I agree all businesses eventually need to make a decision on how they are going to cover expenses. There are options however. Facebook could have gone the Wikipedia non-profit route and run on donations, where people would donate because they value the service being provided. Or once FB had a large enough user-base, charge a small subscription to use the service. Instead they went for the throat and changed the model from allowing people to connect with people they care about to a service that exploits its users and use it as a marketing machine.

Yup. I have been phasing out Reddit over the last few years as it has been on a downward spiral for awhile. In the past, I would only ever use Reddit to look at sub reddits that I subscribed to and found interesting. I don't need things recommended to me, if I want to find something I will search it out. This is just another way to spoon feed people mindless drivel and/or push content on them that trigger them emotionally. Enshitification strikes again.

All social media went to shit once they allowed businesses to start joining/posting. When Youtube started monetising content and paying creators it became a money driven game and not a social thing. Content changed from posting a video of your cat being adorable, to creating videos exploiting your cat to make money via clicks. Facebook went to shit once they started allowing businesses to post, changing the feed from a way to connect with your friends to a way businesses could advertise to you.

Exactly. The internet is not the problem. The problem is the walled gardens that have been setup by social media giants. These networks are not for your benefit, they are there to influence, manipulate, and control... yet some people deem them "essential". Using social media is a choice, not a life requirement. If you don't like social media, don't use it. If you don't like what some newspaper is writing, don't read it. Some people need to take some personal accountability for their choices, or lack there of.

I left social media around the beginning of the pandemic because that is when the crazy's went wild. Instead of letting their manipulative poison and propaganda mess with my mind, I checked out. No, I am not right or left wing... I'm just a person who doesn't want to be drowning in crazy talk by people who are clearly unhinged.

I guess they didn't take in account the impact of another invention that came about around the same time as this article: The Birth Control Pill. For the first time in recorded history women had the ability to control when they became pregnant. Resulting in the decline of birth rates in most countries over the next few decades. Now humanity is entering a new kind of crisis, not having a enough children to replace the current population. In many countries couples are only having 1 child which will lead to a population decline over the next few decades as that is below replacement level.

If you want to eliminate shareholders then it must be mandated that corporations pay a living pension for their employees. Many shareholders are only invested so they can support themselves after their working days.

How is it a Walmart issue if Walmart in Canada has accepted tap with Google Pay for multiple years?

If that's the case, take a year off school and discover yourself before diving head first into something you aren't mentally/physically/financially ready for. I did it when I wasn't sure what I wanted to do in university and instead of burning a year of tuition on something I didn't care about. School will be there later... in the mean time get a part-time job hang out with friends, get some life experience and then go when you got your shit sorted out.

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NY: "By ignoring our laws, Kalshi is running an illegal operation and harming New Yorkers in the process."

Kalshi: "Our mistake NY, here's your cut of the fleecing... I mean, profits."

NY: "We stand corrected. By following our laws, Kalshi is running an exemplary operation and enriching the lives of New Yorkers everywhere!"

Not only that, but when I search for an image of a "tin foil hat" I want to see results of a Tin Foil Hat. I don't want to see conspiracy theorists, Lizard People, or UFO's. Let alone recommending me images of Big Foot or anti-vaxers in the name of "discovery". Just show me what I search for, is it that hard?

Sesame AI was doing this close to 2 years ago. I don't know where they are now with the model as I haven't been keeping up with it, but I played with the demo a few years ago and it was fun to chat with for a time. I'm sure openAI saw it, ripped it off and now pushing it like it is revolutionary.

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What OP was refering to was the AMOC or Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

Here is an article from CNN: A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents is weakening and closer to collapse than thought, new studies finds

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