Not a lot of emotional intelligence on that beam, hey?

I signed-up for Facebook to stay in touch with family and friends (some long-lost). Sure, it was founded by a jerk to rank his fellow female students for f&*kability but it *was* a way of staying in touch with friends. Now? Non-stop ads and AI slop.

That's the algorithm. It gets worse by design

To be fair, the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is the *entire* model of 'social media'

The Arch de Drumpf.? Obviously Paris and Barcelona, plus London which has two - St Petersburg can go and f*&k themselves - are quaking in their boots at the mere thought of it...

To be fair, it may be because gas is now less than $2/gal because...well...facts. (Oh, and that whole climate change hoax)

Hey, I guess not shipping glass around the world is a win. ish

I'm going with stupidity, but hey...

I’d like a stat dec to that effect. Just to be sure

Yep. This. I'm in the lucky situation of affording retirement because double income, no kids, and no car (for the last 10 years anyway).

Tell Elmo that people aren't having kids because only billionaires like him who actively deprive their workers of the means to do so can afford them

I was going to say it's *everywhere* now, but a) I don't go everywhere, and b) it's probably not so big in places without advertising. I am, however, getting Black Friday ads from Australia, Thailand and Spain right now...

I've drafted her a response:

Dear Jim,

If you can explain why you choose to defend paedophiles, I'll willingly address your committee about how sovereign nations have their own laws, and why they're needed to defend our citizens against the harms of your unregulated social media behemoths.

With the Libs it was because science (and knowledge in general) were 'woke'. What's Labor's excuse?