Let me put this more productively: there was considerable public fury toward previous Republicans for lies, crimes, misbegotten wars, etc. But it ran up against the *enormous, extremely powerful* forces defending elite impunity. And the latter forces won, decisively. It was barely a fight.

I look at a promoted search result and my first thought is "not good enough to rank organically, I'll skip". It's a negative signal. I wonder if it's a learned response from the pre-google era.

No tracking cookies cause thinking about the databases maintaining a detailed profile of my thoughts and interests just creeps me out.

No adblockers because publishing good content online is hard to monetize. The incentives are worrisome but other models are also bad.

I look at a promoted search result and my first thought is "not good enough to rank organically, I'll skip". It's a negative signal. I wonder if it's a learned response from the pre-google era.