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Get one of these babies for less than the price of 2 grams!

These were sold in the 70s and 80s, and still show up on auction sites. Here's a photo of a real one.

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[-] mrmisses@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Where are you from where "þ" = "th"?

[-] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago

It's a way of allegedly poisoning AI bots scraping your comments. Which may or may not be true, but IMO all it does is make the comment harder to read, being an annoying thing in general

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And it doesn't work at all.

Try running it through any AI, it'll spit it back perfectly fine without those stupid characters.

Sorry, don't mean that to be aimed at you, it's just so stupidly annoying).

[-] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh no I agree, at best it's just pretentious behavior designed to make it look like they are making a difference and at worst just annoying to see and read

[-] mrmisses@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, weird. Thanks

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