And?

Make them find new ones. And new ones after that. And after that.

Eventually that well will dry up.

Musicians are old news. It’s YouTubers now. They start their channel as kids, and ten years later they aren’t kids but their whole audience is. I think kid-fucking is coming back in a big way, sadly.

I think you mean she can’t “win”. She can absolutely run. I bet it will even be close!

It is. They “hit” the twin towers.

We have a Constitution, that’s the rule book, not some nation on the other side of the world.

It’s just words on paper if not enforced. And Republicans haven’t been keen on enforcing it when it comes to him, not specifically but especially.

It’s essentially not different than the current situation from an exploitability aspect.

That’s why it sucks, man.

I wonder if we’re not fucking ourselves.

“Not enforceable” may have been a thing of the past, with the way technology has developed. We may be approaching a point where terms & conditions ARE enforceable.

That sounds like an interesting novel or movie, but utterly impractical in the real world.

Entirely too easy to game, or imagine a scenario where several generations after it’s implementation, “high producing” robot jobs are inherited, creating a permanent upper class and a permanent lower class, because the only jobs that EVERYONE has access to are the jobs that will break your robot, and your bank.

It’s clear that advertising has a lot of power to influence people’s choices, otherwise oligarchs wouldn’t burn so much money on it.

Marketing, advertising, etc. It’s a science, a field of study. What is the goal? To make people buy things, ostensibly. How do they chose to do achieve that goal? Deep analysis of the human psyche and studying methods to manipulate them into taking intended actions.

Advertising the science of psychological warfare.

When people don’t know any better, we’re all very much “monkey see monkey do”.

A lot of us grew up with examples of the kinds of parents we don’t want to be, not many of us grew up with good examples of the kind of parenting we would like to provide.