The sound of silence is actually the sound of a malicious smart speaker app listening in on you

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Mine isn't malicious. It's benevolent.

It's trying to help find me things, so I can buy them. :-/

[–]useless_aether[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

before we had ghosts and demons and angels, now we have these gadgets

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

before we had ghosts and demons and angels,

The 700 Club routinely had wacky stories about this sort of thing around noon time on Sundays. Exorcisms, and whatnot. Those were interesting times. Now we have skateboarding and bmx halfpipe competitions.

now we have these gadgets

I was looking forward to seeing UFOs, space aliens, and ghost videos when cell phone cameras began gaining in popularity.

In some sense, I feel cheated... What a shame... :-/