So if there is actually some punishment handed down, any bets on what even more hellish scenario will rise up to replace the one where Google controls internet ads?

All too real.

Since middle school or so I've always started notes/real work from the front of the notebook, and pure doodles from the back (though plenty make it to the front pages as well). Decades later I wonder how many kilos of graphite or liters of ink I've used (spoiler: probably not even one of each).

hah, thanks, tho it's kind of the opposite of work. I had about 3.5hrs of zoom calls that particular day, and if my hands aren't doing something there's absolutely zero chance of me staying tuned in.

Just another day with debilitating ADHD...

The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

And have made differently in the past.

While we're all living in the present it's extra-important to acknowledge the successes (and sometimes catastrophic failures) of different civilizations of the past. The way we're living now is not the only way we've ever lived as a species, but we seem amazingly incapable of learning from past successes and failures sometimes.

Based and Lincoln-pilled

It’s called “The Tiffany Problem”. You might want to use the historically accurate name Tiffany for a character in your 16th century historical fiction novel, but you can’t because it sounds like someone who was born in 1982.