Well, it’s always been a cat and mouse game.

Just earlier today, I got a pop-up on YouTube about how they would block me after 3 videos because I use an ad blocker. Jump to now and everything is fine again. Thank you, uBlock Origin!

People don’t use the subscription tab? Why do they subscribe in the first place?

I use https://imgflip.com/

I wonder if visualizing what you read slows people down.

Yes, especially when the author probably got their inspiration during an LSD trip.

For us None-Americans: Is that good or bad?

The Vatican IS a sovereign country.

Yes/No. There are quirks such as “ton” but in essence you can say 1 million gram and everything is fine. Remembering all those short forms is a nice to have, not a requirement.

Uhm, it might sound arrogant but in metric you don’t need that sort of thing? The next order of measurment is just ±10^x where X is the number of dimensions you want to look at: 10 for i.e. length, 100 for area and 1000 for volume.

Lets look at length: Most commonly used are Millimeter, Centimeter, Meter and Kilometer.

Meter is the base. The name centimeter derives from meter and the Latin word centum meaning 100.So a centimeter is hundredth of a meter (decemeter, 10th, ist not really used much in everyday life). One step further down is millimeter: mille is Latin for thousand, therefore a millimeter is a thousandth of a meter.

Going up Greek prefixes are used: Deka-(10) and hektometer (100) are rarely used and Greek chilloi means thousand and therefore a kilometer is 1000 meters.

Staying in one dimension the same applies to gramme for weight: Milligrams, Gram and Kilograms are the moat common.

Going up in dimensions we use the same prefixes but the multiplyer changes because 10^2 is 100. So to go from 1 m² (one meter to the width times one meter depth) to 1 km² (thousand meters wide times thousand meeter deep)) the multiplier is not 10³ (1000) but 100³.

The whole prefixes are effectively optional and just for better readability.

It fits perfectly as a vessel to further the neoliberal agenda of dismantling any form of regulations to create their vision of a “perfect” free market society.

A “free market” as in the sense these lunatics envision it is a market devoid of any form of outside regulations. In essence, survival of the fittest on an economical level: Profit above all else, might makes right, consequences be damned. One president führer CEO calling the shots, everybody else following or getting crushed in the machinery.

So you tell me: What’s not authoritarian about corporate capitalism?

Profit over everything else is part of which ideology again?

Capitalism kills

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?

I am using PassAndroid

Most of the time these ‘Add to X Wallet’ buttons lead you to an .pkpass File which you can import. The app doesn’t look very nice but it does the job for me.