The assumption was that you might have grandchildren. Not that you want them 😉

Some want their own kids, some not. Some don’t know them…

The value of working in my home office. Since the start of covid, and ongoing. Maybe I am overvaluing it now. But maybe not?

If all they do is put ads on their site for your searches

I think we should not believe it in a literal way. I guess this was simply the only kind of processing that this guy and/or his source knows and found worth mentioning.

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This is the way

puts ads based on what you’re searching.

they don’t actually […] process it in any way

Well, this is processing the data, isn’t it?

Back in the days, some decades ago when Amazon “invented” the tracking and processing of every single mouse click in their online shop, it was big news in the IT world. First from a technical point of view, because it needed some serious computing power on their end, and it used up some bandwidth on the user’s end, which was much more limited at that time than today. And from a data privacy point of view, because it was a huge step towards this world of total surveillance, constantly ongoing manipulation, behaviour based advertisement, George Orwell etc.

Today we have gotten used to all that, even so much that such extreme statements have become possible, somewhat…

they don’t actually do anything with the data

You don’t cost them. You benefit them by giving them all the knowlege about what you want, how you search for it, what details are the most interesting for you etc.

Thank you.

Are you happy in general?

Don’t be afraid of your son.

Be afraid for your old bones when your little kid needs you to play some sports with him.

When a car ran over the person who walked right next to me.

For about three weeks I was having bad thoughts going round and round in my head all day long, and I was barely able to do my work.

Yes. Having excuses can be a major part of the problem too.

I suggest to make ‘having excuses’ one of your former habits now.

I could tell you, but then I’d get banned.

Free guillotines for everyone? /s

Everybody can push “send” on some random device and say “I am your President. Now listen…”

…unless they use encryption.

No. Never would I self-host a search engine.

The crawler would eat up so much more ressources than I am ever willing to spend.

I can wiggle my ears.
Both. And each one individually.

think I was crazy or had tinnitus

When you have tinnitus, then you will know it. And then you probably can’t hear that CRT screen anymore.

About “crazy” I don’t know ;)

“Bear” is the first name.

Church bells.