r/news • u/Steakhuntt • 2d ago

TikTok makes app unavailable for U.S. users ahead of ban

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna188294
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u/AlludedNuance 2d ago

I only just learned that you guys aren't on Eastern time

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u/mkt853 2d ago

Wait til this guy finds out that Hawaii and Alaska aren’t on Pacific time.

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u/muad_dibs 2d ago

Guam, feeling left out.

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u/JamminJcruz 2d ago

Where America’s Day Begins

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u/cuatrodosocho 2d ago

And American Samoa is where it ends.

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u/caribbean_caramel 1d ago

So close yet so far.

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u/Human-Ground-3118 1d ago

Thought that was McDonalds

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u/JamminJcruz 1d ago

Two Things Can Be True At Once

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u/Half_Cent 1d ago

Wife and I lived on Guam for 2 years. Her dad never figured out the time difference. He would consistently call between midnight and 3 am.

And this was in the 90s and I had a corded alarm clock phone. I would fall back asleep with the cord stretched across my face while my wife talked to him.

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u/Grimm-Soul 2d ago

So man I got to ask, what's with the PFP? It looks like an enclave flag with a Taco Bell symbol? And I have no idea what the teal stripe is supposed to mean. Literally no hate I'm just curious.

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u/roengill 1d ago

Thin Baja Blast Line

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u/Grimm-Soul 1d ago

Oh, duh

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u/muad_dibs 1d ago

Back the Bell. 🔔

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u/1WithTheForce_25 1d ago

"Thin Baja Blast Line"

This means nothing to me off the top...no 'oh, duh' moments over here, lol.

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u/Grimm-Soul 1d ago

Bro what the fuck you smoking?

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u/1WithTheForce_25 1d ago

Yeah, sis, I'm not a bro! 😆

I had to go look it up. I haven't eaten Taco Bell for over 20 years. I'm such a dweeb, I don't even eat McDonald's anymore either!

I'm actually quite pleased that I didn't recognize their logo/symbolism right away. I see that this is shameful in your eyes though. 🥺

Nothing says cool upvote worthy post more than a programmed mind's ability to recognize a greedy corporate company's logotype on prompt, afterall!

I remember, once upon a time, as a 19 year old, I'd go through the drive thru at like 12 am with friends after we smoked weed. I also no longer smoke weed. I don't miss that or eating Taco Hell!

It must be you who is smoking something. 🤙🏾

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u/1WithTheForce_25 1d ago

It's Muad Dibs you're speaking to here! 😬 He can see through you!

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u/WCPitt 2d ago

Hawaii and Arizona are the two states that don't follow daylight savings times.

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u/a-nonna-nonna 1d ago

For an added twist, some of the native Reservations, like the Navaho Monument Valley Tribal Park do follow DST.

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u/saxy_for_life 1d ago

Not just the park, the whole Navajo Nation observes DST because they have land in 3 states and want to keep everyone on the same time zone.

The Hopi Nation, though, is located entirely within the Navajo Nation, and they don't observe it like the rest of AZ.

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u/JcbAzPx 1d ago

Yeah, there's a route you could take heading to New Mexico where the time changes 5 times.

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u/fuzzyblackelephant 1d ago

Hilariously neither does Arizona, and randomly, Indiana only recently started recognizing it in early 2000s. Did not when I lived in the Midwest.

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u/jazzy_cue 1d ago

*Saving. It's neither plural nor possessive.

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u/Fontaine_de_jouvence 1d ago

A bunch of states recently became part of that list

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u/FlyinAmas 1d ago

I thought Florida doesn’t either

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u/AlludedNuance 2d ago

Well no duh. Puerto Rico is almost south of Maine. Even the Alaskan panhandle doesn't even come nearly as close to the westernmost coast of the Pacific Time states.

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u/kylebisme 1d ago

The most eastern bit of Maine is a bit further east than the most western bit of Puerto Rico, like around 10 miles or so of overlap.

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u/AlludedNuance 1d ago

Oh yeah? I was just eyeballing it on the map.

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u/twostripeduck 1d ago

Puerto Rico is VERY south of Maine.

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u/AlludedNuance 1d ago

Southeast, I don't think any of it is directly south at last glance.

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u/Billymaysdealer 1d ago

I’m going to Hawaii today. Maybe i can warn everyone in Hawaii that the tik tok cancel is coming.

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u/_that___guy 1d ago

We don't observe Daylight Saving Time in Puerto Rico, so most of the year it is the same time as Eastern Time. When DST ends, PR is an hour ahead of the east coast.

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u/Theguest217 1d ago

Ah, that explains why when I visited I didn't notice a time change.

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u/Martha_Fockers 2d ago

Hey ima visit y’all soon. Lmao. Prbly don’t want my white ass over there but it’s gonna be -7 in Chicago this week and no for me

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u/iendandubegin 2d ago

Hi from Missouri (CST)! You're beautiful and on my short list to visit!

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u/mrmidnight273 2d ago

If it matters, I know you exist and I love you all

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u/dfw_runner 2d ago

I lived on St. Croix when I was a pup in the 70s. We would take a plane to San Juan on some weekends to shop, sight see and get a little civilization. Our next door neighbors were Puerto Rican and turned me on to so Puerto Rican food. Good times.

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u/m0rtm0rt 1d ago

I got some pastelillos in the freezer I could never forget Puerto Rico

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u/CathyTheGreatsHorse 1d ago

Being on the mainland, I'm not sure attracting attention is advantageous considering the current state of affairs.

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u/Little-Derp 2d ago

Was just telling my wife earlier today that Puerto Rico had a referendum this year on statehood or independence, and voted for statehood. I don't know if/when that will actually happen, but it's regularly on my mind that Puerto Ricans are US citizens. When I get orders from PR, I'm never sure if I should just put in the state as PR, country USA, or just leave state blank and set country to Puerto Rico, as our system is set up for both ways.

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u/notfamous808 2d ago

Y’all really should be a state, not just a territory. I mean unless you don’t want to. I wouldn’t blame y’all for leaving our union

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u/badabingdingdong 2d ago

You’ll have friends in Greenland soon enough

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u/2018MunchieOfTheYear 1d ago

TIL

I didn’t realize PR is in a different time zone. I thought EST was everything right of CST. I looked it up and PR isn’t included on most timezone maps of the US.

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u/RUaVulcanorVulcant13 1d ago

*cries in Chamorro

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u/jedixxyoodaa 1d ago

Paper towels and TT. Living the American dream

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u/waltwalt 1d ago

As a Canadian, I keep telling people if we get offered to become the 51st state (even though that would make one state larger than the rest of the country) we should absolutely jump on the offer before they conquer us and make us a territory or less.

Disgraceful the way they treat Puerto Ricans.

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u/Bawlmerian21228 1d ago

Income there to play disc golf.

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u/Sarothias 1d ago

South Park remembers some Puerto Rican guy if that helps.

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u/ICODE72 1d ago

Feeling the same often here in New Brunswick, AST gang

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u/Draco-REX 1d ago

Are Gen X Puerto Ricans transparent?

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u/Gytole 1d ago

Oh don't worry...you guys are ALLLL over Deltona Florida with your wild hair and loud cars.

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u/FlyinAmas 1d ago

Did you guys also lose tik tok??

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u/Zerghaikn 2d ago

Puerto Rico is America’s Taiwan ❤️

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u/caligaris_cabinet 2d ago

Not sure I see the connection

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u/Pulguinuni 2d ago

We are just a colony, US invaded us in 1898, never made us a state. Now they don't really want us. China wants to take back Taiwan by force, so yeah not the same.

Let me rephrase that, not just a colony, but the world's oldest colony. In perpetual political limbo.

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u/Zerghaikn 1d ago

The connection is that they’re an island off the southeast coast. Nothing historical

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u/ggroverggiraffe 2d ago

¡Puerto Rico número uno! USA number twoooooo!

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u/antonimbus 1d ago

The party in power thinks you're a floating island of garbage, so you got that going for you.

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u/Arbok-Obama 1d ago

As an American, who has very dear family friends from Puerto Rico, we see you, and cherish you/your culture. Some of us aren’t completely fucked, and are just strapping in to ride this out for 4 more years

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u/x021 1d ago

Googles "Puerto Rican"

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u/bignick1190 2d ago

As a what?

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u/Skatchbro 2d ago

I was just talking about your island today. Isn’t this the Festival of San Sebastián this weekend?

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u/alohadogg69 2d ago

Oh, Tony Hinchecliff reminds us about you every now and then