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Because Google cares about us (lemmy.world)
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[–] 13 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I don't know if they're stupid or have just given up or what. I always feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I talk to people about technology. Usually they can't even acknowledge there's a problem while I'm so pissed off about it that I'm not sure I could restrain myself from doing physical harm if I found myself in the presence of some of the people responsible for this shit. It's incredibly frustrating.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago*

    I am 10000% in the same boat. I can't even talk to them about tech because like you, I'll go insane trying to make them understand these issues and they just laugh it off, or I'm a crazy tinfoil hat person. Even though its documented 100% proven what big tech does.

    A lot of them have given up as well. I mean, say you have a kid, then you forgo thinking about anything else in the world except that, who cares if zucc and thiel are destroying the world and surveiling you constantly to bring in a new era of authoritarianism that will result in mass suffering? Your kid needs food. Parents by and large do not care what is actually going on, theyre too busy (from what ive seen.) And I can't really blame them.

    So I prefer to have intelligent conversation online, and when around IRL folks I just act as dumb as them.

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