in the comic above, the three characters are BEEPATRICE, LEMON, and ROKO. BEEPATRICE and ROKO are at “The Body Hub”, where their friend MAY has just obtained a new body, to replace her, literally, “falling apart” old body. ROKO is experiencing a dissociative episode, having just obtained a new body after her old one was crushed. the dialogue is as follows:

BEEPATRICE: Lemon?! Oh my gosh, I haven’t seen you since Robot College! How are you?

LEMON: I’m great! I’m moonlighting here to help AIs integrate with their new bodies.

BEEPATRICE: Can you help Roko? She’s not feeling well.

LEMON: I know. Our creepy invasive customer tracking software flagged her as being in distress.

BEEPATRICE: O-okay. What should we do?

LEMON: First of all, we need to get her away from the creepy, invasive customer tracking software.

OKAY, now we get down to the REAL reason i posted this:

my “creepy, invasive customer tracking software” revealed to me, this afternoon, that i have two customers who live at the same address, which is a single family dwelling in a small town in the midwest.

yeah, there are others, but with them, i know, more or less, that they are either married, or long term partners, because they have lived at, and ordered incense from, the same address for more than a decade. with the people that were revealed to me today, one has been a customer for a couple of years, and the other is a first-time customer. i remember the house, specifically, because, at one point, the guy who has been a customer for a couple of years put something slightly different in as his address, which i couldn’t find on google maps (and i ALWAYS look up, particularly small town, out of the way locations on google maps, because it is a good way to filter out the spam). when i wrote to him about the difference, he specifically said that his street is only four blocks long, and the post office knows him…

and, today, i got a completely different order, from a completely different person, at EXACTLY the same address!

i guess it doesn’t have to be AI to be creepy… 😒