Yeah, it’s invasive and predatory and sucks and I hate it. But I also don’t understand it. Someone out there is paying for my data (demographics, purchase and browsing history, psychological profile maybe?) how are they making back their money on that purchase?

Seems like either

• a) the marginal difference in wealth extraction for the whole population is worth more than the data costs,
• b) it isn’t and these purchasers are net losing money, or
• c) there’s some nefarious propaganda goal where the motive is more control than profit

I wish they’d leave me alone*

*Except for steam

I genuinely don’t know why they think my data is that valuable, but it seems everyone wants a piece

Thanks, those make sense. Systemic injustice hiding in ‘equal treatment’ where police wouldn’t officially guarantee security at Kirk’s march but there wasn’t the same risk of counter-march agitators. Guess these days it makes sense to tiptoe, hopefully not for too long

That sucks. And the double standard shown for other marches doubly so - but why cancel it instead of getting a parade permit?

Let’s just hope it isn’t a new, mutated strain - they would’ve noticed already if it was, right?

I always thought frog and toad were pretty idle-rich-coded. I approve of their glow up to anarchosocialists

I dunno. I think that insurance will usually only cover Replacement Value, so if it cost them $20 per item and they sold it for $25, they could only claim $20. Then compounded with failure to meet contracts and updated cost of production (may cost $21 to make now) I doubt that they made money. You’re right that the cost of insurance is where the real hurt will be - see ship insurance in the Strait

What’s a few hundred million USD crashing into the earth due to incompetence and selfish short-sightedness? Not like there’s anything to use the money on at home

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Isn’t it an admission that westerners who find out what Israelis are saying would be horrified?

'night. We could all use good rest