> But you, random Reddit poster, are very literally not worth their time.

Individually, no. None of us are.

But we're not talking individuals; we're talking about broad access to all sorts of data, unimaginable data.

>Trying to ban it outright is a symptom of pretty obvious xenophobia,

Nope. It would be xenophobia if we were looking to ban anything outside of our shores, but we're not -- we're very specifically targeting a certain set of foreign entities who are demonstrably against American interests.

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And they can target citizens from different countries with different suggestions.

Apparently Chinese tik tok is very educational.

Here in Canada, before I trained my algorithm, I saw a lot of boobs and political vids on a fresh account. Lots of young people dancing. Very mindless stuff.

The internet can be a tool of positive change if owners took a more active role against misinformation . America had the market cornered with Facebook, Twitter and snapchat. China knows what westerners want to see. If garbage is what you demand, garbage is what you get.

Because consoles have much fewer variables. There can only be so many things running in the background of a console and the system is always the same. Contrast that with computers, which may have different operating systems or different versions, different systems and a whole bunch more programs or processes running along side the game which may inadvertendly cause issues, it's much harder to account for every possibility in the case of PCs.

Not that I care buddy but this isn't truly the place to tell jokes.

But ik that u can modify ps3/ps4 and add a bigger and faster hard drive.

Maybe a better comparison would be: "what percentage of the median income is used to buy food".

Didn't look it up myself, I would guess this changed a lot over past few hundred years in Europe.

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This is accurate, and gets into the somewhat more straightforward question of why branded drugs are expensive. Those seemingly ridiculous prices do indeed reflect a lot of very costly R&D, including for the host of medications that failed Phase II and III trials.

Generic medications, on the other hand, really should be expected to correlate somewhat with wholesale prices once there's competition. This does hold true for the (much healthier and more functional) over-the-counter drug market.

Any given PC can have one of about 50 configurations each of CPU, GPU, RAM, Motherboard, hard drive space, hard drive speed, plus any number of other things running in the background while a game runs.

The big advantage in that regard that consoles have is that every single one has identical hardware.

An anecdote that can illustrate this: a long time ago I was really into the game Saints Row 2. I have it on PC and played with a couple friends. When playing multiplayer, with one friend our games had weird bugs where his character or mine would seem to teleport around and mission timers didn't work right. Another friend, I didn't have any of these problems with.

It clicked when I realized that the friend I had no problems with had actually helped with my PC build, built his at the same time, and we built functionally the same computer - the only real difference was in hard drives and that wasn't a huge factor. Saints Row was, in its first iteration, an XBox 360 exclusive and SR2 was supposed to be until it got a PC port - as a result, the game had no mechanism built in for how to deal with synchronizing two processors that ran at different clock speeds.

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But what if I want it back to eat it?

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You can keep it. My hospital made me sign a form and requested that I bring my own own container. Incidentally, this was not a common practice, and what I requested to keep was not returned to me. They said it was in the lab and covered in formaldehyde. It was of no use to me after that. I was told that since I signed the form requesting it, I could have sued. I did not pursue this route.

Note: I was trying to keep my placenta so I could bury it in my garden.

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The same thing for amputations. I work in the lab at a hospital and we have whole limbs wrapped in biohazard bags that are dated with their disposal date. I've accidentally knocked them off their shelf a couple times... surprising heavy.

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one of the things tiktok can do is track your phone's keystrokes on other apps so theoretically they can get your banking password, passwords to all your other apps, and any other sensitive info, which you generally dont want other people to have

outside of specific tests typically for cancer, things like an appendix are preserved in formalin. Outside of that its hospital/lab policy on whether they let you have it back if you want it. Usually extra paperwork and depends on what the specimen is as some tests destroy it as a part of the process.

Dr. Acula is in charge of the disposal process.

Isn't blood mostly water? How do you burn it?

Answer: TikTok is a company that is owned, at least in part, by the Chinese government. They are known to collect TONS of data from users, including location data, and that data is sent back to servers IN CHINA. While the company has tried to deflect and say they are perfectly innocent, there is no real reason to believe that user data harvested by the company isn't being diverted to other, more nefarious purposes, by the Chinese Communist Party and it's spy agencies. Remedies such as relocating the servers to the US where access can be monitored and controlled has been met with resistance, and there are indications that the NSA or CIA or other agencies have found them to be a security risk.

>Depends on who you are. If you in the military,

Uh huh. Which is why I said:

> especially since most government employees are now barred from using it.

Next...

>Just because YOU, PERSONALLY aren't aware of what is going on doesn't mean the US Government is also ignorant. There may be knowledge that the CIA or NSA picked up on that indicates that Tik Tok is a security threat.

If they had that information, they'd have already shut down the app with existing anti-espionage laws.

Congress banning it legislatively is a performance, nothing more.

There's a bit more to it than that.

One of the high ranking members of TikTok's parent company, I think called ByteDance, is a sitting member of the CCP. TikTok CEO says that this person is only dealing with the Chinese side of the business, but that's a potential area of influence from the Chinese government.

Also, it has been suggested that the app itself is not just collecting data, but also an attempt to subvert American youth in a variety of ways. The algorithm that runs the app in America is very different from the one in China. One notable way is that the app in China, called Douyin, requires anyone under 14 to register as a youth, and it limits their access to 40 minutes per day between 6am and 10pm. They also receive mandatory pauses every 5 minutes, and are shown only "inspiring content" from fields like math and science. Compare that to American teen usage which is mainly sexual dances and NyQuil chicken.

This can become a chicken or the egg kind of conversation, where it's not China's fault that American teens are idiots and pursue this kind of stuff, but it is a bit suspicious that they limit usage for their own but not for us. Whether or not that means that it is an intentionally insidious attack against America is debatable.