I downloaded all the information Facebook shares to the world and was AMAZED. One thing was the phone numbers of all my "friends" and every single message I have ever typed since 2008, all there. Every movie I ever mentioned, every political comment (I only had 1 I think) all there in a giant ZIP file. Every video, every LIKE post every time I accessed Facebook all there.
here how to get that info.
Go to Facebook.com\settings you will need your Facebook password (good luck with that)
You will get to this.
In that bottom square click on DOWNLOAD a Copy
and then click the green DOWNLOAD and you will get a ZIP file in about 15 minutes.
To delete all of these data do this
Go into your APP - go to Settings (click the 3 horizontal lines on the bottom right) and click on Activity log. This contains EVERYTHING you have done on Facebook since the egg of time. Then just delete EACH ONE, one at a time over and over. And there you have it. In 90 days it will be gone. (yea, it takes 90 days).
OH - I had 644 messages. I have many friends and I can see all the friends I have deleted. I have all of my friends (and now - non-friends) emails and phone numbers.
Then there are the apps on your phone. Ever read what you are agreeing to share? The Starbucks apps access all of your contacts in your phone and shares phone numbers of all your contacts and all the web pages you have looked at on your phone. And you agreed to allow this. Candy Crush shares all of this also . . . because on page 22 of it says it will. OH - Starbucks also says they can not guarantee all of your information is safe. SWEET!
Of course you are all worried now that your credit card is not secure . . . . as you give a person you have never met your credit card at a restaurant and she (or he) disappears for 10 minutes with it.
OH - one thing - the average person has had the same credit card company for 10 years - have you looked around for better deals? They are out there. We get 1% cash back on every purchase (except gas and groceries) if we pay the card on time every month. Free money.
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Real baseball starts tomorrow - the earliest opening day ever and the 1st time in 50 years all teams play on opening day.. The reason is they want to give players 4 more real days off (as opposed to a day off but traveling 600 miles) in the season.
We all know pre-season stats do not count . . . unless they are so amazing you have to say something.
Look at Domingo Santana who had a great year for the Brewers last year (offensively). He struck out 25 times in 57 at bats. BUT that pales for my favorite player (now in the minors) Ryan Schimpf. Ryan struck out 19 times in 30 at bats and failed to get one hit.
A few other meaningless gems:
Clayton Kershaw - the best pitchers in baseball pitched 21.3 innings and did not give up a run.
Aroldis Chapman a pitcher for the Yankees who's throws a 99 mph change up (to throw batters off his fast ball) recorded 13 outs, 10 of those were strikeouts.
Dan Vogelbach - Seattle - 13 of his 20 hits were for extra bases. He had a .900 SLG
Reid Brignac - Washington. Hit .179 but had a .467 OB. in 45 plate appearances he walked 15 times.
Chris Volstad - ChiSox. 14 scoreless innings, big deal right? Here is the kicker. He averaged 4.6 pitches PER INNING.
Nate Silver predicts Brewers will win 83 games this year. Seems about right
5Dimes predicts Cubs / Yankees World Series
Bovoda has the Over/Under for the Brewers at 84.5 victories. I think I would take the UNDER(+105)
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So many meetings for City Council coming up - they are busting our butts to get'r done before a new council. Not a bad thing as we have been working a long time on projects and with MAYBE 3 new council members it's best to clean up the loose ends before starting all over. Road projects and so forth need to be approved.
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Got into a little tiff with an alt-right guy spreading fake news about how the #marchforourlives kids were throwing rocks, giving the finger and smashing windows. I was told by a friend I was very succinct in my response . . . . . . . oddly all of my comments were deleted. The guy has 17,000 followers and the post had over 2000 shares.
If you want to see what the alt-right is doing check out Chuck Callesto. OH - he says the #marchforourlives was a march AGAINST the 2nd Amendment.
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I'm reading Killing England by Papa Bear Bill O'Reilly. I love how he writes, not much love for his propaganda politics but the guy can write. This is my third "Killing" book. Killing Patton about the cover up of the murder of George Patton and Killing Japan about the Atomic Bomb and this is about the Revolutionary war.
Since I'm watching TURN on Netflix which deals with George Washington's Spies it's interesting to hear more the the background. Currently I'm nearing the end where the book is looking into Francis Marion (The Patriot staring Mel Gibson). WOW - that dude was something!! The Swamp Fox was his nick name by the British and he was a REAL pain in the ass.
He used modern guerrilla warfare and maneuver warfare tactics against the British. Anyway - the movie does a fine job depicting Francis Marion in a movie style way.
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Gus the Weather Dog say's we will turn upside down for a while after today with below average temps as far as the eye can see. Rain and win Saturday and low 40s to upper 30s for a while. I think it will be a tad warmer but with the average high about 48 now . . SUCK.
Nuff said