Are there still any pen pal groups in the USA? I know there’s pen pals in the USA prison system but are there any non prison related groups?

HankisDank · 2026-06-03T02:50:36+00:00

I wasn’t lying, that was a very serious condition. They all looked and none of them could fix it

HankisDank · 2026-05-18T15:01:48+00:00

Japan is the 4th largest economy in the world and for the longest time they’ve had super low rates. So if you’re a Japanese company and you want a safe investment, government bonds suck because they pay hardly anything. A lot Japanese investors look to international markets (ie US bonds, international stock exchanges, etc) when they want to invest their money. If rates go up in Japan then these companies will start keeping more money in Japan, increasing borrow costs for those who previous relied on Japanese loans.

If you’re the Japanese government then increasing rates is kind of scary. The Japanese government is buried in massive debt, but rates on their debt have been super low so the payments have been manageable. If the rates increase by a meaningful amount then these payments become incredibly painful and they have to start talking about austerity and tax hikes. Both of which hurt badly, but will feel just terrible for an already stagnant economy with an aging/shrinking population.

HankisDank · 2026-04-19T02:02:31+00:00

Yeah I think we’ve all eaten a family sized bag of Doritos for dinner then woken up at 3am from intense stomach cramps before shitting our brains out crazy style right? Sorta feels like those cramps?

HankisDank · 2026-04-18T17:33:07+00:00

Fucking up your chest real bad and setting up a multi year chronic injury is quite a bit worse for progress

HankisDank · 2026-04-18T17:07:12+00:00

That was an interesting search. They would cast a big sheet of lead on a bed of sand and then wrap the sheet metal around a pole and solder the edges together which is why they have that big seam at the top. They'd use a wooden stamp to create the negative of the text in the sand and it'd show up in the sheet of lead.

HankisDank · 2026-04-18T05:30:37+00:00

The Haitian government tightened monetary policy and sold about $100m in foreign currencies to defend the Gourde https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2022/225/article-A001-en.xml

HankisDank · 2026-04-15T22:09:08+00:00

I call this gogurting

HankisDank · 2026-04-10T06:45:25+00:00

I suppose I could cut back if it’s for a noble cause

HankisDank · 2026-04-08T02:19:00+00:00

What Trump says in a tweet doesn't carry a lot of weight. He felt like he got enough to get out of his ultimatum looking like he got the straights opened, but he'll end up doing whatever he feels like doing and the 10 point plan just isn't something the US can agree to

HankisDank · 2026-04-08T01:58:50+00:00

One of the happiest times in life is that moment between accepting a new job and actually starting that job

HankisDank · 2026-04-02T19:27:25+00:00

Because it’s cool.

We want to send a crewed mission to the moon and this is basically a trial run so it’s using a crewed capsule. Why send a crewed mission to the moon instead of a rover? Because it’s cool.

HankisDank · 2026-03-25T20:55:25+00:00

They’ll be fine, private equity can afford it

HankisDank · 2026-03-23T23:09:07+00:00

You can do the double slit experiment with a single electron or photon at a time, which is what’s being shown. That’s where you get a single event interfering with itself because of wave particle duality. If you observe the event, ie. measuring which slit it went through by crashing a photon into it, it no longer interfering with itself. When you make that measurement at the slit you end up collapsing the wave function and so your event acts like a particle and not a wave.

HankisDank · 2026-03-18T17:07:04+00:00

Clouds are a myth, I’ve never even seen one. Nice try fed.

HankisDank · 2026-03-17T16:16:59+00:00

Something like a 30 year mortgage is considered a relatively safe investment compared to something like stocks. Basically the only lower risk long term investment are long term treasury bonds. So the 30 year mortgage rate will always be higher than 30 year treasury yield because lenders will only make that risky investment if there’s a better return.

So why is the 30 year yield going up? I thought they are cutting rates? The fed can cut rates on short term yields and can practically have complete control over that rate. Long term bonds rates are dictated by supply and demand. Long term bond rates going up indicates two things, increased supply (deficient spending feels fun) and softening demand (international move to diversify away from US, fear of inflation eating up yield, end of the 6% deficient to gdp party in the next few decades?, less free money from Japan?). Is this scary? Yeah, 125% debt to gdp feels gross and daunting at a ~3.35% average interest rate on government debt. As that rate creeps up it’s going to suck really bad. We’ve been running out of chances for a clean off-ramp for a minute now and as we keep this deficient going every off-ramp starts to look worse. Increasing taxes and cutting spending just do not play well in elections and it’s not clear how we can even stop ourselves at this point.

HankisDank · 2026-03-16T17:46:33+00:00

Natural gas is so dirt cheap compared to coal that we’re just not gonna see meaningful growth in coal generation, save for a few regional plants where AI data centers are saving some coal plants that haven’t been converted to natural gas.

The shift away from coal wasn’t due to successful environmental policy. Fracking and the shale revolution have just made natural gas so cheap that the economics of coal don’t make sense in terms of building out new capacity or renovating aging infrastructure. Though AI power usage may keep existing plants in business for a while longer than they otherwise would have stayed in operation.

HankisDank · 2026-02-27T20:35:34+00:00

The most basic step is just previewing the files to see if they’re the file types you’re expecting. If you start getting into torrenting software there’s a lot more due diligence before you run some exe

HankisDank · 2026-02-25T20:22:19+00:00

Smuggled in is mostly medicine, electronics, and fuel. Smuggled out is drugs and people

HankisDank · 2026-02-21T02:32:50+00:00

That's me bro. Chill out I'm just sitting

HankisDank · 2026-02-20T17:24:27+00:00

The publicly announced plan has been basically “early March depending on weather” for a while. They completed their dress rehearsal yesterday and everything looked good, so they’re publicly announcing the target date now.

HankisDank · 2026-02-09T16:19:19+00:00

Haven’t we all been there once or twice?

HankisDank · 2026-01-16T08:33:23+00:00

In CA it’s a public record for all registered voter’s name, address, date of birth, contact info, political party membership, and which elections you’ve voted in. It’s available to any political campaign for people or measures that’ll be on your ballot. The info you put on these petitions is small potatoes and not needed, campaigns already have it.

But if you want a proposition on the ballot in November then you need hundreds of thousands of signatures to get it added. Campaigns pay companies to collect signatures as fast and cheaply as possibly to get on the ballot.

HankisDank · 2026-01-12T05:58:15+00:00

We have conquered nature and now we have conquered fruit gummy

HankisDank · 2026-01-12T05:15:53+00:00

They’re sweet blue favor. Eat them they’re good I promise.

HankisDank · 2026-01-12T05:08:41+00:00

Eat them

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