Neal Freiman
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Australia just banned social media for anyone under the age of 16.
A number of other countries and states in the United States have rallied around this particular concept of banning social media for kids under 16.
So they said we need to watch.
This is a very...
important global experiment because we have found that social media, especially visual-based, algorithmic-driven media, has led to unhappiness.
So what Australia is doing is so critically important for what could happen with the rest of the world.
to crush this, especially in a year with the Winter Olympics.
Everything is coming up, Norway and Finland and Sweden.
They talk about how much trust they have in society, talk a lot about access to healthcare.
They never sort of have to worry about that because it is all taken care of by the government.
But yeah, Finland, nine out of the last 10 years, they're so happy and they barely have any light and it's cold.
Maybe.
USPS is probably too big to fail.
But at the same time, it's also been set up to fail, at least in 2026.
It has a government mandate to deliver to roughly 1%.
170 million addresses nationwide, regardless of cost, six days a week.
And because of that, 71% of its delivery routes are financially underwater.
It has lost money every single year since 2007.
And mail volume is simply plummeting.
Total mail volume peaked