Making sure to specify jpy so you don't accidentally buy knock off Japanese yen
Reuters@reuters.com · 5d agoEXCLUSIVE: Bessent's 'to do' list: buy $5-10 billion worth of Japanese yen, Reuters photo shows reut.rs/4w1pLC6
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Reuters@reuters.com · 5d ago
The thing Alien got most right is if we encounter alien eggs we will immediately stick our entire face inside to see if they taste good
There’s a joke among constraint solving and optimisation people that a constraint solver (formerly ”AI”) is a tool to help you figure out which constraints you forgot to input.
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 2w agoIt turns out that often a goal you give a robot to solve for will be in conflict with ethical and social limits you have also trained or instructed it with and because of the priority on replacing human judgement with autonomous robots, the robots will break one part of your reqs to achieve another.
It's no coincidence the collective noun for a group of nazis is a "shart"
Ehren Ohkneel@ehrenohkneel.bsky.social · last mo.Howdy fella's, what's up with your various diaper blow outs?
american kennel association breed standards have a lot to answer for
Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱@djinnandtonic.bsky.social · last mo.Make sure you limit your dogs' outdoor activity during heat waves like this! Sometimes our furry friends aren't so good at knowing when they should take a break and come inside!
i wish more people would realize that 99% of posts aren't fully thought through theses and more like, errant pooping thoughts
I don't have objects like this but i will create them.
SouthernBunne@daemonaac.bsky.social · last mo.My Cast Iron frying pans that belonged to (at *least*) my grandmother, and *possibly* to HER mother before that.
Ethnic cleansing isn't a thing, put on your big boy pants and call it Genocide.
David Atkins@davidoatkins.bsky.social · last mo.There is a giant window open in Democratic politics for "I want Israel to exist as a vibrant Jewish state, but also I oppose offensive arms sales & want to see Netanyahu & his allies in the Hague for ethnic cleansing." Almost no one is taking it. That is really bad for Israel and Jewish people. /1
Wasn't there just an article going around about how staying on x turns your brain into shit
onion person@junlper.beer · 2mo agoliberals when they see a meteor barreling straight towards earth:
Lining up for the onside kick fast, smart when you're behind so late in the game
50 Plus Döner@50plusdoner.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat college football formation is this @sickosfc.bsky.social
Friend sent me this photo he took today of the Reflecting Pool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was saving some of the original algae in a jar like sour dough starter for when they finished the work to pour back in 🤭
If Children unknown To the public in numbers Clearance is denied I call this haiku "The last cherry blossom to drop on a sharp winters morning in light reflected over Mt Fuji"
Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote@thefred.bsky.social · 2mo agoA man cannot have a security clearance if the public does not know how many children he has.
Egyptian forklifts were weird but they got the pyramids built so they obviously worked
videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago3dfx, official website, excerpt (1996) web.archive.org/web/19961023...
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Slight chance Mamdani was individually responsible for a fifth of the cities murders and is now too busy to maintain that pace
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew York City just had its safest first 5 months of a year in recorded history. Murders plunged 21%, and major crime overall is down 11%.
It needed to come with a little blurb: "the movie knows its ridiculous and leans into it, you'll have fun if you go with it" Convinced several people who watched the first couple of minutes to stick with it like this
Micah@rincewind.run · 2mo agoI am forever annoyed about this, that movie did everything you could possibly want in an adaptation it was made by people who understand what makes tabletop gaming great and somehow made it work on screen and it should have made a billion dollars
Nothing drops panties like driving a station wagon full of stuff she thought would never fit
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2y agoWomen go nuts for a man who has what I call "toyota corolla values" (cheap, efficient, reliable). It also helps if he has a toyota corolla
Some people have never stared into the void and laughed and its showing
The people yearn for station wagons that haul ass. A car that just looks like a bullet. Mom's minivan, but the hood has a giant air intake and it's slung low. Just a car that says, "I'm going to lap you on the track, and then I'm going to fuck my girlfriend in the fold down trunk bed."