Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 05, 2023

The gaslighting will continue until he has no money left

Wiley

He forgot to ask if it will be delivered before the solar flair hits.

I thought Amazon made it very clear that you shouldn’t trust Alexa when she goes Bing Boop Bing.

That explains why Alexa has a female voice. And Siri, too.

Oh,no it will go well beyond that, until the debt payments become unsustainable.

The missus was using a cunning version of wishing upon a star.

Considering that he was just told about the possible disintegration of the planet’s atmosphere within the next 8 minutes, he seems awfully calm. If I knew that there were 3 bullets in a 6 chamber gun, and I had no choice in a game of “Russian Roulette”, there would be panic.

Why I will never have one of these things in my house. You never know who is on the other end trying to manipulate you.

I love Alexa, BUT I turned off notifications, it’ll drive you nuts!

To know, Bezos envisioned this to be the “go to” to order stuff by just asking for it, didn’t workl BUT now he’s stuck with it

There are reasons why the word is NOtifications. We have been warned.

Clever lady!

“…I will never have one of these things in my house.” Did you mean Alexa, or a wife?

I’m reminded of two noble principles that apply here:

“Trust but verify.” —Ronald Reagan

“Do not believe everything you read on the Internet.” —Abraham Lincoln

Muriel has made friends with Alexa, the electronic equivalent of a boiling vat of noxious ingredients.

“There will be bad times, but they wake you up to what you should have been paying attention to.” – (R.I.P.), Robin William

It IS a conspiracy.

If you can be independent of each other when it comes to money.

The $1500 item on the Wish List was an upgraded Alexa that provided not only all of your bank information to China but also picked up top secret military transmissions.

He must be very well-to-do. Didn’t even ask what the item was

Still wouldn’t get it

He did the same thing I would. Go get a last cup of coffee.

All debt is recorded electronically, EMPs wipe out electronic data, therefore;…

Why do people have those things?

I don’t have an Alexa, and I don’t want one, either. I don’t even like it when Google reads to me the opening line of my inquiry. Last I checked, I can still read.

now that’s just mean… clever, but mean.

Don’t give Alexa your credit card. Or Bing, either!

How much more junk do you need? Really?

That kind of cash would go to Burberry or Bloomingdales in our house

This is a sad sign for things to come. I can see population mind-control eventually coming from such things as Alexa. “Well, Alexa told me that, so it MUST be true!”

This is a very good example of the “reset button” effect:

https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/happiness-2-0-the-reset-button/

AI Singularity will be the thing to take us with a whimper, not a bang

What’s the point of buying something if it’s all going to end?

Truly amazoning…

Panic and running around in circles won’t stop the sky from falling Chicken Little.

I KNEW I couldn’t trust that Alexa thing!!

And all this time we’ve only been focusing on the idea of the AI taking over.

Panic can be effective if you begin early enough.

An item on your wish list? An? I have 88 items on my wish list and do not care about half of it. Truly want maybe a 1/4 of it and am in absolutely no hurry. Recently simply deleted 30-40 items.

My wife gets miffed when Alexa calls me by my name, but never uses hers. I didn’t program it that way.