[FRIAM] Message to the non-posting 95%

[Steve Smith]

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 exploitableLife!

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