Bill Gates held a top secret Q Clearance for 7 years, through the entire pandemic. He’s not an elected official. He’s not a scientist at NIH. He’s just a very wealthy private citizen who helped shaped the government’s COVID response.
https://t.co/EAAlYr9bEH
Kroger made $527 Million in profit in 2024 selling your shopper data. Now stores are eyeing personalized pricing via digital tags + phone data to charge each person the max they’ll pay. One price for all is ending.
Ok, here’s my corporate greed call-out of the day.
I was dispatched today for a no-cool call. The indoor unit was running, but the outdoor unit wasn’t.
The system was a 10-year-old Bryant Evolution high-end variable-capacity inverter system. After running the factory diagnostics, I found Code 77, indicating the inverter board was detecting excessive compressor startup current.
Following the manufacturer’s diagnostic procedure, I disconnected the compressor leads to determine whether the fault was in the compressor or the inverter board. The results confirmed the inverter board had failed. The system is only 8 months out of warranty.
At that point, I started preparing myself to tell the customer the repair would probably be around $1,500–$1,900. I figured the board would cost somewhere in the $800–$1,000 range. After all, it’s just a printed circuit board.
Before giving the estimate, I called Carrier Enterprise for pricing.
$8,900.
Not for the entire outdoor unit.
Not for a complete system.
Just the inverter board.
That’s not a typo. $8,900.
In my opinion, this is the definition of engineered obsolescence. There is no reasonable justification for a replacement circuit board on a 10-year-old residential HVAC system to cost nearly nine thousand dollars. At that price, you’re essentially forcing the homeowner to replace the entire system instead of repairing it.
This is exactly why I’ll never sell Carrier equipment. They make decent equipment, but pricing replacement parts like this turns a repairable system into a disposable one. Homeowners deserve better than that.
Carrier Carrier Enterprise or anyone that’s sells this shit, care to elaborate why this board is so expensive?
🎩 Patrick Henning
Sen. Josh Hawley says big corporations are partnering with AI companies to scam consumers through "AI surveillance pricing." Hawley claims:
• Staples is charging more online based on IP address or location
• Target’s app tracking shoppers in real time to charge as much as $150 more for a vacuum once they enter the store
• Lyft charging 55 Missouri riders 29 different prices for the same route at the same time.
• Kroger earned over $500M from selling the data that it harvests from its customers.
“These are all documented cases of what we are now calling AI surveillance pricing… corporations work with the AI companies to harvest your personal data… in order to force you to pay the absolute maximum amount of money they can get out of your pocket.”
Caitlin Clark might be the biggest coward in the history of sports. She refuses to say anything about the anti-white racism she has been subjected to since coming into the league. She punts on the trans question, which is the easiest question you could ever be asked. No spine.
Ford has a security vulnerability that they are internally leaving unfixed so they can sell you the solution
Their vehicles are vulnerable to a relay attack, that lets someone with a signal booster trick your vehicle into thinking they have the key fob
Ford knows this works and your vehicle can be stolen, but instead of fixing the security issue they are charging customers $7.99 per month, that’s $96 per year to be protected from this hacking
The security package even comes with stolen vehicle assist…. So they know that your vehicle can be stolen by this and they’ll assist and get it back… for a price
There should be a lawsuit against Ford for this
Rubio on the couch meme: "What happened is, on that couch, if you don't have a pillow behind your back, you kind of sink... people have shown me pictures... It's funny."
Asmongold explains why COVID destroyed trust in America
"The problem wasn't that officials were going through different protocols. The problem was that those protocols were not allowed to be questioned, because that's fundamentally anti scientific."
"The scientific method is built off of assuming that you're wrong. There are theories of gravity, theories of the Big Bang. Things we all take for granted are still theories."
"COVID tried to begin at the finish line. It was like, we have all the answers. You can't ask what the answers are. You can't question them. You can't say whether they're wrong or not. All of that coming together made people distrust the government."
The Cross still stands above every storm, and the heavens still declare the glory of God.✝️🙏
No matter how dark this world becomes, Christians must never stop shining the light of Christ.❤️
Are you proud to stand for Jesus?
These bastards… every single one of them…
What they did is unforgivable.
I lost a cousin to this bullshit.
Millions lost someone they loved or was permanently harmed.
I just don’t care at this point. If it were up to me, I’d round every single one of them up and throw them in GITMO and hold quick trials.
Spot the difference…
The TMZ reaction to Charlie Kirk being murdered.
vs
The TMZ reaction to Anthony Fauci being asked questions about covid.
They had to apologize for Charlie.
Fauci admitted his lies in his diary.
The Media is the Enemy of the People.