If you think 15-minute cities are a bad thing, you're just an ignoramus. Both about what "15-minute cities" are and about what their intent is.
The rest is just bullshit you've cherry-picked from the most extreme parts of the left that for all practical purposes nobody in the majority of the left actually believes.
If it is that niche, it is not a self-sustaining business model (with the evidence for this being that they instead have to sell their users to third parties).
Perhaps it's just better left to die than to propagate an economic model that commoditizes human beings who aren't even part of the business?
To me the expectation that Oxygen-28 would be stable was naive. If they had a model that said it would, I would have looked very askance at that model for one very simple reason: Oxygen-28 has never been observed in nature. If it hasn't ever been observed before that's a very strong clue it has a very short half-life.
There are no more local newspapers or stations for all practical purposes. 70% of the UK's "local" news media (print or broadcast) are owned by four media conglomerates. Most "local" television media in the USA is owned by the (right wing asshole collection) Sinclair Broadcast Group or (fellow right wing asshole collection) Rosebud Media. About 2/3 of "local" newspapers in the USA aren't locally-owned or operated and don't hire local reporters. Of these, about half are owned by 25 companies (themselves part of larger conglomerates in twisted, difficult-to-unravel relationships).
So it's kind of difficult to support your local newspaper/station. Because it's a unicorn for most people.
Enough to pay for it ... if it's good enough to be worth paying for.
It's that last part that kills most content creators. There's people whose work I'll idly browse as long as I don't have to pay for it (even with ads: I love my ad blocker!). But you're right, 99.44% of content creators whose work I idly look over would not get a single red cent out of me from direct payment.
So maybe it would be good to switch to payment-only schemes. That would kill off the crap creators and leave those behind who make something people think is worth paying for.
I mean ... I still pay for books and music. I do pay for content. Just not shit content.
That's a lot of people who are a net drain on society both economically and in terms of accomplishment. SO MUCH EFFORT is wasted on trying to get my eyes on their graffiti. The greatest engineers of the 1950s and 1960s put humans on the Moon. The greatest engineers of the 2000s onwards struggle to get eyes on ads.
I'd happily pay for a service if I could have a guarantee, with legal teeth (like a service level agreement with truly massive penalties for breach), that the service won't ever do any of the following:
Put an ad in front of my face.
Sell my personal information.
I used to pay for some services to get the "ad-free" version, but almost invariably this chain got subsequently followed: ad-free → opt-in "curated" ads → opt-out "curated" ads → "curated" ads → dropping all pretense of there being any advantage to paying as the site becomes ad-o-rama.
Every once in a while I find myself looking at the Internet without ad blockers. Like, newly-installing a browser on a newly-installed OS, or trialing a new browser on my phone or whatnot. And when it happens it's a massive shock to me just how unusable the modern Internet is without an ad blocker.
If I were forced somehow to not use an ad blocker, I would probably stop using the WWW portion of the Internet and likely grossly cut down on other facets of the Internet.
What's relevant is how you latched on to "leftism" as cult-like ... while reciting a whole bunch of right wing cult (especially QAnon) talking points about them.
Leftism doesn't act like a cult. AMERICANS, left or right, are cultists.
I'm not in any fucking American political cult. I'm not American, I don't live in the USA, and I think American political "thought" (for want of a better term) is more akin to a cancer than it is to anything useful.
And thus, by my standards, there is no American left in American politics. The leftmost American senator, congressman, or president is a right-lurching centrist by my standards. (And Biden is a slightly left-leaning full-on Nazi.)
(Also, tomorrow is Thursday. 😉 I'm more than half way through my Wednesday.)
But Twitter has had a Nazi problem from day one (starting with its CEO, the techbrodude who praises Myanmar in the middle of its genocide against the Rohinga). And Reddit has had a pop-up violent right problem also from day one.
The GOP is not protecting children from anything. It never has done. The GOP is protecting itself by directing the rage and wrath of its base away from its own incompetence and malevolence so that its base doesn't see it for what it is: a collection of billionaires and billionaire quislings worsening the conditions for non-billionaires at an accelerating pace.
Trans is just the latest in a long series of distractions that the conservative base keeps stupidly falling for. (My introduction to their bullshit was the crusade against Dungeons & Dragons and the closely-related Satanic Panic. Ever notice how both those aren't things anymore? Did they really protect children against the harms of D&D given that D&D's current edition is the best-selling version of that game in history? No, because it was never about protecting children.)
If you think 15-minute cities are a bad thing, you're just an ignoramus. Both about what "15-minute cities" are and about what their intent is.
The rest is just bullshit you've cherry-picked from the most extreme parts of the left that for all practical purposes nobody in the majority of the left actually believes.