Well, it could have been but just like robot.txt everyone ignored the Do-not-track Header in HTTP requests.

Do you genuinely think reliable medical tests are being targeted at you through ads?

Nope, but that is an entirely different problem. Major platforms have to be legislated to tightly control which ads they run. The amount of misinformation spread through ads is enormous.

Also, a depression test? Some people certainly would benefit from knowing that a) no, showing these symptoms is neither normal nor healthy, and b) there can be something done against this.

Specifically, if in the future you need to go live in that house but you have a tenant

Can only speak for Germany, but here the term to look out for is “Eigenbedarfskündigung”.

Here in Germany, being a single parent is one of the “best” indicators of poverty: Your income would most likely shrink due to reduced working hours needed for taking care of your son. Which, in return, makes it more difficult to pay off loans long term. It also highly depends on the flexibility your employer is willing to offer you.

Given your short description of your situation, my spontaneous advice is:

• Stay with your parents and continue splitting responsibilities. As long as everyone is OK with the situation, there are many upsides to this: You can earn good money, while your parents get to see their grandchild on a daily basis, etc.
• Buy the house and rent it out. At the moment it might be best to stay with your parents, but this might change. In the best case, you meet a new partner with whom you want to live and share responsibilities together. In the worst case, there might be a falling out between you and your parents, and you have to leave their house. Renting out the house before you need it will help you pay off the loan faster. A word of advice, though: Being a landlord can be a double-edged sword. The current tenant of my grandmas’ flat basically just sleeps there during the week and drives to their partner for the weekend. But she also had a tenant before who stopped paying rent for months and then vanished.

Isn’t the idea of a meaning of life irrelevant if you believe that the universe is deterministic?

Anakin:

That’s the thing: You can’t unless you are already well-informed beforehand.

Yes, it is possible to spot common rhetorical deceptions such as whataboutisms or straw man arguments, but misinformation in general is impossible to debunk in real time unless it defies common sense such as “Immigrants are eating the pets of locals”.

A popular talking point here in Germany when the government was trying to push for installing heat pumps instead of gas or oil based heating solutions was, that installing a heat pump would entail massive renovation costs to make its use viable. This information is semi true because installing a pump in older buildings might indeed require renovations. But exposing this argument as a broad overgeneralization takes so much time and effort that it is impossible to do on the spot, unless you have prepared multiple examples of home configurations and the associated costs of installing a heat pump.

The whole idea behind Steve Bannon’s famous tactic of “flooding the zone” is to flood the discussion with so much misinformation it would take a disproportionately amount of time to debunk it all.

TBH I don’t bother with watching discussions anymore because of this.

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Bluesky, the decentralized social network […]

Were only one instance exist or did I miss something?

OK, I am going to try arguiung that privacy supersedes food:

To have a right to anything means there is something that I own. Owning something puts a division between me and others who can not own this specific thing: My right is my own, I do not have to diminish it by sharing. The most fundamental form of division is absence. Having a right to privacy is a right to the absence from others. Therefore the right to privacy is a more fundamental one than the right to food.

However, I agree that in practice eating in public beats dying in private any time of the day. 🤷

life is unfair and the big dog eats the small dog.

Life is unfair, because people choose not to be fair.

You might ask her why she believes this an acceptable state of things. Is it maybe because it is beneficial to her? Would she accept the system if she wasn’t beautiful and/or smart?

Another possible approach I see is taking away some privileges or force her to do more work around the house? After all, as parent you are top dog, so why not treat her unfairly? Its the natural order of things after all, isn’t it?

Maybe sprinkle in some historic lessons about child labor and tyrannicide to show that just because something is like this does not mean that it has to continue to be like this.

Techbros

Ah, a person of class!

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Bro, you can!

Except, no employer will allow you to use your own AI model. Just like you can’t bring your own work equipment (which in many regards even is a good thing) companies will force you to use their specific type of AI for your work.

Uhm, I guess you missed the news when it was revealed that Deepseek had a little more backing than they claimed.

Grütziwohl!

it blows every other European country out of the water in terms of salaries

Yep, and you are going to need every penny of that salary. Live in the Alps is expensive.