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cough Moff Tarkin cough

Though I think he may’ve been Grand Moff by that point... maybe him doing what he did in the movie was what propelled him to that point though.

I’m going to say that was all her. One would assume she wanted you to do something in that situation, perhaps reading her mind that something else was bothering but her.

I know, but didn’t Trump basically accuse him of being the Zodiac Killer? That was decades ago.

People wet themselves with blood?

Like everything people argue about these days, cookies are both good and bad. Plenty--probably most uses are innocuous "let's save your browser session" type stuff. Doesn't mean there aren't people or companies out there either abusing them for nefarious purposes or simply getting rich by studying your life. Doesn't mean there's some orwellian nightmare waiting in the wings to take away everyone's privacy. Hyperbole and black/white thinking have gotten us the current political dogfight nightmare we have (in the US, at least).

Other people getting rich off analyzing your habits is a little like last year's tax cuts in the USA: is it morally important to you that people who are already extremely rich and powerful are getting richer as long as you get some measurable but comparatively small benefit and aren't directly harmed?

It’s ‘cause they do it without consent. The thing about websites having to say “okay, cookies?” was a big step forward ‘cause that way people could actually inform themselves about it if they so wished.

Take Target, for example. They figured out how to tell if a lady person was pregnant, to the point they could figure out when she was due to give birth. Not only that, they knew their customers would find it creepy as fuck that they knew that, so tried to hide their knowledge by sending them coupons related to pregnancy mixed in with other stuff.

There may be no harm, but the data that is collected can be used to extrapolate stuff about you that you may not want other people to know. This is bad juju.

People are always trying to present their best selves.

Perhaps the analogy of a maths problem is apt here. All you see is the answer, you don’t see all the work they had to do to get there. All the erasing, torn paper, scratching out, side equations and shit like that.

I’ve always called it banana bread.

I had to make it in school one time, and it was yummy, so made it a few more times since then, but have subsequently lost the recipe. Which is okay, ‘cause it’s probably easy enough to find one online.