Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Imagine being a millionaire and just... using X, threads, tiktok or facebook and still having to struggle to click the little box to make the ads close.

Wouldn't a luxury lifestyle be free of advertisements?

@rgo

They swear up and down they didn't type anything into search, or view any webpages that would drop the hint.

To me spying on search and other sources is almost as bad, but the "my phone is listening to my conversation and showing me ads" thing keeps coming up.

If it's not happening it seems like it is.

The US is such a deeply multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-religious nation that even our nazis are diverse.

It is so touching that the most conspicuous online nazi is a Hispanic man and that's probably why some of his followers feel comfortable being Black, Catholic, Mexican, and even Mormon.

Only in America.

(this is dripping with cynicism, if it's not clear)

Sometimes my friends notice when, after they have been talking about something they will see an ad for it.

"my phone is spying on me!"

I used to think this was unlikely. I'd go into "while that is possible it's not reasonable..." mode.

Not so much anymore. It does seem feasible now. And I think it might be a fruitful area for privacy advocates to focus on since this *really* creeps people out.

@todayilearned

I am learning too but this graphic is WILD

@Tarnport

I could see this being useful as a podcasting, media set. You have your background and a way to put it all away.

@InternetEh

I don't get this look. It looks like some kind of art exhibit.

@mikemccaffrey

Monarchs have very complex taxes since so many of them live for part of the year in Mexico ... and of course the whole caterpillar vs. butterfly transition complicates their taxes even more since they obviously change profession after metamorphosis.

Really the whole thing ought to be simplified for this common situation.

If there is any more complaining just say "trickle up" or "economics 101" and nothing more. That's how this works I think.

@chris

I sometimes wonder if she's real. She's so goofy.

@nberlat.bsky.social

oh.

yeah that's OK I don't want to know about that

@nberlat.bsky.social

The what?

@taatm @stevegis_ssg

If he's going to call it a "dividend" it should be every quarter, shouldn't it now?

@jaybaltz

It turns out that "渥堆" is pronounced "wo dui" and "Ottawa" is a bad attempt to match it up with an English word. "Ot to wa" "wo du i" ? It kind of works.

The "heap" is the more meaningful part as the real meaning of the word is more like "damp pile of fermenting tea" or "damp heap"

Anyway... your image made all this come rushing back and may I suggest a hot up of tea after facing a real "Ottawa heap"

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@jaybaltz

Sometimes I buy Chinese tea and the labels are all in Chinese and very hard to translate since there are not many words and #teaculture has it's ow n idiomatic language. (I swear this is related to your photo and going somewhere)

Anyway, one day I was deeply vexed by "渥堆" which I knew described a fermentation process for tea, but my software said meant "Ottawa Heap"

What is the "Ottawa Heap"? Why did it translate like that?

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@jef @floatybirb @liferstate

Obvious item for the list!

@memphy

How is this cat so fluffy?

@divinekanga

They are selling both, so you can do the seals yourself, or, if you don't want to mess with wax just use the sticker versions.

@divinekanga

Well normally wax is used to seal an envelope closed, or as a kind of signature for a contract or formal letter.

@divinekanga

normal seal sized? About 2cm or so