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From: gregorymorrow@msn.com (gm)
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Subject: Re: Corned Beef Brisket (and a mild rant)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:00:41 +0000
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dsi1 wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:18:30 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> On 2025-03-14 8:18 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On 2025-03-14, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    Do you have to pay for store loyalty cards there?
>>>
>>> No, except at warehouse clubs like Costco, where you must be a
>>> member to enter the store.
>>>
>>> Apart from the principle of the thing, a lot of people don't
>>> like loyalty cards because they're afraid someone will collect
>>> their data.
>>
>> I am not paranoid about it but I don't care to play their game. It's not
>> as if they are going to learn any state secrets from tracking my
>> purchases but I hate to see that sort of stuff being normalized. It
>> ranks up there with surveillance cameras. Sure, they may be a good idea
>> for store security and for fighting crime, but I dislike the idea of
>> someone in room full of monitors watching me. If business is slow they
>> don't have anyone else to watch.  Maybe I should start playing along and
>> pretend to stuff things in my pockets and provoke an interaction as I am
>> leaving because they think they saw my steal something.
>>
>> I have come to be suspicious of anyone I see in public wearing a hoodie
>> and with a scarf to cover their face. Maybe they are cold and keeping
>> warm. Maybe they are doing it for fun to distract security. Maybe they
>> are doing it because they are up to no good and don't want their faces
>> on camera.
>
> In the future, you can count on never being just another face in the
> crowd. You're not going to be able to hide in plain sight ever again.
> Boomers won't care for that but they'll all be dead soon.
>


David, I just listened to President Trump's SPLENDID speech at the US
Department of Justice...

He say that in near future we will have a "digital privacy" act where
peeples can "opt out" of any Orwellian "surveillance" technology...

President Trump Delivers Remarks at the Department of Justice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i41Av4eYO8

;-D

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