2025.05.23: Little Rules

Burnie and Ashley discuss timeliness, complementary relationships, the penny’s last ride, the International Fixed Calendar, calligraphy, Illumination, berry budgets, Klarna’s AI regrets, non-drinking fluids, the awful Spit Cup story, cargo ships in the garden, Leave The World Behind, and sharing marital duties.
  
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Linkdump

13 Month Year

• We Need 13 Months Per Year Instead of 12 and Here’s Why | by Edward John | ILLUMINATION | Medium

End of Pennies

• Treasury Department set to phase out the penny – CBS News
• How Many Countries Have Already Abolished the Penny?
• It Costs 3.07 Cents to Make A Penny in 2024 | JM Bullion

New Coke

• Was the ‘New Coke’ Fiasco Just a Clever Marketing Ploy? | Snopes.com

End of Cursive

• What students lost since cursive writing was cut from the Common Core standards : NPR

Klarna’s AI Misstep

• Klarna’s AI replaced 700 workers. It now wants some of them back to improve customer service | The Independent

Weird Morning

• Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden – BBC News
• Leave the World Behind: Cast, Release Date, Trailer & Plot of Julia Roberts Movie – Netflix Tudum
• Leave The World Behind | Official Trailer | Netflix
• Leave The World Behind Tanker Crash Scene

Unexpected Drinks

• I took a swig of what I thought was water but was actually acetone/alcohol : r/Wellthatsucks
• Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures – Burnie and the Cup

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