Random Thoughts XIV: Pizza, Pomegranate Juice, and Shreddies

[Broken_Erika]

I'd place this next to a black window.

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Pffffft! I bet the legs don't even move on their own

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[Kyriakos]

^Another Will Smith "classic"

 

[Birdjaguar]

Likely paywalled

America’s best decade, according to data​

One simple variable, more than anything, determines when you think the nation peaked.

How do you define the good old days?

Department of Data​

The plucky poll slingers at YouGov, who are consistently willing to use their elite-tier survey skills in service of measuring the unmeasurable, asked 2,000 adults which decade had the best and worst music, movies, economy and so forth, across 20 measures. But when we charted them, no consistent pattern emerged.

Lots of interesting charts and conclusions. There is so much good stuff about so many aspects of our lives including politics, music, vacations, best of times and worst of times.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/24/when-america-was-great-according-data/

 

[Birdjaguar]

Japan Runs on Vending Machines. It’s About to Break Millions of Them.​

New yen notes set to be introduced this summer won’t be compatible with many machines that businesses like ramen shops rely on.

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The vending machine at the Goumen Maruko ramen shop in Tokyo will be obsolete come July. Credit...Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times
By Kiuko Notoya and John Yoon

June 7, 2024

The vending machine at Hiroshi Nishitani’s Tokyo ramen restaurant has been reliable for a decade. Customers feed it money, and it prints out their orders while he makes fresh noodles in the kitchen. The food is served within minutes once the customer delivers the order to the pair of cooks at the counter.

But the machine’s days are numbered. Japan is set to introduce a new set of bank notes this summer, something it does every 20 years or so to thwart counterfeiters. The machine, already too old to accept recent coin designs, won’t accept the new bills, Mr. Nishitani said.
“There’s nothing wrong with the vending machine,” he said, expressing frustration with the need to buy an expensive new unit compatible with the new notes.

All over Japan, restaurants, cafeterias, bathhouses and other businesses are facing a similar prospect. The country has 4.1 million vending machines, according to Nikkei Compass, a database for industry reports. Many of them will be obsolete once the new 1,000-, 5,000- and 10,000-yen bills roll out in July featuring hologram technology.

In Japan, where the work force is shrinking, the machines reduce the need for cashiers and servers. Among the most reliant on the machines are ramen shops, which serve one of the Japanese working class’s favorite, most affordable meals.

More here

Japan Runs on Vending Machines. It’s About to Break Millions of Them.

New yen notes set to be introduced this summer won’t be compatible with many machines that businesses like ramen shops rely on.

www.nytimes.com

 

[choxorn]

Hiroshi Nihorsehockyani

Well that's a fantastic new instance of the S-horpe problem

 

[Gori the Grey]

I didn't know there was a name for this.

But I encountered it here when I wanted to talk about the fictional setting of Cloud****oo land that Aristophanes creates in his play The Birds.

 

[Kyriakos]

I didn't know there was a name for this.

But I encountered it here when I wanted to talk about the fictional setting of Cloud****oo land that Aristophanes creates in his play The Birds.

In the original it is Νεφελοκοκκυγία (Nephelokokkygia). The english translation is adequate

 

[Kyriakos]

7 local parties will have (at least 1) euro mps following the election today.

Of note is that the ruling ND party collapsed from 41% in last year's general election, to around 28%. This wasn't unexpected, though.

Βαριά ήττα Μητσοτάκη και άρχισαν τα όργανα: «Επιστροφή στις ρίζες μας» ζήτησε ο Νικήτας Κακλαμάνης - Militaire.gr

Το αποτέλεσμα των ευρωεκλογών είναι καθαρό και ευανάγνωστο για την κυβέρνηση Μητσοτάκη: από το 41% ένα χρόνο πριν κατέρρευσε στο 27,5%! Καθαρή ήττα Μητσοτάκη που έτρεξε σε όλη την χώρα . Ο Νικήτας Κακλαμάνης ζήτησε ήδη «επιστροφή στις ρίζες». Τα όργανα στη ΝΔ άρχισαν … Καθαρό το μήνυμα και στον...

www.militaire.gr

 

[Gori the Grey]

In the original it is Νεφελοκοκκυγία (Nephelokokkygia). The english translation is adequate

The Greek doesn't get you S-horped.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Well that's a fantastic new instance of the S-horpe problem

You should've seen the head scratching over the Kushite Empire

 

[Kyriakos]

Coffin apartments in Hong Kong.

The Mausoleum apartments are beyond reach for commoners.

Prices vary, but according to some sources (eg https://theunioninternational.com/l...kongs-coffin-homes-amidst-the-housing-crisis/) these typically go for around $300/month, for (edit) around 1,5 sqm...

 

[r16]

the design of a starship according to some BS named Sacred Geometry . The odd thing seems to be this seems to be just one single article in the blog thing , would have read more if there was .

and while it detracts nothing from the coolness , that came out as a toy to sell to kids who might have bought an Enterprise and was accordingly placed in the show ...

 

[CKS]

Prices vary, but according to some sources (eg https://theunioninternational.com/l...kongs-coffin-homes-amidst-the-housing-crisis/) these typically go for around $300/month, for 15 square meters.

15 square meters isn't that small. My dorm room in college was less than 10 square meters, and it felt reasonably roomy.
These "apartments" are less than 1.5 square meters, which is a totally different story. (They also have a shared kitchen and bathroom, like a dorm room, though clearly built on the same scale as the rest of the "apartments.") Trying to fit 100,000 people per square km isn't easy, but this is ridiculously inhumane.

 

[Kyriakos]

15 square meters isn't that small. My dorm room in college was less than 10 square meters, and it felt reasonably roomy.
These "apartments" are less than 1.5 square meters, which is a totally different story. (They also have a shared kitchen and bathroom, like a dorm room, though clearly built on the same scale as the rest of the "apartments.") Trying to fit 100,000 people per square km isn't easy, but this is ridiculously inhumane.

Thanks, edited

 

[GamezRule]

Do you ever read your old posts and think “Man, I was stupid” or is that just me?

 

[EgonSpengler]

Do you ever read your old posts and think “Man, I was stupid” or is that just me?

It's not just you. I'm not usually so hard on myself as "that was stupid", but I sometimes look at old posts and think they were badly written and didn't get the point across very well. But again I try to cut myself some slack. We're not writing white papers here. I still have some of the papers I wrote in college, which I actually turned in for critique by professionals in the respective fields, and they're mostly terrible.

 

[r16]

there are old posts of mine that makes me sad . Written at home with extensive checking before posting at the internet cafe , they do not have the rushedness of current ones . Especially the auto correct stuff which eats it left and right and makes it a garbage at times beyond my own garbage . Like the tablet will not let you write ı don't know if you are not alert enough ... That's some essential part of humility which is also essential but whatever .

 

[Kyriakos]

I suppose there are a lot of russian posters at /r hellenicmemes.

Got the last book (Herodotos), and had the first and third words of the first book, but even googling by deciphering the author name didn't help (it seems there it is just titled "History of Greece"). Maybe the second term is "ancient" or similar, @red_elk .
Also no luck with the author of the second book. Basu something?

I like that the black book on the shelf is just titled "Sparta"

 

[Gori the Grey]

Push Butt
Rub Hands Gently Under arm
Stops A tom ically

 

[Birdjaguar]

For binding lovers
The double fisherman’s bend
Pulls them together

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