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Re:When tracking your period lets companies track you by anthropodie on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @07:45AM (#29992880)
I gave up WhatsApp 2-3 years back thinking if people before 2000 could live without it I certainly can live without it. I am thinking of applying that principle to many things of my digital life.
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Re:When tracking your period lets companies track you by missedthecue on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:24AM (#29993285)
"I make my life more difficult because people in the past had difficult lives"?

How far do you apply this model? Passenger airbags in your automobile too?

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Re:When tracking your period lets companies track you by pc86 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:38AM (#29994077)
Imagine comparing WhatsApp to airbags.
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Re:When tracking your period lets companies track you by MichaelBurge on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:04AM (#29995408)
He didn't compare WhatsApp to airbags. A meta-statement S[X] was instantiated by antropodie with X=WhatsApp, and separately instantiated by missedthecue with X=airbags. So far there has not been any logical judgment relating the two, beyond them both being instantiations of S.

S is the target, not S[X] for either instantiation.

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Re:When tracking your period lets companies track you by hhmc on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:01AM (#29993026)
This feel vacuous -- people before 2000 had to live without WhatsApp because they existed in an WhatsApp-free environment.
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