Comment Re:Because (Score 1) 65
As a New Yorker, if I had mod points, I'd pour them into this post.
As a New Yorker, if I had mod points, I'd pour them into this post.
Certainly those who comprise "that other stuff" believe it to be the case.
While a bear may eat you, he won't build a Soviet, an Empire, a Deep State, or a system of crony capitalism on your back and without your consent, either.
Guns, e-cigs... wonder if they'll get behind Bernie or Warren? And have to wonder how that will work out for them in the long term...
If folks can give cash at the drop of the hat, then I would expect even more attempts to keep people in a state of frenzied outrage. 2 minutes of hate ever quarter hour to guarantee maximum contributions.
It'll be great for the pols raking in the bucks right up to the point that the hate and rage they generate gets so out of control that everything gets burned to the ground.
But I suppose they'll still have their private compounds and armed guards and such, so they'll be fine.
My statement isn't advocacy, it's prediction.
Remember, too - the aim of the powerful isn't usually money; money is an end. The true aim is power. Money is a representation of that power, one of several manifestations that all lead to similar places.
So, it doesn't matter if no one can buy products if those with the power are able to maintain their standard of living. What the rest do is of little concern as long as that status quo is maintained.
On the other hand, it's hard for anyone to be an engineer at Tesla or go to medical school when the masses are setting fire to everything in sight and shooting anyone who even looks to be either rich or educated because the oligarchs have impoverished just about everyone, and no one has anything even resembling a useful function or purpose at all in life.
Really Compromising Pictures of NY Attorney General Go Viral On Facebook (And they really, truly, aren't deep fakes!)
One of the arguments that phones are listening is that sometimes, people will have a conversation about something, and suddenly, without making any social media posts or sending messages or emails about the topic, ads will show up for that thing.
For example, I was discussing the fact that I hadn't had a steak dinner in some time not too long ago. Interestingly, ads for a local steak house showed up.
How did they know? Well, some folks think the phones are listening. This is 1984 scary. But the other possibility is that the algorithms have gotten to the point where they don't need to listen. This is Sea of Glass scary. Not sure which is worse.
No worries. Facebook has seen it for you, analyzed your data, and is satisfied that you are content with the result.
Words in your post: 396
Words to get your life saved by this synergistic, disruptive, market driven, rainbow-farting unicorn technology: 3
Do the math, numbers guy.
(Or just look at the permissions for the app, and what third parties it gives permission to.)
... going to get their 30 pieces of silver... I mean, health care and benefits and employment in the face of the new and improved robotic worker armies?
Be a shame if we gave everyone in the world your contact information...
We don't need a licence for each one. Just keep your Social Credit score above 500, and you'll be covered!
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