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  • This is a famous example but you could have chosen any of his “speeches”. I’d claim that the newer ones are even worse.

    Journalists around the world have been complaining about this ever since 2016: it’s impossible to write good political journalism about Trump. There was a collective sigh of relief in 2020, manifesting itself as pleasant silence. Then Jan 6 happened…


  • One reason is that IP’s can be more granular as another user pointed out. OTOH that doesn’t always work so well, either - I often get pinpointed to a location some 100km from where I actually am.

    Another reason could be to circumvent people’s privacy settings, which are becoming more popular even without using a VPN. Essentially a sort of “we don’t trust you with the data you give us about yourself”.

    And since others brought up search engines etc., there’s a third reason: I always use English on my computer UI, but I am not in England and English is not my first language. Sometimes it’s nice to still get localised results (DDG has a drop-down to change this on the fly though).

    Oh, and while trying to find a site that tells me where it thinks my IP is located right now I noticed that the top search results all ask location permissions and show me nothing without them. And “Location” is a combo of IP, cell tower and GPS. It might come down to IP only on a laptop, but soon maybe not anymore.








  • I hope you mean supportive of your son.

    If so, I see this dynamic play out in some families (I work with kids) and I don’t like it. Dad metes out rules/punishment, mom’s role is to be nurturing instead. It teaches kids to play their parents out against each other. To go to another authority figure if the first one said no. To become incomplete.

    As for your question: this is over the top for a 15yo. And that’s not how you help kids to learn self-regulation. It’s also kinda dismissive of puberty. OTOH it’s important to get enough sleep, esp. if you go to school, and he might need constant reminding of that. Yep, raising kids is never straightforward.