I found it telling that they thought this was a legitimate way to reach any sort of research conclusion (sentiment analysis on a subreddit, really?)

See also: medicine, law, investment advice, ...

Yeah it's so obviously a net negative and has been evidently so for a decade at least. Good thing e.g. Oz and Denmark are trying to do something

Not sure, the Fukuyama End Of History growth forever PFI triangulation centrist mulch is pretty much (British) neoliberalism to a tee

I think we underestimate the level hopelessness that's been seeded in a whole generation. The bland neoliberal presumption that Our Kids Will Have It Better Than Us is now so manifestly untrue, and they can see that. Add in the rot of social media...

Can't believe they tried to get away with this in the first place! I mean there have always been bams trying publish crap, but that seems like whole new level of brass-neckery

The original post is but it was screencapped and posted on Reddit.

Reminds me of Tom Eastman's quip: "I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four."

From cloudflarestatus.com: "We are continuing working on restoring service for application services customers."

Oh the corporate tedium of that phrasing, when half the world relies on your service whether they like it or not