egg-zactly
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Alexa/Siri
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It took me longer than usual to warm up to the Twelfth Doctor because it sounded weird to hear Capaldi’s voice unlaced with continuous profanities.
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you were not the only one.
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The problem is not being on Facebook is kind of like this era’s “I don’t own a TV” in that a lot of people will judge you by that as being a snobbish elite who thinks they are better than the common horde, as opposed to just not liking either TV or Facebook. I sort of have it both ways – I own a TV but rarely use it for anything but watching movies on DVD or streaming, and I have a Facebook account that I go months between checking.
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Hating Facebook requires too much effort. I merely loath it and do not have or even need it. Then again, I had no TV for well over a decade. [however, I would die without a computer…]
As a relative newbie to the Whoniverse, I admit I find it odd that no one curses, ever.
I get it, it’s a rating thing for the ‘kiddie-widdies’, but still… just the fact that the damn Daleks keep popping up as a ‘Big Bad’ despite having been killed off as a species numerous times is enough to make me curse a blue streak, let alone any of the other multitudes of fuckery that happen constantly when the Doctor is involved…
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IMHO, it’s no coincidence that many of the best episodes have little or nothing to do with Daleks.
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I’ll let you know if I agree once I’m all caught up to current; but so far, I concur. (I’m nearly done with the 2nd cycle in Capaldi’s run.)
I groan every time I go to start a new ep, and the synopsis says anything mentioning Daleks, followed by the fucking Cybermen…
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Ugh, so Discovery puts out a show on the unabomber and suddenly Kaczynski is relevant again for 15 minutes and everyone’s an expert.
There’s an irony in here somewhere.
Kaczynski used the threat of more murders – and the promise to stop, if obeyed – to blackmail newspapers into publishing his manifesto.
The commercial-industrial techno-hydra that Kaczynski hated gave us the internet, smartphones, and social media, which allow the hip, modern, techno-savvy extremist nutjob to publish manifestos quickly and easily, saving them all the up-front effort of building bombs and the interminable waiting for snail-mail murders to deliver your explosive publishing credentials.
Surely he would be able to appreciate that?
Well, it is online for free, if anyone wants. Although, really- Have they come out with an artisanal hand bound leather edition?
Hmmm. Explains all the Nazis.
If you don’t have facebook, you are better than the unwashed masses. 
Except Facebook can still track your browsing habits if any page has a Facebook button, even if you don’t have an account. But then again Google knows way more about a person so pick your poison.
Spoiler do not let the fact that it is a cyberman story that ends his run as the doctor turn you off as it was well done though the deux ex machina for the companion while a nice touch was a bit groan inducing but did tie in with the start of her run
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Yep. It’s a difficult situation. I’m using Noscript and privacy badger and ublock origin and ghostery (even though their business model is rather dubious, they do cach stuff the others miss sometime).
It’s a pita, but at least I get tracked somewhat less.
But avoiding the allmighty google is nearly impossible.
I can thank my terrible attention span and tunnel vision, i have an uncanny ability to ignore ads, sponsored/promo content, etc. So whatever Privacy Badger and uBlock miss i just tune out. But having the ad blockers does make browsing much nicer 
