It's the same argument I've heard about the "complexity" of Mastodon: too many choices, which is I guess why people largely stopped going to websites outside the major social networks. Monopoly over competition, it's like everyone is pining for a monarchy.

His communications director who?

On top of the likelihood that a ban would be very politically expensive, distracting, and watered down to pointlessness.

There's a whole book about this: # Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/nickel-and-dimed-20th-anniversary-edition-on-not-getting-by-in-america-barbara-ehrenreich/9836607?ean=9781250808318

At first I was annoyed, until I realized "drop" is an antagonym.

The risks of sodium aren't universal (some people appear to have immunity), and were exaggerated by the sugar industry.

Americans explicitly didn't want a national ID.

Don't forget the burned monkey testacles

I'm not sure I'd put much stock in modern polling.

A study suggests the debate had very little impact, but even if it didn't, historically, changing candidates this late hasn't worked out.

https://boingboing.net/2024/07/10/impacts-of-the-presidential-debate-far-overestimated.html

I'm pretty sure they only care about their performative solipsism.

It's actually meditation, isn't it?

Dismissing entire groups based on stupid labels is ugly.