facebook fooey

FB would send me "suggestions" about people and groups I had never heard of. Friends of friends of friends...?

When a suggestion was for someone I had actually heard of and I clicked the link -- it would never go to the suggested post.

So I decided to close my FB account -- and failed.

It proved impossible for me to close my FaceBook account.

I did have some fun trying... along the way I set my language to Chinese.

Now I can't find the option to set my language back to English... all my prompts are in Chinese.

At least my FB emails, which I assume are more pointless "suggestions" -- all look interesting. With no relevance but lots of Chinese characters.

So, now -- I have set gMail to send any FB mail directly to spam.

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Today... it's worse.

News is, that FB has introduced an AI. The AI tells you that it can't be turned off.

So, for example, to pick an *actual* example -- you may be discussing your children in a mothers' discussion group -- and one of the "mothers" -- is the FB AI.

Good grief :-(

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

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Bandaid solutions hurt when they are removed.

...Dying for you to Read my blog: notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com

noPe

and in Galatians 23:7 it saith, verily shall the noble P be lost from thine advertisement for www.prohecies aboutjesus.com

trust not to the spellchecker when the web name be not a simple word

don't ask me why but that typo just leapt out at me 

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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gender fluid

With apologies to Jimmy Carr:

My friends are expecting a baby. They were planning a gender-reveal party.

I advised them to wait at least eighteen years. Give the kid a chance to trial some genders and decide which ones it prefers.

btw: I don't mind what gender you choose. As long as you don't mind which pronoun I use.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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fake 7 news

I do hope that the Channel 7 News will provide full names and addresses of the Girrahween (alleged) home invasion thugs.

Just as they provided full identifying details of the Bondi stabber.

Sure, they were completely wrong... but I'm sure that a "scoop" is sufficient reward for setting the lynch mob onto an innocent person.

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

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Bandaid solutions hurt when they are removed.

...Dying for you to Read my blog: notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com

group-think

Walter Horeb (Letters 18 Apr) has not previously seen the animosity and polarisation that he saw in the 2023 Voice referendum.

He must have slept through the 2017 Same-sex debate.

It's the way our "democracy" operates: No-one wants to know what we think, everyone wants to force us to think alike.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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19apr24: printed in The West as All must agree

They made some minor changes.

Their title is boring -- and misleading.

My group-think title was far better :-)

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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baggy to prison green

a man follows a woman to her home. it seems that the woman and the man know each other, media reports give no details. They do not live together.

the man hammers on a window. shouts abuse. threatens to kill the woman. He breaks the window. enters the house and physically attacks the woman. Including grabbing her by the throat.

At what point did these actions change from breaking and entering and aggravated assault to, "alleged domestic violence"?

Was it when the man was identified as an ex-famous cricketer?

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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bikies can count

it's a tough life being a bikie.

according to an ex-bikie, it takes two bikies to count the day's takings. You know, the perfectly legitimate cash income from a day of selling small beer at school fetes and charity functions.

two bikies. not because not one of them can count to twenty thousand without cutting off someone else's fingers. it takes two because they can't trust counting done by just one.

then they seal the cash away so that it won't be pinched by another gang member.

i mean, it's so sad. if you can't trust the brothers in your own outlaw motorcycle gang, then who can you trust.

nowadays, crypto currency makes money laundering so much easier. though there are other problems.

when next you see the body of a bikie killed by another bikie, look for the patch of missing skin.

that's where the tattoo of the gang's crypto password has been cut from the body.

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood