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Presumptuous people who practically DEMAND that one MUST participate in the "modern" world of techno- whatever. A simple example: my landscaper (who mows and weeds for me now that I am disabled) once said to me over the telephone, "er what's yer [smart phone label or whatever he called it] so I can text ya? ....." to which I replied honestly, "I don't have that, you'll just have to call me on this phone number, that's my land line, I can't receive your texts." And he was a bit aghast (as most people seem to be) that I don't do the "smart" phone. I have a telephone in my house. Call me on that landline and speak to me. That is your ONLY option (well, you can try the answering machine, but I don't think it works anymore. Or you may email me, IF you have my email, which I do not share except with my son, so I doubt that that will work for you unless my son shares it with you. HINT: he won't.)

No Facepage. No twit thing. No NOTHING. Near total Luddite. I think I once had a "myspace" thing some fifteen years ago, but that didn't last but a month or so. No GPS. I look at maps if I need to travel beyond a fifty mile radius. I have a few "spoof" email accounts that I can use if need be to log in / register / etc. to do things like this here BBS thing or to purchase something "on line".

Why? I was old when ARPANET became your INTERNET. I had a Compuserve account back in the late 1970s when Compuserve was a new kid on the block. I cruised (or "surfed" I think you call it now) the text-based "information highway" before it became the glorified television show you all call "The WEB" now. Its all a big joke, and the joke's on YOU.

All those links you all post? I don't click them.

Anyway, yeah, presumptuousness really gets my goat sometimes.
If I clicked on every link I see around here I would get taken away in an ambulance wearing a straightjacket LOL.
 
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How about the MSM always using the term " people of color" which translates into " let's cheat and get rid of as many white people as quickly as we can" . Chosen Ones still angry about the "Holocaust" and guess who they blame ?
 
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People asking for advice on forums, then saying "positive comments only".

Like "I'm thinking of jumping of a bridge, but there's a tree to break my fall, should i still do it? Only positive comments!"

So the number of people telling the OP that they are, in fact, an idiot and probably going to at least break something and possibly die are seen as "negative". Only comments validating the moronic plan allowed lol
 

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Disney applauding every single minority group possible, and the media celebrating Disney doing it.

Ow. Ugly. Would be ashamed if I was overweight myself. I often saw Disney characters being used to mock trait of a character, or physic. Ex like Donald if you speak your mind, Picsou if you pay careful attention to the money your spending, Gaston if you like to flirt there and there, etc etc

100% sure that’s it will actually reenforce stereotypes on overweight people.
On social medias people may be sweet as honey, but in real life however….They are the bees that’s stole the honey !
 

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Read this just now:

"It's the same, just a different form and with different effects...."

Guess what, MORON: THEN ITS DIFFERENT.

"Its the same, just different."

Jeez Louise. I know people who have said this to me in all seriousness. They do not realize that SAME and DIFFERENT are opposites.

I think they have brain damage. They actually believe that DIFFERENT THINGS are THE SAME. What the hell??!!?? Maybe its an identifying trait of the aliens among us, you know, those "alien hybrids" that they say live amongst us?
 

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I thought "woke' and "red-pilled" were from the Matrix movies. :D
You crazy.
Woke is old. And the context it is now used in is not what it’s meant for. It has nothing to do with sodomites or gohmorrahites for example.
 

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I thought "woke' and "red-pilled" were from the Matrix movies. :D
Ok but I’m sure as heck red pill and blue pill come from Matrix . Why?
Because back in the days of it’s coming out, when I was on Facebook and making images google search for topics that’s interested me back in the day, I saw LOAD of caricatures about topics or politics or even religion, or just those idiotic Facebook posts with shitty and all made up sentences of life hack/philosophy, and a lot of them used the blue pill and red pill imagery/metaphor in texte.

Until people started to say Matrix was overrated and shitty, that’s there was better films with others/similar philosophies to it, so Matrix hype started to die down until it’s became one of those famous forgotten-but-once-popular pieces of medias/fictions with a fairly huge hidden following/fandom kinda like, an example among many others in anime media, Evangelion.

But recently, once feminism FINALLY started to really annoy the hell out of people and even of some womens, it’s when extremes groupes such as Incel, pick up artists, mentalist, coach life etc, started to appear and use those terms in their shitty « teachings » and doctrines, therefore making the term once more very popular and mainstream, just like back in the days.

Nowadays, anybody can use this term for any most stupids and mundane topics of everyday life, like here I caricature, but «Redpill for when you go to take a shit next time in the WC » from subreddit Showerthoughts.

That’s being said, maybe just maybe Redpill and Bluepill metaphor themselve probably come NOT from Matrix.

How about a Freemason doctor guy from the 19th century? I’m not taunting some secrets knowledge of mine, I’m just saying because load of things come from the olds centuries to which the next generation use, and detourne from the old one that’s came before them, etc and the list go one.

Anyway the colors blue and red in every day life has always been used in complementary/in oppositions… So…

EDIT: And also in medias, such as animes. You would be surprised to see characters whom one is blue colored and the other red colored or one have blue hair the other red hair, and they are ennemies or in oppositions in arguments to whatever else happen in the story.
 
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Hollywood makes a movie called The Matrix and now people think they are living in a Matrix. We are living on a planet somewhere in a solar system in a universe that Hollywood has nothing to do with. When did people start thinking that Hollywood was anything but a gigantic lie that has nothing to do with reality ?
 

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Hollywood makes a movie called The Matrix and now people think they are living in a Matrix. We are living on a planet somewhere in a solar system in a universe that Hollywood has nothing to do with. When did people start thinking that Hollywood was anything but a gigantic lie that has nothing to do with reality ?
I dunno lol and me neither I don’t like all the shitty purely new age theories of the like «We living in a simulation/dream/informatic programm/brain jar » bullshit

I dunno which one but I’m sure this kind of thinking, ideology have to do with an agenda, but which one? I would be tempted to say transhumanism.

When you think about it like this it all make sense.

Matrix is denunciating NOTHING. On the contrary, it’s just further propaganda of ideologies ! And that’s why it was popular! People love being lied to!
 

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- Unicorns on women products especially beauty items. It's juvenile. Besides, it's for little girls, not grown women.
- Starbucks. Another greedy corporation. It's pathetic how anyone brag bout sipping his or her 500 calorie drinks on the internet.
 
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If you a smartphone, it's worse. For example, if a person mentions Walmart during phone call, then Walmart ads appear on browser or Youtube commercials.
So are you saying that they are listening to your phone calls and what you are saying? I mean it wouldn't surprise me but has it gone this far? And who is listening a computer or a real person and is this even legal?
 

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So are you saying that they are listening to your phone calls and what you are saying? I mean it wouldn't surprise me but has it gone this far? And who is listening a computer or a real person and is this even legal?
Your phone,laptop and probably anything "smart" is always listening. Speech-To-Text programs take less than 1Mb of space and dont consume any noticeable power. Like Windows operating system periodicly uploads all your telemetry to Windows corporation and it has been like this since Win95.It is all spyware these days."Personalised Ad's" have been around quite a while.

Like i went unshaven for some days and started getting electric razor ads.Clearly A.I noticed the difference in my facial scan or something when it managed to see my face ...

I think in china it is open knowledge that CCP is constantly using peoples cam and mic to spy on them to keep them in order. We largely choose to ignore it that we are surrounded by spyware because the data is mostly used to sell us crap and mold our minds in certain direction.

is this even legal?
Before 9/11 the police,FBI etc would have needed courts permission to spy on someone.After 9/11 whole lot of laws got removed and added that made spying on people more relaxed. Then the fake "Anonymous" came around or well,the real hackers got arrested and were replaced with FBI who hacked all kinds of corporations and started "Occupy Wall Street" etc which helped them again to change,add and remove all kinds of laws.
Whats the situation now,i have no effin clue lol.Seems every App can spy on you these days ,which they probably do.
Some OK documentaries on these subjects >
First one got some annoying hardcoded subs,didnt find any other version so this one will have to do lol.
"The Hacker Wars takes you to the front lines of the high-stakes battle over the fate of the Internet, freedom and privacy. The Hacker Wars tells the tales of the anarchic troll provocateur Andrew “weev” Aurenheimer, prodigy hacker hero Jeremy Hammond, and incendiary watchdog journalist Barrett Brown — three larger than life characters whose separate quests to expose the secrets of empire hurled them into a fateful collision course with shadowy corporations, the FBI, and ultimate betrayal by one of their own. "
 
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Your phone,laptop and probably anything "smart" is always listening. Speech-To-Text programs take less than 1Mb of space and dont consume any noticeable power. Like Windows operating system periodicly uploads all your telemetry to Windows corporation and it has been like this since Win95.It is all spyware these days."Personalised Ad's" have been around quite a while.

Like i went unshaven for some days and started getting electric razor ads.Clearly A.I noticed the difference in my facial scan or something when it managed to see my face ...

I think in china it is open knowledge that CCP is constantly using peoples cam and mic to spy on them to keep them in order. We largely choose to ignore it that we are surrounded by spyware because the data is mostly used to sell us crap and mold our minds in certain direction.


Before 9/11 the police,FBI etc would have needed courts permission to spy on someone.After 9/11 whole lot of laws got removed and added that made spying on people more relaxed. Then the fake "Anonymous" came around or well,the real hackers got arrested and were replaced with FBI who hacked all kinds of corporations and started "Occupy Wall Street" etc which helped them again to change,add and remove all kinds of laws.
Whats the situation now,i have no effin clue lol.Seems every App can spy on you these days ,which they probably do.
Some OK documentaries on these subjects >
First one got some annoying hardcoded subs,didnt find any other version so this one will have to do lol.
"The Hacker Wars takes you to the front lines of the high-stakes battle over the fate of the Internet, freedom and privacy. The Hacker Wars tells the tales of the anarchic troll provocateur Andrew “weev” Aurenheimer, prodigy hacker hero Jeremy Hammond, and incendiary watchdog journalist Barrett Brown — three larger than life characters whose separate quests to expose the secrets of empire hurled them into a fateful collision course with shadowy corporations, the FBI, and ultimate betrayal by one of their own. "
Thanks for the info it's worse than I thought.
 

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So are you saying that they are listening to your phone calls and what you are saying? I mean it wouldn't surprise me but has it gone this far? And who is listening a computer or a real person and is this even legal?
Yes. I've tested it with a smartphone. It listens to everyday conversations in person too. I mentioned the word whopper, then Burger King ads pop out.
 

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I always knew all every electronics appareils possibles (computer, phone, tablet, etc the rest I’m forgetting you’ll name it because I don’t know of it/don’t own it) we’re spying on us, listening on our conversations, that’s honestly we’re even not so much of a new scoop, because back in the day, my mom or dad told me to not swear too much on phone and say vulgarities because otherwise the personne registering the conversation working at phone -network whatever would hear me, lol! But it was actually considered normal and kinda for our security, a normalcy, you see?

kinda normal when you know phones were used to potentially have harmful conversation between people, so…;)

But reading this new and seeing just how far this is going is just revolting every time I re read this very same new is very REVOLTING! Uuurgh! Like it’s not just for our security anymore or for justice/police to do it’s work anymore, it’s just purely spying and high voyeurism for the sake of fetishism just like how moderns humans have developed a huge voyeurism to see people secrete sex life, so….乁(ツ)ㄏ

Revolting and yet, not so much surprised ‍ but still revolting!
 
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