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.
@clacke "tight" ... I haven't heard that term since #sonTwo and one of my nieces were around 10-12 (they're 35 now). We were talking about a vehicle we'd seen that looked like it came from a 1930s gangster movie (PT Cruiser) and she said "that's tight!"
Obviously, USGS will revise its estimates once more data is gathered. That includes citizen science from the "Did You Feel It?" part of the https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ site.
So far, no pager estimate. And the epicenter is too inland for any #tsunami risk, so there shouldn't be anything about it on https://tsunami.gov/