snooggums

“I’m Feeling Unlucky”

We already did, but we will again too!

That implies that having data be harvested for companies to make profits should be the default.

I sure hope those studies are not being done by for profit companies!

Send me your name, birthdate, web browsing history, online spending history, real time location, and a list of people you know and I will explain it to you.

I disagree with the base premise that being opt out needs to be a right. That implies that having data be harvested for companies to make profits should be the default.

We should have the right to not have our data harvested by default. Requiring companies to have an opt in process with no coercion or other methods of making people feel obligated to opt in is our right.

So do houses!

They are basically investors in the housing market when their money makes its own money without their direct involvement.

I am reminded of this term about once a year and then promptly forget because it never comes up except in internet memes.

They do!

Smart like in smart appliances that are anything but.

unless they bother other

Well, that’s the thing. So many people are bothered when someone does something they wouldn’t personally do, often because they were told their whole life that there is only one proper way to exist.

“…unless they are harming someone else.” though, that is a pretty solid criteria.

Any reasonable court would equate requiring a warrant and requiring payment in the context of the 4th amendment (and similar rights/laws in other countries).

When a monkey’s paw’s last wish is spent, you have a monkey’s fist.

A ton of things I have signed up for spam me with trash emails that they don’t put in the ‘sales’ or ‘offers’ categories I unchecked. Just because I was forced to create an account to buy one thing doesn’t mean I have a ‘business relatiotionship’ that justifies multiple daily reminders of what they have in stock.

The downward sloped hood should push people underneath. The wheels and weight are enough to grind someone and their bike underneath like a meat crayon with some chunky bits.

In the US we would only paint them red to hide the bloodstains after a cybertruck runs over them.

Yes

Those companies would get in legal trouble in the US if they admitted to doing it intentionally by calling it a bait and switch. They hide behind legal shenanigans like putting ‘limited supplies’ in fine print.

Everybody hates being on the receiving end of bait and switch. Nobody thinks it is clever except the person committing fraud, and they hate it when someone does it to them.

Bait and switch is literally promosing something and fhen replacing it with something else, which is what happened here. It doesn’t imply any cleverness and has extremely negative connotations.

Bait and switch is a specific type type of fraud.