Cambridge Analytica had pretty much no impact. There was a study on this done in the UK. Much of the world wanted Brexit and Trump. Random ads on Facebook simply aren't that effective.
The world is filled with people who have different ideas about what is funny, what is offensive, what is fun, what is boring, etc.
On the internet it is expected to have a clash of cultures since people from different backgrounds are collaborating. There will naturally be well intentioned misunderstandings. Rather than creating a system that allows for these to take place peacefully without incident, any example of a joke gone wrong or a word out of place will result in an inquisition.
Why do so many westerners want to live like this? Constantly thirsty for purifying others. It seems to come from some kind of emptiness that must exist in one's life to be so obsessed over minutiae.
One party thinks minorities have magic powers, the other party thinks tax cuts have magic powers. Yang thinks giving people $1000 a month will magically solve many problems. It's just different versions of pure silliness.
I can't seem to get on board with the new hotness like Tailwind and whatever else the cool kids are using these days.
I tried tailwind in a couple of projects. The dependency on PurgeCSS seems to cause all kinds of problems - either with the build tools or cause some unexpected bugs because I have the additional responsibilities of keeping track of which classes won't be caught by the parser for whatever reason.
Ivermectin is interesting because the in vivo indications seem to suggest that to replicate the same result in humans, the dose would need to be pretty high.
High doses of Ivermectin are likely harmful.
Regulators assume people will take high doses, so they use a sleight of hand and issue a blanket notice about effectiveness and safety, under the assumption that people will take horse-strength doses.
Safe prophylactic doses should probably be studied, but instead studies like the Oxford one are being done at the critical stage.
It's a strange form of gaslighting where it is like pretending to mishear what is being suggested and then acting on that misrepresentation, as if to disprove what was actually said.
The actual claim is never addressed nor studied. Practicing doctors continue to prescribe it in India and elsewhere.