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Edwin's avatar

“I needed people to think I was a nutter. It kept me safe.”

—David Icke

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Fat Rabbit Iron's avatar

This is why I killed my Amazon account. Buying directly from the manufacturer / publisher is a tad more expensive, but it's worth it. It may actually *save* money in the long run because it's so easy to impulse buy on Amazon.

https://fatrabbitiron.substack.com/p/secede-amazon

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Bandit's avatar

I know. Our phones creep me out now. Most of the time, I'm just talking to the dogs, but there's times I'm not. It's none of their business what we talk about arround the house.

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

Most of our problems can be fixed by fixing the corruption in the systems that govern over our lives.

How do we organize against all of this rampant corruption in our systems?

A Network State - a new decentralized 4th branch of government that isn't part of the government at all, but rather 100% built and run by the people. A whole new ecosystem. This includes a decentralized news network, decentralized science, a safe have for whistleblowers, a decentralized monetary system we all agree to in case the current one collapses, decentralized debates, a parallel transparent voting system, decentralized education , ballot initiatives and more. Consider this: https://joshketry.substack.com/p/lets-build-a-4th-branch-of-government

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Richard Seager's avatar

These companies are majorly responsible for what increasingly looks like a dud democracy.

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Jeannette K's avatar

Hi Rob, This is very good information! Thank you. Do you have an Alexa device in your home that you have turned off and you think that it captured you talking or do you think that it was from the microphone in your computer or phone or something else? Thanks again.

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Rob D's avatar

Hi Jeannette K! Good to see you here. I believe what happened (judging by the date of the 2 Alexa audio files I received) is I won a "Fire TV" from one of my clients I do business for. There is a button on the remote to activate "Alexa". I may have accidentally pushed that button. I have since covered the microphone on the remote (a lot of people don't know that most Smart TV remotes have microphones in them) and have made darn sure that I know where that awful "Alexa" button is so I don't accidentally push it in the future. Other than that Fire TV (which is an Amazon brand), I do not have any "Alexa" devices per se', but most phones, tablets, TV's, etc all have "Alexa" capabilities now. I keep an eye on all of that and definitely make sure to turn anything like that off on any devices I have. Thanks for stopping by!

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Jeannette K's avatar

Thank you for clarifying. :)

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John's avatar

What was the process to acquire all that data?

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Rob D's avatar

John, I should have provided the link with instructions on how to do this in my post. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GXPU3YPMBZQRWZK2 Once you log in (assuming you have an Amazon account), be sure to choose the option to receive all of the data. The file takes a few days to be emailed to you. It does come from Amazon in the UK (where some of their main servers are) so the email may go to spam. You will be required to verify your request in an email as well. It was fun to check this out. If nothing else, it made me feel pretty good that my diligence at keeping things turned off (location, etc) and only providing the least amount of information to do business with this company (and I do *much* less business with them now than I did 3 years ago) has paid off.

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John's avatar

Perfect!! I will follow up on that! I too ditched the data hoover-ing mega-opolies several years ago.

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