Forwarded from Katharine Gun
April's temperature averages are out and which one will be circulated? In one, the base period for data collection is 30 years and in the other it's over the entire 20th century.
The world has been warming gradually since the turn of the last century as it climbed out of the "mini ice age" (remember images of skaters on the frozen River Thames?) We are expected to believe that the warming started from some ideal base rate. No. Instead, the temperatures in the last 20-30 years have not increased overall. In fact, they are trending down. Who is spreading misinformation in reality?
The world has been warming gradually since the turn of the last century as it climbed out of the "mini ice age" (remember images of skaters on the frozen River Thames?) We are expected to believe that the warming started from some ideal base rate. No. Instead, the temperatures in the last 20-30 years have not increased overall. In fact, they are trending down. Who is spreading misinformation in reality?
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China’s “summer Davos” 2023
Next month the World Economic Forum will be hosting its “Summer Davos” in Tianjin, China.
Described as the “Annual Meeting of the New Champions”, this has been an important yearly WEF event since 2010, always hosted somewhere in China.
In Klaus Schwab’s words:
"The Annual Meeting of the New Champions creates a unique platform to boost innovation and strengthen collaborative efforts on a global level."
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/24/wefs-2023-summer-davos-in-china/9
Next month the World Economic Forum will be hosting its “Summer Davos” in Tianjin, China.
Described as the “Annual Meeting of the New Champions”, this has been an important yearly WEF event since 2010, always hosted somewhere in China.
In Klaus Schwab’s words:
"The Annual Meeting of the New Champions creates a unique platform to boost innovation and strengthen collaborative efforts on a global level."
…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/24/wefs-2023-summer-davos-in-china/9
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OffG’s Quick Take: White House Truck Attack – A LITERAL False Flag?
Perhaps you heard, on Monday night a man allegedly attempted to ram a U-Haul truck into the White House railings, with the avowed intent of killing the President.
He didn’t quite get that far, naturally.
The man was later identified as one “Sai Varshith Kandula”, a Missouri man of Indian descent. According to reports in multiple papers his plan was tokill Joe Biden and seize power. Apparently he thinks Washington works like Wakanda.
Unbelievably, he also allegedly claims crashing an empty moving van into some railings took six months of planning.
According to police, Kandula – a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/24/offgs-quick-take-white-house-truck-attack-a-literal-false-flag/
Perhaps you heard, on Monday night a man allegedly attempted to ram a U-Haul truck into the White House railings, with the avowed intent of killing the President.
He didn’t quite get that far, naturally.
The man was later identified as one “Sai Varshith Kandula”, a Missouri man of Indian descent. According to reports in multiple papers his plan was tokill Joe Biden and seize power. Apparently he thinks Washington works like Wakanda.
Unbelievably, he also allegedly claims crashing an empty moving van into some railings took six months of planning.
According to police, Kandula – a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/24/offgs-quick-take-white-house-truck-attack-a-literal-false-flag/
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WATCH: Thwarting Facial Recognition – #SolutionsWatch
We all know about the danger of a future society where we’re all tracked everywhere we go every single day in real time by our phones or devices…but actually, it’s worse than that!
You’re already being tracked everywhere you go, every day, and it doesn’t matter whether you leave your phone at home just as long as you bring your face. On the most recent #SolutionsWatch, James Corbett explores some of the options that are on the table for heading off the facial recognition dystopia.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options –…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/25/watch-thwarting-facial-recognition-solutionswatch/
We all know about the danger of a future society where we’re all tracked everywhere we go every single day in real time by our phones or devices…but actually, it’s worse than that!
You’re already being tracked everywhere you go, every day, and it doesn’t matter whether you leave your phone at home just as long as you bring your face. On the most recent #SolutionsWatch, James Corbett explores some of the options that are on the table for heading off the facial recognition dystopia.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options –…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/25/watch-thwarting-facial-recognition-solutionswatch/
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OffG’s Quick Take: Mizzy, the walking strawman
Another day, another quick take. This one is about “Mizzy”. For anyone out of the loop, “Mizzy” is UK-based Tik-Toker who has enjoyed a somewhat meteoric rise to fame. Too meteoric to be natural, you might say.
I’ll lay it all out for you, and you can decide for yourself how organic this sudden celebrity may be.
As of this time last week, literally almost nobody in the whole world had heard of “Mizzy” – real name Bacari Ogarro – an 18 year old “prankster” whose only claim to fame had been an arrest for assault after stealing…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/25/offgs-quick-take-mizzy-the-walking-strawman/
Another day, another quick take. This one is about “Mizzy”. For anyone out of the loop, “Mizzy” is UK-based Tik-Toker who has enjoyed a somewhat meteoric rise to fame. Too meteoric to be natural, you might say.
I’ll lay it all out for you, and you can decide for yourself how organic this sudden celebrity may be.
As of this time last week, literally almost nobody in the whole world had heard of “Mizzy” – real name Bacari Ogarro – an 18 year old “prankster” whose only claim to fame had been an arrest for assault after stealing…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/25/offgs-quick-take-mizzy-the-walking-strawman/
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In the days before…
Sylvia Shawcross
Photo by James Wheeler on Unsplash
So we’re having a Dogwood Spring some would say here in this part of the world. Early in the morning the ground frosts the edges of leaves and the bright taste of the cool air catches at memories of times passed.
Around us, despite our human scampering and musing, nature still does what it does so far, although some say it won’t always. The point would be right now, just for the moment, it does what it does.
We linger in its benevolence and its grace. It watches…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/26/in-the-days-before/
Sylvia Shawcross
Photo by James Wheeler on Unsplash
So we’re having a Dogwood Spring some would say here in this part of the world. Early in the morning the ground frosts the edges of leaves and the bright taste of the cool air catches at memories of times passed.
Around us, despite our human scampering and musing, nature still does what it does so far, although some say it won’t always. The point would be right now, just for the moment, it does what it does.
We linger in its benevolence and its grace. It watches…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/26/in-the-days-before/
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Forwarded from Edward Slavsquat
Let’s not deceive ourselves, friends. Global Biosecurity Theater is forever. 🐔🐔
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/its-bird-flu-season-in-russia-time
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/its-bird-flu-season-in-russia-time
Edward Slavsquat
It's bird flu season in Russia (time to kill all the chickens, for public health)
A poultry farm in Yaroslavl has been ordered to cull 800,000 chickens, as regions introduce arbitrary "public health" measures to stop the spread of "bird flu"
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Catte’s Corner: Covid, virus theory & the painted goat
Catte Black
Imagine…A man has sold you what he claims is a black goat.
You take it home and discover it’s not a black goat at all, it’s a white goat painted in Dulux black emulsion.
You have two options to show the man deceived you so you can get your money back.
1. Prove THIS goat isn’t black, the man who sold it to you just painted it in order to defraud you.
2. Prove the longstanding theory there are actually NO black goats at all anywhere, just a lot of white goats painted black.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/26/cattes-corner-covid-virus-theory-the-painted-goat/
Catte Black
Imagine…A man has sold you what he claims is a black goat.
You take it home and discover it’s not a black goat at all, it’s a white goat painted in Dulux black emulsion.
You have two options to show the man deceived you so you can get your money back.
1. Prove THIS goat isn’t black, the man who sold it to you just painted it in order to defraud you.
2. Prove the longstanding theory there are actually NO black goats at all anywhere, just a lot of white goats painted black.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/26/cattes-corner-covid-virus-theory-the-painted-goat/
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Blinded by the Next Great Thing
Todd Hayen,/h6>
I must be missing a chip in my brain or something. Why have I never been blown away by the advances in technology that attempt to replace humans? I mean, I am fascinated by the next great robot vacuum cleaner, or a car that will pick you up after you’ve had your fine cricket dinner at the Four Seasons, but my fascination dissipates quickly.
Cell phones, computers, and crap like that are interesting….but when I hear about AI art, robots, or synthesized orchestras, my blood runs cold.
This seems to have always been true for me, even…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/27/blinded-by-the-next-great-thing/
Todd Hayen,/h6>
I must be missing a chip in my brain or something. Why have I never been blown away by the advances in technology that attempt to replace humans? I mean, I am fascinated by the next great robot vacuum cleaner, or a car that will pick you up after you’ve had your fine cricket dinner at the Four Seasons, but my fascination dissipates quickly.
Cell phones, computers, and crap like that are interesting….but when I hear about AI art, robots, or synthesized orchestras, my blood runs cold.
This seems to have always been true for me, even…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/27/blinded-by-the-next-great-thing/
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Who really wants AI…and why?
TE Creus
I’ve noticed that self-checkout is taking over more and more shops and supermarkets. They have existed for a while, of course, but more as an alternative to reduce lines, but now many shops have exclusively self-checkout machines.
Yet, self-checkout appears not to be very effective or convenient, neither for shops nor for customers. Many customers tend to dislike self-checkout, as evidenced by the fact that there are always lines for human cashiers but none for self-checkouts. They give you the perception of more speed, but it is just illusory. Professional human cashiers scan and move your products…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/27/who-really-wants-ai-and-why/
TE Creus
I’ve noticed that self-checkout is taking over more and more shops and supermarkets. They have existed for a while, of course, but more as an alternative to reduce lines, but now many shops have exclusively self-checkout machines.
Yet, self-checkout appears not to be very effective or convenient, neither for shops nor for customers. Many customers tend to dislike self-checkout, as evidenced by the fact that there are always lines for human cashiers but none for self-checkouts. They give you the perception of more speed, but it is just illusory. Professional human cashiers scan and move your products…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/27/who-really-wants-ai-and-why/
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Remembering the Paris Commune
Catte Black
The original version of this article was first published in the before times – back in the heady days of 2015 – when OffG was only a few weeks old, and our readership could be counted on fingers an inattentive lathe operator. Since, this year, the anniversary falls on a Sunday, making it 152 years literally to the day, we thought it was time to bring this back. Its relevance has not diminished, only grown, now that the “violence inherent in the system” has been so freshly demonstrated on a global scale in the past few years.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/28/remembering-the-paris-commune-2/
Catte Black
The original version of this article was first published in the before times – back in the heady days of 2015 – when OffG was only a few weeks old, and our readership could be counted on fingers an inattentive lathe operator. Since, this year, the anniversary falls on a Sunday, making it 152 years literally to the day, we thought it was time to bring this back. Its relevance has not diminished, only grown, now that the “violence inherent in the system” has been so freshly demonstrated on a global scale in the past few years.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/28/remembering-the-paris-commune-2/
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Notes to Poetry: Or, defending freedom for the future
Simon Elmer
Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling of an ancient Egyptian myth that was later put to music by the French composer, Paul Dukas, in his orchestral scherzo L’Apprenti sorcier (1897). The latter was chosen for the title of a text published in 1938 by the French writer, critic and philosopher, Georges Bataille, who adopted it to describe a lineage to which he saw himself heir, and which comprised the poets, writers and artists who, in both their lives and their works, sought what…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/28/notes-to-poetry-or-defending-freedom-for-the-future/
Simon Elmer
Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling of an ancient Egyptian myth that was later put to music by the French composer, Paul Dukas, in his orchestral scherzo L’Apprenti sorcier (1897). The latter was chosen for the title of a text published in 1938 by the French writer, critic and philosopher, Georges Bataille, who adopted it to describe a lineage to which he saw himself heir, and which comprised the poets, writers and artists who, in both their lives and their works, sought what…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/28/notes-to-poetry-or-defending-freedom-for-the-future/
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REVIEW: The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
VN alexander
In Martin Amis’ The Zone of Interest (2014), set in a Nazi death camp, the Commander, Paul Doll, has his wife, Hannah, and two daughters living with him in the “zone,” where the smell of rotting flesh from the mass graves functions as a persistent clue that things have gone very, very wrong in the world.
How did the German civilians go about their lives and continue to be human beings in such an atmosphere? That’s the question that must have compelled Amis to write this novel. While no sane person can fully imagine the answer…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/29/review-the-zone-of-interest-by-martin-amis/
VN alexander
In Martin Amis’ The Zone of Interest (2014), set in a Nazi death camp, the Commander, Paul Doll, has his wife, Hannah, and two daughters living with him in the “zone,” where the smell of rotting flesh from the mass graves functions as a persistent clue that things have gone very, very wrong in the world.
How did the German civilians go about their lives and continue to be human beings in such an atmosphere? That’s the question that must have compelled Amis to write this novel. While no sane person can fully imagine the answer…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/29/review-the-zone-of-interest-by-martin-amis/
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The Anti-Anti-Semitism Follies
CJ Hopkins
Roll up, roll up, because it’s time once again for The Anti-Anti-Semitism Follies! That’s right, folks, it’s everyone’s favorite unintentionally slapstick theatrical revue, featuring an all-star line-up of uproarious propagandists, side-splitting corporate media clowns, babbling British Labour MPs, the all-singing, all-dancing Berlin Police Department, and other zany anti-anti-Semites!
Grab your popcorn and sit back and watch as they hunt down dastardly “Holocaust relativizers,” insidious critics of the State of Israel, and anyone who has ever used the word “globalism.” Hilarious high jinks are sure to ensue!
But, seriously, folks, this is no joke. We are in a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/29/the-anti-anti-semitism-follies/
CJ Hopkins
Roll up, roll up, because it’s time once again for The Anti-Anti-Semitism Follies! That’s right, folks, it’s everyone’s favorite unintentionally slapstick theatrical revue, featuring an all-star line-up of uproarious propagandists, side-splitting corporate media clowns, babbling British Labour MPs, the all-singing, all-dancing Berlin Police Department, and other zany anti-anti-Semites!
Grab your popcorn and sit back and watch as they hunt down dastardly “Holocaust relativizers,” insidious critics of the State of Israel, and anyone who has ever used the word “globalism.” Hilarious high jinks are sure to ensue!
But, seriously, folks, this is no joke. We are in a…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/29/the-anti-anti-semitism-follies/
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Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod
Edward Curtin
We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti, use you forgetty.” The adults had no idea what they meant. Many still do not.
Here slowness reigns and forgetting seems possible, even if for just a few days. In mid-May, the beaches are deserted except for the swooping gulls, the sandpipers prancing across the sand, and a few seals eyeing you from just off-shore. An…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/30/deaths-secretary-tries-to-forget-on-cape-cod/
Edward Curtin
We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti, use you forgetty.” The adults had no idea what they meant. Many still do not.
Here slowness reigns and forgetting seems possible, even if for just a few days. In mid-May, the beaches are deserted except for the swooping gulls, the sandpipers prancing across the sand, and a few seals eyeing you from just off-shore. An…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/30/deaths-secretary-tries-to-forget-on-cape-cod/
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BBC Verify?
Iain Davis
With great fanfare, the BBC has launched BBC Verify. The state broadcaster’s very own, specialist “disinformation and social media correspondent,” Marianna Spring, announced its arrival live on UK TV.
She explained that the BBC would verify video, fact check and “counter disinformation.” So rest assured, no one needs to think about anything. The BBC will “fact check” everything for us and tell us what “the truth” is.
Apparently, it “really matters” that the BBC acts as the UK government’s official arbiter of truth because, according to Spring, “mistruths” can “cause really serious harm to society.”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/31/bbc-verify/
Iain Davis
With great fanfare, the BBC has launched BBC Verify. The state broadcaster’s very own, specialist “disinformation and social media correspondent,” Marianna Spring, announced its arrival live on UK TV.
She explained that the BBC would verify video, fact check and “counter disinformation.” So rest assured, no one needs to think about anything. The BBC will “fact check” everything for us and tell us what “the truth” is.
Apparently, it “really matters” that the BBC acts as the UK government’s official arbiter of truth because, according to Spring, “mistruths” can “cause really serious harm to society.”…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/31/bbc-verify/
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Forwarded from HAGGARD
"So the coverage of what is going on in Russia is poor because it is only covered by alternative (and therefore unprofessional) media, which completely avoid the issues of digitalization, vaccination, and the digital ruble.
I have to fully agree with Karine Bechet-Golovko that some “pro-Russian” Westerners want to love Russia “against” their own country, so to speak. As she said, when these people look at Russia, they want to see everything they can no longer find in their own homeland, and refuse to see the nuances of Russian society, which is quite complex.
I also agree that the basic human need to believe in something, to be sure of something, plays a role here. And so some Czechs believe in the myth of a perfect Russia, where the world is perfectly fine, because the reality that there is no salvation in either the West or the East is too depressing." https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/peace-has-become-a-dirty-word-in
I have to fully agree with Karine Bechet-Golovko that some “pro-Russian” Westerners want to love Russia “against” their own country, so to speak. As she said, when these people look at Russia, they want to see everything they can no longer find in their own homeland, and refuse to see the nuances of Russian society, which is quite complex.
I also agree that the basic human need to believe in something, to be sure of something, plays a role here. And so some Czechs believe in the myth of a perfect Russia, where the world is perfectly fine, because the reality that there is no salvation in either the West or the East is too depressing." https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/peace-has-become-a-dirty-word-in
Edward Slavsquat
"Peace" has become a dirty word in closely watched Czechia
A conversation with Czech writer Cecílie Jílková
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“Cool the Mark Out”: How the media minimizes Covid vaccine injuries
Dennis Riches via Propaganda in Focus
Image source
I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had… Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/01/cool-the-mark-out-how-the-media-minimizes-covid-vaccine-injuries/
Dennis Riches via Propaganda in Focus
Image source
I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had… Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/01/cool-the-mark-out-how-the-media-minimizes-covid-vaccine-injuries/
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Squabble-Warbling Again
Sylvia shawcross
So I was on the phone to a government department and was speaking to the computer. Or rather the computer was speaking to me. Going on and on about something I didn’t give a rattlesnake’s arse about.
Now, I’ve learned that you can just say “stop!” and that infernal non-human thing will actually pause and ask you what they can do for you. That’s when you can say, “I’d like a human please” and they will send you off to a human. I’m not sure if you even have to say “please” or not but force…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/02/squabble-warbling-again/
Sylvia shawcross
So I was on the phone to a government department and was speaking to the computer. Or rather the computer was speaking to me. Going on and on about something I didn’t give a rattlesnake’s arse about.
Now, I’ve learned that you can just say “stop!” and that infernal non-human thing will actually pause and ask you what they can do for you. That’s when you can say, “I’d like a human please” and they will send you off to a human. I’m not sure if you even have to say “please” or not but force…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/02/squabble-warbling-again/
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