Maybe google sends mail to spam when it can't figure out how to monetize it, thus encouraging me to get a more exploitable life?
-- rec -- On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 10:49 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, there's evil, and there's Evil. This thread, including RussA's > implicit confirmation of Marcus' point about fora rigidity, dovetails > nicely with the [ab|mis]use thread and Nick's trope about ancillary vs > primary effects. The scammers, themselves not necessarily their children, > are Evil ... but we can empathize if they're doing it because the world is > a harsh and complex place. You gotta make money somehow. They're simply > doing what we tell them they have to do. > > Lurkers are opaque. Presumably, Google is a lurker on every clear text > email you send through their platform, including this one. But I haven't > really noticed any targeted marketing, perhaps because I use their IMAP > interface, not the web interface? So even if they're using this content to > profile and target people, it's merely little-e evil and I (perhaps > falsely) understand why they're lurking. They're a for-profit business. > It's a way to extract money. You gotta make money somehow. Google is simply > doing what we tell them they have to do. > > But individual lurkers are much harder to guess about. The opacity doesn't > bother me, personally. It's none of my business what others think of me. > (Similarly, to quote Fleetwood Mac, don't ask me what I think of you. I > might not give the answer that you want me to.) But it does seem to be > important to some. My advice is to treat this like a traditional medium. > Each post is something you'd be willing to print out and nail to the > telephone pole downtown. Any other conception seems like magical thinking. > > On 1/28/21 2:18 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > > Of course it is criminal to do that. I used to think whenever something > is happening in nature it is either supper or pairing time. Now I tend to > think whenever something is happening it is something selfish. Or evil. > There is so much evil in this world, isn't it? > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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