Weird "Moonwalker" vibes.
SlopppyEngineer
Partially. Our economy is built in selling you stuff you don't need, and ads are a crucial part of making that happen.
This is the way things go. If enough people come to one place order use one medium, it becomes a target for businesses who will squeeze it to death. Enough people listening to radio and this broadcast is brought by... New site that people start to use? Time to insert some corporate messages.
I use an extension to remove all cookies, so the site just shows the usual random crap. I'll log in when I'm ready to order.
Then they killed the competition and there was nobody left to stop them doing to you with ads what the farmer does with geese to make foie gras.
I've put a shoji screen behind my workspace for these kind of situations. One client was really paranoid like that.
The average household will move into a larger and more expensive home for raising children. That already adds a few hundred. Driving to school, various after school activities, camps and stuff adds an additional tank of gas. Once boys are teenagers, they'll eat more than an adult, and adds a few hundred to the groceries. Driving education or in USA their first car isn't free either. Not to mention medical costs.
Like they say here, small children, small worries. Big children, big worries.
Start by demanding floating roundabouts and bridges for pedestrians and cyclists and let them work back to lane narrowing.
That's all the corpos and shareholders doing one last big squeeze before recession hits and the stock market crashes.
Standard conservative interpretation: anything I don't like.
Scientist have developed just that recently. There was a paper about that. It's not implemented in commercial models yet