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It's probably no less truthful than a woke American corporation manipulating algorithms to control what people see about the news and politics.

It probably would be but getting everybody to agree on a single platform isn't always a trivial process.

Who knows. Maybe it was a slow news day. I'm not sure it makes any difference what underlying causes might have triggered it. Maybe he was drunk, maybe he had an unknown medical condition that caused him to black out and fall. Maybe he was juggling with chainsaws and it went tragically wrong...

It's a disgrace that a store should close for a whole 24 hours. How are people supposed to cope without going shopping for an entire day? /sarcasm

A large part of the problem is that so many people simply don't take responsibility for their own lives. People complain that apps steal their data but when asked for permission to have the data they just click "agree" and move on. People get so used to being presented with a huge list of...

True, but then everyone would need to be on the same site and it's a bit of a big ask to expect a bunch of people to sign up to a web site so you can send them all a message. And getting people to do that would be coordinated with a group text, so there would be endless notifications as people...

Probably a birthday card or something. I know you can send e-cards but they aren't the same.

Hard to say for sure. If some of the speculation about his health being poor have any truth to them at all it's more concerning - mutually assured destruction isn't much of a deterrent to someone who faces personal destruction anyway. And if he thinks he can get away with it, facing little more...

Only yesterday I got a group text relating to a local ministry I've been helping with. There's a meeting coming up. I only know two of the numbers on the list, but every single person who says "I'll be there" makes my phone buzz, which in turn makes me think I've got something I need to know...

I think the bigger problem with the two-party system is when both parties would rather discredit the other party than work together to fix stuff. Having two parties could work if only they'd work together but, as you say, if Biden wins in 2024 we'll see more runaway inflation and ever-higher...

My biggest issue with group emails is when people "reply-all" when it's really not necessary. I particularly hate group texts for the same reason. When someone sends out a group email and everyone and their dog feels the need to reply with "thanks" but sends it to everyone on the list it fills...

A three-way system is notionally more flexible but doesn't necessarily work very well for anyone. When Nick Clegg aligned with David Cameron it worked fairly well for the Conservatives because they got to form a government, they got to sacrifice Clegg in the process so it didn't work very well...

Maybe, maybe not. In the UK there are three main parties and all of them promise they will make things better and with few exceptions they do nothing of the sort. Because you need a majority of Parliament to form a credible government the result is that sometimes one of the main two parties...

Fom what I've seen most "social" media platforms are little more than cesspits of venom. Fun enough for sharing silly memes but I wouldn't even attempt to have a useful conversation on any of them - even if you're trying to discuss with someone you know it seems there's always some idiot that...

I remember during the 2000 campaign the question was often asked how a country of 300+ million people managed to figure that Bush and Gore were the best options for leader. I'm not sure anything has improved since then.

There could. And that's the point. She might not be wearing her rings because she was playing with the kids and forgot to put them back on. She might not be wearing her rings because she and William are having serious marital problems. She might have edited the photo because she's recovering...

There was a certain irony in the party that endlessly blathers on about diversity gradually shaking out the gay guy, the fake Cherokee, the black woman only to end up with another angry old white guy, who then blathered some more about diversity and put the black woman who fell at the first...

That would be classist.

I think the problem isn't so much that she fiddled with her photo but that after so much time out of the spotlight it invited further speculation as to what's really going on with her and her health. One wonders why she didn't just release the original photo rather than fiddle with it in a dozen...

The trouble with public restrooms is that you never know how clean the taps are. As a rule I avoid touching anything with my hands unless I can clean my hands afterwards, or I know how clean something is. In a public restroom unless I can control something with my elbows or similar I'll avoid...