Vampires ain't gonna want to drink that. You noticed that when they take your blood, the tubes having different coloured tops, and some are put to the tilting machine, while others are not. This is because they contain different kind of chemicals, designed to enchance or preserve certain aspect or property of the blood, along with having the precursor chemicals in them.

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Well you can't really do that in Athens. There probably aren't any hills around that don't already have other ancient monuments on them. So you'd have to wipe out something else for a replica of another monument already available to see.

Besides which, a large part of the grandiosity of the Parthenon comes from its presence on the Acropolis. There's not another hill around that would match that.

So, I'll take this both ways. TikTok's parent company is in China, which the government has near absolute control of any company. In that way it is reasonable to assume any company in China can at least become a state actor at any point.

The other way is that, while it is probably reasonable for them and really any social media company at all to not be in government and/or private company devices that have access to private information, a bunch of kids TikTok with their personal phones really aren't giving China even in the worst case all that much more data than basic surveillance would.

The Chinese government can ask any Chinese company to look at every facet of their business and they have to comply. Since TikTok is Chinese there are worries that the Chinese government will have access to all the data collected by the app.

why don’t they let me keep it? i mean… isn’t it legally mine? could i sue em for it?

It isn't. Not really, especially since most government employees are now barred from using it.

Trying to ban it outright is a symptom of pretty obvious xenophobia, and politicians looking for some kind of victory to claim without actually accomplishing anything.

It's possible that TikTok being owned by a Chinese company with ties to the state means that they have a means of getting user information. But if you're so important that your personal data is worth discovering, especially on the state level, there's no way you can protect it from every vector, from silly little video apps to your bank and investment accounts to the discount card at your grocery store.

There IS a danger of TikTok being used to deliberately spread misinformation. But again, if someone with the resources of an entire country wants to do that, they have plenty of options to accomplish it, none of which require backdoor access to a social media app. Merely spreading a few posts on Twitter or getting a sensationalist headline on Fox News will accomplish far more, and it's essentially free.

States are already engaging in these disinformation campaigns. Playing whack-a-mole with individual apps will not stop them.

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I would argue people did not value historical monuments the same way we are valuing them now. When I grew up Beijing, there’s quite a few 四合院, which is basically a house with 4 sides and a central courtyard. People abandoned those to live in new modern buildings.

Now, some of those are worth up to hundreds of millions of dollars due to historic value.

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This is why Norse mythology is so wild, it's the cosmology of a people that spent every winter doing mushrooms in the dark

You’d have to audit whatever specific instance of compiler or interpreter they use to run it, too. Remember, Ken Thompson was able to hide an undetectable back door in UNIX by modifying a compiler to add the back door to the kernel whenever it was compiling it, and then modifying the compiler to add the back-door-adding code to the compiler code whenever it found it was compiling itself. Bam, no trace of malware in the source, all the checksums work out, and the only way you’d ever find out is by compiling a clean version of the compiler source with a clean version of the compiler and then starting your audit.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_ounce

> An imperial fluid ounce is 1⁄20 of an imperial pint, 1⁄160 of an imperial gallon or exactly 28.4130625 mL.

> A US customary fluid ounce is 1⁄16 of a US liquid pint and 1⁄128 of a US liquid gallon or exactly 29.5735295625 mL, making it about 4.08% larger than the imperial fluid ounce.

> A US food labeling fluid ounce is exactly 30 mL.

Seems like the fluid ounce is just a shit show in general.

Imperial measurements are old, and don't get updated or defined constantly the way metric has to be for scientific purposes. This means many of the unit conversions are only approximate, and may not hold for all versions of the system.

A US (fl) oz of water is actually equivalent to 1.043 US dry ounces. Correcting for that should make up for the difference you're seeing.

This is a funny response. The timing is impeccable: the time to crack wise is after we have the information we wanted.

It's used by elite athletes to perform rituals to ward off the spirits of mediocre athletes of times past.

They do this by having the labs incinerate the specimens.

Well fuck, honestly I always thought fluid ounces and dry ounces were equal with water. I didn’t even look it up to check.

The reason for the inconsistency is you are assuming 1 fluid ounce of water weighs 1 ounce, and thus that 1 pint of water weighs 1 pound.

But once again the US unit system is letting you down with its lack of consistency. 1 fluid ounce of water weighs more like 1.04 ounces.

Because the Metric system is based on water, and the Imperial system is based on hacked together bullshit from a dozen different measuring systems combined.

A gram is a Metric unit, the mass of 1 ml of water. A pound is an Imperial unit loosely based on the ancient Roman libra, the mass of...nothing in particular, that we are aware of.

Amen

Metric is a centrally planned system where everything is measured in an intuitive base-10 way.

Imperial is a hodgepodge of pre-1900's units of measurements from throughout history with absolutely no consistency or reason to it.

Ah well if you heard a theory...