The machine makes food, but it's nutritionless slop. Still, it's cheaper to mass-produce so it crowds the farm food out of the supermarket. Slop becomes the norm, as people forget what food used to be.

There is wealth of books. They don't burn when consumed. Authors don't make a product, but art.

Apparently, they don't so much care about, or even prefer, search results being bad, as it increases searches which also increases ad impressions

Well, he's a big fan of high rise pants, so maybe he'd approve.

I was right there with you. But to be fair to ourselves, we couldn't have foreseen it would shrink the ability to think critically in people — or that the phrase "I read it on the internet" went from a joke to people's modus operandi.

Oops you're right. I saw it on here the other day, and assumed it was new news

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It's been pretty depressing to see the internet devolve from a place of passion and opportunity and people sharing their hardwon lessons, to a place of propaganda, misinformation, soulless plagiarism and corporations taking every piece for themselves.

So you dismiss anything that doesn't agree with your viewpoint as biased? Have you ever honestly tried to debunk your own views, aka applied critical thought? Even your rigid definition of conservatism (the one true scotsman) doesn't acknowledge the full spectrum. No ideology is a monolith