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From: Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Corned Beef Brisket (and a mild rant)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:15:05 -0500
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gm wrote:
> 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...
> 

It's about time the old fucker got rid of elon muskrat!