2060

Don’t fret, you just need to buy one of their Obsidian Pyramids and it will bring clarity to your aura.

2061

All you have to do is pound the pointy side into your forehead.

2062

The bullet points of that feel like a DM explaining a magic item to a PC.

2063

I’m sorry, but you have rolled a “1” on your Obsidian Tetrahedron Test. You will suffer disadvantage on Wisdom and Charisma saves until the next long rest.

2064

Oh good. My friends and family are passing around not only an obvious lie but also a link to some sort of rock scam. If they want obsidian to rub around on, I have a chunk of it in the backyard. It’s pretty big too. Plenty to go around.

2065

Dom is known acrosd London

2066

The pyramid hat thing goes way back. I think it’s a new agey thing to do with focusing mental energies, or something. I remember some kid was wearing one when I took my SATs.

2067
2068

Move over Lularoe, Jamberry and Avon, the new one in town seems to be this one:

They’re evening singing to the clean and environmental friendly life styles.

Please note I have no experience with the company, parties or their products. I just know this one is making the rounds from the same people that pushed leggings and nails.

edit: thanks CLWheelJack for noticing my mix up.

2069

Lularoe?

2070

Yes that one! The one with all the “rare” patterns, made rare by like them just not selling more of them. I guess I mixed the your butt is showing with the other one. Oops.

2071

CNN interviewed the Clearview guy

2072

If you post stuff on the internet… you’re posting it for anyone to see.

2073

Yep. And don’t rely on ever changing privacy settings, cute CEO promises, and fun little logos that seem so friendly. If you don’t want to world to see it, don’t post it online.

2074

True. Then you have the freaking apps on your phone begging to give them location information, contacts, your vital signs, brainwaves, etc. It seems like it takes a severe level of vigilance not to give a ridiculous amount of information away.

On top of that, you have increasingly sophisticated systems that can infer more and more about you from the information they have, and even from information that other people/institutions have given them access to.

2075

I think there’s a difference between the public seeing it and the government using it, without a warrant. It’s one thing to get served ads, it’s another to have a sheriff combing location data to arrest people.

2076

No man, there’s not any difference at all.

It’s public. The government can access it just like any other organization.

2077

I know they can. I don’t think they should be able to.

In any case, they’re also buying location data from telcos and other groups, which is definitely NOT public, and using it.

This is just a few steps short of the federal government lo-jacking everyone in the US.

2078

At that point though, they’re buying it from a company that has it and is selling it.
That’s on the guy selling that data. Folks should be pissed with him, not the government in this case.

Because ultimately, if the government can do this, so could anyone else.

2079

And of course, once the govt. learns to use and love all this data, it becomes impossible that they would regulate the companies collecting and (ab)using it, because it’s now part of the data stream they depend on.