She was a 22 year old student. Nowhere does it mention her financial worth. It’s very likely she was there studying abroad and it was a subsidized trip. If not, vacations to Thailand are not prohibitively expensive. I’m certainly not rich and am squarely middle class, but my wife and I can afford to vacation there and it wouldn’t be close to the most expensive trip we’ve taken.

Your accusations are baseless and you’re just glad someone died because they died. Kinda gross.

Ten Speed of God’s Blood and Burial. Perfectly clear.

Most of Coheed and Cambria’s albums follow along with a graphic novel written by Claudio, the lead singer. I’ve never read them and don’t know the story, but if you listen to an album start to finish, you can tell that it’s more than just lyrics.

Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism… that really gives the songs a big boost.

That’s different than not knowing anything about OP. That’s not knowing tech or not knowing extreme specifics about OP. The giver knows OP well enough that they thought a tech gift fits them, which makes sense. Most people don’t think twice about smart devices and security because most people are ignorant.

There may have been lots of thought put into the gift, like OP likes tech, perhaps they’re into music, maybe they have a Google phone, or they have lots of fancy gadgets. A popular smart speaker sounds like a good gift for that person to someone that’s not security minded.

I work in IT and my whole family knows I’m privacy centric. None of them would have even thought about the privacy concerns with a smart speaker. That doesn’t mean that they don’t know me, it’s that they are ignorant to tech and cyber security. It’s not a stretch to think that OP’s gift giver knows OP will enough to give them an expensive gift but didn’t think of all of the implications, because that’s foreign to them.

The good old Oedipus complex, where you mean one thing but fuck your mother.