you get what you pay for

Google scans your email for everything. The information there is linked to the Google Assistant and your general Google profile. For instance, Hotel bookings and plane tickets are automatically put into your calendar. Your Android smartphone will automatically tell you about gate changes, delays, and even when you have to leave for the airport, taking the traffic situation into account (because it knows where you live and where the airport is).

Did you know you can type “show my flights”, “show my hotels”, “show my events” and even (gasp) “show my purchases” in regular Google search and it will display the info you seek? (if you’re logged in that is). If you have a smartphone, just ask it verbally. (“hey google, show me my latest purchases”).

Did you know that your “profile” (interests, age, gender, etc) can be seen at https://adssettings.google.com ?

These are not things people don’t know about. Except maybe Apple users.

Yep at least 3 choices…release, jail, death with or without delay, one of them was the 310/380. It is very well explained by some specialist of the french revolution (one industry by itself) such as Soboul (classical marxist analysis) or by François Furet. I do not know if their books are available in english.
For Malsherbes I forgot to mention his grand-children was also executed at the same time and they were all executed at the same period, sharing the same cart, on their way to the guillotine…family meeting..some sort of…

Interesting. I’m going from “Medusa’s Head”,

“The fault lines within the Convention ran very deep between temporizing, concerned Girondins and ardent, vengeful Jacobins. There was no hiding place in the Manege for any of the delegates from voting on the fate of Louis Capet and the nature and direction of the revolutionary Republic. Each department of France was called in alphabetical sequence by the president. Each member had to come down from his seat, in the order of seniority within his department as determined by his date of election to the Convention, and each one had to approach the tribunal’s podium.

There, the delegate was required to announce his vote throughout the cavernous hall to the 720 other members as well as to the crowd of onlookers in attendance. As the time came for the eight-man delegation from the department of Loire-Inférieur to step forward to declare publicly their individual positions on the fate of Louis Capet, the vote for and against immediate execution was running close to even.

The gaunt sallow-complexioned teacher-deputy from Nantes, likely dressed in his trademark suit of jet-black, approached the podium.

As he had recommended in his pamplet he was impassive like divinity. In his thin and feeble voice he uttered just two words: “La Morte”

Thus, Joseph Fouche, at the age of 33, had helped to eliminate the King of France. When the overall vote was completed, thirteen hours after it had commenced,– 361 in favour of immediate death without recourse, 360 for various other options — Fouche was a regicide by the very narrowest of margins.”

I wonder was there two separate votes? One at trial on guilt and the one recounted here on sentencing?

I don’t like sharp sticks in the eye either Jeffrey. Not only do I not like them I don’t tolerate them. Someone shoves a sharp stake at my face I take defensive and offensive measures to make sure it doesn’t happen again. If you are not concerned with your own privacy and personal security perhaps like all other dogs that have not been properly trained you just haven’t been zapped by the electric cord they were chewing on. You haven’t run across the situation yet where your gmail data was used by Google (or a third party that Google allowed to access your private data). When it happens though, its too late. What happens if that data thats used (even if it is not used nefariously with you as the target) exposes trade secrets of your company or your company’s clients? What happens if it exposes you to scrutiny because the information released points to potential breaching current local state or federal statutes? Its what is known as risk. You may never have such an incident happening. Then again you may have it happen. If it happens it will happen nearly guaranteed at a time when you can ill afford it to.

Who will you cry to then?

You probably don’t need a Google account for your news alerts. You can get them anonymous via RSS. I use a paid https://blogtrottr.com/ account to convert RSS to e-mail. Useful for Google news alerts, YouTube channel upload alerts (and this blog!).

What’s also annoying: there are webshops and VPN services that use Google as a sending server to confirm your purchases/payments. So you don’t even need to have a gmail account to make Google understand your purchase history. Scary.