Notices by Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club), page 23

@m4iler
I mean, it was Walmart, so I doubt it.

Because I'm a cheap-ass, I only use the ad-supported versions of streaming music services. Usually, the ads just sort of fade into the background and I tune them out. Just now, though, I heard an ad in French. Now, I don't speak French, but I was able to piece together that it was a Walmart commercial selling something BBQ-related. Was this poor geo-targeting or clever marketing, making it stand out and have just enough "Franglais" that even an anglophone like me could catch the gist of it?

@apLundell @RexfordGTugwell @Taweret I think "Battlefield Earth: Not the Scientology Version" would have been a fine title.

@interneteh @raye People are trying to rationalize privatized prisons as anything other than pure greed? These have got to be some, um, "creative" arguments -- unless it's just the usual neoliberal "free market is more efficient" gibberish.

@opendork In fact, literally every candidate for even the minor parties was a known community figure. Only the UCP candidate was largely unknown to the community at large. She lost by a landslide for a number of reasons, but I have to imagine the lack of name recognition didn't help.

@opendork > Was very odd to vote for a candidate because of them and not the party tbh.

The most recent AB election was nice for me in that way: the person I thought was the best candidate also represented the party I would have "strategically" voted for regardless of who was the candidate.

It helped that she's been super involved in the community and basically campaigning for two years, unlike the person from the other major party, who I'd never even heard of before.

@thurloat He's going to buy some Quik-crete. That beaver is rapidly learning thanks to your efforts to foil him.

@interneteh Yikes. This sounds vaguely like the defense of modern sweatshops. "Sure, they wages and working conditions are terrible, but if we shut them down these people wouldn't be able to feed their families!"

Could earwax be worth more than gold?!

Top economists say: "What? No!"
https://mastodon.club/media/AryMWpQtgQvlp3UDtI4

@RexfordGTugwell @Taweret It was a Gene Roddenberry concept. If he came up with the title, maybe it was the "final conflict" before Earth achieved FALGSC? Still a bad title, though.

(Side note: what's with the super low budget, fairly terrible efforts at making posthumous, non-Trek Roddenberry series? Andromeda was another, though it wasn't as terrible as E:FC.)

@mpjgregoire Really? That's interesting. I guess it makes sense. I foolishly feel this way about alcohol sometimes. "Oh, this lower alcohol beer is the same price as the 7% ABV IPA? What a rip-off." Never mind that I typically don't drink to get drunk and, in many social situations, prefer lower ABV stuff because precisely because I can drink more *without* getting drunk. Human brains are weird.

@Shadejackrabbit 🤣 I flossed too hard and now my everything is weirdly sensitive.

I think I flossed too aggressively this morning. The area around one of my teeth is weirdly sensitive and it's been driving me nuts all morning.

I don't understand the two wolves meme, nor do I want to. This is my piss poor attempt at jumping on the bandwagon.

There are two coyotes in my yard, because they're the true urban canine and have adapted remarkably well to human encroachment on their habitat.

Friends, the Oreo doughnut from Tim Horton's is delicious. It probably has 1,000 calories, but it's delicious.

Speaking of which, it seems Timmie's stopped putting calorie counts on their menu boards at approximately the same time these new Oreo products arrived. Hmm... 🤔

@nyquildotorg Also, I'm pretty sure those two sentence are not saying anything different. Is thinking you know more than you do not the same as a lack of understanding?