Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.

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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Don’t remember ever seeing one of the hats in person, but that could be due to moatly avoiding that type of person or setting where they would be worn.

    The stupid flags were fucking everywhere from 2016 through 2021. Saw a few flags this year, but not nearly as many as apparently the novelty wore off even though most people in the state voted for that jackass again because Americans don’t ever learn from their mistakes.










  • I’ve seen it used in media far more than in person. Mostly for soldiers that stuck around after wars wound down or wealthy people buying fancy homes in tropical locations.

    The people I’ve worked with in tech from Scotland and England who have lived in the US long term but without becoming citizens don’t even use the term. Honestly most people don’t really use labels, just refer to someone in tech being ‘from a country’ when it comes up whether they became citizens or not.









  • A crummy history of ads on the internet:

    Starts out mostly used in formal fields and universities. Very usable!

    Businesses get on board and start the horrible ad infestation, leading to scammers and popup hell duw to misuse of a feature.

    Ad blockers start to reign in that shit, and the better browsers kill the popup infestation at the source. Pretty darn usable at this point, except for internet explorer.

    Google, an ad company, decides to make a browser so they can do all the malicious advertising and tracking on the backend.

    uBlock Origin is too effective at blocking the browser based tracking and advertising so google decided to do the manifest 3 or whatever that bullshit is called to openly force ads onto users.

    Based on history, I expect chrome to die a slow death due to the backlash from the manifest crap, but could be wrong since people are apparently fine with ads being forced into streaming services.