Or assign responsibility to…parents and legal guardians…who are not children.

Meta is not blameless here. Responsibility can be shared when Meta (and others) are essentially preying on children. It’s an uphill battle for parents by Meta’s design.

They’re not Meta’s kids, they’re freemium customers.

Doesn't this lawsuit (essentially) prove otherwise?

It would work if parents had legal course to seek justice against corporations that stalk, groom, and manipulate their children against their wishes.

Seems insufficient to keep Social Security solvent after 2040.

Are the kids alright?

As long as bars still have parking lots and there are sin taxes, it’s another state-sponsored racket.

You might want to look into the industry funding of environmental organizations and the decline of union membership before you decide with your whole heart.

Are you sure it was to get paid, not to avoid prosecution? It could be both among other reasons.

It doesn't matter as in this scale power ~= money ~= time so it's interchangeable, this prick can get paid in all of these commodities

You have the right to remain silent, but you must assert it verbally.

I’m not so sure. First the representatives are selected to be elected.

A significant portion of both of your suggested halves are “complicated” by money.

You could break it down further if you like, yes.

Everything is complicated by money. I wish we were better about shielding politics from money. So much about society in general is about money, it ain’t easy.

Because freedom, and surveillance capitalism, have different effects depending on which side of the PR apparatus you find yourself on, and the laws that get passed are written by and for the industries and not crabs in the barrel voters who rely on them for income.

Power corrupts.

Customs and taxes on the border ridge?

I would like to see something about the wider geography of the area.

This is just a little strange to me. Pollen is produced at the flowering stage, not the growing and harvesting stages, months later. While there may be pollen on a grown ear of corn, it would be there for the same reason that it is everywhere else, because it is airborne and somewhat durable?