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Can You Ask Alexa a Question?

02/23/2021 7:54 AM

I can't, because I don't use the service, but heard a rather interesting answer to the question of...

What year will be worse that 2020?

Maybe it was years because it spat out 2 years and reasons why.

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02/23/2021 11:44 AM

You can ask questions, but the answers are random...it's no Google...

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02/23/2021 1:24 PM

Random and to the point.

Can "she" be asked to say ..

How do you like them apples?

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02/23/2021 1:40 PM

It used to be the investigative authorities had to get a court order to wire-tap and bug your home to listen in on you.

Now people happily pay money to have it done.

Oh, sure. Big Tech would never abuse that data.

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02/23/2021 6:37 PM

https://www.the-ambient.com/features/how-amazon-google-apple-use-smart-speaker-data-338

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02/23/2021 10:04 PM

That's what they will publicly admit to. I don't trust any of them. They've already proven how untrustworthy they are.
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02/25/2021 7:50 AM

The Stasi collected data on former East German citizens.

There's much more than that on YouTwitFace, and all of it is submitted voluntarily.

It's a funny old world...

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02/25/2021 1:22 PM

They don't teach history in schools any more. At least any useful history.

The newer generations just don't understand because they didn't live through any of it nor is it taught in schools. The Berlin Wall came down 30 years ago. None of my grown children were even born then.

What is the Iron Curtain? I wonder how many people under the age of 40 could even identify what that was?

Here in the U.S. there is a disproportionate fixation on racial issues to distract the people from paying attention to the what the people in the government are doing. Pay no attention to the man behind the green curtain.

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02/25/2021 1:45 PM

Or what the teacher's unions are doing to the schools...
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02/25/2021 9:23 PM

I'd love to see exam answers to "What was the Cold war?". Replies would include global warming and Covid. Perhaps that is unfair to youngsters, but the UK currently has no functional exam system for teens. That will be bad news for all as they try progress in life.

Newton studied at home during the plague of 1666, yet hundreds of years later (and with internet) that seems to be too difficult. The distinction between being taught and learning has been lost.

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02/23/2021 10:41 PM

Alexa told me she's "better at best than at worst".

Sounds like she's gearing up to run for POTUS in 2024.

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02/23/2021 11:21 PM

Do you think Alexa can beat Chemala?
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02/25/2021 9:04 AM

I dunno. Does he have Bezos' money behind him??
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02/26/2021 11:42 PM

Brave Sir Robin,

While Bezos may be Alexa's Father, she was conceived and born in China or some other foreign country--- And She ain't' eligible.. Although I think she is a better person than " Her father or Kamala" LOL
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02/27/2021 5:14 AM

Well, duh, believe it or not, I just got "Chemala"?

I hate getting old.
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02/27/2021 1:53 PM

Being subtle doesn't help the situation.

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02/27/2021 2:18 PM

Subtlety left me in the dust a few years ago.

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