Alot of people do how-to Tik-Tok sessions on cooking, arts & crafts, fitness, car repair, all manner of activities and make a decent living from it. Now that positive revenue flow they’ve enjoyed the last few years of our current gig economy is gone, ie they’re out of a job, a niche they created with their own ideas and online labor. OTOH, as China owns TikTok their government, with ALL the data they’ve harvested from everyone who’s on TT, could potentially hack into people’s financial accounts and, hence, into the larger banking matrix of the US. Sames with the energy sector from worming through our gas & electric billing systems into the larger energy infrastructure and potentially shut everything down in out f’d up energy distribution networks. Now, so far this is all theoretical, IDK that there’s any actual signs of China’s movements in these areas but that was the argument presented by a well-qualified cybersecurity guy on Colbert last week (yes, I know it’s a mere talk show but Stephen and his staff are politically savvy & have total BS detectors) So I see both sides of this but sympathize with the regular people who, as always it seems, are the ones getting screwed by the “system”
This “game” is sooo tired & spent, why I gotta start skipping these comments sections. OTOH, ALL of us are so worn out by the b.s. games of politics that have overtaken modern society in today’s media-saturated landscape that we GOTTA vent our frustrations somewhere=> so we Go*Comics!
Hey,some parts of life (see above) will kill ya! The beautiful parts = blackeyed peas, spinach, cannabis, palm trees & sequoia, wild mountains & psychedelic sunsets & most of the natural world—those type o’things make my eyes & mind very happy so I’ll stick with dosing on those as much as I can!
A valid point=> Cannabis = a natural plant, ie a living thing= part of life on this beautiful blue & green planet (Hmm, indica OR sativa?) Say "yes’’ to life! ;)
Alot of people do how-to Tik-Tok sessions on cooking, arts & crafts, fitness, car repair, all manner of activities and make a decent living from it. Now that positive revenue flow they’ve enjoyed the last few years of our current gig economy is gone, ie they’re out of a job, a niche they created with their own ideas and online labor. OTOH, as China owns TikTok their government, with ALL the data they’ve harvested from everyone who’s on TT, could potentially hack into people’s financial accounts and, hence, into the larger banking matrix of the US. Sames with the energy sector from worming through our gas & electric billing systems into the larger energy infrastructure and potentially shut everything down in out f’d up energy distribution networks. Now, so far this is all theoretical, IDK that there’s any actual signs of China’s movements in these areas but that was the argument presented by a well-qualified cybersecurity guy on Colbert last week (yes, I know it’s a mere talk show but Stephen and his staff are politically savvy & have total BS detectors) So I see both sides of this but sympathize with the regular people who, as always it seems, are the ones getting screwed by the “system”