I wonder why I can set a budget for myself at the Blackjack table and have no problem walking away when I hit that budget but have to stop myself from downloading gacha games because I have a hard time resisting loot boxes.

I don't disagree with any part of your analysis.

From everything I heard, Windows phones we’re pretty great; just no one was buying them.

It’s already available to the public for free. You just need $20M in hardware to power it.

Yes, very true but the arguments I had were specific to Google and Facebook’s practices and that wasn’t within the scope of the conversations. That’s a really good point to bring up though.

I think a lot of people don't care about it don't realize just how vast it is. I've had a few arguments with people who were convinced that Facebook and Google were not tracking them because they didn't use their services.

I had the shocking revelation recently that a shit ton of people actually don't know how much they are being tracked or the extent that shadow profiles are being built on them.

Or just stronger overall safety nets.

I did back in 2008 and came to the same conclusion you did… by willfully ignoring all the evidence, reporting, and fact checking showing that the relationship was exaggerated while dismissing the lack of real solid evidence on the part of my, at the time, trusted sources.

I’ve since done my research again, properly, and realized my conservative sources where full of shit not just on this but on most things.

Funny how neither of the non-rags you linked mentions a tie between Obama and Ayers.