If you want to go down this path, it depends entirely on what you imagine constitutes “competition” re: Instagram. Is it only photo-based social platforms like Snapchat or Pinterest? Or can we consider Twitter a competitor, too? I don’t think there’s such a clear delineation, and I certainly don’t believe that an…

You’re ignoring the way FB etc. manipulate people into relying on their product by gamifying the socializing experience.

Who cares? Is Instagram engaging in monopolistic practices?

I love the suggestion that somehow being into Tom Petty doesn’t put you in “dad” territory.

Exactly the point. You have to be even cooler to pull it off when you’re a short, bald thumb like Phil Collins.

Only a dude who has complete and utter (and correct) conviction that what he’s doing is cool could go out on stage looking like Phil Collins and commit this hard to the act. Come on.

Instagram has competition by what might as well be a billion other apps. WhatsApp is far from the only messenger/chat app in existence, and isn’t even really that popular in the US. Google is far bigger than Facebook in the online advertising space. If you think Facebook bought Moves, Hello, and tbh specifically so it…

Again, this literally does not matter when your life is on the line. Few diabetics are going to take solace in the fact that more GOP take money from big pharma than Democrats, if that entire cadre is ultimately working together to jack up the prices of insulin. I literally hear these two coworkers of mine talking…

Did it shut down because of anti-competitive practices on the part of Facebook? I don’t think even Google would make that case. And there are plenty of other social media and communication platforms online. This is poor argumentation.

As one poster put it yesterday, if you can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys these days, you are either stupid or the problem.

He is right that all of Facebook’s products face steep competition from others. I know people really want to punish Facebook, and are happy to deploy whatever tools they think will work, but does anybody genuinely think they fall under any reasonable definition of a monopoly?

That’s untrue. But Neil Young outdoes them both, now that I think about it. The best thing about Young is that he never cruised on legacy rock god status, like many of his contemporaries, even though he very well could have. He’s always been up to something new and different, and has never been resistant to change.

I think Phil Collins kind of has to take this out of Tom Petty’s hands, though, as far as being an unassuming normie dude who somehow is one of the greatest pop geniuses ever produced.

Fran Lebowitz is horrible and culturally irrelevant. Her one rhetorical move is that old modernist trick of making a bitchy, finalizing pronouncement from on-high, and relying on butt-sniffing sycophants to golf clap and reinforce it for you. Except, you know, she’s a woman, not a dude. Oh, and she doesn’t actually…

Hawley isn’t just going after loot boxes either he’s going after all microtransactions.

Who cares?

You are wrapped up in the Chuck Todd brand of politics as sport. Watch the polls. Move the message accordingly. Stick to bland platitudes without inspiring and heaven forbid, do not rock the boat. You might upset someone.

The symbolism of not doing everything possible to get an obvious felon out of the White House reeks of losing.

The Senate can then put the President on trial and remove him from office.

Symbolism doesn’t win elections, though. If we impeach Trump, but the Senate doesn’t convict, he walks away with a gigantic political win. He will have gone into and endured the crucible of impeachment, and walked out with his job intact. It won’t be something he hangs his head in shame over, because he’s not an…