bailoon's comments

Is there any company working on "cloning" or growing teeth? That way we don't have to worry about cavities or root canal any longer? When I was a kid, I was sure we'd have this tech by now. How hard is it to grow teeth?

"Hackers". Yeah right. Do these "hackers" happen to work for the governments trying to destabilize iran by any chance?

If we were getting closer to ww3, the stock market would crater and stay down like 1929. If you start seeing "wall street brokers" and "defenestrate" in news headlines, then maybe it's time to start worrying. The markets are doing fine so you needn't worry.

This is theater. A planned and staged propaganda campaign to get the masses distracted and silly. The easiest way to tell is if NPR and Fox news are singing the same tune.

We went through this last year with the chinese space debris "scare". A nothing turned into mass hysteria by the media and pentagon. Just look at the "hysterias" we went through the past decade. If the masses had a collective memory, we'd simply see through this already and ignore it.

If any of the news hysteria were true, we'd all be dead of covid, putin would have nuked our covid infested corpses and chinese space debris would litter our graves. Oh yeah and democracy would have ended because of a few hundred rowdy protestors.

I wish there was "news" to hold news accountable. I'll bet in a few months, this will all be forgotten. And we'll get another manufactured scare of some kind.

NYC is right by connecticut and connecticut is tiny to begin with. How far can "far north" be?

I doubt it will be a lot of people since most redditors use the app. But the few will cause a mighty ruckus and rage, rage against the dying of the "old". Reddit probably keeps old around because they don't want to deal with the incessant whining. God I would hate to run a social media platform.

As opposed to the country that flew across the pacific and literally attacked and invaded them and killed millions of their people? And still occupy half their country to this day? Can you blame them?

Funny how when we do it, it's "aimed toward deterrence". When other nations do it, it's portrayed as a threat to the entire world.

"North korea fires unarmed ICBM into Pacific Ocean with aim toward deterrence."

That's more valid than stripes' title.

By the same logic, the chinese government can't do anything to you, but your own government can arrest you, persecute you, execute you, etc. You'd have to be insane to prefer to be spied on by your own government rather than china.

> I'd rather be spied on by a western democracy than China.

Why? What has china done that's worse? Did they nuke a country? Wipe out entire races of people? Did those nasty chinese invade dozens of countries? There is nothing inherent in a western democracy that makes it good.

> Our intelligence agencies are out of control but there's still better mechanisms for reigning them in than China.

There are no mechanisms for controlling any intelligence agencies. All intelligence agencies around the world are state actors. No law applies to them. Ask the people the intelligence agencies murdered, drugged, experimented on, etc.

Unless you are chinese, you are far better off being "spied on" by the chinese than a western democracy because the chinese don't have any jurisdiction over you. This is all common sense. China isn't going to arrest you and put you in jail. A western democracy will though.

> If you had assets during the pandemic you got many good gifts, some once in a lifetime (those 1.95% mortgages).

Exactly. Real estate doubled, tripled. Stock prices skyrocketed. Established stocks like Apple triple during the pandemic. It's mindboggling. That's after 12 years of continuous growth after the 2008 recession. Going off of assets, the past 15 years has been the greatest economic boom in human history.

What? Many want fauci, the pfizer ceo, etc arrested. People want answers to how covid started, the lockdowns, masks, etc. Everyone here is over covid as a pandemic, but that doesn't mean we don't have questions that we want answered.

Thank you. That's why I read the comments first. Considering tiktok is banned in india, it would have been surprising if they had anything but a skeletan crew to wind down their operation in india.

> I've wondered if these incursions are intentional on the part of the Chinese to provoke a precedent setting response to airborne (and beyond) surveillance.

It's more likely a coordinated event to get people to talk about something other than covid and the last 3 disastrous years. Lets be honest here, neither china nor the US wants people asking uncomfortable questions about covid. Now that the covid era appears to be over, what better way to distract people than "war".

They did the same thing with 9/11. Uncomfortable questions about 9/11 was overshadowed by war and iraqi "wmds". Eventually people forget or move on.

Call me a cynic, but china ends covid lockdowns and all of a sudden we get "surveillance" balloons. And the entire media apparatus has us talking about silly balloons instead of wondering what the last 3 years of covid was about. My guess was a staged "terrorist" attack somewhere to transition us from the covid news cycle. Turns out we got balloons instead. Whatever works in the end.

> Given the ever falling birth rate, it likely never will.

But Seattle and Washington are attracting people from the world and the rest of the nation. Both Seattle and Washington have been experience positive population growth for decades now.