Subj : Voting
To   : GEORGE POPE
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Sat Apr 16 2022 08:43:24

   CP wrote --

> I know -- sad, & frightening, considering Orwell wrote about it in 1948

  He got a lot of things right.  The message is right, its the medium that
changed.
 
> Always a bit frightening to see ads for the topics of last night's living room conversations show up on Facebook, YouTube, & Amazon!

  Yep.

> Yup; & how pollsters ask for people's BELIEFS, then post them as if the facts were determined by a selection of people's opinions.

  Concur.
  A lot of people believe things that simply aren't true.
 
> I have a sill chicken on my email now, as one of my friends was having genuine trouble reading my emails.

   Same here.
   I sometimes have to read something a couple of times.
   Your spell is like my handwriting.
   If reading something I had written some time before I have to think what
was I writing about and sort of fill in the gaps.  These are generally
something I just jotted down.  Often times I give up and trying to decipher it. 
:)
   
> If I haven'ty put them in my phone's contacts, I don't have them; I use the internet to find business phone numbers when needed

  Going back to ads popping up I find it a bit scary when I want to find a
business in this area and just type in, oh say, "pizza" and get a list of
pizza places around me.
   Not "pizza places in Huntington, WV" but just "pizza".

>  that's handy enough & a bit more than half the reason I carry my phone with me everywhere.

  When I worked in wholesale produce I called about 80 businesses a day to
get their orders.  After a while I knew their number by heart and didn't
need to look it up.  Those are long since drifted out of my memory.
   Currently in parking I have about 50 license plates of regulars
memorised, along with permit numbers, etc.
   I like to show off at work at times and have someone give me a
description of a vehicle:
   Red Ford four door on such and such a lot.
   That plate number is thus and so.
   They check the list and I'm right.  :)
   Now balancing my cheque book is another story with numbers...
   Joe  
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