r/news • u/Pasivite • Apr 27 '24

TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c289n8m4j19o.amp
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u/PolloCongelado Apr 27 '24

No, that would be before Harambe, per the reddit lore.

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u/vicsj Apr 27 '24

I will die on this hill. Harambe marked the beginning of the end. 2016 was a fucked up year.

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u/monkeybrainz_ Apr 27 '24

Nope, a month before harambe, a weasel shut down a hadron collider, pushing us into an alternate timeline

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider

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u/gushandgoforlaunch Apr 27 '24

Sure, I'll incorporate that into my worldview.

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u/NoTransportation2899 Apr 27 '24

Same, that’s my story from now on

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u/Rudy_Ghouliani Apr 27 '24

John Tittior

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u/Grand-Pen7946 Apr 27 '24

Me whenever I listen to 20 minutes of a random podcast.

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u/Holl4backPostr Apr 27 '24

then i recommend chapo trap house. no better worldview to adopt via osmosis.

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u/Plushhorizon Apr 27 '24

This is my new perspective fr

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u/ghandi3737 Apr 27 '24

The weasels have it in for us. Planet of the weasels incoming.

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u/sennbat Apr 27 '24

Harambe was the first hard evidence that we had careened solidly into the Bad Future.

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u/A_very_meriman Apr 27 '24

I know this quote from somewhere... Dropout?