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I had just had a friendly and fun dinner with some Cuban VIPs because of a work thing. After dinner I was supposed to take a picture of the US and Cuban group together.

I tried to tell everyone "Say 'Cheese'" because I knew it would be odd but interesting to the Spanish speakers who were unfamiliar with American ways, but I don't speak Spanish very well.

I said, "Hablo Queso," which means 'I speak cheese.'

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was new to lemmy and on a thread about apple speech to text. Made a comment about blind faith to a brand. Well after a few comments poking fun at mine I came to realize I was on a BLIND INSTANCE! No wonder there were such strong opinions about speech to text. After recovering from the initial horror of what I said, I explained what happened and apologized. We all had a good laugh and they invited me to stay and learn more about blind people which I did. Same name as this account but I think .world if you wanted to find the thread.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Mad props for apologizing and all. It's not easy sometimes, doing on the internet the same thing you would do in person -in this case make amends. Although come to think of it... in a room full of blind people, perhaps I would just have fled silently.