At one point they planned to replace credit card transactions and their associated fees with an ecommerce direct banking system. Sounds like a better plan than making a whole new payment system based on bitcoin like systems.

https://www.thebalancemoney.co...

Now that Trump knows it exists, while he assign another know-nothing to destroy it? "What do you mean the mile is actually based on the length of a meter? Change that immediately!" The mile shall hence forth be based on the length of his male member times on an appropriate multiplier. Something like 63,360

Does this mean we won't have to invade Greenland now? Won't have to ship rare earth minerals through the American Canal? "Screw the trees. We want our trillion dollars!" - Head government officials

President Trump declares Constitution as "woke nonsense". So far as I can tell, originally being woke meant a victim of racial inequality was aware of the many ways racism effects them. While words can take new meaning over time, I'm not sure I approve of the current use of woke as a pejorative.

Well, if you want the 10 hour day with 100 minutes per hour I've got several watch faces on line that keep that time. Some are local time but most use UTC. Swatch Internet time was the equivalent. I run mine on UTC instead of whatever Swatch used, Bern or something.

Let's see, Canada and Australia got rid of pennies ages ago. Probably many more countries. Boy did I get a look way back when I spent my Canadian one-dollar bills at the drive-thru. "What? What the heck is this? If it's real, is it legal?" I've got some Japanese ¥1 aluminum coins floating around. Do they still make those?

Hey, wish we hadn't cluttered up low earth orbit with stuff that will mess up our new space stations.

Sounds like exercise or practicing a skill.

Beginning of November.

I say we move to the old way the Romans did it, all the way up to the 1400s in some place. Twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of night time. Right now the daytime hours are shorter and the night time hours are longer than a standard hour.

If they can't get normal search to work such that I don't get pages of things that are obviously not part of what I'm looking for, why should I believe their AI will do any better?

Well that's a good point. It only becomes an issue when someone with a little authority steps in. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/0...

So this power station attack activity is The Electric Boogaloo?

A dumb terminal that can run my Linux programs. Off line. Does that really count as a dumb terminal? Before they put in support for running Linux they probably did count as really fancy dumb terminals.