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I know the type, my top 10 friend suggestions on any given social platform are people I'm supposed to hate and usually in-laws.

The Commodore serial bus ran at 3200bps, the 1541 disk drive maxed out around 400bps stock.

Wow that's hardly faster than the tape recorder :O

So the atari was relatively fast! I never knew. I didn't have the disk drive until I was much older.


Alton Brown used to have a recipe (I'm Just Here for the Food?) for homemade microwave popcorn where you can use a typical metal staple and it won't spark, something to do with the amount of metal, and also actual size of the microwave wavelengths used being bigger than a staple, iirc.

Good memory! He also says to use a turntable microwave, to keep the staples several inches apart, and away from the microwave's walls.

The Mattress, like everyone else.

Growing up in a mid-sized midwestern city with an art museum and resident mummy, the mummy and room of Egyptian artifacts was honestly one of the most exciting and main reasons for going to the museum besides the rest of the art. Hopefully they would see the Memphis Bass Pro as tribute.

Perfect site design, concept and pricing, much luck, forget the haters.

Can President Trump Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?

According to Just Security, Trump can drastically curtail USAID with executive actions alone; however, he “may not unilaterally override” a statute by executive order. USAID was established by statute as its own agency via Congress in 1998 after first being created by executive order in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. Since an act of Congress established it as an independent agency, an act of Congress would be necessary to dissolve it. - Forbes


As with many such things, the letter of the law doesn't anticipate a determined effort to undermine it.

Could the USAID agency could continue to exist, on paper, with a single staff member?


Whether crypto hurts or helps financial inclusion remains to be seen in places like Africa and Latin America. The majority of coins are pump-and-dumps or rug pulls, but after 15+ years of BTC somehow surviving, I still have hope crypto can provide financial access to those without direct bank access in these areas without being massive scams or abused by crime.

it gives people much much easier access to a peg to a stable well managed currency like the dollar or euro

> stable well-managed currency

Are you suggesting that BTC is either of those? The incredible price-swings, fluctuations, and inherently deflationary nature (which encourages hoarding!) are not great properties for a peg-target to have.


BTC saved the value over the years for all its holders, including even those who bought during the height of mania and have suffered temporary setback for a few months.

For an asset where no one promised anything but uncertainty, that's the only asset that you can rely on as your insurance against asset seizures, inflation, pumps-and-dumps (compare BTC with any other token with marketing - BTC marches on, while all these tokens get pumped/dumped and then stay forever at zero).


ask chatgpt what i mean

Most people don't actually want to learn how to fish. They just want a machine that turns water into whine.

Useless comment.

The AQS seems to be more about protecting their trade shows, advertising, targeted market, revenue streams and commercial quilting than quilting as pure art. Being nominated for their awards seems like a Grammy or Oscar, the commercially popular, derivative and safe choices get recognized, well done protest or message art that actually pushes an artform forward will be recognized by the other artists in the medium.


This was the MO the first time around; take a crap in public for the news cycle, walk it back two weeks later when it’s impossible to accomplish and everyone else has moved on.

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