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| Smarter than the average bear |
I went to eat lunch at a local Jason’s Deli and as I was about to sit down a woman at the next table looked like she might be choking. She ended up coughing a bit and was okay. I thought about a suction device that I had seen advertised in the past (not recently). Ten minutes later I’m browsing FaceBook and an ad pops up for that type of device. All I did was THINK ABOUT IT! The only explanation I can think of is that I noticed a guy at a nearby table who looked very concerned- like he was ready to jump in and heimlich her. Maybe he searched “choking” and Apple knew he was near me? I’ve had plenty of experiences where people are talking about things and I start seeing ads, but this time nothing was said out loud. And I haven’t seen an ad for that device in recent memory- it’s been at least weeks if not months. On a side note, is that device something y’all keep in a med kit? Seems better than the Heimlich maneuver. If you haven’t seen it, it’s just a mask that you place over the victims mouth and create a vacuum to suck out an obstruction. | ||
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Were you logged into the business's Wi-Fi? | |||
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| Team Apathy |
It is called Lifevac. Not much to add to the topic, though I doubt it would take a lot to shock me about the sophistication of big tech... Just wanted to throw the name of the product in here for people that might want it. We now have some in the jails as they are touted to be quite effective and we have had some inmates die as a result of airway blockages from food. | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
I keep a kit in the house. The LifeVac. I bought one immediately after my daughter had a choking episode. And I'll just add, there are no coincidences. Not anymore. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I've been seeing a good number of LifeVac ads lately, so it could be that. But, yeah, I watch something on tv and wouldn't you know it, either it pops it up when I start googling for it on my iphone. I know my google home system knows when I'm not at home so that it adjusts the thermostat automatically. Since Microsoft needed to power up the three mile island just for its AI, i'm sure that power is needed to do all the instantaneous interconnecting of data points. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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safe & sound |
I have them in every vehicle along with the trauma kit. | |||
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| Smarter than the average bear |
I was not. | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
This has NOTHING to do with Apple, and EVERYTHING to do with the spyware that is facebook! ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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"Member" |
Here's my Apple / tech is scary addition. Discovered this accidentally the other day. I knew you could search the photos on your phone, which is creepy enough that it recognizes what's in the photo. But it's also reading. I was looking for a photo of my niece's dog, and it hit on the text on this old photo of my locker at work years ago.   | |||
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| Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us  |
There have been a couple of occasions where I have simply thought about something, no conversation, no words spoken, nothing searched, boom an ad or article directly related to what I was thinking about. I still chock it up to coincidence. Though a bit creepy. ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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Cynic |
Leroy Jethro Gibbs rules Rule 39: There is no such thing as a coincidence _______________________________________________________ And no, junior not being able to hold still for 5 seconds is not a disability. | |||
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Frangas non Flectes |
Same. I've heard it explained that they're dialing in pattern recognition and predictive algorithms so well that this is the result. I don't know what I believe. It's unsettling no matter the explanation. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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| Member |
I wonder if the sound of choking activated the search. Certainly speech will activate a search so I’m sure it goes deeper than that. | |||
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Don't Panic |
Not that surprising. One scenario. 1) Folks watching someone choke start Googling 'choking' on their smartphones. 2) Phones that are using the in-house WiFi all come into the search engine from the same location 3) Most folks have no idea how to hide from tracking, so the correlation of their location and what they are searching for is known to the search engine. 4) Advertisers pay premium rates to figure out what ads to show based on such things as recent search contents and location 5) Facebook (and others) get paid to show ads and the targeted ads make them more money 6) Facebook sees activity from a location, and uses that info to maximize revenue. 7) Not-so-coincidentally, ads based on nearby folks' searches start showing up on your phone. TL: DR - Big brother, big auntie, big sister-in-law are indeed all watching, and making big bucks by doing so.  | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
You may have used a phrase or word that was picked up as a keyword by your phone. Yes, it's very Big Brother-y and creepy. I will mention something to the wife casually like "we need new windows" and my phone starts showing me ads for windows on FB or via email. I have two of those devices at my house as well, a child and adult size and thankfully have not had to use them, the ones I have are the DeCHOKER brand:  | |||
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