I don’t believe in Jesus
Jesus please don’t sneeze your Cheez-Its
Please it’s just what I believe
It’s not Jesus. It’s Cheez-Its, right?

Source

1: Google’s entire business model includes selling your data and activity and advertise to you based on that. They have been sued for lying about this and had to settle.

2: Yes, this is directly stated in the setup screen for devices as on by default, which you can opt-out from then or at any time.

3: Let’s get mad at them for doing that when they actually do it.

4: Not sure there are many “rabid” users anymore, or at least here anyway. But there’s a difference between defending a company and flat out calling bs on an bs accusation.

I do not understand why people like making up reasons to hate on a corporation when there are so many other legitimate reasons to hate that corporation instead.

Where is that in their revenue streams? Nearly all of their profit comes from selling hardware and services.

You could argue they profit off insecure default settings, such as having Google as the default search engine or analyzing Siri recordings or how they use aggregated usage data, but to date I’m not aware of Apple either profiting directly off data it collects from users, or selling that data to third-parties.

Selling ads or user data is nowhere in their business model. They don’t need to, and the trust they risk losing from doing so is a powerful detractor. They’re not perfect, but as far as corporations go they could be much, much worse. They’re not comparable to Google in terms of privacy at all.

Here’s a source confirming as much: https://fossbytes.com/apple-data-collection-explained/

Turns out the answer is No, Apple doesn’t sell your data to third-party advertisers. The Cupertino giant possesses the exclusive rights of showing you ads on the App Store and other apps. This means your data is used by Apple to show ads, but not sold to any other advertisers…

Follow the money, they don’t profit off spying on you selling your data to other companies, this makes them the lesser evil but they’re still evil for sure.

Last week’s The Rehearsal episode where in order to understand Sully Sullenberger’s state of mind when safely landing his plane into the Hudson he uses his memoir as a guide to backtrack and rehearse his life and major experiences starting as an infant, and progresses through his childhood and early adulthood.

Here’s part 1/3 of the relevant section of the episode but quick warning, it’s pretty weird and shocking even for Nathan Fielder but goddamn that has to be the hardest I’ve laughed at a TV show since Nathan for You:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQtYnkV4in0&pp=ygUTVGhlIHJlaGVhcnNhbCBzdWxseQ%3D%3D

Ween - You Fucked Up

Lyrics:

You fucked up, you bitch
You really fucked up
You fucked up
You fucking Nazi whore

Well, you dicked me over
But now you’ll pay
You fucked up
Aaaahhh!

You fucked up, you bitch
You really fucked up
You fucked up
You [slimy] little shit bitch fuck

Well, you dicked me over
But now you’ll pay
You fucked up
Aaaahhh!
Well, you dicked me over
But now you’ll pay
You fucked up
Aaaahhh!

No arguments here :D

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I’m aware and meant what I said.

If the Tesla board has any intelligence left, they will push him out.

They deserve all the hurt incurred so far for not doing it yet, and will deserve to go under if they don’t in time.

He knows perfectly well why.

He’s gaslighting so the people who hate him hate him louder, which he can then use as validation that they’re crazy or irrational.

It’s fucking disgusting and obvious as hell. He deserves all of the shit thrown at him and he knows it but doesn’t care because he doesn’t have to face any real consequences for it, so he escalates.

Everyone’s anger is his weapon against them, sadly because his supporters are dumb enough to go with it. He needs tangible consequences or else this will just keep getting worse.

Where’d the motherfuckin Ween go at

They’re a country, with a flag and a government and everything. Not sure you ever knew that but there ya go.

Not sure their status matters anyway here, either.

So again, why shouldn’t any country be free?

Why shouldn’t any country be free?

If we’re even allowed to vote ever again.

Hmm, I wonder where it went /s

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The game is life has an interesting enough premise to be a limited series. If done correctly I think you could do some awesome storytelling with it.

Basically, Earth is a simulation (The Game) used to teach young inhabitants of a planet called Tygon how to live a good life by letting them live multiple lives on Earth. Most Humans are NPCs but many are real people, and the decisions they make on Earth affect how much they earn.

The simulation has replaced schools, sports and entertainment, financial system, and is one’s primary way of earning funds to set them up for the rest of their life after they turn 18, at which point they can no longer enter the simulation.

Some world building from the books:

• wonders or ancient monuments are Easter eggs left over from the beta testing period
• you can purchase buffs for your human avatar to try and influence what kind of life you have on Earth, but your desired outcome is never guaranteed
• one lifetime on Earth is approximately 2-3 weeks on Tygon. After a short recuperation period one can re-enter and live out a new lifetime, hopefully subconsciously taking back lessons learned from past experiences to live a more fulfilling life.

Won’t spoil the rest but I could see it either become a hit or a flop.

Are you saying you’re incapable of understanding what you just did? Wow your lack of self-awareness really knows no bounds huh?

lol now you blocked me so you could have the last word. How childish.

There’s that “no u” again. Can’t think of anything else to say?