One can hope to be a reflective and philosophical monster.
From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Message to the non-posting 95%
On 1/29/21 10:34 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
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?
Great bumper sticker...
Get an exploitable Life!
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 10:49 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙
<[email protected]<mailto:[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?
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