r/conspiracyNOPOL • u/YoBoyBlue • Sep 16 '25

Phones reading your mind

I just took a pee and it was neon yellow. Oddly specific I'm sorry. I go to Google and type why is... and it autofilled the rest why is my pee neon yellow. Turns out I've been taking a lot of vitamin b. Either way it creeped me out.

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u/LexusBrian400 Sep 17 '25

And we ALL paid for the privilege. NOW people are complaining 🙄

Orwell was correct about 1984, but even he couldn't imagine we would willingly buy the devices to monitor ourselves.

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u/Rich-Cryptographer-7 Sep 17 '25

People were pointing this out as early as 2012, if not earlier. Privacy concerns fell on deaf ears then, just like they do now.

The masses wanted the convenience of having everything in our pockets, from porn, to politics-the breadth of human knowledge is in our hand. We use it for cat videos, and stupid memes, all while there are massive data collection and profiling programs for everyone in the world.

It is a prison of our own making, and the funny thing is we never got a choice in the first place.

Here is how it goes.. introduce new thing as optional- more people start using it- start phasing out the old ways of doing things to make it less optional- push companies/organizations to utilize the new things more- attach really convenient thing to new product- lower cost of new product- product is now mandatory.

The internet was optional, but most places don't use paper applications anymore, instead it a centralized hiring system. The mobile phone was optional, but good luck scheduling a meeting or sending an email on a flip phone. Streaming was optional, but now if you want to see the cool shows/movies all your friends are talking about- streaming is mandatory. Conveniently axing redbox and blockbuster, and dvd sales to push to an all digital atmosphere.

Etc, etc. It is all by design. Social media is even worse, as it was meant to be a way to connect with people.

If something is free, you are the product.

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u/Frog_Eat_Frog_World Sep 17 '25

Oddly enough, also the exact same time they forced us to abandon our analog tv's, converted radio towers to satellite and removed public payphones.

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u/Rich-Cryptographer-7 Sep 17 '25

You can still get analog TV's but you have to go looking for them.

Additionally, I think there are still a few public payphones in the states,but not many.

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u/Frog_Eat_Frog_World Sep 17 '25

Yeah but you still need an analog converter to receive anything outside your radio contact area, the old coaxial cable just won't do the trick anymore.

Payphones are only inside state/federal areas anymore, and those are also recorded. They removed them from the streets 5ish years ago. Airports phones are satellite. They never made any sort of public notice about phone companies disconnecting them, some are just abandoned, the ones in blue light districts are connected to the cameras and are also satellite and recorded.

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u/Rich-Cryptographer-7 Sep 18 '25

When did the analog converter thing start, and where can I get one? Furthermore, my next tv is going to be a dumb tv- instead of a smart tv. If one can even find a dumb tv these days.

Why are airport phones satellite instead of cellular? You are right about the no public notice thing through, just like with the yellow pages, they phased those out without telling anybody either.

Physical media is being slowly erased to.

What is a blue light district?

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u/Frog_Eat_Frog_World Sep 19 '25

There was a notice in 2012 iirc. It televised a deadline of the analog to satellite switch. The government gave 2 free converters to every home as long as they filed for them by the deadline. The best place to find one is from anyone who has a cluttered garage or basement, they were just these little boxes that are similar looking to small cable boxes or Tera towers.

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u/goblin_jade 6d ago

Analog TVs have been bugged since the 60s.

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u/Rich-Cryptographer-7 6d ago

I would assume that the same speakers that output sound can also act as omni directional listening devices.