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Oh for fucks sake, I thought we dodged at least this bullet ...

But that feels like the polar ends of who can benefit in the deprofessionalized world—developers with the stability to swing big for big-shot ideas, and programmers or designers with deep career experience that can be called in like a group of noble mercenaries. People in between will be left out.

Well, no. The issue is not that people offer their expertise as contract workers. The issue is supposed AAA studios cranking out one piece of hot garbage after another, while small independent teams can work (and fail) with unique ideas at a much faster rate.

There will always be freelance workers and having one on board, even an experienced one, will neither guarantee success nor is it a prerequisite. Looking at some highly successful indi titles of today, they often started with humble beginnings and got gradually more "professional" along the way.

I am currently playing Factorio Space Age and holy hell, have they come a long way since initial release. Fluid system, anyone?

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.

I mean, every country has some sort of racially/ethnically motived violence. Humans in general are stupid.

Well, then why not put all that money into technology that helps people in a couple of months already?

Neither are you getting any mustard: Wild garlic.

Yep, this was the last harvest for the year, including some blossoms for making wild garlic oil.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

They are not backtracking but suspending until the courts have decided whether or not they accept the lawsuit by the AFD against the classification.

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.

My sweet summer child, nothing will come from this. Zensursular has a proud and storied history of political bullshittery on all levels.

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

Anakin:

It's interesting to see how there is even a cutout for their hair ... way to much space IMHO.

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.

Electric Callboy - Every Time We Touch

you've been doing essentially the exact same thing

No, you have been arguing that this is a case of police brutality simply off of the fact that the person was shot in the back. I have been arguing that this situation is not as black and white as you suggest due to various possible circumstances.

Your whole choice of words just shows, that you have already made up your mind despite, as you said yourself, not being there.

And the vast majority of people with pepper spray in their eyes [...]

The vast majority of people tend to tense up when tazed. [...]

You see a pattern there? I'm not sure whether I am comfortable with "in the vast majority of cases, I was not murderer by a guy charging at me with a knife".

They literally shot the man in the back three times, but K.

And that implies what exactly? Could have been running away, maybe. Could have turned on someone else, also possible. We do not know. Which is the whole point of the investigation, which according to you is a close and shut case. For all we know, police could have used all of those things, and we just focus on the fact that he was killed in the end.

There are clear cases of police brutality and violations of citizen rights in Germany. A guy throwing tear gas and wielding a knife simply has a high probability of not being one of them.