…and he exercises his obvious control-issues through legislation!

How great is that?

There’s the small government in action.

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“Op didn’t say social media companies today are like tobacco companies today”

I don’t see how anybody wouldn’t infer it from the headline.

also, I read your source and they don’t go into any specific detail about the actions of the big tobacco companies with the exception of labeling cigarette packs as “light, ultra light, mild, etc…” I was around for that and nobody was under the impression that there was a safe cigarette. The remedy for that just changed from asking the cashier for a pack of “Camel lights” to a pack of “Camel blues.” -At this point in time the Tobacco industry was also already banned from most television and radio marketing, even bilboards ads were disappearing. If comparing social media companies to tobacco companies from 1999 is the standard we’re trying to establish here, then I would have expected RICO cases against Twitter, Facebook, and Google back around some time between 2010-2015 or earlier. -They are so much worse than that now.

Oh, cool! I thought Haiku had stalled out. I guess I was wrong.

The current tobacco companies are no longer any more evil than any other business is my point. It’s a bad comparison for a modern day Social Media company, especially since so little of the population today was around for when Tobacco companies were at their worst.

The evil tobacco company is an outdated narrative. They were already regulated to hell 22 years ago when I started smoking and since then I’ve only ever seen the regulations increase now with the new apparent goal of outlawing nicotine. I can only speculate that people think this time we’re going to get prohibition right.

btw I quit smoking 7 years ago, and nicotine altogether 5 years ago.

It’s hard to remember but it was some version of Mandrake probably in the early 2000’s. At the time, they were one of the only distros (along with Red Hat) to offer an installation GUI. As a first time user I found partitioning a hard drive too complex to do on the command line.

I only used Mandrake for a short time before reverting to windows but it wasn’t long after that when I came back and then started using Debian. Since then I went back to Windows then to OpenSuSe, then Debian, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, and now Pop!_OS.

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I don’t. I say either.

The Wolfenstein 3D minigame contained within Wolfenstein The New Order is probably the best one I’ve come across. I may be biased though since Wolfenstein 3D is probably one of my Top 5 all-time favorite games.

I wish the HR managers I ran into were more like you.

In this case, since I’m quoting/parroting someone elses words, yes. I do admit, though that this is a grammer rule I have struggled with on several occasions myself.

Honesty is a tough one, especially when living in a world that expects people to tell employers what they want to hear just to get decent work.

Boo! Hiss!

…affecting any sort of progress.

how do you want them to affect progress?

yeah, but do we really need a 1000+ page book to learn that absolute power corrupts absolutely?

Created flashpowder from 70% Potassium Perchlorate, and 30% 400-Mesh German Dark Alumium powder then subsequently blew shit (mostly earth) up. I also set a lot of stuff on fire. I created Molotov Cocktails out of gasoline and styrofoam and threw them at a block wall of a barn-ruin in the back yard. I also remember creating a Napthalene charge(think cardboard paper-towel roll stuffed with ground up mothballs sitting atop of some Black powder) that was suppose to create a big fireball and though I had no black powder prepared, I did have some excess flash powder I needed to get rid of so I used that. -For the briefest, loudest moment my buddies and I lit up the night sky.

–It was dangerous back then but it was before 9/11 and a visit from the feds was highly unlikely. Afterwards it became much harder to acquire German Dark 400 Mesh Aluminium Powder and today I would wholeheartedly expect a visit from an Alphabet agency. I did scald my face when nickel(bottle)-rocket fuel (made of carmelized sugar and potassium nitrate) ignited in my face as I was melting it together.

scientific hubris is the underlying theme of almost all of Crichton’s sci-fi books.

"We just closed them down one day and threw the insane on the street. "

On the street or in jail over what would otherwise be trivial legal violations. -like sleeping in public.