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I do those Google survey things for Google Play money.
Google, the biggest spyware company ever to exist.
99/100 of the things it sends are "Have you been to any of these places recently", and none of them are even in my state.
I don't understand. You have my location. Why are you asking me about shit in Texas?
In the end I get a dime for my time and sometimes I spend it on some game.
I used to do those until I realized the credits expire then I decided "fuck it, don't care then." I had racked up something like $35 in Google play credit, but I noticed my balance was like $12 one day because apparently I didn't spend it fast enough. Get fucked Google. Just keep taking my data instead of asking me for it then.
I have never managed to accumulate more than like $5, and usually I just dump it into Coins in Pokemon Go.
They keep asking me the same shit too. No, I still don't have a kid. No, I'm still not interested in football. No, I still don't have a degree and I'm not trying to get one. No, I still don't rent. You know which of your apps I use, better than I do I'd assume, why ask me?
Honestly, if there's a good reason for why they want me to answer the same stuff over and over and give me 8 cents every time, please do tell.
Every time I log into instagram these days (not frequently) it tries to give me info on how to set up my teenager’s account safely. Also. I don’t have kids 😂
What also gets me, is occasionally it does give local places. But it's still off.
Like, I go to Walmart and it sends a survey and it's like, "Were you at the Dairy Queen or the car wash?" And basically every business next to the giant Walmart, but not the Walmart.
They want to catch you contradicting yourself, then they'll know you are an unreliable survey subject (aka, a liar :) ). That's why you build am alternative persona for this. I keep insisting I work in an industry I am not, I have kids I don't, and make as much money I never.
Okay but these questions are basically all I'm getting. I don't have any opportunities to be unreliable if I'm always just given the same five questions designed to be traps.
Pretend you make a lot of money, so that they want to sell you shit. Pretend you have kids. Pretend you work in an industry known to attract frivolous spenders, e.g. finance or tech.
Unless you actually do all of these. Then maybe they just hate you.
look there's this HEB with a sushi bar, tortilla press, and a bakery twice the size of the largest house i've lived in.
have you been there? fresh tortillas = best tortillas.
Fresh corn tortillas are indeed very good
they even had good fresh flour tortillas. that was my go-to snack when i lived near there
LOL, I don't even know what a HEB is.
why would i ask about not-texas? their haw has hardly any yee in it