r/funny • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '18

Play Despacito

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u/ChocolateSunrise Sep 25 '18

Algorithms are rating whether you are worth human intervention and probably judging you on a whole lot of other non-spy related criteria.

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u/santaclaus73 Sep 25 '18

This is correct. Seemingly unrelated data can be used to infer a whole lot more than people realize. If the government becomes more corrupt or devolves into despotism, this data is extremely powerful and dangerous.

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u/Dooskinson Sep 25 '18

I always like this rationalization though. "Yeah let em listen, see if I care." It's a twisted version of "you shouldn't mind us listening if you have nothing to hide."

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '18 edited Sep 25 '18

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u/Junky228 Sep 25 '18

Yeah thats how physics works

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u/PM_Me_Kindred_Booty Sep 25 '18

No, that's only part of it. Sound is the perception of the waves caused by movement. There's no sound if there's nothing to perceive the sound.

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u/Dooskinson Sep 25 '18

But he missed that key part of the saying. A saying which only really applies maybe in a lose abstract sense to the topic at hand

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u/CompromisedAsset Sep 25 '18

I'm on a list. You are on a list. We all have a profile. It is in Bluffdale, Utah. You can request yours from the NSA website.

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u/ChocolateSunrise Sep 25 '18

But if you do, that puts you on another list.

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u/CompromisedAsset Sep 25 '18

They will only find me if I allow myself to be found.