Well, good Monday. This really happened to my husband and I last night and it rattled me. I don’t know if this has ever happened to you.
Last night my husband and I were watching The White Lotus and there was a scene where a character was talking about ending their life. Out of nowhere, our Alexa device in the living room suddenly interrupted and said:
“It sounds like someone may be having a mental health crisis. Would you like me to contact emergency services?”
Here’s the weird part… neither of us had said the wake word, and our device isn’t supposed to activate without it.
I was so startled I started yelling, “No, Alexa!” It responded, “Are you sure?” Then I yelled, “Stop listening!”
Maybe it was a glitch. Maybe it misheard something from the TV. But I can tell you it was unsettling to have a device suddenly join a private conversation.
Has anyone else ever had this happen? I know these assistants are designed to help, but having one unexpectedly jump into your living room discussion was enough to make me wonder just how much they’re actually hearing.
@CRIXUSwasHERE This. I was told not to post this because the government would come after me. Which is exactly why I'm posting this if we're at that point.
@carsonkrow I am pretty sure this is the sort of thing that pressed our surrounding fathers into action. 250 years later we are back to worse than we had it with the British government. We are betrayed by our own government. It's not what they will do, it's what we will do.
@NetworkdudeQ@ZeekArkham I think more of us feel this way than not. However we're so large it's hard for our voices to reach each other. And those in power who do hear us ignore us. I may not be the man I founding father's were but I and the 71-year-old woman I am who will stand.
@GinaSaysSo@HawleyMO@SenateGOP@LeaderJohnThune Politicians will not save our Country. They brought us to this point. Every single one. Not one of you is guilt free.
You have no idea how we feel. You have no idea how angry with you we are. We the People feel as our founding fathers felt prior to 1776.
@RepClayFuller@s_solis44 I think all of you need to understand we are feeling like our Founding Fathers felt in 1776. Not one of you is better than the British in 1776. 250 years and we are where we started before the Declaration of Independence. What does it says when the government betrays its people.
Hope for today: “For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.” -Proverbs 2:21-22
@1776xrprerich@ZeekArkham It's not just California. It's our whole Country. We have been betrayed by the politicians. There is no politician guilt free. We let them bring us here.
The question is will we allow it to continue. What would our founding fathers do?
@BillMote@ZeekArkham I think we all are starting to feel exactly as our founding fathers felt when they decided enough was enough. There is no saving our government. 250 years later we have wasted the lives and blood of our founding fathers.
So… we’re expected to believe that in California, out of three candidates, the third place candidate, who conceded her campaign because she was mathematically eliminated from the run-off, suddenly received tens of thousands of votes from mail-in votes which all came in *after* Election Day, while the other two candidates received no late mail-in votes, and the second place candidate (who was surging as a Republican candidate in the bluest state in the country) is now in third place and mathematically eliminated from the run-off.
… and we’re supposed to trust that this is an honest and true election.
If you’re not angry about this, you need to be.
@lsferguson Drive across this country and you will see that we have our own s*** hole going on here. Our infrastructures are falling apart, veterans are homeless, seniors starve. And yet our politicians are quite content to keep sending billions to other countries. We are betrayed.