If Putin was that stupid, he'd already have been ousted.

The beauty of being rich/powerful enough is that when the yes man turns out to be wrong, you can throw them into the meat grinder too.

Do it enough times, and you end up with yes men that also force other people into the meat grinder well enough you don’t have to care, directly.

It’s a type of genius. It works best when you embrace that everyone wants to suck up to you anyway, and there are always more flunkies where they came from, so you’re really helping the world out by filtering down to the somewhat effective ones ASAP.

Non-US countries should block Google AdSense to punish Google without affecting users.

Or they just don't want to support a dodgy advertising company.

→ "I don't want to support McDonald's" then don't go to McDonald's.

Autism is a common comorbidity of Williams syndrome.

What's the actual violation though? If you click through the "User Generated Content" link, it shows that it's allowed, just that they have to moderate it.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

The actual violation would be a privacy violation

Body positivity is a myth. Being obese is not healthy or anything to celebrate.

People like you are the cause of the problems described in the article, not TikTok.

If you have studied the matter and have research showing the positives of Tik Tok outweighs the negatives, publish it!

tiktok bodypositivy videos or an IQ > 80, choose one

IQ is 80% heritable.

First of all, no it's not.

Second of all, whether you wear earrings is drastically more heritable than IQ.

A good rule of thumb: unless the thread is literally about bioinformatics, the concept of "heritability" is probably an unuseful distraction.

> Browsers won't suddenly flourish when Google cannot finance browsers anymore, they'll just turn to shit.

Great! Let's go back to actual applications.

It would make more sense that Google be forced to sell Google Play + Services, not Android.

There's a theory that says that the factors that increase IQ are the same that, at very high levels, suppress species' innate characteristics, which can cause autism: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271507751_A_Theory_...

I've seen/heard about that or something similar. It makes me think that autism is essentially intelligence overclocked to the point of short-circuiting.

There's a theory* that says things like autism, creative genius and homosexuality are caused by suppression of innate characteristics of our species. If so, then it makes sense why there isn't a "gay gene", since there aren't also specific genes for more than 90% of autistics.

* https://archive.is/BsxMm