tedu
honked back 18 Jun 2021 15:10 -0400
in reply to: https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/2y33VmFHFN3b8w122j
And now a second sighting of the heat dome explainer. Officially the meteorological term of the summer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/18/heat-dome-western-us-temperatures/
Early 70s Buick Electra drove by. It was big.
No screens, no AC, what a barbaric way to live.
Wait, windows don't have screens in Europe?
Daddy gubment says it's safe to breathe, but drinking outdoors is too dangerous again. https://www.inquirer.com/news/cocktails-to-go-ban-pennsylvania-20210617.html
Metric users are always happy to tell me they only use the correct units, yet they get angry when I tell them the kilogram is a unit of mass, not weight. Curious.
Sugar is one of the words I can recognize in most European languages, although everybody spells it with a c instead of a g. And maybe a z. Interesting etymology.
tedu
honked back 18 Jun 2021 10:55 -0400
in reply to: https://lain.com/objects/50ece015-9cc7-4ebf-b1ef-1bd77c57b8be
Lol, new email: "This template is used by integration tests only." I'm pleased to report your test system is in production.
What could go wrong? https://irony-97882.medium.com/the-melting-of-iron-89469b01e083
Non-collateralized stablecoins require continual growth to be successful.
Lol, finance pioneer mark cuban now says it's time for cryptocurrency regulation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-17/mark-cuban-defi-iron-finance-crashed-100
The pandemic is over. Mandatory fun has returned. Tech Startups Ditch the Office for Far-Flung Bonding Trips https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-startups-ditch-the-office-for-far-flung-bonding-trips-11623854510
Jerome Powell says I can expect to afford an RTX 3080 by the end of 2023, somewhat sooner than expected.
Imagine blowing your whole avocado toast budget on a strawberry. https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2021/06/11/oishii-strawberry-taste/
Freenode meltdown is dragging on longer than Chernobyl.
Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? No, because people still talk about Betamax, but nobody talks about minidisc.
Some serious Messala wheels here.
First Godzilla, now this. Japanese scientists are out of control.
tedu
honked back 11 Jun 2021 19:13 -0400
in reply to: https://coales.co/users/msh/statuses/106394597585562540
Can capitalism cure cancel culture?
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rachdele
I feel obligated to mention I can't recall ever regretting some avocado toast.
64% of millennials aged 25 to 40 are facing regrets after buying a home compared with 33% of baby boomers aged 57 to 75. The survey found that the older the buyer, the less likely they were to have homebuyer regret.
Is DOJ spying on Congress the deep state?
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog and Senate Democrats vowed to investigate the Trump administration’s secret seizure of communication records of people associated with the House Intelligence Committee.