cultural osmosis

I like that term. Thanks for introducing me to it.

chyron

TIL there’s a name for that off-topic ticker at the bottom of newscast screens. Thanks! I love learning new things.

Next instruction: eat a porkchop. You’re looking a bit peckish.

a remarkable number of people jump off that bridge each year, usually trying to kill themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicides_at_the_Golden_Gate_Bridge

Wrong bridge. This happened on the Bay Bridge.

It’s encrypted and based out of Germany (so, outside of five eyes).

[…] your inbox and other data trivially able to be subpoenaed by German authorities

Germany is a member of the Fourteen Eyes alliance and shares data with 9 and 5 eyes members.

I just wanted to put that out there after @czech@lemm.ee suggested that the five eyes are the only eyes. They share with Germany and vice versa.

I’m not familiar with them. What makes them more privacy focused?

How meta.

And that’s only the oral method.

Yes.

For those out of the loop:

• Delegates Mock Kerry’s Wounds, Angering Veterans

“Even leading Republicans said yesterday that things went a little too far when they had to publicly repudiate the actions of a delegate who was handing out adhesive bandages marked with Purple Hearts to mock Mr. Kerry’s war wounds.”

“The bandages, distributed by Morton Blackwell of Arlington, Va., included a message that read, “It was just a self-inflicted scratch, but you see I got a Purple Heart for it.””