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bonded felids

especially dusti increasingly they’ve been loafing on my bed at night dino’s head resting on my leg often when waking up

for years the supreme court ruled voting maps were a nonjusticiable matter lol lmao cow:

obama with his rural broadband push ; irredeemable

FDR made a grave error giving electricity to the tennessee valley

millennial grey will never get active hate from me seeing what misery is an alternative in the undeveloped backwaters of the deep south

sometimes a cow needs to graze on guinea fowl flesh carnivorous predator cows

a couple minutes after opening (fedwire closes 1900 opens 2100 eastern) hsbc instantly sent a fedwire out the door giving me the corresponding end to end reference number but schwab waited until the next calendar day morning to credit my account smh (still “same” business day)

technically a fedwire doesn’t need to be instantly credited to the named account holder until COB but it is instantly and irrevocably settled between financial institutions via master accounts held within the federal reserve system

in the sense that underneath chips is the usual fedwire system settling imbalances at COB though both are governed under article 4a of the uniform commercial code so for most cases a “wire” transfer can refer to either/or

strictly speaking netting engines like CHIPS aren’t payment rails so at what point does something count as a financial rail can be somewhat hazy

>what if every bank in the world came together and made their own mastercard how innovative! that's exactly how mastercard was structured and governed before going public

fintechs/legacy finance obfuscating and abstracting payment rails underneath sure doesn't help

so too the rising bubble of discontent of the global payment rails duopoly, forgetting why consolidation was an improvement in the first place then a plethora of new payment rails for "choice" before inevitably "why is it all a confusing mess" what is old is new

vista genuinely did dedicate an inordinate share (relative to xp) of resources to aero eye candy so it's even funnier now the nostalgia machine pines for such 3d glassy anachronisms: old is new/new is old cloud is out/self-hosted is in etc etc etc

microsoft’s project longhorn pr blitz wasn’t entirely contrived when focus groups really did prefer vista but crucially, vista on what was then modern hardware

windows 11 requiring tpm support set off another wave of screaming before microsoft pulling off the progamer move of making basic components even less performant/functional

the reason vista sucked was everyone bitching and whining over an operating system needing modern specs and as well established wintel consumers will SCREAM if an old best buy special doesn’t last until time immemorial

personable and mild mannered enablers ; it feels difficult to justify even trying to reconcile that which i myself have lived with

big fan of financial times’ latest interview series of lunch with those at the heart of the circles remaking dc and the global order

bowl of flesh and purr and precious meows