Marketers generally don't know what they're doing and it's gotten more difficult with video, shorter attention spans and anti-capitalism.
Thing is though, the tiny proportion who do know, and get it right can make a company like Apple $hundreds of billions. It's almost like a lottery.
Life expectancy has dropped since COVID. They should break down the statistics by vaccination status.
Labour are not centrists, they are left wing, admittedly not radical left wing like they were under Corbyn, but definitely on the left. The Tories have gone off to the far right to cosy up to Reform and the traditional centrist party, the LibDems seems to have just gone slightly bonkers.
The LibDems maneuvred to pick up Tory seats (who had 'stolen' them from the LibDems in 2015). This is another stupidity of FPTP. Parties have to adapt to fit the dumbness of the voting system rather than standing for what they actually believe.
They are undoubtedly centrist, whether talking about cleaning up rivers, funding public services and reversing Brexit.
I'd agree Labour aren't far off, though sticking to Brexit for some dumb reason. It and Liz Truss have made it fairly impossible to fund public services.
This is not something that proportional representation will fix. Indeed, had it been in place at the last election, the radical far right reform party that got 14% of the vote but only 0.8% of the seats would have benefitted enormously.
There's a question whether far right parties deserve the representation that voters ask for. What I would say is if you deny it them, you're denying yourself democracy. Democracy just doesn't really exist when you have fewer than 5 parties that can win.
STV would deny Reform a few seats that MMP would give them though I suspect a better form of PR that properly caters for voting against the far right could be invented.
A fascist getting a majority in the US puts an end to your argument.
If the US had PR, you'd have 7+ parties vying for power and one of the other ones would have won.
First past the post means the centre dominates.
The centre rarely gets a look in. Where's the centre in the US? Or in the UK? FPtP just swings the country from left to right to left etc ad nauseum. It's massively inefficient and leads to entitled, self-serving parties & attack politics.
Android is just horrible, period.
Unfortunately, the duopoly and half of the internet being proprietary means I have to at least run Android apps.
I will only buy a phone if I can run Sailfish with Android App Support.
Nice camera is always useful.
5g -- who cares
NFC -- would be useful but App Support doesn't and never will support it
Europe, by which I mean the EU plus the UK, is increasingly totalitarian. Germany is throwing people in jail for posting memes, and even for commenting on memes.
The UK has (in one incident among many) jailed a woman for "stirring up racial hatred" for her social media posts made after an illegal immigrant stabbed three young children in her area.
What is it about people posting racist stuff that you're massively in favour of?
Are you proud of your KKK?
Europe has a better history of protecting free speech than the US with their SLAPP suits. We don't have to tolerate blatant racism and the KKK. We recognise that prosecuting people trying to stir up hate protects minorities. As does every other country who didn't come up with their bill of rights whilst still owning slaves.
You presumably tolerate a felon President who has stated repeatedly he's going to set the DoJ on his political opponents, who encouraged a coup and whom several of his own cabinet called a "fascist"?
Your desperate attempt to pretend anyone other than this guy is totalitarian is pitiful.
Oh you can't. Literally tens of thousands of factchecks and you can't find a single one that's wrong or misinformed, yet you pretend most of it is.
Children can cope with being wrong. Why can't you?
It's funny how scared you are that you have to write retired 304s instead of what you really mean: "whores".
What were you on when you wrote this, AC?
Trump has already said Zuck was threatened into doing this.
It is scary how much power Herr Trump has before he even gets into office.
To be frank, what's the alternative? Facebook is a monopoly that also happens to own Instagram.
People have been trying to get off FB for a decade. But it's a good way to keep in touch with people, a good way to have proper discourse online (unlike Twitter) and it can be very entertaining.
The actual tech is shite.
But you don't have to understand people to be a monopolist.
Greenland, being a part of Denmark, _is_ part of the EU.
But being part of Europe, Greenland remembers what fascism looks like and so doesn't want any part of it.
Is that non-binding international law you're talking about?
There are far left activists, calling for communism, trans-women in women's shelters etc.
There just aren't many of them, whereas the whole of MAGA is far right and are so brainwashed, they'll stay like that their whole lives... unless Trump gets in and does what he says he'll do... creating internment camps and using the army to suppress all dissent. Even then, much of MAGA will think that's fine.
Trump probably will win. Then he'll lock up judges, Democrats and newspaper editors, and use the army to suppress all dissent.
You'll claim this isn't fascism.
So Meta made everyone in the EU & UK accept terms of "Pay us or we'll steal your data."
Such coersion is very far from passing muster with GDPR.
Meta is so unsure of its position that rather than blocking FB in the Europe, they're blocking some AI model that probably no-one in Europe will care about.
Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss put in an honest day's work.
