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Interesting in this context is completely divorced from morally good/bad. Could be any group from any area at any time in history. I'll start with a few, followers of the cult of pythagoras, contemporary black Hebrew Israelites, antiracist skinheads and the Amish (neo-luddites in general). Don't be racist or a prick to other people discussing.

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[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Lol as if we need to watch you get groceries to plant our nanobots on them. They self-replicate and were present on all groceries 3 days after one waa casually dropped in your grocery store, which would have happened sometime during 2018/2019 timeframe, depending on how close our nearest gang members were to that store. We only supplant half their living expenses in return for spying on people who seem otherwise boring, so they need to work at least part time jobs (turns out that helps with the spying, so a bit of a bonus!) and also obviously need to spend a certain portion of their time spying, so it took about 7 months to deploy the nanobots to every grocery store and food market worldwide even with our extensive network.

And we don't just listen to our targets' thoughts. We steal them, or at least credit for them. Ever had a thought that you know came from somewhere but you can't remember where it came from? It came from you but we steal the credit, or if we can't (because too many people know about it already), we turn it into a new Mendella effect and make those people look crazy while we set up the credit for the replacement to go to us.

Bearenstein bears used to be known for the pun but we Mendella effected it so hard that everyone only talks about the ending being different and don't even remember the pun while we rake in all that Barenstain bears money and street cred (which is surprisingly a lot for a children's storybook multiverse where we haven't even split the timeline yet with Brother Bear's evil twin saga).

By the way, can you tell me where it was that a girl walked her dog by a location three times in one day? That's sloppy and whoever it was requires additional training in avoiding raising suspicion. Or maybe it wasn't one of our agents, though odds of that are pretty low, considering our gang makes up about 84% of the world's population. Actually, nm, I'll just do a quick search of our database for anyone who has walked their dog past the same house more than twice in one day... Oh nm, it was Sally Spyson, a member of the "we're 84% of the world population, why do we still need to be so secretive instead of rubbing it in?" faction that deliberately leaves hints and opposes the evil "the secrecy is 84% of the fun in spying (other than the sex, drugs, and cool spy tools, of course)" faction.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I have a nephew whom I love very much, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Whenever he has an episode I try to explain that nobody's talking about him behind his back because people in general don't give a shit about anyone but themselves and if they talk about anyone it's only about themselves.

In other words of course, but still. We are not that important to others. So much so it is a real societal concern.

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