With vaccination rates too low, businesses could not adequately track us via the microchips from the vaccines. This left them with no other option than to monitor our DNS lookups and unencrypted traffic flows. The good news is credit card, banking, and retails companies are not selling any of our purchasing history and there aren't any big-data aggregators pulling it all together into a cohesive view. Whew.

You friend, are a patriot. I have two LG OLEDs and noticed an ad LOUDLY playing in the app store a couple of months ago and went ballistic.

Thanks to my employer shutting down the offices through at least January 2022, I sit by a window and can see the weather first-hand.

Yes! Pennies are the bane of my pocket. I won't throw them out but I routinely leave them on the counter when dispensed to me as change. Nickles and above only please!

Help me google!

This happens all the time amongst competitors. It doesn't mean they want to reverse engineer or violate patents; it is usually so you can educate yourself as to what your competitors are up to and make sure that you're staying competitive.