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points by ProllyInfamous 17 hours ago | 0 comments

So why does it keep collecting data when I have chosen to entirely disable Siri?

Because its also used by other apps (e.g. Photos has a feature to identify faces and catalog people in your photo library, Messages has a feature to allow important messages through Do Not Disturb and infers importance from these stores).

[–] hashstring 15 hours ago

Yes, this is the right question to ask.

[–] ProllyInfamous 15 hours ago

>>"Why does a dog lick its balls?"

>>"Because. he. can..."

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We let them behave this way. Whether this is past tense or future tense is up. to. us.

My brother is a (soon-to-be-former) politician. This is their mentality, "Prosecutor's Disease" [3].

Very happy for my homestate, after these midterms... perhaps we can bump ya'll up from "[L]one-star state" to 2-stars?

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50194833#50208521