'Bots… RObots!!

Anybody else notice that they don't kick 'em from the side in these little video clips the way they did the first fifteen years or so?

That's because it's ON. In that sci-fi "overlords" kind of way. Everyone knows this.

Amy done got faved by eiaine, which is faboo. We should all be following Elaine, because she knows stuff.

Hoards: children, Brazilians.

This is the first Shapiro product I've ever encountered, so don't be to annoyed with me if he's famous for enslaving Downs children in toilet seat factories or something... But if you've enjoyed Dennis Miller even now and then, you'll enjoy this interview in which he comes off as blunt and humble.

I welcome our robot overlords.

Speaking of buzzkill scents...I was in my favorite dive bar last night, drinking some brews when this bro came in and sat next to me. I'm pretty sure he bathed in whatever that wretched scent was.

Fortunately, there was a spot open down a ways, so I extracted myself out of that smelly mess.

It's come to this.

https://floridaman.com/

Alex, I'll take "Things you don't want to hear the judge say" for $1,000.

According to a transcript obtained by FOX 32, Judge Martin hammered prosecutors, asking, “I’d like to know why Ms. Clark is being treated differently than Jussie Smollett. It’s a disorderly conduct case. A lot less egregious than Mr. Smollett’s case. I have a problem with it.”

Prosecutors were demanding that Clark make full restitution of $2,800 and serve deferred prosecution, something not required of Smollett.

“Ms. Clark is not a movie star, she doesn’t have a high-priced lawyer,” said Judge Martin. “And this smells big time. Your office created this mess. There’s no publicity on this case. Press gets ahold of this; it’ll be the newspaper."

https://www.fox32chicago.com/amp/news/local/judge-accuses-kim-foxx-s-office-of-double-standard-after-jussie-smollett-case

This will play well on the southside of Chicago.

Prediction:

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-3percent-20170519-story.html?

Reality:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/26/gdp-q1-2019-first-read.html

I need this.

Not me! I will find a glass. Or cup.

I will do what it takes, and have never failed for want of technological innovations.

Bananas. Maybe this is because by the time you're old enough to notice the difference, you don't care about artificial flavorings.

We were talking about this kind of thing in the thread about trains. When you live in a deeply-greased, authoritarian culture, you can make things happen fast, if not satisfactorily.
Consider Dubai's palms and skyscrapers, which aren't often described as nice places to actually live.

If soap and water is a mystery to you and Axe body spray has been outlawed at your tech company

"... a proprietary blend of pheromones specifically designed to attract Indian and Pakistani women."

This photograph might help us constrain our sanctimony in the difficult days ahead.

"There’s just no getting away from microplastic contamination"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/microplastics-can-travel-on-the-wind-polluting-pristine-regions/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

"Google knows everywhere you go — here’s how to stop it from tracking you and delete the logs"

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/25/how-to-stop-google-from-storing-your-location-history.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

That CBS article is fancy and all Lenona. But how about just turning off the GPS tracker on your phone. There is usually a button for it when you pull down from the top on Android. I'm not familiar with Apple so you will have to ask someone else about them. But if you turn the bugger off not only does it make it harder (but not impossible) for people to track you, you also get longer battery life.

It this supposed to be funny?

https://twitter.com/RamblingGroyper/status/1121486890153197568

Yellashirt has a strong SideEye.

Poway Synagogue shooting. The police caught the culprit and he has been identified.

Journalists right now:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQi9w1-X4AAzNgf.jpg

> how about just turning off the
> GPS tracker on your phone

Wifi & cellular connection points are recorded as well. This data and its sources, let quite alone your GPS specifically, are deeply and inextricably integrated into the safe and proficient delivery of your services.

It's self-serving for Google —but not less sincere— that when users and advocates without technical sophistication demand "less tracking," they can throw up their hands and ask 'What does that even mean?,' if not 'What the fuck are you even talking about?'

It's like telling a heart surgeon that while you were okay with sedation, you don't want him manipulating any of the things inside your body while you sleep. If ignorant petulance of that magnitude were to become a broad social trend, the practitioners, hospitals, professional associations and government regulators would all put their chins down, join hands, and (with eyes closed) affirm "not manipulating things in people's bodies" as their guiding principle... And then continue as they always had.

They got work to do, and people are stoopit.

How to (probably) get laid.

It's related to this. Note coda—

At which point, they were beginning to lose their sense of humor. I explained to them it was a Nobel Prize, and their main question was, "Why were you in Fargo?"

Correct Crid. It is harder to get as accurate a position that way but you can usually get close enough. Does Google have access to that data? I know your cellular provider (and other providers as well) have access to it. But I don't know if Google has a deal to get a copy.

That is why I only said it made it harder to track you. Clicking a box in a menu as CBS recommends is pretty worthless. Google still gets a copy of the data. They just stop sending you creepy messages about how they are watching you all the time.

You go through the drive thru and they pass it to you with a little tub of sauce, and you pull over and eat it before getting on the freeway.

> Correct

Your affirmation sets my heart free. I am reborn.

If you want your smartphone to stop tracking your movement, remove its battery when you're not using it.

✔ Sixclaws at April 27, 2019 8:17 PM

Faraday bagm, too.

Especially if you're going to kill a guy or rob a place or cheat on your wife.

I'm not saying you should kill a guy or rob a place or cheat on your wife. But if you do, don't take your smartphone.

And he wonders why Oxford won't let him debate this subject, I'm sure:

Aliens are interbreeding with humans to create a new hybrid species that will save our planet, claims Oxford lecturer

How to make sure your kid has beautiful, green eyes.

Especially like the wrist to the forehead at :46.

"Aliens are interbreeding with humans"

Yeah, four alien races working in cahoots, led by the insectoids.

Is he kidding? If the insectoids hadn't cut a deal with the primate and aquatic races, the lizard people and avian races would've literally eaten them .

Insectoid leaders? Pfft.

That CBS article is fancy and all Lenona. But how about just turning off the GPS tracker on your phone.
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I don't have GPS. Also, I tend to leave the phone at home whenever possible - if only so I won't lose it or drop it. Problem solved, I hope.

(Aside from one other giveaway that I won't mention...but many here can guess it.)

I only posted the link in case it was useful to anyone here.

True, if you don't have your phone on you it can't track you that well.

Sixclaws recommended removing the battery because some phones (and many other devices) aren't actually off when you turn them off. Instead they are just in a lower power mode. Most of the time this is so they can turn 'on' quicker but some phones still do location tracking even when claiming to be off.

I responded because the CBS advice was pretty hollow. All they recommended was clicking a box on a form. All of your location data would still be sent back to Google (or Apple). You just asked them not to use it. Which is worthless. You are relying on them to be honest. But that isn't human nature. You see the same things at Facebook. Click all the privacy and other forms you like. Facebook considers all data on their systems their property. If you delete something from Facebook they keep a copy. It isn't really deleted. You just don't have access to that copy anymore. In a similar vein, most people still don't understand how Alexa and all these voice activated things work. They don't have the ability to understand what you say in the device, which is why they need an internet connection to work. Everything it hears is sent back to the home company for processing. Users essentially just bugged their house for some corporation.

If you want to use these devices you have to give up on some of your expectations for privacy. That is just how they work.