I'd like to see a map of the area. Probably a crossing just in front of the house.

They do (based on experience). Best case those conditions never arise.

Is that why I can't smell anything and my limbs fall off?

That sounds like a comedy.

I call everyone koalas, because I can't bear them.

"essential workers" = underpaid cleaning staff from Mexico?

But do they want to? Users are the bait.

So it's only the practically speaking invisible bottom text that can be changed?

Good points.

But at the same time I think we've completely sucked at the commercial Internet, be it social media, search, Internet advertising, cloud hosting, e-commerce etc. We have nothing that's even close to the by now monopolies in USA (in order: Meta, Google, Google/Meta, Amazon/Microsoft etc, Amazon (maybe Wish too)). One factor is that we don't have the "wild west" financing industry USA has. A second is that regulations likely would have stopped phenomena like privacy surveillance (as performed by primarily Meta). Then we have Chinese companies that have been extremely successful also outside China, e.g. Alibaba and TikTok.

A multi-language issue causing too small "pools" for social media? I don't think so. We simply had too few companies even attempting to compete from day one.

So are we stronger than USA in new areas like AI/ML, robotics and space travel then? I rather see that China is stronger than or as strong as USA, and EU is definitely behind USA too.

So what is it that we are "pro-competition" about then? Transport? Music?

You can't be endangered if you don't exist (anymore).

They should be kept out of law enforcement. If law enforcement can't be trusted for doing a legal and objective job, then who to trust?

Somehow I thought you meant the combination :). Late...

One factor should have been "do you write code as a hobby and have you built any complete solutions outside of school?" to see how it correlates.

I'm more concerned CLI is mentioned as a skill (or git for that matter).

"We won't nag about these by now worthless cars if you open your borders and peacefully merge with South Korea."

Oh seconds. I was going for hours.

Meta is no doubt best at profiling users that is used to target ads, hence deemed to be more effective.

Interesting thing they had to fend off investors. To some it would be a dream to get that kind of attention.

Time to set up my long planned "1 emoji only per post (no text)" site and outcompete Twitter.

Let the world burn so that more want to pay $100k to go to Mars.

Fake news insemination

"to deliver a better customer experience"

That's a BS argument, and very dishonest and opaque. It seems the companies don't understand the danger. Also horrible to think this is done for everyone, not just Facebook users. Even if Meta says they filter data, why trust them, and why send the info at all?

Depressing that it is common knowledge though.

No wonder need for Adderall is great considering it can be used as amphetamine (as it is amphetamine).