Sounds like bullshit. Just in recent memory: look at Belarus 2021, look at the massive Serbian protests that have been going on for over half a year and the govt is still not relenting.

Public companies have to account for the shareholdres' expectation of, well, making money (and more money, and more money, and growing the numbers as much as possible). Shareholders have some degree influence on how the company works, depending on how many shares they own, e.g. they can vote for the CEO. This usually leads to the company to introducing more aggressive ways of making money off the users/customers, enshittification, etc., as it has to satisfy the shareholders and not so much the original customers.

but instead of finding a path toward healing

You might even say, he's ended up on a... path of exile.

Controversial take: advancing science is better than spending weeks optimising how to play video games for children.

I'm worrying that whatever gets sold (Chrome or Android) might end up in the hands of someone even more scummy than Google.

Produce infinite copies of bread loaves, and then get arrested because the baker lobby doesn't like that.

This is so obviously generated by GPT, none of these articles exist.

Basically yes (though it's probably not a flash game), diep.io

Let's be honest people's brains absolutely can turn off when they appear on a quiz. It's a weird and stressful situation. Especially if you remember that all of your mistakes will be broadcast to millions of people and commented on and intensely scrutinized.

Smh the background/flag isn't gold-black stripes 🤦‍♂️

It's a good template when used with enough irony/self-awareness. Doesn't happen very frequently, though.

Anyone knows which book they're referring to? It sounds a bit like Chekhov.