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Yup. Didn't know about this. This is cool.

TikTok was banned in India years ago. There was some noise initially but eventually everyone moved to Instagram Reels/YT Shorts. A few homegrown apps tried to capture the space but couldn't compete against Meta and Alphabet's entrenched network effect and superior platforms. TikTok wasn't as big in India back then as it is in the US right now but it was gaining traction and then lost it all. The same alternatives already exist in the US as well, people will move on in no time.

I understand that tech companies simply care about whether the user will click on the ad, video or like the next song or show. But can this also be used to change user's preferences or thought process?

Exifpurge.com. A portable Windows app to remove all exif data from multiple photos.

I wonder in what currency the kid actually made that money. Solana tokens I believe. Can they be converted to actual money with which he can pay his college tuition in future?

There's an innate human desire for gold. Humans crave gold so much that empires have been built and destroyed over it. That's a utility baked into the commodity. Many cultures hoard gold. Most of that gold will never be sold. Much of it is purchased for ornamentation and most of the time it just sits in a locker. In many cultures it is in fact considered a shame if family gold has to be sold.

Think of it this way - if there was no one to buy the gold from you, would you still buy the gold? Answer is yes. Many people all over the world would buy gold even if they could never resell it. The same can't be said about magic internet tokens. They have no inherent utility apart from the hope that a bigger fool will buy it from you at a higher price in future.

When the Access Hollywood tape came out back in 2016 I thought his campaign was over. How can someone who openly boasts about sexually assaulting women, ever be considered for any public office, let alone the most powerful office in the world? In most countries of the world a scandal of that scale would end a politician's career instantly. But not in the US. Not for him at least. I just can't understand how anyone can separate his character flaws from his policy and think he cares for anyone but himself.

>>incumbents all around the world have performed terribly post COVID Except India. Yes, ruling party did lose majority on it's own but they still formed the third successive government despite terrible handling of the COVID.

A radio signal takes more than 22 hours to reach Voyager 1. And it would take the same to get a response back. Incredible. And imagine the patience needed to send commands and wait for the outcome on the part of the engineering team. You can't afford to send a wrong command and have the luxury of undo. Also, I wonder how many generations of engineers must have worked on the project by now.

Everything is becoming about ads. Ads, ads everywhere. On phone, on computer, now even car. This despite everyone knowing that consumers HATE ads. It's like companies are using ads as a ransom. Pay us more money on a regular basis else we will make your life miserable with ads and more ads.

Hasn't this rule been there for many years? I have flown to UK twice and there ere always restrictions on 100ml per bottle. Even lost a deodorant bottle because of that (security made me throw it away).

It's called decanting. And no you don't end up spilling the fragrance all over your hands while transferring it to a small bottle. Yiu can also buy travel sized bottled of many popular fragrances which are specifically meant for travelling. But yes, in general full sized fragrance bottles aren't meant for carrying along while travelling.

Not sure how it works in the US, but in India when sell a car, we have to get the registration transferred to the new owner. Till the new owner doesn't get the car transferred to their name, the old owner is legally responsible for anything that happens due to the car.

Also when we borrow money to buy the car, the hypothecation is recorded on car's registration certificate and ownership records. When the loan is repaid, we have to get it removed by submitting closure documents to authorities.

So like a property transaction, change of title also needs to be recorded in official records.