Bezos also likes the series and nearly made a tv adaptation of Consider Phlebas that thankfully fell through.
All the bazingaires are wow cool spaceship 
about the Culture while missing communist themes that couldn't have been more overt without each book just pausing to quote the manifesto in full.
easy to make that kinda money as an astrologer, you just divine which star sign has incoming prosperity and then find out what stocks people with that sign are invested in
I mean naval helicopter collision is a free square
every store is now a platform for drop shippers and some of my best ~~friends~~ independent business partners are black
I for one support Bong Joon-ho on his James Cameron arc
They have been writing these articles since the self-checkouts came out. The only thing new here is the commentariat has finally realized millennials are old now and started writing Gen Z.
I'll never face the ICC
They'll never put the chains on me
There's no court in Holland that could cancel me
Leyla coming! 
Voter registration is public information and sufficient for cold callers.
If you live independently you will inevitably have to make privacy sacrifices for the sake of expediency. Having a bank account is probably going to be one of them. There are many essential services that you use but probably do not think of as an eighteen year old that may share information when you provide for yourself such as your phone carrier, ISP, utilities such as power, water, gas etc, insurance, health services, education or certification providers, employment or recruitment agencies, the list just goes on and you will have to thoroughly evaluate every company you interact with and in many cases there will simply be no realistic privacy respecting option.
Keep fighting to protect your privacy but don't put an impossible burden on yourself to be perfect. You will make mistakes, you will make compromises, you will probably get spam. Welcome to late stage capitalism.
Is there anything more depressing than letting people sleep on the streets?
Hold my beer 
2006 isn't even that far out from SARS-CoV-1 so pretty sure people could wrap their heads around it.
What my past much libber self would struggle with is to understand just how willingly complicit every part of the social structure would be in enabling the spread in order to prop up the economy and just how fast consent would be manufactured, how fast we went from a strong sense of communal resistance to apathy. Maybe that is what you meant but then again try telling the average person today that covid isn't over and you might as well walk around with a sign saying, "The End Is Nigh!"