Depends on how loud we blast YMCA outside the white house. Once he gets to "dancing" (if you can call it that) who knows what he'll do (he'll do the double jack-off motion and probably nothing else, but I do wonder how easily he'd be to manipulate if ordinary citizens tried).
All my chronically-online peeps know that being on X in 2025 is as cringe as being on 4chan in in 2014. Yes, a lot of rotten things grew mostly unchecked over there, but it didn't get have the oxygen or reach into the mainstream that Twitter/X does. It's going to be harder to starve them of oxygen this time, but trying to argue with them doesn't work, and only intrenches them further. Banning links at the very least, seems like a good start.
Absolutely.
To add to that, even though Trump complains about how the "mainstream media" treats him, in reality he has the actual mainstream media on his side (Joe Rogan, etc). Saw someone bring up a statistic the other day that pointed out that as far as audience reach: Kamala Harris would have had to appear on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC for 3 hours every night for two weeks, during prime time, to have the same reach Trump got from going on Joe Rogan.
Obviously that comparison is to cable channels rather than the broadcast channels the FCC has more authority to "investigate," but the allegations of "unfairness" are entirely out of touch with modern reality.
Except in cases like Swyer syndrome where even with a Y chromosome, gonads won't develop properly and the person will develop normal female genitals instead.
Live video still isn't back on TikTok; which is probably the most useful part of the platform during demonstrations. It's much more useful than local recording in case your phone gets seized to have it broadcast to others sitting at home, who can screen-record the stream as evidence.
Yeah, you can supposedly make a new account through a browser and using an email (or an international phone # if you have one). But I've heard from someone living in Korea, who no longer have a US phone # on their account who is now unable to access their account, because at one time it was associated with a US phone number.
I've heard of a modded App that was made when TikTok was banned in Russia, that said, even people who live outside the US, but at one time had a US phone number associated with their accounts aren't able to access it either.
Seems Bytedance is trying to play nice with the US government - probably in hopes of Trump making Republicans reverse the ban. Because at this point that's the only way they get to stay long-term. It's probably going to upset people to see them kiss Trump's ring, but considering that the way they make money in the US is their shop, and selling ads to US companies, and both of those go away if they're banned, they need their user base loud about the ban to motivate Trump.
Gone on Android's Play store as well. But considering TikTok has gone out of their way to "comply" with the ban (including blocking anyone who's account was associated with a US phone number, even those outside the US), I think they are both trying to show the US government that they are obeying, and also getting US citizens to get loud about it all at once. All that to say, I think it's Bytedance that pulled their own apps.
Which honestly, if they let people around the ban with VPNs it could put those in the government's crosshairs which, considering our government's incompetence about technology, could be dangerous.
Thank you for this, I had heard/read a ~0.5% statistic in the past, but apparently the current estimate is lower. I'll edit my original comment to reflect this.
The reason there's a spectrum is that the simple "rules" like Y chromosome = male genitalia, aren't rules nature plays by. It's just the first pattern we noticed when we looked at DNA, that holds true most of the time. The actual instructions to make genitals aren't even fully located on the X or Y chromosome, they're all over our DNA.
The "third option" is "doesn't follow the rules we thought it was supposed to" - which is more about our lack of understanding how it works. Then saying the people who don't fit with our idea about how we think it works are the problem, instead of something we've oversimplified and don't fully understand. Then you get those unwilling to accept that maybe we don't understand nature, so we're going to force any outliers to fit into the neat boxes we made up before we knew better.
It seems that way if you don't look closely, but there are outliers that don't fit the binary in some way or another. Around ~~1 in 200~~ edit: apparently this has been revised from the 0.5% number I'd heard in the past, and is closer to 1 in 5500 people are born intersex - meaning something about their biology makes them not fit within the biological norm for their gender. For example, there are people born with a Y chromosome, but are born with only female genitalia. Some are born with both sets of genitalia (historically when this happened the parents would pick a gender and the baby would be operated on to remove the other genitals). Biology really only fits into our perfect boxes of gender until we look at the rare outliers, and see the nuance.
This is part of the reason that Trans rights matter, because while some would have you believe that it's all just people who were born in one box, wanting to have been born in the other box (which IMO is still a choice people should be able to make), there's also people who genuinely, biologically don't fit in our neat little boxes either who have just as much right to exist as those of us who do.
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Unfortunately, it's kinda just how our courts work. There really isn't anything "new" to talk about his case until his next trial date on February 17. Not that there aren't some conversations we all need to have about it, and how people feel about what he allegedly did. But right now everyone is distracted from that by the horse loose in the hospital. Hopefully at some point that trick stops working on us.