One Man Banned

Banana chocolate chip. Did a few w/ crushed walnut on top.

All right lurkerinos, taking a break, back in 2 weeks.

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True, although I think this is a bit more honest and a bit more along the lines of product placement. Obviously these brands are working together, smart on their part here. Probably not a stretch to sell these items together, they could probably add tissues, hand lotion, and sex dolls to that end aisle and churn a decent profit from the same demographic. But these are somewhat obvious. The algorithms pick up the dumbest shit though, like men age 18-25 are most likely to buy house plants on Thursday when the price of that plant does not exceed $12.99. Where it becomes more fucked up is here- retailers or whomever are going to adjust themselves to get those sales, and they'll even manage to get members of that demographic who had no intention of buying a house plant on that day. Further, when they've studied people after shopping they find that the person has no idea wtf just happened, and to compensate, their brain has to make up some b.s. excuse for why they just bought what they did. More on topic from where Raven started, everything you think/feel/do is information for yourself, and possibly others. The language example is a pretty cool one and not hard to understand. One I often think of is looking at what people here post on the Oontz. If you knew nothing about the person posting, you could look at something like what types of plants and other landscape are visible and quickly narrow down what regioin they're in. And yeah, all that anti-terrorism data collection netted basically nothing, bunch of b.s. to mass collect data on the people. But people still have FB after multiple violations to their privacy, so they're probably not about to protest any of these other things.

When I was in BK I would go to a shitty old theater that was dirty and smelled of wino piss despite the absence of winos,BUT, you could probbly still get in there with your ticket/popcorn under $20. I usually bring a soda and a half pint of sumthin with me so no need to buy the theater's. This luxury theater shit is b.s. between the cost, assigned seating whatever. Also going to the movies by yourself is a good move, but then there's my girl's take on it too- with those luxury recliner seats she don't want to be laying down next to a stranger in a dark theater. Back on $20 though if we were doing it as some sort of challenge or something I'd probably try my hand at going to the casino and making that my limit. I stick to slots and $20 is typically my limit. Last time I was in the area and walked in with $20 and back out maybe 60 minutes later with about $100 (after buying a burger and a beer). Bought myself a tank of gas and went home.

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This demonstrates why I've been saying for some time now that any data collecting is, in general, bad for us. If you have so much as one of those supermarket or other store cards on your keychain, that's a data collection device for those stores. I know people look at it as a coupon or savings card, but people forget you used to use coupons all the time without giiving up any of your info. It also gets into the fact that everyone has ways and means that are not entirely conscious to us but which act as signatures about our thoughts, behaviors, feelings. Some of these you can discover about self/others if you take the time. Other bits appear innocuous or irrelevant but they are not, and are easily picked up on by algorithms. Wal-mart and some supermarkets use this type of info to connect stupid dots you might normally not connect. Made up example- men who buy Slayer shirts will also buy pizza. So the store stocks the Slayer shirts near the pizza knowing that this increases the likelihood that a man who goes over to that aisle to pick up a Slayer shirt is probably going to get some pizza there too. Worse, they may buy both items together having never intended to.

About to disappear for a minute off the grid, quick photoshare off the trailcam before I go. A bumper crop of acorns plus the salt lick I have out has made it deer central around here.