On 10.09.2022 19.18, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <old...@wits.end> wrote in news:tfgcje$4vf$
1...@gioia.aioe.org:
>
>> On 09.09.2022 13.34, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <old...@wits.end> wrote in news:tfak4n$1otb$
1...@gioia.aioe.org:
>>>
>>>> On 06.09.2022 19.46, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>
snip...@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote in
>>>>>
news:1pxu7g7.1m9vmfu1ij43yhN%snip...@gmail.com:
>>>>
>>>> HI Merlyne... IT'S ME MARIO^w BeH
>>>
>>> OMG! You're alive!
>>
>> More or less, yes.
>>
>>> ::cancels Plan B > That's the one where I email Rabbit69 @ every
>>> ::domain.
>>> Actually, I still might do it as an interesting social experiment.
>>
>> I would advise against it. Some very unsavory people use that name.
>> Also that account as well as the ISP is long gone.
>
> Is that what I said?
Said what?
> Your objection is noted. I will store it in the part of my brain which
> used to remember phone numbers.
>
> I knew your former email addresses were decommissioned when I reached
> out back in 2009 or 2010 and the email bounced.
Appropriate for a rabbit-mail...
>>> {Mario? I want whatever you're smoking}
>>
>> Homerolled Yellow Escort in Rizzla. I'll send you a sample.
>
> *squeals with delight*
> I love getting free samples in the mail!
> My favourite thing!
>
> I have a 2-3 years supply of cannabis already, so it won't get smoked
> any time soon.
I hate to disappoint you, but it's a tobacco product. That other stuff
is illegal to grow, own, smoke or trade - also possibly separately
illegal to send by mail or messenger.
>>>> [F*cebook]
>>> From my point of view, FB has some advantages:
>>>
>>> 1. To post on usenet, I either have to post through Google groups (no
>>> option to not archive the post) or disconnect the mouse and keyboard
>>> from my work laptop and connect them to my personal computer which is
>>> wedged behind the monitors. Seems like a lot of work when I can sit
>>> in the living room and chat with Bed or Ham on my tablet. I can FB
>>> any where: at Starbucks, at the dentist’s, during a boring meeting
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> 2. I have learnt through experience that if someone gropes and/or
>>> fondles me in a froup that a) everyone sees and b) I receive
>>> anonymous hate mail about it. While if someone send me DM in FB, the
>>> only people who see it are me, the NSA and quite possibly Elon
>>> Musk[1].
>>
>> ad a) well, I like to have an audience - for my literary production, I
>> mean. ad b) that's just weird. I never got any hate mail. Now I feel
>> slightly deprived...
>
> Maybe your fake email foiled them?
> Whoever is at mos...@home.now got all your interesting mail.
> It was probably from Dane Martin's parents. Somehow he got the idea that
> it was okay to inappropriately touch women.
How on earth would he get that idea. Also how would that be your fault -
I don't remember you ever inappropriately fondling anyone. BED on the
other hand...
In any case I think Dane was well aware of the difference between usenet
and "the real world".
>>
>> And it's: NSA, FBI, CIA, Zuckerberg and his minions, as well as every
>> commercial entity who is willing to pay for it.
>
> It makes me feel loved and validated that someone has taken an interest.
> Really, what are they getting?
You don't know, and you never (one must assume) consented to have the
information shared. That's the thing.
> So they know I like cats and penguins, I have purple hair, read murder
> mysteries and scifi/fantasy stuff and for some bizarre reason share
> links to education survey releases.
And what you buy - or look at and don't buy - online; and possibly even
off-line if you use a credit-card or take part in a loyalty scheme [or
scam - either or]. And so forth.
> We are all constantly being tracked. *They* know everything we look at
> on the internet. And what we talk about because our phones listen to us.
> *They* know what aisles we go down at the grocery store and what we buy.
> They probably know that I went to Starbucks after grocery shopping this
> morning to get a Brown Sugar Oat Americano. I cool with people knowing
> that as long as they don't tell my dietician.
Okay for you, then. I don't want somebody I don't know knowing things
about me that I don't know that they know - and in general if someone
knows something about me I am the only one who should have made that
knowledge available, conciously even.
>
> Yep. I'm so unhip, I'm amazed my butt hasn't fallen off.
> I'll add 'Go on TikTok' to my bucket list.
You really should. Also nice butt btw.
>>> Merlyne
>>>
>>> [1] I don't know it for a fact, I just know it's true.
>>
>> That's a very "F*cebook* kind of thing to say.
>>
> Unbalanced quotes?
> *breaks out in hives*
Shameful, indeed. I can only blame Thunderbird, my new (and slightly
left-shifted) keyboard, poor eyesight, lack of typing practice and old age.
BeH