Eugen RochkoI'm still pissed about how accepted surveillance capitalism is. In Germany there is this "payback" system where you identify at the checkout in shops and collect points you can turn into free shit. I'm still saying no every time the cashier asks me if I'm interested. I don't want anyone to datamine my shopping habits.
Parker Higgins@Gargron the first thing that convinced me I actually knew German was when I heard a totally nonsensical phrase from the checkout lady—"Sammelst du Herzen?"—and I was able to parse it into words