1/2 a million for missing a balloon with no active manuverability? Think world militaries have oversold themselves lately… disgusting

You might not, most of people though would… so would I… impact (probably what you meant) is that data hungry harvester leeches are building your profiles and presenting skewed information to you on your social media platforms to shift your opinion for more socially important things in path of least resistance for your character/personality type that serves them best. Have you looked at Cambridge Analytica and Facebook doings for last 5 years or so, if not - read about it - quite interesting stuff there.

Sounds like home depot will be rebranding themselves soon… this kind of stuff needs to be on front page and evening news in mainstream, not tucked in the corner somewhere for low fly-by…