In honor of Tim Cook's stepping down, here is the story of how I emailed him, not once but twice, with open email tracking enabled, only to discover that, not once but twice, my emails to the CEO of Apple were opened on a computer running Windows.
there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term.
it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City
KUOW article: Every tire produces a chemical that kills coho salmon. Can scientists pump the brakes?
Or maybe we could work to reduce the need to drive everywhere all the time?
Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."
I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.
www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...
And so you fight the bike riders. Your wisdom is stunning.
Dude, stick to your own country. Clearly nobody cares about your bad takes. You left, now leave us the hell alone.
Wow, the windshield of your BMW definitely gives you a weird perspective. Sucks to be you!
You're not in the way. I've been riding the 2 to work. It gets packed. That happens. Brompty riders take WAY less space than full-size bikes and there are a lot of full-size bikes. You're good.
Rectangle (rectangleapp.com) is a nice little app that gives you Windows-style window management on Mac. It's one of the few utils I always keep running. (Another is "NoTunes" that prevents Apple Music from starting up any time anything tries to play audio.)
I GOT MINE F U.
Incredible.
Am I the only person still driving a manual transmission hooptie? But "narrow" is fine, because I can curb it. Proceed.
Donald trump is a madman
He isn’t talking about Iran, it is the America I know and love that has ceased to exist.
> “these have too much flavor”
So do you, kid.
It's actually striking how quickly things have shifted. A year ago, it looked like the changes being considered today (phase 2) were going to be As Good As It Gets when it comes to breaking out of the 1990s urban village model. Now it's the new baseline.
Elections matter.
Black text on white background “Happy Easter, New York! Today, millions of New Yorkers celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the victory of hope over despair and faith over fear. As the air warms and cherry blossoms begin to bloom, this holy day is a sacred time to pause and reflect on a season of rebirth. Whether you spend this day singing in pews, parading on Fifth Avenue, joining a processional guided by the bamboo trumpets of Haitian Rara music, or hunting for painted eggs amidst the spring grass, I wish every New Yorker celebrating a joyous day. Let us all embrace this holiday's spirit of hope and renewal as we build the City — and the world — that we deserve.”
"did you even read the article???? the headline is bad but the article is good!!!" buddy if I see a restaurant called Dan's Fecal Stew i am not gonna go in there to see if maybe they printed the sign wrong
Who wrote the headline? Oh, the same publication that wrote the story? There's a failure somewhere that isn't the reader's fault.
If you come, they will build it. Bellevue definitely lacks in comparison to Seattle. (But on the bright side, it's closer than Ballard or West Seattle!) Maybe one day Bellevue will grow to the point where Seattlers stop reflexively hating on it.
no idea, but they seem to sell add-ons cheap, like state taxes for $15.
Solution 1: drink tap water if you live in the > 90% of communities with safe tap water.
Solution 2: drink bottled water from a 5 gallon water dispenser.
Solution 3: buy your bottled water in aluminum bottles.
Solution 4: just go broke, I don't care.
There's no way the framers of the constitution could have forseen people flying to the US to have babies, so let's throw out the 14th. But the framers had no problem predicting semi-automatic weapons because they had muskets, so we need to protect the 2nd Amendment no matter how many children die.
I already bought TurboTax this year. Everyone at work was talking about FreeTax. I did my taxes twice: same result in the end (I had to coax the real number out of TurboTax, but that's another story.) FreeTax was *so much* cleaner and simpler. I filed with FreeTax and won't buy TurboTax next year.
The current 12-game Jeopardy champion works at an affordable housing finance agency in NJ, and shamed New York for not building more housing:
"NJ's doing really well, we're ahead of NY, CT, PA. If you're from one of those states, shame on you, build more housing."
Boycott the World Cup 😡
World Cup risks becoming 'stage for repression and authoritarianism', Amnesty warns
www.thenational.scot/news/2597799...
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Two crows kindly asking a young eagle to get the f out of their neighborhood if he knows what’s good for him.
Soulless sociopath says what?
🤮 🤬 🖕
In 2014, NYC lowered the citywide default speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph. In the year that followed:
- Traffic fatalities fell by more than 22%
- Pedestrian fatalities fell by more than 25%
Yes, adding physical traffic calming is imperative but just lowering the limit can have a halo effect.
Nothing screams “we’re just winging it” like having to buy oil from Iran while in the middle of a war with Iran.
