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Friday, December 31, 2021

Six Types of Retirees/Lingerie

 As I was scrolling through an article on MarketWatch to read about Nancy Schlossberg's six type of retirees (Adventurer, Continuer, Easy Glider, Involved Spectator, Searcher, and Retreater) something changed on the right hand side of the screen,




My second thought concerned the pattern recognition algorithm that placed the ad.  My first thought was kinky? Why would a porn site buy space on Market Watch?  Scrolling up I found that the images were ads for Macy's.  

Back to the second thought: Is there a correlation between people scanning retirement advice ads and women's lingerie?  Perhaps the correlation involves jumps in the stock indexes and retirement articles.  Time to retire and buy something intimate for the chick on the side?  Was I flagged as a member of the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement?

It would be a revelation if ads gave you a hint as to why an ad appeared.  ("You looked so sad we thought that some pictures of intimate apparel might cheer you up.")

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