Being in the USA should make less sense, being a 1st world country and all, but when I read it was in the USA I wasn’t surprised at all.

American solution: put the 3yo in prison for forced labour and arm all 1 year olds so they can defend themselves.

Kid was completely broken, he needed care for his mental health, not jail. I understand it’s not always available though.

When you don’t have the truth at your side, you gotta resort to something else.

I work with online sales and that’s not what happens at all. Fake discounts just works, sadly, and people just won’t learn. I don’t really know why, maybe they use the “discount” as an excuse to themselves just to buy more stuff.

The moment I start seeing Meta content here is the moment I leave. People are being very, VERY naive in thinking that the Fediverse is immune to corporate interest. Judging by the Mastodon response, we are already seeing that it’s not.