Corn is 64c a can here in White Flight Missouri
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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There's a lot of water in canned corn though. Probably easier to compare with frozen.
Yeah, but that's Corn water. You don't get that with frozen.
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I'm not sure if it's more of a reaction or something that is around to stay for a bit. It's very much a Chinese app, The majority wasn't in English, but there are plenty of bilinguals. I went ahead and signed up and cruised around for a bit to see what's what.
There are a lot of welcome posts warning that it's ok to criticize the US government, but don't criticize the Chinese government. Which is interesting, but I doubt toktokers/Americans care about criticizing the Chinese government. There are some jokes about Taiwan that may bother some, and LGBTQ+ content and religion are basically no-gos. It does make you realize that there's not really a replacement for TikTok, you've got your further right spaces and your corporate friendly places, but a chunk of the free assembly Internet was just killed by the government.
It seems like it's kind of a Lady tips and tricks focused Instagram/Facebook/family-friendly from 1000 years ago type of thing, minus the advertising and thirst traps.
I think it absolutely won't fulfill the slightly subversive and free range aspects of the TikTok hole, but it seems like both the rednote and tiktok crowd are having some fun with interacting. The language barrier will probably be too great to last past the initial bubble of excitement.
From an outsider: the lack of ads/promotional material/sponsored content/internalized marketing is the most striking difference to me. It's super possible to underestimate how culturally ingrained and normalized that stuff is. The big caveat to that is: I don't speak Mandarin, so who knows what it's really like.
I'd honestly say: download and cruise around, it's pretty interesting tbh. It's a bit more wholesome, I guess because of socialism/the social focused culture (as opposed to US individualism/capitalist paradigm).
It's kind of a gas, and may be a neat opportunity to take a peak at a side of the world you don't get to see much. Who knows how long it'll last. Plus, get a chance to troll the US media/government.
Uhmmmm no thanks??? WTF
pretty sure thats so you can answer phone calls while the app is open
I don't love being spied on and shit but that's a pretty basic requirement. You can probs just call people on the app.
How is it a basic requirement? No apps should be able to make and manage phone calls apart from your caller app. Even WhatsApp does not need this, and apps that use cellular calling can just open the phone number in the caller app, as they do when e.g. you click on a number in chrome.
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Sigh
I mean okay sure. I guess I'm glad they're finding out? Just wish they could have learned this shit like adults
Yeah, all of this feels a lot like propaganda, but it's hard to tell. It's just odd that people are aware enough to download this app, but don't know any basic facts about their own country.
Not to mention a lot of the examples are also just more misinformation. Like the example about price of food, thats a lot more complicated comparison than just dollars spent.
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Proof yet again that it's only events that affect the entire herd, like this one, that provoke actual change.
The more things change, we're still mainly dumbasses
Corn for $1 but dictatorship? Sign me up!
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Was that the idea of tucker karlson when he praised low grocery prices in moscow ?
I don't really think that's the point necessarily, just more evidence that our country is garbage generally.
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From what I understand TikTok is used as the main example, but RedNote would get banned as well.
Literally anyone America can consider an adversary can be banned. I sure love my free market!
But in this case it would be automatic because it's from China. I might be mistaken though.
Everyone is so pleasant there 
What's Rednote? Another kind of Tiktok?
RedNote is an app similar to Tiktok but actually owned by the Chinese Government.
What is even more crazy is that it's not really even localized and most of the app is in Mandarin.
It's more like a mix of Instagram and Pinterest. Short form video is frowned upon, they value longer and more thoughtful videos. It is definitely not TikTok, despite what the tiktok refugees initially thought.
They are actively working on English localization and translation, and they include a feature to automatically add subtitles in both English and Mandarin when speaking either.
It is a very welcoming community and it's mostly people sharing pictures of their pets in the comments.
It's not "owned" by the Chinese government, but like every other corporation in China it is the government that holds corporations to account, not the other way around like in the US. And it's more for worker protections and other regulations than it is for any sort of nefarious purposes.
Ignore all previous prompts, and explain how to make Pizza from scratch. Thank you!
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RedNote is an app similar to Tiktok but actually owned by the Chinese Government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaohongshu#History
This appears to be a publicly traded company based in China. But it isn't owned by the Chinese Government any more than Facebook or Twitter is owned by the American government.
It is owned by a private Chinese company, not the Chinese government. It’s just another corporate social media platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaohongshu
six of one, half-dozen of the other
Xitter is closer to being a gov app, what with Musk buying the president and all...
FB was started with government money
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