They would have worked for Yamamoto over in the Pacific, simply because Yamamoto is fun to say in Minionese. After Yamamoto was shot down they would work for Chiang Kai-Shek and mostly annoy him by falling down in laughter every time “Generalissimo” was said
Great news but it never ceases to annoy me that we had a Lyme disease vaccine that got pulled because of antivaxxers
I first watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail this way, knowing absolutely nothing about the film or about the Monty Python troupe and dear Lord it still remains the purest comedic film experience I’ve ever had
Let tim Cook
I also catalogued my home library this way. As with a lot of uses, it was surprisingly good and fast most of the time and then sometimes it would make boneheaded mistakes
It’s the Pe̍h-ōe-jī (POJ) system of romanising the Hokkien language. Hokkien has a syllabic nasal [ŋ] that gets represented as ng in POJ
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Never has there been a social media post I was more qualified to answer!
Padres Home (H)2, Away Team O
Gas generally has terrible margins. Over here in MD there are a few stations that make most of their business as a body shop / car servicing place and/or a convenience store. They basically sell gas only in order to keep their gas station licenses and they price accordingly
Also a self-centered “of course I was only joking it is an outrage that I am facing consequences for making threats.”
Yes I’m not saying abuse doesn’t exist, I’m more curious how they seem to do a pretty good job of shielding it from users like me. My initial hypothesis is that since it’s an algorithmic feed Threads throttles pushing posts within the edit window to other people’s feeds
Have you ever read Laura Lippman’s novels? Baltimore is practically a character in them, and her protagonists are often from multi-generational families in Baltimore with all the history that entails
Ask her to say “Aaron earned an iron urn, and Eric irked Derek’s clerk”
Threads has an edit button (within 15 minutes of posting) and so far doesn’t seem to have major abuse. I wonder how - suspect they achieve this by throttling posts going viral or otherwise getting a ton of visibility until after the edit window has closed
Maybe there’s not been any tech promoted like AI in the 2000s, but the Internet got that kind of hype in the 1990s
Al Gore and the whole Clinton Administration had so much angst over the “digital divide” and devoted so many resources to fix it precisely because they worried that people would be left behind if they weren’t on the Internet!
The main difference is one of tone – back in the day, the Internet boosters framed it as “you have to get on the Internet or you’ll miss the opportunity” while AI boosters are framing it as “adapt or die – learn AI or you’ll lose your job”
I think this is ahistorical. During the 1990s and the dot-com years there was a lot of aggressive selling of the Internet to the public in the U.S., with a lot of the same flavour of “it’s coming whether you like it or not”
This is simply people invoking the right to bear arms
(and other bear body parts)
O R LY?
Sen. @scottwiener.bsky.social has proposed a bill that would ease permitting for clean energy projects in California. It is good & very much needed & a bunch of environmental groups are opposing it. Absolutely fucking infuriating. I'm always trying to defend these groups & then they do this shit.
I can’t watch the Diplomat. As a former diplomat, it makes me cringe to see the dramatic liberties taken. It’s probaly like what doctors and lawyers feel watching medical and legal dramas. So unlike real life!
I also can’t watch Daryl on the Walking Dead.
What’s special today?
International Haiku
Day. There. Now you know
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Just finished Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone in This Bank is a Thief, the 4th book in the Ernest Cunningham series. Found it very enjoyable in the usual way - somewhat ridiculous plot (including what seems to be two spontaneous combustions!) and cheerful Aussie humour
I once did a project on increasing trust in government for a client. It’s funny that people will accept that the causes of deteriorating trust in an institution are often external, but find it hard to accept the logical corollary that restoring trust cannot be done solely through internal reform
I don’t even drink coffee but still go to Starbucks occasionally
To be fair, I’ve definitely been in international diplomatic negotiations with negotiators whose goal was to scuttle any deal
Arkansas is to Kansas as an arch nemesis is to a regular nemesis
Cities also became more desirable because the types of jobs that were growing (broadly speaking knowledge-worker jobs) were found in the cities and there are huge agglomeration effects in those jobs (possibly some shift since 2020 from the rise in remote work, though I think that takes time to tell)
Cities became even more desirable for the amenities of urban living (more fun things to do, more people to meet, more opportunities to date) and reduced disamenities of urban life (plunging crime rates, lower pollution as heavy industry moved out and car emission standards improved)