Reddit refugee #2643.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Not an excuse, but an explanation: ignorance.

    Most people don’t know how ads or data collection works beyond the obvious uptick in a product after you search for it. They don’t know what impact it might have.

    Full disclosure: I’m mostly in this camp. I only recently started using firefox over chrome, for example. I know that big tech collects obscene amounts of data, and monetizes it by targeted advertisements, but…beyond that, I don’t know what FAANG can do with the data collected on me. I only have a vague idea of what’s being collected.






  • I was working at a grocery store, stocking food in the freezer aisle. Along comes a customer, passing by on the other side of the waist-level coolers that divide the aisle in half. She’s unremarkable: middle-aged, white, obese. Indistinguishable from the thousands of other customers I saw in my years there.

    So this woman passes me, just looking at the frozen foods. And there, hanging on the back of her shirt, is a lizard. And not just a common garden-variety lizard, but a bearded dragon.

    A live adult bearded dragon is just chilling on the back of this customer’s shirt as she does her grocery shopping.

    Just. What.

    I had so many questions. But I was a socially awkward teenager so I said nothing and never saw the lizard lady again.



  • I was homeschooled. Never went to public school. And my parents were christians, so naturally they bought christian apologetic textbooks.

    One science (biology I think, high school level) textbook had most of a chapter discussing why the “theory of evolution” was “wrong”. Another book from the same publisher discussed at length why global warming (and the ozone-thinning effect of certain chemicals) was untrue.

    My chemistry professor in college, wonderful man that he was, was the first person to explain divergent and convergent evolution to me.