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They sell perfectly acceptable flicker free LED light bulbs at the dollar tree now. This totally isn't worth the time and effort.

Their access to news is controlled and for some topics all available news is what we'd call propaganda. Particularly anything about Japan or the Taiwan issue. Most people I know there realize this to an extent but without any other information do still believe the core idea even if skeptical of details.

But at the same time I'd argue there's no such thing as a population that's not propagandized. In the US the big news corporations only will present views favorable to their profitability and continued growth. Sure they disagree with eachother, but it's still always a pro-business view. State news from Russia is (I'd argue rightly) not available on many US platforms to discourage it's influence for example.

Brain worms for everyone!

There does come a point where the inconvenience slowly moves the masses to other platforms. It's not that difficult to access the full internet in China with any data-only esim being unrestricted by default and many VPNs working just fine. But it's just difficult enough to do this that the masses don't. Piracy functions the same way, if piracy were truly broad in scale then it would be taken much more seriously.

Conveniently just in time for Trump to blame it on the Democrats even though he started the process during his previous term.

Starbucks coffee isn't even good anyway. But without more coworking spaces or some other alternative people like me will occasionally be forced to work from one for one reason or another. In the towns around military bases especially you frequently see spouses of those who work on base in Starbucks doing their remote work since it's the only possible place they can work from if they were staying in a hotel the night before.

It probably also saves them a bit of money so from their perspective it's a win-win good business decision.

Any China market tablet can install douyin even without a SIM, most even come with it installed by default.

This is an amazing idea I love it

Absolutely this. I've never seen a CEO golden parachute anywhere near being under $2m before. To most large company CEOs $2m is pretty much nothing relative to their regular stock options.

If you're going past it anyway it's perfectly fine as far as roadside attractions go imo. A lot of it comes to expectations admittedly.

Generally it's not too hard to disable the smart TV part of it and just use HDMI for TVs running Android. But on Roku TVs for whatever reason you need to connect them to the internet and a Roku account at least once to unlock the picture settings. Hardware features of a TV like brightness adjustment have no business relying on some random server.