The Truth?

By pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
Derry, Northern Ireland
June 10, 2018 3:21pm CST
What is it? Not what you read in the papers, surely? Or what you see on the gogglebox, the TV? What you read on the Internet, perhaps...? Maybe. Depending what you read, and how you read it. Even a simple app on your phone, in this case, the bog standard Twitter app for Android. It tracks, listens, learns... Go on - go into Apps, Force Stop the Twitter app, then Clear the App's Cache and Clear its Data (it will warn you, don't worry, 30secs sets up the prefs you had before!). You will be surprised at what a difference it makes to what the app presents to you for a few days...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12640)
• Ireland
10 Jun 18
@pgntwo When Pontius Pilate asked “What is truth?” no-one answered him. At university a learned professor explained to our class a very complicated timetabling issue after a lot of confusion, and at the end he asked “Any questions?” One bright spark put his hand up and asked “What is truth?”
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12640)
• Ireland
11 Jun 18
@Marty1 This particular prof was dumbfounded and didn’t get irony or Tom foolery.
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12640)
• Ireland
11 Jun 18
@pgntwo a question more important than Molières use of the semi-colon to be sure.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Jun 18
Good question, wrong moment?
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (326432)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Jun 18
Oh no, I'm missing out! I don't have a mobile!!
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
11 Jun 18
And that's missing out?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
11 Jun 18
@JudyEv Hello to you, too! (grinning at you) I need to go see what you've been up to, but it will need to wait until I get home tonight. (I am trying to catch up to everyone, but it is slow going. I've been back for almost a week and have yet to catch even half of my friends here.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (326432)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Jun 18
@DaddyEvil Hey, look who's back! Hehe, can't stop smiling!
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (111314)
• El Paso, Texas
10 Jun 18
Wolfgang finds events in Birmingham, Alabama, very interesting
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Jun 18
Very interesting, yes, indeed.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (111314)
• El Paso, Texas
11 Jun 18
I thought you'd like that @pgntwo How ya been? You've been scarcely here lately.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Jun 18
@rebelann Oh, here and there, long summer evenings and a spell of good weather, you know how it goes
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Pat Z Anthony
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
10 Jun 18
It does seem there are most untruths than truths these days, and so many are easily fooled.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Jun 18
That does appear to be the case, alas!
Anna
@LadyDuck (459742)
• Switzerland
11 Jun 18
I am proud NOT to be the owner of a smartphone.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (459742)
• Switzerland
12 Jun 18
@pgntwo I do not need one.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Jun 18
That sounds like a very good policy.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
14 Jun 18
@LadyDuck I find i need it more and more. It navigated for me today, although when it left me one road too far away from my destination, it was useful to phone up for directions from someone who knew the area.
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Hillary Ralston
@hillhjill (23664)
• United States
10 Jun 18
I have always told people that your phone listens and watches you, but people just look at me like I'm crazy.
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Hillary Ralston
@hillhjill (23664)
• United States
11 Jun 18
@DaddyEvil not me and I won't get anything like that in my home, they already do enough spying just with your phone.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Jun 18
Who's crazy now, huh? . Where'd I leave that roll of tinfoil...?
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
12 Jun 18
@pgntwo Uhhh... the last time I saw that roll, you shoved it under your couch when the police... ahhh... when we were distracted. 4:20, Dude!
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Sue21
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
12 Jun 18
You are right there and I don´t have any apps of any kind at the moment and in any case they won´t take on this mobile phone which I have gotten so used to. I don´t use Twitter but I do find news from it all over the place so I don´t have to bother going there really. The truth can easily be changed so quickly that its hard to know who tells the truth and who does not and not an easy game to figure them out sometimes.
DE
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
11 Jun 18
Are you out to teach everyone responsible behavior for their electronic devices?
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
12 Jun 18
@pgntwo (smiling) That's definitely not a bad thing, either! Uhm... have you ever looked to see what other computers on myLot are leaking? I know I used to help others stop their pcs from leaking, but can't remember how to do it now. (Yup, I tried looking up ways to do that but got confused by the explanations. ) *sigh*
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
16 Jun 18
@DaddyEvil Leaky computers can be a problem, and they seem to be the norm. So it is where cookies are involved, I have observed.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Jun 18
Nope. Just to put the fear of all things mobile into them, though
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Elizabeth
@Poppylicious (11133)
•
11 Jun 18
I don't use Twitter, although it is installed on my phone. I know that the internet is watching and listening though. It's such a sneaky thing, designed to control the masses and create meltdown.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Jun 18
Control or cast into disarray, I wonder?
L. Jenkinson
@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
12 Jun 18
I don't use apps as I'm not very techy but for sure truth is always something to strive for.
Darcy Nemo
@YrNemo (20261)
•
11 Jun 18
I don't have app for Twitter on my cell phone. I will go check again to see.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Jun 18
That is probably a good thing.
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@saritflor (3914)
• Hungary
10 Jun 18
There is not such thing as truth, I believe it's a more of a morals issue.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Jun 18
So you think people inherently tell lies? Perhaps you are right...
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
16 Jun 18
@saritflor Alternate views of the same event, neither is an untruth. Yes I see.
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@saritflor (3914)
• Hungary
12 Jun 18
@pgntwo I didn't say telling lies my friend, I just think that everyone has their point of views which they think it's the "truth". I hope now it's more clear...
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