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@Nowooski Irrational fear of earthquakes AND nuclear power? Yahtzee

@Nowooski I think that makes the fear of an earthquake causing a meltdown at Diablo Canyon the sharknado of disasters

Earthquakes are the shark attacks of disasters. People have an irrational fear of them even though projected casualties from even a catastrophic scenario (1-3k deaths from a 7.8 San Andreas fault quake near SF) are lower than average annual deaths from lack of AC in Paris.

@m_it How I feel whenever I see a BMW with a Bumper Bully.

So much love and care goes into the industrial design of phones only for most of them to end up in ugly rubber cases. Imagine wrapping a sports car in bubble wrap.

@m_it Scooters!

Some research: what are some only possible on mobile apps that you love? They don't need to be crypto. For example, Uber wouldn't have worked on desktop for obvious reasons (GPS, notifications, always on you) but Reddit did (nothing inherently mobile).

@aartiutwani The best, the absolute best

been obsessed with Arsicault Bakery’s almond croissants lately. SF has spoiled me!

@richhomiecon @hansaFL It depends more on how fussy your baby is in general. And whether they are feeling unwell on the plane - for example, often the pressure bothers their ears. In my experience it's mostly beyond the parents' control. I feel very lucky mine have been li'l angels on planes (so far)

@hansaFL Would assume the basic checks are diaper change, food, comfortable body position. Beyond that it feels more like an art than a science

% of a 16 hour flight it’s acceptable to have your baby crying? 🙄🙄🙄

@Nowooski en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_or_S…

@Nowooski Personally, I'm a big fan of the Taiwanese baseball league's Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions and the Filipino basketball league's Rain or Shine Elasto Painters

One thing that’s great about Korean baseball is the teams just carry the name of their owners / sponsors. The KIA tigers, the Samsung Lions. US sports teams should carry the name of their owner instead of pretending the random roster of transient players has a tie to a city

@beach_boys_fan Agree, it really holds up.

@beach_boys_fan Is that a good wow or a bad wow

@vandermey As I saw somewhere one time: The left thinks politics is like The West Wing. The right thinks it's like House of Cards. But actually, it's like Veep.

Conspiratorial thinking about politics or the media is usually a pretty good sign someone doesn’t know how things work. Reality is a lot dumber!

@Nowooski Even if true, this is in km² and new growth forests are not equivalent to old growth from a carbon sequestration or biodiversity perspective. It's true that Fern Gully fears about running out of trees are wrong, but deforestation is still a big problem.

Am I missing something here? It seems like a massive win and major narrative violation that the percent of the world covered in forests is essentially unchanged from 2001.

@beach_boys_fan "Now, before I get to the recipe, let me tell you a story about this lasagna, my grandma, and generational trauma" ... *many pages worth of chumbox ads* ...

@RebeccaBellan @TechCrunch Nice! Congrats @RebeccaBellan

I'm a couple days late to posting about this, but I'm excited to say that I've taken over @TechCrunch's morning daily newsletter. Today, we explored Anthropic's Claude going to Europe, Uber's nearly $1B Foodpanda Taiwan purchase and more. Subscribe today! techcrunch.com/newsletters/te…

One of my biggest pet peeves about the tech industry is the increasing use of "resource" as a synonym for a person assigned to a team or task. I guess it's honest, but if even if you see people that way, it seems self-defeating for an organization in the long run to tell people that you think of them as sheep, wheat, wood, bricks and ore. (Not a subtweet of anyone in particular, I heard someone say this on the train and had a visceral reaction)

"Jason Molina called in musicians who were not scheduled to be involved, to play instruments that were not scheduled to be included." "Steve Albini opened and closed the door to the recording room as required, to help the recording achieve the desired volume." And that's what happened. soundanalysis.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/son…

Damn. RIP Steve Albini. One of the greatest musicians of our time, both in talent and in ethos. It took a special kind of genius to get out of the way and let the artists rip. Like this one, recorded in a single, unrepeatable, mind-blowing take. open.spotify.com/track/5Plx6Ohv…

@PeterDJMain @helium_mobile or @Hivemapper? (why not both?)