For some reason I used to confuse OneRepublic, whose songs I've never heard, with soulDecision, a CanCon pop band that was briefly huge on TRL. I miss the CanCon era, as an American it was a great source of slightly uncanny music and videos youtube.com/watch?v=3Vnd0DLQ…
If I had a trillion dollars I think I'd give it as an anonymous donation to a bunch of poor kids to help them afford pencils and paper. Then I'd say draw whatever you want.
Tablets 100% have this power over six-year-olds, or at least my six-year-old, and it's kind of scary, but it attenuates pretty fast because they're six. First day back from the grandparents' house is a nightmare, second one is basically normal
We let Nancy hold the Switch and play Animal Crossing for like 10 minutes when she wakes up and 10 minutes before bed while I brush her hair. I don't think I would do this with an actual tablet, it's just too deranging. You reserve the tablet, much like a Xanax, for a long flight
I'm not going to tell you to live in one—except in Springfield, Illinois, the greatest city in the world—but yeah they're all over the place, they are not some new portent of reddit dystopianism
Saw some "Big Pharma is suppressing the cure for cancer" type folk wisdom on Facebook recently and I feel like an acquaintance with the amount of money big pharma makes on cancer treatments vs the amount of money governments spend on cancer treatments would complicate this idea
For it to work you'd basically need all the world's governments, including ours, to agree to hugely subsidize American pharmaceutical companies every year forever. The NSA guy who found the cure for cancer on Pfizer servers and saved America $250 billion a year would get a medal