Seriously? I mean a few decades ago you might have been able to feign ignorance about how corrupt and flat out evil the GOP is. Even then it was a bit of a stretch, but at least they had some semblance of decency.

But today? With ICE, Epstein, etc.? Everyone who wasn’t evil would have left the party years ago - or would have been kicked out if they tried to change anything.

Yes, let’s reach across the aisle, right into this pool of nazis, pedos and criminals! Sounds great! What exactly is it you are searching for?

Anyone who has not noticed that Trump cares solely about Trump should get their head checked.

The USA is a plutocracy. It has the best politicians money can buy.

What the fuck are Amazon and Facebook doing? They were always spying on everyone, but that was just for targeted ads.

Now that the government is on the brink of flat out fascism they start sharing their data?

What flavor do you want your surveillance state? We’ve got ‘child protection’, ‘terrorists’ and ‘crime prevention’!

Doesn’t anyone restrict their AIs rights? An AI should not be allowed to delete the backup. Only someone with admin rights should be able to do that. Normal users, developers and AIs of course should not have the right to touch the backup. Do these people run AI agents as root?

I always loved the saying, “The ‘S’ in IoT stands for security.”

Trump is probably bi. No joke, just a fact. We know from the Epstein emails that he ‘blew Bubba’. While we don’t know exactly who that is, it paints a certain picture.

I’m just saying someone who likes dicks might also like them on girls. Or at least more than girls with vaginas.

Perhaps. Probably. I’m just theorizing.

Do repressed homosexuals like dick girls more than cis girls? To do more then guessing we would need s scientific study. But such a study would probably fail because it’s hard to get repressed homosexuals sign up for a study.

Human developers should not develop with the production DB, why the hell would you give an AI the rights to touch the prod DB?

I’m sorry, I didn’t want to label trans women as anything other than women.

I just try to make sense of the Republican mindset. Please believe me when I say that I don’t share it.

That lines up with my theory that a lot of Republicans are repressed homosexuals. Trans porn is probably the most ‘homosexual adjacent’ porn they are brave enough to watch.

I would say probably more likely to be a personal AI assistant, that handles all PC/cell phone interactions for you. Like Star Trek: “Computer, do my taxes!”

Of course that relies heavily on AI becoming more reliable then it is now.

No one wants an AI summery of their e-mails if it’s full of hallucinations, or their tax returns to get them into prison.

I normally have GPS and Bluetooth disabled, so my position would have to be guessed based on cell towers. We were not even on the same WLAN (because the WLAN was down in the vacation home, much to our dissatisfaction).

While I can’t rule out somebody in our group stealthily googling the tablets, phones while playing is generally frowned upon.

So yeah, being on the same cell tower as someone I know who might have searched for it might be the only other explanation.

The adventure itself didn’t have anything to do with the tablets, that was just our group doing strange stuff, like always.

No, I am not a AI fanboy. I just compared bad to worse.

Of course users get something from their smartphones, but not from the spyware on it. The spyware is not an integral function of a smartphone.

Just think about the scale of the surveillance: every smartphone user is being monitored 24/7 in hope to find something to sell them.

If you hate AI because it wastes so much energy, think about the cost for the this: Energy, water, battery life, bandwidth, … And in contrast to AI the ‘users’ don’t get anything in return.

Okay, so here is my story:

I was on holiday with my friends and we were playing a TTRPG. In the RPG our group needed charol tablets. I have never in my life googled or needed something like that.

After the session, I opened up Amazon to buy something I forget to pack and voilà: Amazon suggested me to buy charol tablets.

My smartphone must have listened in and given that data to Amazon.

No Alexa or similar products were in the vacation home.

Same in Germany: The center right CDU tries to get voters from the far right AFD. Never worked, but they keep on trying.

The German government is deathly afraid of anything that could be constructed as anti-semitic. Probably also bought, but that’s just a guess. Pathetic, and I say that as a German.

It’s worse: every time a country tries an alternative system, the US pushes for a regime change