It’s a bit much. A simple “Nope, can’t help with that, I hope you figure something out.” would do. I understand rage against a parent. Honestly if the only interactions you’re having are that parent upsetting you, I’d suggest starting to mute/ignore/not respond. I have a parent who refuses to listen to anything I say. Doesn’t matter what I want, only matters that they get what they want from me. There’s no yelling your way out of it, there’s no explaining your way out of it. That’s just who the parent is, and you have to accept and let yourself be at peace with it.

The issue is that we were already in a renaissance of craftmanship before AI slop, and the AI slop is displacing it. It’s harder and harder for people to get their products seen by consumers.

to college. your option is to be worse educated or to be better educated. that’s why it’s propaganda. the right doesn’t want people to go to college, because then they develop the critical thinking skills to see through manipulation and corruption.

nothing. many countries’ nutritional guidelines recommend consuming sunflower oil, because it’s high-oleic.

While the anti-AI people spend every waking minute, just hating and hating it where the mere mention of AI gets them frothing at the mouth.

We really don’t. It’s just that it makes everything it is forced into worse, and it’s frustrating to have your day-to-day experiences decline in quality for no benefit.

The only thing I have that falls under this question is “how vegans should convince omnis to get vegan.” So many people just stubbornly believe, “Well I don’t like it, so it’s wrong!” There are multiple ways to convince people. Some aspects are more important to some people than others. Not everyone is the same. Calm down. Nobody is driving anyone away from veganism by telling the truth. They weren’t going vegan in the first place.

You’re overthinking it. Lots of people get hot chocolate. You can also get hot chocolate with a shot of peppermint. They’re on the menu at Christmastime. Tea people confused me until I found a good tea shop.

It’s a crime to have drugs. It’s not a crime to have guns. When you make something that is a crime not a crime, that’s less crime.

Not anywhere near to the extent that the 2008 crash did

I mean it’s a little late now, but I would warn any non-lawyer that a casebook is primarily meant as a tool to learn to practice law. It’s teaches you how judges think about the law when they’re answering legal questions.

So, for example, let’s say the legislature passes a law requiring all homes to have fire alarms. Is an apartment a home? What about a condominium? Manufactured home? RV? Accessory dwelling unit? The casebook will teach you how judges go about answering questions that do not have a clear answer and questions that could fairly be ruled either way. This helps lawyers learn to argue thorny issues, and it also prepares us to respond to or advocate for changes to the law.

For non-lawyers, most law that we interact with in our day to day life is more cut and dry: you have to pay for the bus ticket to board, the sale of a product is final once you purchased, etc. Reading a casebook probably isn’t going to benefit you more than reading a web article, where the issues are clearly laid out, explained, and specific to your jurisdiction. Whereas in casebook opinions, the judges can get a little arcane or circular, and the judges in your jurisdiction could think about the issue in a different way entirely from the case in the casebook.

The actual best learning resource is casebooks and a professor, but for a lay person, I came across this comic called "The Illustrated Guide to Law’ that you may have interest in. Real law written by an actual criminal defense attorney.

https://lawcomic.net/guide/

https://www.unhcr.org/media/1961-convention-reduction-statelessness

A Contracting State shall grant its nationality to a person born in its terri-
tory who would otherwise be stateless. Such nationality shall be granted:

(a) at birth, by operation of law, or

(b) upon an application being lodged with the appropriate authority, by
or on behalf of the person concerned, in the manner prescribed by the
national law. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Article, no
such application may be rejected.

Currently 82 states are parties to the convention.

The United States refused to join the convention to maintain the right to voluntarily renounce citizenship when that voluntary renunciation makes a person stateless. The convention bans that practice, because being stateless seriously inhibits a person’s ability to work, live, and travel in most countries.

You inherited it by birth. It’s more of an issue of, under international law, a country cannot make someone stateless. Everyone is entitled to a community and a place to live. When you’re a brand new person, we need to establish where that place is. If you want to change it, it’s on you to change it.

I think that definitely makes more sense for reviews than for other topics. That different individuals appreciate different aspects of a product is what makes a collection of reviews valuable, so you can get a well-rounded understanding of a product before purchasing. It’s not a “right and wrong answer” circumstance, and, because the reviews are considered in their totality, it doesn’t matter that much if one or two reviews are just wrong. Whereas most of social media does involve issues of true and false, right and wrong, and people do try to negatively influence others, so moderation is necessary to create a boundary against hateful spam and such.

It’s going about the problem the opposite way. People should be paid sufficient wages to afford housing. In general, the jobs that provide housing are in apartment complexes or hospitality, so they already own livable units as part of their business. If you’re constructing units for no reason other than providing a place to live, you should give your employees sufficient pay to have the freedom to manage their own living conditions.

At like 21? Yeah I’d have loved that job. At 30, no thank you to roommates.

And they all understand that you paying them is not a choice. They all understand that they are not charging fair prices that people can afford, and there is no regulation stopping them from doing that. It is in fact encouraged that they charge for as much as they possibly can.

There’s also a massive shortage of medical personnel, so while they are charging massively high prices, they are also chock full at all times. Because the supply does not meet the demand.

We COULD have a better organized system of medicine that allows us to push down prices. We don’t, because we are corrupt.

The difference between Walmart and healthcare is that shopping at Walmart is a choice. If they raise their prices, people won’t stop there. The only way Walmart maintains a monopoly in any town is by making its services as cheap as possible. If they raise their prices, other stores can compete with them for customers.

Healthcare doesn’t work like that. You have to pay regardless of how high the price is. If your child breaks their leg, whether the ER charges you $250 or $25,000, you can’t just not treat it. Your child will be in pain for the rest of their life if you don’t pay. If $25,000 is the cost, that’s the cost.

That’s why healthcare requires government regulation to force prices down. That’s why every other country has government funded healthcare. The governments sets the prices, to make sure they don’t skyrocket out of control.

The scenario you’ve made up here makes zero sense. The point is that the poor are denied access to healthcare. As in, they cannot pay the doctors right now. The doctors will not let them pay them. The doctors will not see them. The poor are not the doctors’ clients. The rich are, and the rich refuse to pay for more doctors so that the poor have more access to a doctor.

I was one of the people who they actually unbanned because the bot wrongfully banned it. But because I used a second account during the wrongful ban, again cannot underemphasize so wrong that they admitted it was wrong, it perma banned all of my accounts.