Crucial to the automotive industry -> crucial to their campaign funds.

>But Boucher says her experience suggests publishers should prioritize a different relationship: the direct one they have with their audience.

I feel there's quite a bit to unpack here. Social media was sold to us as being a way to engage your users more closely... yet it seems the opposite is true.

Yes there are commonly clever people that know how to play organizational ladders with minimum amount of work in every sufficiently large organization. Also a fair amount of "morons".

Or maybe finally learn mechanics 101 - what the conservation of momentum is. The kind of stuff we expect to understand from smart 16 year olds.

This is the physics equivalent of someone writing a brute-force recursive SAT solver and wondering why it takes so long. Perhaps we don't measure time correctly? What if mirrors are an illusion? We mustn't stop advancing the field!

What percentage of the limited time in your life is worth what level of impact on climate change?

Do something much more likely to be useful: implement a reasonable, even revenue-neutral carbon tax and stop with this non-sense.

It sounds like it means "there were a few things that I still used Amazon for, but now that my account is locked I don't even do that". They've stopped buying from Amazon altogether.

More accurately "first they came for the weavers."