since
>>6754 suggested, ima start a thread.
which will prolly not get accepted/used a lotErnst didn't sleep last night and now is tired as fuck. Ernst has problems with sleeping since his teens. a lot of Ernst's problems started in his teens.
Ernst was very paranoid at that time and a lot into conspiracy theories. Ernst feared the emergence of a surveillance state.
Today Ernst isn't paranoid anymore, but suffers from PTSD because of it, which gets triggered every time he sees someone using his or her smart phone. Ernst doesn't trust in others reading the terms of services of commercial application and is aware that a lot of those commercial application demand unconditional access of the microphone and other things in their terms of services for targeted advertising, user experience and such.
A lot of people do not care about that, but Ernst did and still does to some extend. But Ernst can't just go to some stranger and say
> could you please stop using your phone around me, because i do not trust in your ability to read terms of services and make an informed decision based on what you have read.these "strangers" include Ernst family. Although Ernst already told them how he feels about it, they seem to prefer the comfortability of use over Ernst feelings.
Ernst is aware that the amount of data collected today is way beyond the scope of human-based-supervision, so that it is very unlikely that any of the data is actually looked at by a person.
Ernst also thinks a lot about world politics, human potential, philosophy, how a "just" world could look like, how to define "just" and so on.
Ernst basically is a little autist, who thinks he might be able to "save the world". But Ernst isn't even sure if the world needs saving... and even if, who or what gives Ernst the right to decide how to define what a "saved world" is?
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