It’s even worse than that:

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

So 1/5 can’t read at all, and over HALF can’t read better than an 11 year old.

Trump literally said Israel should finish the job. You’re getting both genocides and probably a few on top!

https://mythresults.com/hidden-nasties

Many objects that people touch every day are dirtier than a toilet seat.

I’d surely hope those tests were done with actually in-use toilets, lol. The toilet seat would be sprayed with the lid down, so it’s a good indicator?

And here is the toothbrush one https://mythresults.com/episode12 (on the bottom). Maybe you can find the full TV episode, right now I can’t.

Either way, as long as you don’t have a vacuum toilet that sucks everything down you won’t escape. I just rinse my toothbrush with water every time before I use it, which seems to be good enough so far.

I’ve never in my 33 years in life dropped something in an open toilet bowl. My toothbrush is above the sink, not the toilet. The only thing I store above the toilet is a spare roll of toilet paper.

Ah, it had no lid, and unfortunately that part of the end-scene is cut off on YouTube. It was this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-_KRh8asM

The control toothbrushes outside the bathroom had the same amount of fecal coliformes on them. That stuff is everywhere, it doesn’t matter if you flush lid open or closed.

Ah, it had no lid, and unfortunately that part of the end-scene is cut off on YouTube. It was this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-_KRh8asM

The control toothbrushes outside the bathroom had the same amount of fecal coliformes on them. That stuff is everywhere, it doesn’t matter if you flush lid open or closed.

Ah, it had no lid, and unfortunately that part of the end-scene is cut off on YouTube. It was this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-_KRh8asM

The control toothbrushes outside the bathroom had the same amount of fecal coliformes on them. That stuff is everywhere, it doesn’t matter if you flush lid open or closed.

That was tested with Mythbusters. When your toothbrush is nearby there was hardly a difference if you flush open or closed, sorry :)

That was tested with Mythbusters. When your toothbrush is nearby there was hardly a difference if you flush open or closed, sorry :)

Counter point: I know plenty of people who close the lid and then flush, then leave. So when you open the toilet you’re greeted by a floater or shit streaks over the bowl.

I flush with it open, check if it’s clean (otherwise use the brush and flush again) then leave.

If you want to close the lid you’d have to close it, flush, open it and check, clean, close it again. Are you doing that?

That’s just a tiny tiny part of it.

And on the other end are the actual ads, which are part of marketing campaigns. Where each campaign can define a specific target demographic (doesn’t have to, but usually they do as it’s just wasting money otherwise).

So for makeup the ad might target white single women in the age of 16 to 45 who live in better income areas for example.

I bet you have a hundred conversations with your friends where you didn’t receive a fitting ad afterwards.

I mean hell doesn’t exist, so the actual answer is none?

It’s not listening to actual words, that’s already too complex (you’d have to parse language for that, which those low power chips can’t do). It’s listening for syllables, Oh-Kay-Goo-Gle or whatever. Depends on the chip and implementation of course, which is also why you get false positives when someone says something similar.

If you add more syllables to that then your phone would activate literally all the time, with tons of false positives.

Seriously, if we had low powered voice recording + voice to text you’d already have instant conversation subtitles on your phone, instant translation and so on. We simply don’t have that yet, those features do exist but they are power hungry (so if you do use them say goodbye to your battery life).

One is a bug, one is just a lawsuit that went nowhere, one is just an accusation (Google did pay a fine, but for geolocation tracking, not voice), the Amazon one is pretty bad, but again it’s not for a phone!!!

Yes, if your phone assistant accidentally activates then your voice might be uploaded without you knowing. That’s a fact. But you agreed to that by enabling the voice assistant (it even warns you about this).

If you switch your voice assistant off (I have) then you don’t have this issue. What is so difficult to understand here?

The low powered chips really just listen to a few syllables, they can easily have false positives. That’s just a technical aspect of it.

At least with my LG TV you can switch that off. It’s in general settings “Standby light” :)

As a German they are all technically correct, but one of them isn’t a proper translation.

I believe I spider.

“Ich glaube ich spinne.” isn’t in regards to spiders, the last word is a verb. “spinnen” means “to spin”, originally coming from spinning yarn, which then became spinning a thought :)

That’s more of a bug instead of someone actively monitoring you. The device accidentally thought you activated it, so it started listening.

You wouldn’t be able to access those recordings if they were trying to spy on you.

Besides that, you literally agreed to it when buying and setting the device up. This is not the case with your phone (if you switch the assistant off, if it’s on and heard the keyword it might still upload data of course).

There have been plenty of tests where CPU and network usage were monitored with one phone.

Once in a quiet soundproof room compared to sitting next to a conversation.

Zero difference.

Recording and parsing audio would kill your battery. And it’s not necessary when most people freely provide their data when using Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, …

There has been zero proof about illegal recording, even though it would be easy to find.

sigh You’re hanging out with your friend, both your phones are in the same location, same wifi, you’re friends on Facebook or whatever.

So you get ads for things they are interested in. No need to listen to your conversation.