My guess is it’s an attempt to build long term a subscription service model behind the idea. No subscription, equals it can’t be read or some contrived bs to leech more money out of users/governments of the encoding/decoding technology.

Most excellent fact checking 👍

Peanuses… it sounds like a slang term for Charles Shultz worst nightmare, Peanuts porn 😂

Not sure if anyone has mentioned Vinegar on the iOS AppStore.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/

Yup, my uncle was a CEO, and his monthly house payment is more than I make in a year… even combining my significant other’s salary. I do not like this timeline.

I mean, that’s a little like asking, “How many swift kicks to my nuts before it makes me a billionaire?”

Because it’s one of those cost evaluation situations where they thought it was a shot in the dark at first, but by now it’s clearly a loss. So, the whole thing feels a little like, The Producer’s, something isn’t smelling right for any outsiders.

We can only pray, the ghouls.

Feeling the same, it’s surprising how many companies are just leaning towards screwing users for a few more pennies on the dollar. Eventually, Google with be the next AOL.