I'm not like all the other contrarians

Joined August 2009
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12 Dec 2013
Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of yourself? Software development is the career for you!
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OMG, listen to the Mexican announcers on team USA's 3rd goal going completely off-script I haven't laughed this hard in a long time! "Oh my f*cking goodness" 😂
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PayPal and WeChat Pay Team Up to Simplify Payments for Tourists in China Traveling to China is now significantly more convenient for international visitors, thanks to a landmark integration between PayPal and Tencent's Weixin Pay (the domestic version of WeChat Pay). This new partnership aims to solve one of the most common challenges for tourists: making everyday payments in a largely cashless society. An End to the "Payment Nightmare" For years, foreign travelers have struggled with China's mobile payment systems, which often required a local bank account or involved a complicated and frequently unsuccessful process of linking international credit cards. On May 27, Tencent officially connected its vast merchant network with PayPal, creating a seamless payment solution. This means visitors no longer need to manually bind a Visa or Mastercard. Instead, they can use their existing PayPal app to pay almost anywhere in China. How It Works The process is designed for maximum simplicity: 1. Open your standard PayPal mobile app. 2. Scan any Weixin Pay (WeChat Pay) QR code at a shop, restaurant, or in a taxi. 3. Confirm the payment. The system works instantly, automatically deducting the funds from the user's linked account in their home currency. This feature is reportedly available at 98% of small businesses, restaurants, and taxis across the country. Limited-Time Incentives To encourage adoption, a special promotion is being offered. For a limited time, users can benefit from a transaction fee waiver on daily payments up to 1,000 RMB. Phased Global Rollout The new service is initially launching for PayPal users based in the United States. A phased rollout for other global regions is planned, with more countries expected to gain access very soon, further opening up hassle-free travel and commerce in China.
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🚨: Three deer crossed California's first wildlife bridge just 15 hours after workers left
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How far is FIFA going with its brand restrictions? The condiments at the Levi’s Stadium press box have all been taped over 😆
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And the irony of this… Yesterday Gabbard rescinded two Intelligence Community Assessments on Havana Syndrome, which deserved to be rescinded because we uncovered evidence implicating a unit of Russian military intelligence — Unit 29155 — as the perpetrators of directed energy attacks against Americans. Today Gabbard doubles down on a Russian information campaign purveyed by… Unit 29155. 🫠
Incredible. Publishing what appears to be (if you care to read the "evidence") a totally legitimate US program, and even citing the risks of these being used as "Russian information campaigns", Tulsi Gabbard - the gift that kept giving - presents the Kremlin with yet one more information operation. Read our investigation from 2025 where we presented evidence that the hybrid ops unit of GRU's 29155 came up with the whole "bio-labs" concept - and co-opted Tulsi into it. theins.press/en/inv/281731
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I built an iPhone case that is also a working computer mouse.
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According to Grok, Andrej Karpathy is an EB-1 extraordinary ability green card recipient, not a US citizen. Thus under these new restrictions he is not permitted to use, or work on, Mythos 5 or Fable 5 as of 5:21pm tonight.
Replying to @AndrewCurran_
From the statement: 'The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘦𝘴. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.'
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I've been using baby gates wrong my entire life.
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Gang, the Kennedy Center’s gift shop has been open the whole time, using the original and legal name shop.kennedy-center.org/
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I know who I’d get this for muzemerch.com/products/are-y…
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Damn how long is this escalator?🤣
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Aaron Sorkin spent 3 days trying to convince Jesse Eisenberg to return as Mark Zuckerberg in ‘THE SOCIAL RECKONING’: “He simply did not want to be conflated with Mark Zuckerberg anymore, that he has his problems with the guy. He doesn’t like kids coming up to him in airports with business cards that say ‘I’m CEO, bitch’ for him to sign.” (vanityfair.com/story/social-…)
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The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Summertime heat often means ants coming indoors to look for food. If they’re attacking your compost bin, get out a baking dish and stand the bin in a half-inch of water. I learned this from Leiningen
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Meep meep ass locale
'Liminal Stop Sign', Monument Valley, Utah
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Construction crews prepared to remove President Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center on Friday. An appeals court rejected an emergency request from the Justice Department to let President Trump's name remain on the Kennedy Center's signage, leaving in place a Friday deadline for the name to come down.
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Jun 12
ma nouvelle création : l’ail pensif
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Vision Pro should show you visually where your AirTags and iDevices are hiding
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Apple TimeBand prototype (1990) From “Apple Design The Work of Apple Industrial Design Group” (1997)
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