the thing, it’s not a punishment — it’s just a “do whatever the fuck you want” tax.

Yeah Reagan was just Nixon in a more appealing package. Nixon went too hard and too fast, and people weren’t ready to just accept it yet. Reagan put a nicer face on it so it was accepted, the W made it more flagrant without pushback, and then Trump came along and just ripped the mask off completely and out-Nixoned Nixon, but this time, the asshole brigade had such a committed fanbase that none of it mattered.

Guys, I found Winnie the Pooh's Reddit account

So do you think that the CCP isn't an authoritarian regime with the long term vision of taking down the west in order to become the dominant world superpower? I'm not a fan of US foreign policy, but if you think that China's vision for the world isn't worse by at least an order of magnitude, you are not paying attention. This was obvious to me 20 years ago, and I have felt the whole time since then that the US media was way too soft on the CCP, so I see the current situation as us responding to the wake up call we were given with Trump, Brexit, and Ukraine in recognizing that we can't just ignore the fact that our adversaries are adversaries anymore.

Nice whataboutism you've got there

Not officially, but from the perspective of the intelligence agencies at least, we absolutely are. It is a much quieter type of war, but it's war nonetheless.

Because the global political situation has changed. We have seen how much harm Russia has been able to do to the west with disinformation, and they showed us with Ukraine that these types of hostilities need to be taken more seriously. We have a similarly adversarial relationship with China, and the last 6 years has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that we can't just ignore it and try to just wallpaper over it with trade.

If anything, we were seeing too little anti-CCP news before out of a naive hope that capitalism would eventually resolve these issues, but the amount of success Russia has had in subverting us shows that we ignore it at our own peril.

Uhh... yeah? How else would that work? It's information warfare, so they need to hit the other guy, while also doing what they can to keep them from hitting us. I'm not sure what kind of point you are even trying to make here.

The government is more concerned about it because the CCP is an openly hostile foreign power, and them spying on Americans presents a threat to national security that Google and Facebook just don't.

I don't want anyone spying on me either, but there is a very good and justifiable reason for the government to be more concerned about TikTok.

It's not xenophobia, the CCP is a hostile foreign power, which makes their spying a national security concern in a way that spying by domestic companies just doesn't.

No this is the type of thing that escalates a boring dystopia into an overtly horrifying, traditional sci fi dystopia.

Yeah seriously if you are working on this type of thing, fuck you. Whatever benevolent ideas you have for this tech, you have to know how fucking evil the actual usage will be, and how much irreparable harm this can do. Just stop.