"A poison—so subtle, so insidious so irreversible. It won't even kill you unless you stop taking it."

You're allowed to do whatever you want, I'm not the debate police.

pro tip: it's not necessary to put sarcasm in quotes.

While I agree with you the poster's hyperbolic analogy was off the mark. And perhaps now I'm being a bit off topic, but I do need approval from my county government to add an electrical outlet to my house. I think the permit was around $150. Luckily I am allowed to do the work myself, so I don't need to hire anyone licensed.
Turns out having a society means there are rules in order to coexist. Ideally rules that benefit people in that society and if it is democratic in any way, that people mostly agree to follow on principle rather than on threat.

When ADHD negatively impacts your life, it is time to seek treatment options. Medication can be very effective in most individuals, and both children and adults have a lot of self-doubt tied up into the troubles with executive function that ADHD/ADD bring.

While it is true that modern public school systems, especially how they operate in the United States, was in many ways designed to create obedient factory workers for the industrial revolution. That sufferers of ADHD don't thrive in that environment is a symptom of a greater challenge that individual is facing, simply removing our arcane repressive education system doesn't suddenly fix everything for someone with ADHD. I completely agree with the sentiment that public schools are not looking out for what is in the best interest of the children. A problem that exists for children that don't have ADHD as well. But even in a home school environment, the outcomes for someone with untreated ADHD is not encouraging. Not just academic outcome, but psychological, emotional, and relationship outcomes as well.

Loss leader is a strategy of using the power of capital to win market share. Instead of innovation, production, or hard work to produce a better product or better value for the consumer. Winning on your own merits hasn't been part of our economic system as far as I know. (while China claims to be communist, they readily participate in the same global market as everyone else)

Punished for not being fully on board with building killbots for the government. Hesitation is treason.

I semi-retired on NVDA. And you can see them on the bottom of my link.

it's more that we're not talking about the same thing and you mislabel it. And then when you go to compare Democratic Party platform to your mislabeled socialism, you conveniently slide over to a completely different definition. In short, you're not arguing in good faith.

I remember the Dot Com crash ripping my Dad's retirement account to bits. This is going to be a repeat of that for most of the middle class that let some investment account manager play with their life savings.

No worker councils, so not socialism. Those examples are explained away a various aspects of welfare capitalism, fascism, or authoritarian.

But Bezos just said it wouldn't, who should I believe: This very successful business man, or the history of successful business men?

AI shit the bed and we're calling it a "crisis", despite critics for years warning that AI was going to screw up the supply chain.

Not quite, the European Commission also has the responsibility to proposes legislation and send it to the European Parliament. The EC declined to do their exclusive duty according to the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) and unilaterally dismissed the required 1 million signatures in an anti-democratic fashion.
Next step is to go to European Parliament, which has a lower bar for petitions and is generally more willing to exercise its authority against other branches.

Spending more than your revenue with no answer to when it turns around is a recipe for a bubble.
Yet OpenAI is not the worst offender by a long shot.
ref: Is AI Profitable Yet?

Can I install /etc/hosts on Android and block social media, AI, trackers, and ads? Because that seems more convenient than spending $500 on a phone.