> How can you know that it "works"? Any company scummy enough to send spam to begin with, is capable of selling their customer data to a network of scummy companies that will do the same thing.
That’s quite a stretch for a company sending marketing email with a broken unsub mechanism.
Considering how these companies are infamous for making it difficult to unsubscribe from their service in real life, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to attribute malice to how they conduct email communications.
100%. For a time whoever the gap shirt designers measured up for their XL size must've exactly matched my build and height, and had extra long arms the same length as mine. So it was an easy way to get a shirt that fit right, for me.
Keir Starmer is deeply unpopular and I have not encountered anyone who likes him (including a lifelong Labour member who has stood for them). Last time I said that about Starmer someone complained there was no link. Now people are complaining about the link. For the record, I have never voted for the Tories ever. A plague on both their houses... There isn't even a cigarette paper between Labour and Tory policies these days — oppress the poor and needy, censor, mismanage everything and enact NGO advice.
> Maybe human brains are just pattern matching too.
I don't think there's much of a maybe to that point given where some neuroscience research seems to be going (or at least the parts I like reading as relating to free will being illusory).
My sense is that for some time, mainstream secular philosophy has been converging on a hard determinism viewpoint, though I see the wikipedia article doesn't really take stance on its popularity, only really laying out the arguments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will#Hard_determinism
They make it mandatory to accept tracking for targeted advertising (or pay, which itself requires providing personal information). This is not compliant with the GDPR.
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