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Norma Bown's avatar

my heavens, don't I know it. Every morning when I'm discussing (generally indignantly) the current events in the Failing Empire, eventually I work in a "are you listening FBI? Fuck you." It's my childish entertainment, but the fucking computers do listen to us, no matter what. We've all seen the way you say, "wow, my back is killing me," and instants later your sites are inundated with ads for back remedies. Yeah, So, I send messages to all the persecutorial USG agencies every day and hope their computers gobble it up.

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Winston Wins's avatar

The argument used to be, "well they cant be listening to us all."

It was ridiculous to think of a bunch of G men listening to Karen and Dick quibble over their Saturday afternoon grocery list.

Now they just store our data so they can use it if they ever need it.

This info is also for sale. You can do a lot with some ones private information, texts, contact list, Internet search history going back years.

Marketing, manipulation, black mail, psy ops its really endless.

Most of us aren't worth a fuck. I include myself on that list. But our personality type or profile could interest them. We may belong to a group they find interesting. They may even learn that certain personalities spell trouble in a group they could one may even one day be capable of keeping certain types of people from ever interacting .

Basically the world wide web is one big social science lab with endless beneficial info for those wealthy enough to compile the data and hire those who can tell them what it means. These are power hungry, authoritarian personality types across the board

These are people who want this info for control and power, not to make the world a better place.

The sad news is that the majority of Zoomers and Millennials already see this as inevitable. They are like frolicking deer never taught to fear the guy with the orange vest and the gun. Its open season.

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Norma Bown's avatar

right you are. I keep shaking my head in wonder as we go rapidly down the slide to global war -- how could it happen and why is nobody paying attention (or so few)? Because we are the frolicking deer. The guy with the orange vest is sitting in some war toys boardroom determining our fates. And he took off the vest so we won't recognize him.

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trembo slice's avatar

Yup, Siri’s ass is gonna be like: listen to all the times this guy threatened to kill this person in discussions at home. That bitch!

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