[FRIAM] Message to the non-posting 95%

[Roger Critchlow]

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?

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On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 10:49 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> 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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