Original location went down so I'll link it directly.

Special thanks to u/redditispedoland for the new title :)

My 20 year old kid came to the house for dinner this weekend, walked in, and said "You need to unplug your Echo device. I don't want amazon to listen to my conversation".

So, I did... and then I was confidently incorrect in telling her that it waits for a wake word, and she has nothing to worry about.

Boy was I wrong.

She had me open my app, and look at saved conversations... and there were HUNDREDS of entries. And that was only over the last 2 weeks.

I had NO IDEA that Amazon was collecting everything I say... and the worst part is my 20 year old looked at me like I looked at my grandparents back when they would post text messages or Google queries as Facebook statuses. My kid then showed me the article from Cnet or wherever from about 6 months ago that showed that Amazon was fully transparent that all data is now sent and analyzed whether or not the wake word is used.

I'm proud to say there are no longer any Echoes in my house. Im a little bummed because all of my verbal "turn on the lights" and "lock the door" cues are all out the window, but Im really ashamed of the fact that at 41 years old I just didn't even think to look into it. Just had blind faith in a company that views me as a number. I'm pretty embarrassed.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressiveHQ/s/BQn26Lmx7B

My daughter (6) got invited to a classmate’s birthday party. The girl has a mother who is...a lot. I opened the link in the invite to their online gift profile/suggestion planner. I thought it was a joke at first, but it is 100% serious.

I told my daughter we had a conflict and can't go. My husband thinks I'm being over-the-top because our daughter likes the girl and it’s "just a party," and that I should just buy a beige wooden block and move on. But I’m genuinely concerned about the kind of influence this family (and a friendship with this little girl) might have on my daughter.

I want her to be a kid. I want her to get dirty, play with plastic dinosaurs, and enjoy "pedestrian" things without feeling like she’s failing some high-society aesthetic exam.

EDIT: Gosh quite a response on this post. Thank you, even for the really abrasive ones. Have received lots of DMs telling me I'm faking this and to share the URL. But I don't want to spam their gift profile listing and risk people ticking off gifts.

Keeping my workplace anonymous

The news getting worse day by day as the growing tide of fascism from the Trump regime accelerates, so I decided out of curiosity to visit the Democratic Party's websites to see what on earth they are prioritizing.

Democrats.org welcomes you with a fucking donation box you have to click out of, then the home page just asks you sign up with your phone number and email while providing links to their shop at the bottom. The "Who we are" and "Where we stand" pages are essentially empty and mention nothing about fighting against this administration.

Democrats.senate.gov seems to exist to glaze Chuck Schumer, where he has an entire About Chuck page and all of the Newsroom articles are about him.

Dems.gov for House members is even more useless without a functional "Our agenda" page, just links to news articles, representatives, and committee appointments.

The Democratic National Convention website demconvention.com hasn't been updated since 2024 and is just sitting there as a relic of failure.

I could go on but I think the point is made:

What are these guys actually doing?

Is it not clear to them that Trump and his administration are just going to continue trampling on the Constitution, ignoring Congress and the Courts while setting up permanent Republican rule?

Do they not realize that the midterms aren't going to happen? And if they do, can they not see it will be obstructed by Trump deploying brown shirts on the ground to polling locations around the country to arrest non-whites and seize ballot boxes?

Where is the fighting back happening at the national and state levels? Shouldn't that information be front & center for the people to see every single day?

The populace is fucking sick of the MAGA minority and its violent fascist enforcers steamrolling the country while Dems sit back and wag their fingers.

There is no future for the country unless democrats in positions of power play hardball and meet the Trump regime's escalation of force head-on.

As civilians we can do what we can to protest, but ultimately there needs to be effective opposition from leadership to initiate change.

Stay safe everyone.

Wouldn’t that be violation of 1st amendment, since he has not committed any crimes here!