The opposite of this is to declare everyone has the right to be featured #1 on these private platform? Nobody has that right.

If those platforms are de-facto monopolies, then everyone should have the right to be there (not necessarily be featured #1).

Kids are simply used these days to deflect any criticism, HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE A 16 YR OLD KID

The truth is most of these children are just that, children, they are being used by capitalistic parents as a walking billboard for whatever agenda or service is being promoted.

Awareness is great and all but not many people are looking to be more aware, we are looking for practical solutions, none of which are being offered with all the attention goes to idolizing a child.

google "war on drugs" and "prison industrial complex"

Its highly likely that tourists would congregate around the same attractions when visiting a foreign city. A site like tripadvisor would have enough data to predict with high confidence the itinerary of 1000 random couples who visit a place. I live in a resort city and there is a clear distinction between areas that locals gather and the places tourists frequent.

You sure can if you find somebody willing to take them

Not many people are going to subscribe to a service to watch the same movies over and over again. DIS+ is dead int he water unless it somehow creates exclusive novel new content, which it wont just for its service, ergo DOA

you clearly do not have kids..

My 5 year old boy will watch the same film again and again for days until he get bored and move to watching the next same movie for days, rinse and repeat.

my brother is 29 now but did the same thing when he was at that age, i still know most lines from lion king by hearth because of that.

i have a friend that watch braveheart at least once a year.

i myself, there are many movies that i would rewatch every once in a while, many from disney.

so it is not even a new or uncommon behavior that people watch the same movies again and again.

also, disney already announced several series just for this service from marvel (wanda and vision, winter soldier and falcon, loki) and star wars (mandalorian, a new clone war season), so yes they will have exclusive novel new content made just for it in there.

also, once it goes live all new movies from disney, marvel and star wars will only be available there.

so it is definitely not dead in the water.

all the new Marvel and Star Wars shows alone...

Arent the best programmers the ones where the system just works without you having to be there? Dave isnt a 10x programmer is more like a -10x cry baby and the company just didnt know any better.

> the company just didnt know any better

Well, they definitely didn't know enough to not skip payroll.

This is being told from a programmers point of view. Dave was cool from a programmers view. Writing code which enriches the ip owner is cool from the owners point of view.

Looks the same as the other 1 million wordpress landing pages out there, nothing special about it at all.

is this the same as me randomizing a sentence, such as "satboma.ereegeiafudsuuedlVoiieelelglaesldnu nuorascrluc eip ttelalf rpoima s smudb.loo .r.c ue eu. mtgde mmea i leno undcisuattlicuoM ete Dimr isaaci nriirslraeunbpo abf mavuoD elneaact psg eunn mrlA m taiinccltnd oisnnnniltnt" and then asking you to find the words?

If you're referring to either the midterms or the 2016 presidential election, they didn't get either particularly wrong.

Did they? As far as I can recall 538 has always been clear that they deal in probabilities, not binary predictions. They gave him a small chance of winning for a reason, and it turned out chaos favored one of the low odds scenarios.