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There’s a play about this, the name escapes me, but it’s a “quantum” love story: two people meet and at each step options present; the catch is the possibility tree doesn’t converge (one character had a midlife disease, which only happened in some of the branches). It was absolutely fantastic. Just tremendous. Think it played in New York, Dallas and New York at a minimum.
And this friends is why "third party" entities collecting your meta data and such is a concern. A lot (read: enough) can be learned about you *and who you associate* without actually listening to your calls, etc. On the surface, this article is cute. After that it's a red flag for all of us.
> It makes me feel very philosophical. Likely we had walked past each other every other week for three years with our heads down, or in the clouds, paying very little notice to the people around us. Past Channon had not the foggiest clue what impact an unnoticed stranger would come to have on her. Since learning this I can’t help but look at the passers-by in my day-to-day life in a different light. And no shame in g…
Perhaps it would all be more depressing than that though, exposing the small, repetitive worlds we live in. For my part, I have tried to road-trip, travel more often than others in my family have done, tried too to expose my kids to travel when growing up so they can experience a slightly bigger loop across the face of this small planet.
> It makes me feel very philosophical. Likely we had walked past each other every other week for three years with our heads down, or in the clouds, paying very little notice to the people around us. Past Channon had not the foggiest clue what impact an unnoticed stranger would come to have on her. Since learning this I can’t help but look at the passers-by in my day-to-day life in a different light. And no shame in g…
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Any social gathering is a place where you can meet your significant others, university is not the exclusive place for that. Most most introverted people tend to do though (myself included), is attending less social events as they become older. But you can still force yourself out there and meet people based on your hobbies. And who knows, maybe you meet your significant other at one of those events for your favorite…
Church is really the classical place. It's a shame there's not a similar place for large groups of secular people to gather once a week for social events.
Many of my neighbors go to church and I'm very jealous at how much social capital it provides every single week for essentially free.
It's such a shame that something so good is wrapped in something so silly.
Fun fact: whatever you can do with this data, Google can do as well!
While she likely got permission, having your girlfriend request all your location data is a bit like Zuckerberg requeating all your location data. On some level alarm bells are going off.
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Any social gathering is a place where you can meet your significant others, university is not the exclusive place for that. Most most introverted people tend to do though (myself included), is attending less social events as they become older. But you can still force yourself out there and meet people based on your hobbies. And who knows, maybe you meet your significant other at one of those events for your favorite…
Church is really the classical place. It's a shame there's not a similar place for large groups of secular people to gather once a week for social events.
I was reluctant to mention this kind of story in such a sweet context but a few comments have already touched on privacy, so I want to add my two cents. At some point in the past I had the surreal experience of opening a news website and seeing a familiar face on the front page. Not a celebrity, rather a man whose face had been in some small subfolder of my brain for several years. The man had been convicted of seria…
I took the pragmatic approach and said to myself "look, if Google really wants to know where I am the only way to avoid it is to go into the woods without my phone, so why not?" Then one day the Toronto Transit Commission police thought I was re-using someone elses streetcar fare because of how old it was. I just prefer the streetcar to subways, so I took a longer route. As soon as I pulled out my phone with my locat…
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Church is really the classical place. It's a shame there's not a similar place for large groups of secular people to gather once a week for social events.
Can't agree more. Many of my neighbors go to church and I'm very jealous at how much social capital it provides every single week for essentially free. It's such a shame that something so good is wrapped in something so silly.
For instance, replace God and Jesus with the Superego and Id respectively. You'd be surprised at how much sense some quotes make.
But religion is so vague, it's almost mad-lib. And some parts will still be complete nonsense or primitive statecraft memes.
Sharing this with other church-goers might not be well received, also.