[lambda_lord]

Parent poster most likely works at Amazon. When the rate of purchases falls below a threshold, many engineers across the company get paged to find the issue. As you can imagine a news event would decrease activity on Amazon for a while.

[tjpnz]

You can also observe the same effect during earthquakes if one occurs in a heavily populated region.

[zakember]

Wow, recession has really hit Matt Daemon hard if he is working at Amazon now.

[ribs]

That film of his, Evil Will Hunting, did poorly

[asd88]

He just doubled his TC by going to Amazon cuz he doesn’t care about WLB