Where is the lie? They don’t sell your data. That’s not how they operate. In fact, they want to keep your data as secure as possible so no one else can use it.

They build models from user data and basically sell those models to businesses. Models that can be used to manipulate behavior and distort reality.

Data brokers, on the other hand…they sell your data.

You shouldn’t let that limit yourself. Contrary to popular belief, the brain is much more fluid and adaptable than previously thought. IQ tests give a single number to represent something as complex as human intelligence, and while psychometrics can provide some kind of quantitative insight into how our brains process, organize, and distill information, it is by no means wholly representative of intelligence.

You have the capability to learn and grow. Maybe it takes a tad bit longer, but with determination and willpower (something not measured with IQ tests), you can learn just about anything.

I have MUCH more respect and appreciation for those who work hard to achieve their goals than I do for those who are naturally talented but stay within their comfort zones. If you challenge and push yourself, I think you’d be surprised with how far you can end up going 🙂

Edit: I should say, I’m sorry if you’ve heard this a million times. I’m sure it’s annoying when people just tell you “Oh all you have to do is try harder! Easy!” I’m not trying to suggest it’s easy. Or that IQ tests don’t mean anything. But if I could recommend one thing to do, it would be to look into recent developments on neuroscience of the flexibility and adaptability of the brain. It’s fairly recent research, but strongly suggests that the brain is much more dynamic and fluid than we previously thought (when IQ tests were created).

She is treating the relationship and trust as transactional. No bueno.

American here. I understood most of what you said, except for the phrase “living wage”. Could you explain this to me? I’ve never heard of it before.

Ah, great to know! I’ll be taking my kids down there for some blue octopus pets 😁

1 1000, 9 100’s & 80 4’s

They knew. The lyft drivers always know.

It’s something they saw in a meme once and now they take it for fact.

“My prehistoric brain can only think in ‘binary’ and doesn’t understand that development of a successful threat model doesn’t (and often can’t) be perfect, but any incremental change to my behavior and online practices in a way to prevent sensitive information from being shared and potentially utilized by malicious actors is a plus.

Instead of thinking about all of that, I’m going to reduce the whole subject to a nice and neat logical fallacy of ‘online privacy is terrible nowadays, thus it doesn’t matter what I do’ “

I literally don’t know anyone who believes that. Of course, my circle of friends is extremely limited and unrepresentative of the general population, so I could be wrong. But you’re also generalizing half the population of a (assuming here) country you don’t even live in lol.

But yeah Rachel Maddow sucks

No way this isn’t satire

Why does it seem like they all have weird obsessions with their own children’s genitalia?