Link. He’s an idiot of course.
Daily Archives: June 2, 2023
GOP research: “the swing toward Democrats is primarily being driven by both new and independent voters who are focused on abortion”
Link. Election outcome level swing.
“… widening of gene pools which resulted from this process means that the biologist Steve Jones ranks the invention of the bicycle as the most important event in recent human evolution.”
Link. Bold but I like it.
“Evidence from card swipes suggests that only about half the office space in major U.S. cities is currently in use, with little indication of a return to prepandemic norms”
Link. St Paul (MN) downtown need more foot traffic in 2019. It’s an echo chamber now.
“rising use of telephones went hand-in-hand with rising business travel: Workers began interacting more with people in other cities, but solidifying these contacts required occasionally meeting them in person.”
We suffered a lot during COVID from lack of true in person interaction. We are primates still.
Debt deal: Biden wins. Again.
Link. Maybe he is good at his job.
“While some food aid recipients aged 50 to 54 will now face work requirements, many others who are veterans or homeless will be excluded for the first time.”
“investors have flocked to the $24 trillion Treasury market just about whenever they have needed a haven”
Link. 24 trillion is just 8 Apples. Not so much really.
App.net archive exists.
Link. 44 million posts, hosted by micro.blog service.
WWDC 2023 Wish Lists
Link. Every year we ask Santa for a Snow Leopard and we get whatever iOS didn’t want.
“six Martian days after losing contact with Ingenuity, the team detected a “single, lonely” radio signal”
Link. The Ingenuity team should be punished for over-engineering their wee helicopter. (jk)
China’s real estate crash: “Even as of 2017 … China had already basically reached developed-country levels of living space per person.”
Link. Slump started 1.5y ago but was hidden by Zero-COVID. “best solution for Xi would be if he could get foreign money to bail out the sector, such as Western private equity firms” (private equity is do dumb)