At least these were caught before the doors fell off in flight.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 01:03:51 EST
lnxw48a1I was thinking about the news that Elon Musk plans to launch #X / #Twitter peer-to-peer payments this year. If he's not willing and able to allow the company to meet regulator requirements, they will find it very difficult to get banks to allow their system to connect to the existing financial system. And that means people will have to buy some sort of in-game tokens or something.
This does not necessarily mean a #cryptocurrency token. I don't imagine he would enjoy the "visible to the world" nature of most cryptocurrency transactions. It could be something more like "Linden dollars" in Second Life or the Fortnite in-game currency (I occasionally buy a gift card for it then send the card to my grandson #A1).
@clacke I don't know whether Russia has / had this, but the US used to have an air unit specifically tasked with taking down anti-aircraft defenses so other aircraft could perform their missions. This was before stealth aircraft was a known thing, so I don't know whether such units still exist.
> I've often felt that French is overrepresented, particularly within international organizations like the #IOC.
I think that France was one of the first nations to realize that some things required supranational organizations. Add that to their colonial holdings in Africa and parts of the Americas (the Canadian province of Quebec isn't the only area that was French, either directly or as a refuge after French Canada was conquered) and they still appear over-represented, but not nearly as much.
There are (former?) Francophone areas in New Hampshire and Maine, for example. And Louisiana. Even places like eastern Missouri (St Louis, St Charles, Cape Girardeau).
I'm getting the feeling these are last week's stories (2023-12-31 and 2024-01-01, when lots of people drink to celebrate New Year's Eve and New Year's Day).
Johnson & Johnson is paying USD$700M to settle legal cases alleging that J&J knew its powders and other talc products cause cancer. J&J denies that its products cause cancer, but has settled the case.
I did see a lady get down on the floor so she could force more clothes into a washer. I suspect those clothes will not be very clean, since they cannot rub and scrub each other.