And that’s why I dislike that popular saying. People don’t stop being products by paying for services. You’re always a product when using big tech. Only small businesses, nonprofit organizations and community services allow us not to be products, whether we pay or not for it.
Fun fact: many of the sayings I grew up with are halves of themselves at best.
The ol’ chestnut, “Great minds think alike”, for instance, was originally followed with “but, rarely do they differ.”, and that’s a completely different message & tone.
“Blood is thicker than water” used to be “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”— the absolute opposite of the common usage these days.
“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back”;
“The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese”;
Idiom truncation is simply a part of diachronic morphism… though, when the cuckernutters’re running things, systemic stupid reigns. 🤷🏼♂️😶🤦🏼♂️
And that’s why I dislike that popular saying. People don’t stop being products by paying for services. You’re always a product when using big tech. Only small businesses, nonprofit organizations and community services allow us not to be products, whether we pay or not for it.
“If it’s January, it’s cold” doesn’t imply it can’t be cold in other months.
There are many cases where we don’t pay and we’re not products. The phrase is false in any way.
Fun fact: many of the sayings I grew up with are halves of themselves at best.
The ol’ chestnut, “Great minds think alike”, for instance, was originally followed with “but, rarely do they differ.”, and that’s a completely different message & tone.
“Blood is thicker than water” used to be “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”— the absolute opposite of the common usage these days.
“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back”;
“The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese”;
Idiom truncation is simply a part of diachronic morphism… though, when the cuckernutters’re running things, systemic stupid reigns. 🤷🏼♂️😶🤦🏼♂️