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Or at this point, the one whose tracking is easiest and safest to avoid or circumvent.

Also mind that soon these new cars will be used cars with the same bullshit.

Yeah. No one ever gave me AdSense dollars for nearly busting my fucking head.

Don't get me wrong, this is among the least offensive iterations of the phenomen, but middlemen can be pretty shitty in any transaction.

Sometimes they provide a useful service, acting as a sort of external sales and marketing department for producers who for whatever reason don't have the mechanisms in place to get their products out to their would-be consumers.

But who likes a scalper? Who believes that a guy with an automated purchasing script is adding value to Taylor Swift tickets? Or that the people buying multiple PS5s during the early days just to resell them were providing a useful intermediary service? No one.

And likewise taking something you don't want off of Craigslist before someone who actually wants it can get it, only to flip it on another site, doesn't add value or provide a useful service.

But what if those coworkers sold my furniture instead of keeping it for themselves? Is that somehow dishonorable?

If you're going to bring honor into it, yeah it can be pretty dishonorable. Your worker would be using his privileged position of access to people who are in a financial position to just discard valuable goods, and if he's then reselling those at market rate rather than cost plus, then he's not so much compensating himself for the work of reselling the products as he is exploiting the ignorance of his customers to maximize profit.

And if we understand honor be rooted in transparency, honesty, fairness, etc (which is what we immediately think of when we think of an "honorable" fight or dual, for example), then yes that can be very dishonorable.

The more I think about it, the more I think he's right about these jobs adding no value.

It is honestly impressive that with (presumably) only hard work, an education, a lifetime of business experience, and the kindness of strangers, he was able to work his way up to 6.4% of his goal.

A regular Ozymandias, that one.

I'd like credit scores systems to be fully public and developed by the government. It would be far better than the three private systems Americans deal with now.

I don't feel guilty. It's fair to be suspicious of someone who covers their face without context like cold weather or a medical mask (could be sick or concerned about getting sick). The trick or test is to ask yourself "Do I/would I become equally concerned if this person was in a different racial category?" If the answer is "No", de-escalate yourself. If the answer is "No", look for the other markers that are actually setting off alarms for you. It's not just covering the face. As others have pointed out there can be a variety of harmless reasons why people might do that. But look for how a person carries themself: where they keep their hands how they move their eyes. Or maybe you are just paranoid about hoodies in general, in which case you should try to develop a more holistic way of sizing people up.

They'll tolerate arguments over precise economic policies that amount to discussing how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, but hold far tighter to what amount to cultural arguments. "USA bad" means "Russia good" because Russia is against USA so if Russia does bad then it's good actually or else no it didn't happen.

Gab is for the fringiest of the right wing. And people often cluster disparate ideas together if they're all considered to be markers of membership within their "tribe".

Leftists, or at least those on the left wing of liberalism, tend to do this as well, particularly on social and cultural issues.

I think part of it is also a matter of not so much what people believe as what they will tolerate. The vaccine skeptic isn't going to tolerate an AI bot that tells him vaccines work, but maybe generally oblivious to the Holocaust and thus really not notice or care if and when an AI bot misleads on it. Meanwhile a Holocaust denier might be indifferent about vaccines, but his Holocaust denialism serves as a key pillar of an overall bigoted worldview that he is unwilling to have challenged by an AI bot.

To be fair, TVs from the 90s didn't have apps, and I don't actually use the apps on my LG, so it seems fine.