What if a monstrously ambitious morally flexible snake is exactly what the Democrats need now? Would anyone less Machiavellian done prop 50 instead of a strongly worded letter?
A $4.99/mo subscription would yield more revenue than Facebook makes in ARPU from all that fancy, creepy, and intrusive ad tech. Paying YouTube to not advertise to you makes it a 10X better experience.
Dark patterns are real. Deceptive advertising is real. So-called prediction markets amount to unregulated gambling on any proposition. Many online businesses are whale hunts and the whales are often addicts.
Pedestrian and cyclist friendly cities have more vibrant street life, and are more attractive places to live. I've never heard of car restrictions leading to more suburbanization.
You are assuming that financial markets are fair and transparent. They're not as everyone is seeing in, for example, private credit asset valuations. The value extracted when securities fraud and market manipulation take place is millions of times bigger than other kinds of property crime. This is just a civil case, but there oughta be a criminal case with penalties proportionate to the value stolen.
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