A fine theory, except that Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy isn't regular child abuse.

Numbers are hard to come by, but unlike 'regular' child abuse it looks like it's on the order of perhaps a couple hundred per year. It seems like a "zebra" no matter who is looking at it (judge or doctor.)

I mean just think about this for a second. Most people do not like hanging around in hospitals and doctors' offices, and within that strange group we're looking at a further subset of people who are willing to poison their own child just for the pleasure of doing exactly that (plus the occasional sympathy hug and Hallmark card, presumably.)

Correlation of symptom severity and the mother's visits is extremely weak for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is confirmation bias.) Unless there's some other dramatic piece of evidence that hasn't come out yet, this appears to be a rather large fuckup, not an easy-to-make mistake fueled by a little too much self-righteousness.

It's been canned.

Now I can replace myself with a very small script. And be social despite being an antisocial asshole who can't be assed to spend half a minute reading a message and ten more seconds replying to it.

If both people have that app, they can essentially let their phones be friends and needn't even know that they befriended each other. Or you can stay "in touch" with a friend without all the hassle of human-human interaction, just let your phone stay in contact with his phone to create the illusion that you still talk to each other, kinda like an old married couple.

So you are telling me that Google Talk, I mean XMPP, doesn't support encryption? BS. What the news are calling the "new feature" of Allo is an AI that automagically guesses what you want to say so you have to type less. Sounds more like something that is sending data back to the server so they can datamine it to me.

Sometimes. Most people don't actually want to lose weight though, they want to lose fat. If you exercise a bit more, you'll likely lose some fat and put on some muscle. Muscle is denser than fat, so your weight may go up for a little while, and the scale will make you feel like it isn't working.

Well, our free world hackers can use ads to deliver their payload, North Korea ain't that advanced, their hackers have to do it manually.

Which is a really good way to make yourself very ill. Hint: If the only thing that you're tracking is calories, then you're likely to have too much of some and too little of other things that you need.