you imply some importance to social media that I just don't understand. It is a service, if you don't like it go else where or do without. I don't see anywhere a right to Facebook and endless selfies. I don't see FB entitled to anything, they are earning their profit hand over foot because morons just seem to want to give them money and tell them everything about themselves. We're at a point where we need to decide some personal responsibility. Sadly most of our race needs a guardian entity looking out for them. If our recent generations were responsible for colonizing America , we'd all still be in WV taking selfies.

If a business you are using DOESN'T provide the service you think you should get, you go elsewhere, seems simple. At what point is social media necessary anyways ? It sad that a superficial useless service is considered so important by the most F'd up generation yet. You are entitled in a manner I can barely comprehend. Solve the problem...You want to tell the company what they can and can't do you control freak. If you don't like it don't use it. It is NOT REQUIRED .

It's a for profit business, how much control can even the Aussie Nannie state want. Unless they can prove that curating the feed is "harmful" shouldn't the customers decide what they want by voting with their $$$/Presence ? Arguably the entire business hinges on algorithms and whether they can engage the client without adverse effects, or whether they can make more than the fines.

Why just the last 33 years ? Alcohol use has gone down in that period, surely we drink less than our drunken ancestors. Why the sudden spike in cancer ? Is it an ability to measure that has increased, or could it be that corporate liquor has begun using fillers and dyes that are having a detrimental effect on us, but providing a healthy profit for our corporate overlords ?
I AM paranoid, but they ARE after me, so it all balances nicely.

Damn, that's a long time to eat kidney pie... /I've quit my day job already

Not that I own a console but that is not very many hours. 15 hours monthly !?!? That's not even an hour a day, maybe 4 good MMO sessions. I'm not sure what the Preemie sub costs but I bet its' not cheap, and then they want more. M$ seems to be trying to make themselves irrelevant. I don't believe that only 4% of the preemie subscribers play more than 15 hours monthly. Seems like they've decided the casual gamer is worth more than the hardcore. When do they decide they'll make more on bejeweled or some such fsck'n shiat ?

Will it be different from the multidecade depression Trumplestiltskin and his posse of grifters is pulling us into now ?

I'd reply but several rational people have done so. Like him or not don't deny what he preached. White America running things like it was in the fantasy they have about the 50's. All the minorities and the problems "they" created would just go away...

Learn to swim. The best outcome would be gills.

Who are you and what are you doing on /. ? That crappy "logic" has no place on the interwebs in "discussion". Go back to whatever bright and sunny hell you came from...Fcks'n alien or something... /sarcasm

Charley Kirk was a a venal violent hate spewing bigot. As a rule, I don't approve of violence as a method to solve political discourse, but he got exactly what he was calling for others to receive. Treat others how you would be treated, or suffer what you would do unto others.
Conservatives are just using their political leanings to cover their unquenchable greed and desire to control everything.
Liberals feel like the universe owes them something and they are going to ensure we all collect.
Somewhere in the middle obscured by corporate media and struggling to afford groceries is reality.

The Arizona education system was crap prior to the charter school issue. The state republican's seem to think that 48th as a state is a good number all around. All expenditures in Arizona go through the legislature regardless of what the statue said. So the school funds get shorted by those @%$@#^%@...

Cops are not allowed Unions. They have associations but they are not mandatory, and they are not allowed to strike. Reality shows blue flu happens but in small amounts.

Arizona's problem is a shitty education system. If you want a decent education you must go outside the public school system. It is sad that the state chooses NOT to fund education, and they get away with it. Arizona is not a really good example, they don't fund the prison system or pay for prison Doctors either.
As for corp's getting involved...it is about time. Industry needs to help direct the needed education topics, and put up some $$$$, they are the primary benefactors.

I came here to promote the idea it would be Online via Grand Canyon University, but you beat me to essentially the same point.