There are general techniques of manipulation that can be deployed to make any sort of interactive digital activity addictive.

Reading this leads me to want to keep such interactions out of my life. In fact, I've more or less totally done so, by not carrying a mobile device, and rejecting on principle their proprietary malware cr…app software.

You can do it too, with firmness and determination.

When a patient in southern California with Aetna medical coverage needed expensive treatments, the company answered automatically "no". It's no surprise — allowing the profit element in invites such dishonesty.

How the tax attacks swindle Americans (other than very rich ones).

The Onion: Nation Not Sure How Many Ex-Trump Staffers It Can Safely Reabsorb.

US immigration thugs may be the most vicious thugs in the US. They systematically practice verbal cruelty and violent physically cruelty towards their prisoners, hoping to break their spirit so that they will abandon appeals against deportation.

Cutting them off from medical care is another standard practice. If US "custody" means they must suffer untreated diseases, that might scare them away.

Blocking them from seeing their lawyers makes rational sense, too, if the aim is to arrange a miscarriage of justice.