That’s a tough question. It’s hard to know, because there are so many bot accounts.

The platform providers would like everyone to believe they have 100% solved this, and keep giving them advertising money.

But I feel like the three largest players are also the ones who have done the most to demonstrate general, all around untrustworthiness, recently.

I understood that (RuneScape) reference.

True. I wish someone had warned me off of used car dealerships.

To add to all your points, maybe one car in 100 is a lemon (has something seriously broken), but 100% of lemons eventually get traded to car dealers for trade-in value.

I feel like the odds of getting a lemon new or private sale aren’t bad. But the odds of getting a lemon on a used car lot skyrocket.

My only (kind of random) thought is that some kids change their names, eventually, to fully express themselves.

So I might be tempted by initials, or something more symbolic, myself.

It isn’t what you were asking, but, I have my son’s footprint from his birth certificate on top of my foot.

Awww! That is both epic and cute at the same time.

I was just thinking about this: more evidence of the Minecraft to Linux self hosting pipeline.

“Did you get the memo? I’ll print you a copy.”

“… maximum setting. I would have been vaporized.”

“It’s my first ray-gun.”

“Captain, I believe I speak for the entire crew when I say, ‘To hell with our orders’”.

“I wasn’t even supposed to be here today!”

“STEVE!”

“Well, let me finish, Dmitri. Let me finish, Dmitri. Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it? Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri? Why do you think I’m calling you? Just to say hello?”

“You’re out of your element, Donny!”

“Bad horse! Bad horse! He rides across the country - the thoroughbred of crime!”

“A hospital?! What is it?!”

“This is no time to talk about time, we don’t have the time!”

I suspect politics would actually shift a huge minority amount towards “no, don’t kill the planet, my grandchildren live here”.

The billionaire planet killers can afford to buy up and lock down two parties. I doubt they can afford to buy out everyone.

I see one key difference, in social value:

Someone tells me they bought a meaningless knighthood: hearty laugh and a high five.

Someone tells me they’re in MENSA: Awkward silence and maybe a mental note to check how they’re doing more often.

This.

For the younger folks, who missed the annoyance - it felt like that doughboy was in about 75% of all advertisement minutes, at his peak.

Lots of folks wanted to do more than poke his little CGI belly.

Given time and healing, I no longer loathe that little thing, but this still kind of works for me as surrealist humor.