Re: Corned Beef Brisket (and a mild rant)

dsi1 wrote:
 

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:18:30 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:
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On 2025-03-14 8:18 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-03-14, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:

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   Do you have to pay for store loyalty cards there?

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No, except at warehouse clubs like Costco, where you must be a
member to enter the store.
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Apart from the principle of the thing, a lot of people don't
like loyalty cards because they're afraid someone will collect
their data.

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I am not paranoid about it but I don't care to play their game. It's not
as if they are going to learn any state secrets from tracking my
purchases but I hate to see that sort of stuff being normalized. It
ranks up there with surveillance cameras. Sure, they may be a good idea
for store security and for fighting crime, but I dislike the idea of
someone in room full of monitors watching me. If business is slow they
don't have anyone else to watch.  Maybe I should start playing along and
pretend to stuff things in my pockets and provoke an interaction as I am
leaving because they think they saw my steal something.
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I have come to be suspicious of anyone I see in public wearing a hoodie
and with a scarf to cover their face. Maybe they are cold and keeping
warm. Maybe they are doing it for fun to distract security. Maybe they
are doing it because they are up to no good and don't want their faces
on camera.

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In the future, you can count on never being just another face in the
crowd. You're not going to be able to hide in plain sight ever again.
Boomers won't care for that but they'll all be dead soon.
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  David, I just listened to President Trump's SPLENDID speech at the US
Department of Justice...
 He say that in near future we will have a "digital privacy" act where
peeples can "opt out" of any Orwellian "surveillance" technology...