Category: Opinion

• Opinion

  Gambling Ads: Manipulating Behavior Through Marketing

  I look out my front window and see a gambling ad. Big, bright, unavoidable. “Turn dimes into dollars.” It sounds cheap. Easy. Low stakes. Like you’d be stupid not to try. I drive to my parents’ podunk hometown and see more of the same. I turn on the Super Bowl…

  February 9, 2026
• Opinion

  You Don’t Need “Something to Hide” to Care About Data Privacy

  If you’ve ever said some extent of “I have nothing to hide, so I don’t care if companies or governments have my data,” I want you to really sit with that for a second. Not because you’re dumb. Not because you’re malicious. But because that belief didn’t come from careful…

  February 4, 2026
• Opinion

  The Kids Aren’t Alright, They’re Stupid

  The kids aren’t alright, and haven’t been for a while now. Literacy rates are falling, attention spans are in the gutter, and we’re actively taking an axe to the education system while acting shocked by the outcome. This didn’t happen overnight. It’s been a slow burn. Reading levels are down.…

  January 25, 2026
• Opinion

  Samantha Jones Was Always the Blueprint

  I watched Sex and the City in my early twenties and loved Samantha Jones instantly. She felt like permission. Permission to want sex, to take up space, to not constantly explain myself. Now I’m in my thirties and I’m even more confident saying she was the best character. Not ironically. Not nostalgically.…

  January 22, 2026
• Opinion

  Stop Letting the News Control Your Life

  Have you noticed how fear is everywhere now? Turn on the news and it’s doom after doom. Scroll social media and it’s outrage and panic. Even your “off-grid” friends are selling fear. Climate collapse. Government conspiracies. Economic collapse. Survivalist prep lists. And the craziest part, is most of these people…

  January 19, 2026
• Opinion

  Verizon Is Having Another Major Outage and It Made Me Realize How Little Control We Actually Have

  Verizon is down today, and the outage left many people suddenly without service. Here’s what’s really happening, why these outages keep occurring, and what it exposes about our dependence on phone and tech infrastructure.

  January 14, 2026