A photo of the city center of Zürich, Switzerland on a partly cloudy afternoon with the tree-lined Limmat river in the foreground. In the middle ground, the roofs of Zürich HB (main train station) and Landesmuseum Zürich (national museum) show above the trees. In the far background are Zürisee (Lake Zürich) and the Alps.

Excellent spring weather for a work visit to Zürich. It's quite pleasant to be outside the US for a bit.

Here’s the story of one of them. Awful www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...

NASA is one of the best things about this country. Hope. Innovation. Exploration. Wonder. Give them, the post office, and the national parks service all the money from ICE

In simpler terms, they're in the cities.

The San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge on a sunny day with high wispy clouds. Take from an office building at the intersection of the Embarcadero and Harrison Street in San Francisco.

I have to say, the office view here is hard to beat.

Not so different, in some ways. And Leslie was a heck of a writer.

Buc-ee's isn't exactly representative of American gas stations...

Fascinating if reproducible.

Not incoming. Well underway at this point.

Corollary: you can tell what any organization's actual priorities are, regardless of what anyone says, by where they place and use their resources.

He badly needs an editor, but this is great.

I hope this email finds you on the couch with the necessary amount of blankets, snacks, and pets

Sports are segregated in order to protect men from that kind of humiliation.

A late twilight aerial photo of Philadelphia, PA (and Camden, NJ). The city lights fill most of the picture, with the Delaware River clearly visible. On the horizon at left is the very last bit of color from the sunset, and in the middle left is the jet engine nacelle of the airliner the picture was taken from.

Philadelphia as we flew past.

Marcin, I believe you have found the topic of your next book(s) :-).

I'd put it on a roundel ("on a roundel sable NATO logo argent" or vice versa).

A freshly baked loaf of whole wheat bread sitting on a decorative wooden cutting board on a white countertop. One end of the loaf has been sliced off, and the bread knife is sitting on the cutting board in front of the loaf.

Agreed. I've started baking bread every 2 weeks, just as a grounding exercise.

He's managed to unite Europe! That's not a small thing.

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

"Don't make us mad." "Look at what you made us do." Classic abuse language.

"The key to success: survivorship bias" :-)

"Just circling back after the holidays..."

We are setting a good example! Leadership!

Right there with you.

Wow, that's amazingly clear.

Tweet from 2022 that says "I believe the majority of the vaccinated will not be around to see the year 2025."

Happy New Year to my fellow vaccinated people who made it to 2025

I loved my Pacifica Hybrid. Alas, someone totalled it while it was parked a couple of months ago. But it's a great vehicle.

Especially if they are very careful to distinguish between "mitigate" and "remediate"...

Well, it certainly doesn't seem like the usual SF-85P "public trust" background investigation that HHS requires.

They seem to be the latest version of McMansions. They are popping up all over the DC area. Giant white boxes with black trim on tiny lots.