{"id":1387,"date":"2023-06-13T04:13:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T04:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/13\/the-smart-home-blues\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T04:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T04:13:46","slug":"the-smart-home-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/13\/the-smart-home-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smart Home Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Sino-styled surveillance is upon us. No up-to-date police state without it. So only a dumbass would spring for a &#39;smart home.&#39; Be smart, and keep your house dumb.&#0160; How dumb? As dumb as a ding-dong dumbbell Dem.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In today\u2019s world of politically correct insanity, it\u2019s truly baffling that a significant number of Americans willingly invite in their homes these advanced devices that constantly eavesdrop on their conversations and actions. Yet, that\u2019s become the norm with gadgets like Echo and Alexa, which feel like creepy spies sitting in the corner, recording every noise you make. Well, one guy learned the hard way just how risky that idea can be when his doorbell accused him of being \u201cracist\u201d and Amazon completely shut down his entire \u201csmart home.\u201d The guy\u2019s name is Brandon Jackson, and he gave a detailed account of what went down that fateful day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/2023\/06\/guy-gets-accused-of-racism-by-his-doorbell-amazon-shuts-down-his-smart-home\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sino-styled surveillance is upon us. No up-to-date police state without it. So only a dumbass would spring for a &#39;smart home.&#39; Be smart, and keep your house dumb.&#0160; How dumb? As dumb as a ding-dong dumbbell Dem. In today\u2019s world of politically correct insanity, it\u2019s truly baffling that a significant number of Americans willingly invite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/13\/the-smart-home-blues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Smart Home Blues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,468],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-totalitarianism","category-useful-idiocy-and-idiots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}