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  • TikTok has 1 billion users worldwide

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 14 11:17:55 2024
    TikTok's annual carbon footprint is likely bigger than Greece's, study
    finds

    Average user generates greenhouse gases equal to driving an extra 123
    miles in gasoline-powered car a year, data shows

    TikTok's emissions are greater than that of the country that gave us
    democracy and gyros.

    Estimates from Greenly, a carbon accounting consultancy based in
    Paris, place TikTok's 2023 emissions in the US, UK and France at about
    7.6m metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) - higher than
    those associated with Twitter/X and Snapchat in the same region.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/12/tiktok-carbon-footprint

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Dec 14 12:54:01 2024
    On 12/14/2024 12:17 PM, JAB wrote:
    TikTok's annual carbon footprint is likely bigger than Greece's, study
    finds

    Average user generates greenhouse gases equal to driving an extra 123
    miles in gasoline-powered car a year, data shows

    TikTok's emissions are greater than that of the country that gave us democracy and gyros.

    Estimates from Greenly, a carbon accounting consultancy based in
    Paris, place TikTok's 2023 emissions in the US, UK and France at about
    7.6m metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) - higher than
    those associated with Twitter/X and Snapchat in the same region.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/12/tiktok-carbon-footprint

    That's just wild -- And it's all a waste, too; It's just people
    endlessly scrolling useless videos, much like brainwashed zombies.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to michael.trew@att.net on Sat Dec 14 11:58:54 2024
    On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:54:01 -0500, Michael Trew
    <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

    It's just people endlessly scrolling useless videos,
    much like brainwashed zombies.

    Peggy Lee -- Is That All There Is? 1969

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to snipeco.2@gmail.com on Sun Dec 15 22:01:37 2024
    On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:40:20 +0000, snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:

    Once upon a time, religion was the opium of the masses, then it was TV; >apparently it's now the Internet.

    Any distraction that dulls their engagement in politics, which
    includes sporting events, etc.

    I said "engagement," which excludes those Trumpers echoing non-sense.

    Mindless echoing is not engagement.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From D@21:1/5 to Auric Hellman on Mon Dec 16 10:22:47 2024
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    On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, Auric Hellman wrote:

    On 12/14/2024 12:54 PM, Michael Trew wrote:
    On 12/14/2024 12:17 PM, JAB wrote:
    TikTok's annual carbon footprint is likely bigger than Greece's, study
    finds

    Average user generates greenhouse gases equal to driving an extra 123
    miles in gasoline-powered car a year, data shows

    TikTok's emissions are greater than that of the country that gave us
    democracy and gyros.

    Estimates from Greenly, a carbon accounting consultancy based in
    Paris, place TikTok's 2023 emissions in the US, UK and France at about
    7.6m metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) - higher than
    those associated with Twitter/X and Snapchat in the same region.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/12/tiktok-carbon-
    footprint

    That's just wild -- And it's all a waste, too;  It's just people endlessly >> scrolling useless videos, much like brainwashed zombies.



    It has been asserted that it is the goal of the Chinese government to turn Western youth into inattentive idiots. They just might be succeeding

    As a teacher I'd say they been doing very well without tiktok. But true,
    maybe tiktok can accelerate the speed of this development.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From D@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 16 10:24:42 2024
    On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, Sn!pe wrote:

    Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:
    [...]
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/12/tiktok-carbon-
    footprint


    That's just wild -- And it's all a waste, too; It's just people
    endlessly scrolling useless videos, much like brainwashed zombies.


    It has been asserted that it is the goal of the Chinese government to
    turn Western youth into inattentive idiots. They just might be succeeding


    Don't Chinese youth use TikTok? Perhaps the aim of the CCP is to turn
    *all* proles into inattentive idiots thus making them more amenable to population control.

    How do e.g. Facebook, Instagram, X(Twitter), etc. compare with this?
    Is population control the goal of Western governments too?

    Once upon a time, religion was the opium of the masses, then it was TV; apparently it's now the Internet.

    Don't forget comics! Those d*mn colorful images destroyed a generation!
    And I remember when the phonograph came. I told them what was going to
    happen, and here we are!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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