Social media across all major platforms is being manipulated to make everyone more stressed, everything seem more chaotic and hopeless. It's probably a certain foreign power that's working on taking over the dominant position of the globe but it's also allowed and even assisted by domestic social media companies because it drives more views.
The crash in 2020 was twice as deep as it should have been. The markets were spooked by a president repeating conspiracy theories instead of reassuring people while health organizations were scrambling and panicking.
The majority of the damage the houthis have done is to the economy of Europe. Despite their slogan they are not competent enough to figure out how to really hurt the US or Israel, not for a lack of trying, though.
They should have taken it upon themselves to overthrow the houthis like 20 years ago already. The houthis holding the Suez hostage for more than a year economically hurts multiple billions of people. The damage they are feeling is a small fraction of the damage they have done to the rest of the world. It's just not easy to show a representation of a small % of damage to the entire global economy like you can show a viral video clip of a bomb landing.
I think it's good to have some 3rd party organization, as in besides the manufacturer and consumer, imposing some restrictions that weed out companies that cut too many corners on engineering a product or are just low skilled at engineering things.
Like cars for example. The average mpg of cars has pretty much doubled in the last 15 or 20 years, which is insane for such a mature industry. They were forced to adapt and get creative by lawmakers making emissions requirements more strict. It shows that automakers could have been doing more in decades past.
Social media across all major platforms is being manipulated to make everyone more stressed, everything seem more chaotic and hopeless. It's probably a certain foreign power that's working on taking over the dominant position of the globe but it's also allowed and even assisted by domestic social media companies because it drives more views.