the makers of these things always say that, but I guarantee that long winded explanation is bullshit. Maybe there’s even hardware in there that does those things, but even so, they’re always listening, recording and submitting everything you say to their maker. Primarily for targeted ads and targeted content of other sorts…but also to snitch on you if the cops accuse you of something.
One time when I was a teenager I ate 10 pre-packaged chicken corndogs and my burps were lethal from 30 feet away.
Between the cornbread, chicken and cola I drank for that one meal…I created something horrifying in my stomach.
And when the burps stopped…there was calm before a storm…of terrible farts that went on all night. I was waking up every 10 minutes to unleash a vaporized demon from my anus and going to the toilet every hour to unleash a liquid one
that wouldn’t be a free market. The idea of a free market means that working hard makes you go farther. But our economy punishes hard work and rewards constant failure.
I understand what you’re saying, but what a free market is supposed to be on paper isn’t what we have. What we have is an oligarchy dicatorship.
Well of course, you can’t give working class people any money for working, you can only give them a slave-wage. That’s why all manufacturing was outsourced to very underdeveloped countries when NAFTA was first put into place.
You can easily get away with exploiting people who have no other choice but to work for a dollar per year, but it’s much more difficult to do that to someone’s neighbor in their community.