Ford … the company that reduced their line to ultra-expensive trucks/SUV and high priced vroom-vroom because they thought they could thrive on selling only to the wealthy … sees that might not have been a great idea.

No they will sell it to someone that will though

Billions don’t want to stop path to trillionaire-dom just because they don’t lead the market in any way at all any longer.

But once one has learned to leave one social network without any worry then doing it again is actually easy.

If one has to look very hard to find it then it is not everywhere.

And that’s tea.

Game makers that sell new games that aren’t completed (DLC) with DAY 1 launch problems being not only expected but usually the only way a game gets media attention these days is catastrophic launch.

The various police agencies in this county aren’t quiet about using surveillance that the STAZI would blush at. The newspapers and local bloggers refuse to push the issue with the police by asking questions or doing long term journalism for the effort is not TikTok-able.

If citizens criticize the police online the police find them using digital tracking and then harass them IRL and online.

The system is broken. And it makes the people that it breaks believe that they are noble for being part of the abuse cycle.

The USA is in a bit of a pickle with privacy, guns, and stochastic violence and system decay.

The gift card is also cursed.

I mean … the consumer plays a bigger part in the practice by enabling publishers.

Twitter will be reintroduced as musk standing, naked and alone, on a street corner screaming gods’ secrets while doing the hand jive.

you mean like feudalism ?