RE: The Balloon
February 5, 2023 at 11:13 am
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2023 at 11:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Me, personally, I think The Balloon tickled a certain demographic subsets fear spot..that demographic being comprised of people for whom spy balloons were culturally relevant. People who interpret the world with their spy balloon based filters. People who, fwiw, think spy balloons were bad enough (or, at least the other guys spy balloons), but fail to realize how much better/worse we've all gotten at surveillance since. If the chinese want to read your license plate, they can do it from space. If they want to read your texts, they can do it from a starbucks. Or maybe they don't need to do any of that because they can just ping your debit card activity anytime they want.
In fact, just assume that someone -has- tagged your tag and -is- reading your texts at all times and -does- follow you by purchase..because if it's not a someone doing that it's a something. We don't live in a surveillance state, we live on a surveillance planet, and balloons are an insult to every party involved no matter how prominently they might feature in an aging brain. The positive upshot here is that you can stop worrying about balloons..because it's far...faaar worse than you imagine, and has been for some time.
In fact, just assume that someone -has- tagged your tag and -is- reading your texts at all times and -does- follow you by purchase..because if it's not a someone doing that it's a something. We don't live in a surveillance state, we live on a surveillance planet, and balloons are an insult to every party involved no matter how prominently they might feature in an aging brain. The positive upshot here is that you can stop worrying about balloons..because it's far...faaar worse than you imagine, and has been for some time.
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