Notices by captain typ0 (inkslinger@coales.co), page 22

@robotcarsley @ItsTheManOnTheMoon It goes like this :

1. Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time - Paul McCartney

2. Do They Know It's Christmas (Feed the World) - Band Aid

3. Sure, Silver Bells, I guess. I have no strong opinions on this.

@ItsTheManOnTheMoon The absolute worst Christmas song.

Technically, my wife didn't actually say "yes" when I proposed. She said, "I know." I don't know what that was about and she doesn't even remember that that's what she said. We got married, though, so I guess the "yes' was implied.

@funny Anyone who pulls an elaborate proposal (of marriage or otherwise) and isn't already certain the answer will be "yes" and that the woman they're asking will be comfortable with the amount of public attention she'll receive in that moment is either a narcissist or a misogynist (or both). To pull that move without actually knowing what the answer will be (e.g., you've never discussed it beforehand) requires a special kind of willful ignorance and utter disregard for the person you "love."

@bgcarlisle I heard someone talking about this survey on CBC radio this morning and he actually seemed shocked about it. In the next breath, he said that most Canadians (including white Canadians) recognize there is an issue. Was he among the 5% who don't think racism is a problem until he read the results? It was very odd. And he wasn't the host. He was the expert they brought on to talk about it!

@msh Thanks for the quick fix!

@msh Thanks. It's not urgent or anything. :)

@msh Any idea why my federated timeline doesn't refresh unless I refresh the entire browser tab? All other timelines (home, notifications, even lists) seem to work fine.

I'm glad I started checking MetaFilter regularly again, after many years of being mostly inactive. This is delightful (mostly the show in question, but also the sheer number of people in the comments admitting that they, too, are largely unaware of pop culture).

https://www.metafilter.com/184533/Are-you-an-alien-The-jurys-still-out

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It's sort of refreshing to know that some companies are just really bad at data harvesting and aren't creepily recommend deals for places I haven't yet been, but that they have some how figured out that I'm interested in (a simple tracking cookie could probably do this with relative ease).

It reminds me of how, after buying glasses on Clearly, I'll see ads from them all over the web, for the same frames I just bought. It's delightfully ineffective marketing.

Booking.com and Hotels.com and other travel sites have delightfully bad algorithms. I am currently getting spammed by these sites because I recently used them (or have done so in the past).

The only information they have about me is places I've travelled via bookings through their sites, so they just keep recommending me deals to the same places.

The funniest was when I got a recommendation for a hotel within an hour of checking out of that same hotel.

@keithzg @FssOfDeath DS9 is arguably the only Trek that did Section 31 well.

@opendork @msh I bad faith assume everyone is a reactionary until they indicate otherwise. 'Berta.

@007 sell your candles to dril. That'll get you at least $10.

@msh @porsupah Yeah, fair points. And there is a resistance brewing here, already, so Kenney may have to alter course (but he's way more of an ideologue than Klein ever was, so he may stick with it despite the outcry and potential general strike).