Posted on 12/31/2022 7:57:21 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
We live in the age of surveillance. Cameras (attached to facial recognition systems), satellites, street sensors, license plate readers, drones, credit cards, computers, phones, televisions, “smart” devices, and other technologies watch every move we make. Corporations use this avalanche of data to make money. But does it work? Not always. According to Business Insider, Amazon is on track to lose $10 billion dollars on its Alexa division this year. That’s billion… with a “B.”
Amazon is big, but the loss of that kind of money still hurts. According to Macrotrends, “Amazon net income for the twelve months ending September 30, 2022 was $11.323 billion.” So, on paper at least, Alexa losses this year will almost equal Amazon’s profit. What do they hope to gain from Alexa in the future that makes it worth that level of loss today?
Alexa is a cloud-based personal assistant. The original idea was that it would build brand loyalty to Amazon by giving people easy access to things like the weather or favorite music. Planners had also hoped to make it easier for people to order products from Amazon. That part hasn’t worked too well. It turns out that people want to see products (or at least pictures of those products) before they buy them.
But Alexa is more than an assistant. It is also a massive data vacuum cleaner. It sucks up information about you at unprecedented levels. By default, the microphones on Alexa devices are always on. They are required to be on so that Alexa can know when you are addressing it, and then follow your instructions. Amazon says that Alexa only listens for key words that “wake up” the device. But that’s something we just have to take their word for.
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Smart man!
“Smart” devices are tools to surveil and control.
Here either.
The thing about the old end times movies is that the believers were able to go into hiding from the authorities.
With the surveillance technology we have these days, that might just be well nigh impossible.
Living in an age where our refrigerators say to us “oh, that wasn’t nice Dave, I’m going to have to report that”
and the toaster says to the fridge “too late, I already reported it”
And the microwave says “I hope you weren’t just praying Dave, because you know that is a hate crime”
That’s what tinfoil is for lol. J/k.
(The thing about the old end times movies is that the believers were able to go into hiding from the authorities.)
Yeah not anymore it seems
Wondering when they’re going to try to move the ‘Peace and Security’deal forward again.
Unless you are an illegal.
Then they will just ignore you.
If anyone carries a smart phone they're tracked.
If you use a credit card you're tracked.
The list can go on and on.
Any cell phone.
And with drones, they can go anywhere. Additionally, there is IR devices that detect body heat and other heat sources.
There is virtually no way to hide these days.
Satan’s dream come true for persecuting believers.
Certainly seems to be confirming an understanding of the End Times and a One World government.
“Any cell phone.
And with drones, they can go anywhere. Additionally, there is IR devices that detect body heat and other heat sources.
There is virtually no way to hide these days.”
Every time a thread comes up about this topic I can’t help but think of this Scripture....
Revelation 6:15-17
King James Version
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Can you imagine predicting years ago that in the future big brother would be bugging your residence at the same time citizens would be paying to have the devices in their house and volunteering personal information to communists!
I always think of fallout shelters when I read those verses.
I also always wondered if those verses applied to those fleeing to Petra.
Good catch. I never thought of that myself.
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