In one of his rare funny moments, Woody Allen once referred to people glued to their cell phones as “connectivity assholes”. Here’s a story which, if true, provides ample proof of the pitfalls thereof:
Amazon reportedly shut down a customer’s smart home after the delivery driver claimed he heard a racial slur coming through the doorbell, even though no one was home.
Brandon Jackson, of Baltimore, Maryland, came home on May 25 to find that he had been locked out of his Amazon Echo, which many devices, including his lights, are connected to.
Yeah… so much for that “convenience” that people are always bleating about when the discussion moves to “smart homes”, “self-drive cars” and all that similar nonsense.
So don’t complain when Big Tech, or Big Brother, or Biggus Dikkus turns off your lights, takes your house through “emininent domain” then bends you over the desk and gives it to you good and hard in your connectivity asshole.
The victim is a negro and his entire neighborhood is populated by negro’s, the driver was negro (who else complains about racial slurs?) and the driver was wearing headphones that were no doubt playing that nasty assed boom-chuck noise. boom-chuck noise is littered with the word “nigga”, so is it impossible that the driver heard it’s headphones and decided to accuse the doorbell just because there are never any backsplash for the accusations?
Here’s the deal. Amazon drivers take pictures of the delivered items to prove they were delivered. All persons accusing others of making racial slurs must provide proof as well. If they make an accusation and do not provide verifiable proof they should be fired by their employer (never hired again) and fined $10,000.00 (payable to the accused) by the justice system.
Who else complains about racial slurs? Pussies. Next question?
I acquired my nic during my radio daze at a station where it was like working at the freaking UN, so we assigned the most politically incorrect names possible to one another.
As I was getting my voice over business underway, I did on hold messages for company phone systems. On one occasion I was issued a key card on a lanyard for access to the ridiculously secured sooper sekret inner sanctum where I could perform as critical task, and instructed to write my name on it. I wrote SEP.
When I turned it back in to the office manager – whom we’ll call RC, aka Rancid Cow – busted me for not writing my given name, and demanded to know why SEP.
When I told her she snarled at me: “I don’t know who you think you are Mr. Kotowski (she pronounced it koe-toe-whisky) but that’s not how we conduct ourselves at Volt Enterprises!”
I replied ” Thanks for the heads up. Sayonara, Bubba-san.”
The check cleared, but I was not invited back.
Another view of the story.
https://areaocho.com/didnt-happen/
Somebody – hopefully a judge – needs to explain to Amazon that they are service providers, not social critics. If the person who pays them for a service turns out to be a KKK Grand Dragon, it’s none of their goddamned business. The person who made the decision to cut off services needs to be fired. Preferably out of a Civil War bombard.
Some imbeciles accepted the “connectivity” tripe from various corporations like Apple, Amazon etc to be able to control the environment of their home remotely including security cameras. Once they did that with their fancy Ring Doorbells and such, the power to control this is out of the homeowner’s hands. Someone somewhere can remotely control things. I hope they get it good and hard.
JQ