Yep. My poor recollection sounds like the bogan Australian version.

Sounds like someone has a copy of Gary’s Sports Almanac.

For some reason this article brings up a childhood memory of an opera singing orange on Sesame Street.

DogeNet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes a racist douche bag at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

“Defense network computers. New.… powerful… hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.”

A baptism of fryer

It certainly does feel like they are pushing their confectionary product down our throats.

Edit: grammar

“Dear Mars, I was unable to enjoy my recently purchased Mars Bar as it was missing the trademark thick veins running down its shaft.”

So they would be offering content to the NYT sourced from the NYT? From Wikipedia

“In October 2024, The New York Times (NYT) sent a cease-and-desist notice to Perplexity to stop accessing and using NYT content, claiming that Perplexity is violating its copyright by scraping data from its website.”

“The cease-and-desist notice sent by NYT lawyers read in part: “Perplexity and its business partners have been unjustly enriched by using, without authorization, The Times’s expressive, carefully written and researched, and edited journalism without a license.” “

Joe Bitin’

It should have been $Googol instead.

From creating toe tappers to taping her toes.

The father of IVF says a lot of shit.

Edit: missing of

Microsoft CodeCop does not mess about but in fairness he was using identical names for local and global variables.

Except that you can …

Cancel auto payments

Edit: I get you. You mean multiple cards within PayPal itself per vendor. Yeah, that seems like similar effort but at least you can see everything in one portal. I have a single card linked with just enough limit to cover subscriptions and the odd internet purchase.

Aussie here. One reason I use PayPal is for subscriptions (streaming services etc) to avoid the headache of updating credit card details in multiple places when I change bank, credit card renews, etc. just change it in PayPal once and every subscription keeps working.

Conway’s Law in action.

Organisations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organisations.

Mission Control : “You are clear to launch.”

Astronaut (in comically high pitched voice) : “Um, are you sure the leak is contained?”

Mission Control (stifling giggles): “Oh for sure.”

At that precise moment the door to the astronauts cockpit falls off onto the launch pad.

Like a virgin, hey

Watching my concerts for the very first time

One is more Pampered than the other.