All that money donated for a ballroom from the pure goodness of their little corporate hearts and I am sure there's no expectation of any kind of return. I wonder how many workers got laid off or are underpaid by these companies.

ooh I hope those tasted as good as they look! I'm a fiend for chocolate brownies

Carrying the dead pup is not a "mistake" or a "maladaptive" reflex. It is Nora’s desperate attempt to maintain the structure that resolves her emotional surplus. The pup is no longer biologically alive, but it is still transindividually functional: it is still the anchor for her surplus reality.

Surveillance is one method of powering anticipation and if it can be done without knowledge, even better. They want accurate data and the more conspicuous the data collection, the better. As an analogy, a nature documentary fails to be informative if it only shows animals reacting to film crews.