Alcohol sales did not increase, though it did make a small number of people rich, that is true. That doesn’t change the fact prohibition was successful in greatly reducing alcohol consumption.

It does work. It objectively reduces whatever is banned. Just because enforcement cannot be 100%, that does not mean outlawing certain activities is a failure. Prohibition, for example, reduced alcohol consumption by 70%.

Just by the responses in this thread, I don’t think it’s approaching anywhere near 40%.

I’ve heard of Mark Zuckerberg. I haven’t heard of Joan Donovan. Why the fuck does anyone care what some Joan Donovan has to say?

Ok, so this person has a wiki article and in it there was apparently some drama about how Joan believes she was fired from Harvard due to pressure from Meta, which the university denies. So now I guess this is her life now.

This place is very similar to reddit. Notably, chains of “removed by moderator.”

We’re going to need flock cameras in every kitchen now.

Presumably, he will not be running again so not sure you’re going to have to do much to “kick his ass out.”