“Showing an ad” is a bad paradigm. Instead, get to know me. Find out my values and needs. Then, sell to me. Make me feel like you understand my problem and then show me several good options. That’s how you get the users with money to spend.
"Get to know me" is a bad paradigm. I don't want them to know shit about me. But since it's safe to assume that is you're serving content, then someone is consuming it, you can base ads on that content. You know, like TV, radio, and magazines have done the whole time.
It depends on your definition of “America”. Do you mean “white Christians” or do you mean “all men are created equal”, separation of church and state, etc.
Under a different US administration, it would have been completely different. What we just had was the worst possible administration in place, and they dealt with the disaster in the worst possible way.
Buying up the properties with senior water rights seems a lot cheaper than building new reservoirs, dams, etc. What's the value of these types of properties? How much cash flow can the owners possibly be making? The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Perhaps there are different definitions of “derailed”.
After all one of the communication problems in this pandemic was that even technical, medical professionals could not agree on the definition of “airborne” as it relates to the public’s best interest.