two high-capacity water connections were not being properly monitored. One had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and another was not tied to a billing account.

Yeah, you don’t just “accidentally” install an “extra” water pipeline like that.

People should be responsible for their own comfort. Bring your own sleep mask, ear plugs, neck pillow, blanket, or whatever else you need to be comfortable.

Do not draw on the window with permanent markers.

If it’s a sharpie, you can get rid of the mark with hand sanitizer.

It also says in the “first quarter of 2026”. Oh, you mean the quarter with two absolutely brutal winter storms and an extended period of freezing cold? Gee, I wonder why crime dropped …

a revised terms of service published on 6 April 2026. The updated document states explicitly that paying a deposit ‘does not constitute a completed purchase and does not create a binding legal contract.’ The payment is described as ‘a conditional opportunity to buy the device if Trump Mobile eventually chooses to sell it,’ with the company retaining all control over whether a phone is produced at all.

, but what I’d love to see is a copy of the email they’ve been getting.

So … Some people’s brains are wired with directions being absolute, and some people’s brains are wired with directions being relative. One of the easiest ways to tell which way your brain is wired is to switch your mouse to the other hand. If your brain is absolute-wired, then the main button is always on the left; if your brain is relative-wired, then the main button is always the one closest to your body.

As the article says

“The problem is that people don’t believe the state anymore. And that’s a much, much deeper problem that no amount of money is going to repair.”

You might also want to read the essay on the thermocline of trust.

$730 million for public diplomacy [is] nearly five times the $150 million they allocated the year before. That earlier sum was itself about 20 times what Israel had spent on such efforts before the war in Gaza erupted in October, 2023, following Hamas’s invasion and massacre in southern Israel.

So 2023 was about 75 million, and they’re about 10x the budget they were a few years ago.

survey after survey shows declining support for Israel in the United States, its most important ally. […] 60 percent of Americans now view Israel unfavorably, up seven points in a single year, with only 37% viewing it favorably. […] 57% of Republicans under 50 hold negative views of Israel. Support has cratered among the religiously unaffiliated, Black Protestants and Catholics. Among American Jews, support has slipped below two-thirds.

The other states are changing their maps without consulting the citizens, Virginia should just do the same.

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I doubt whether animals really understand this.

Not in the way you’re thinking of (“my human loves me!”), but they almost certainly understand it as a form of scent-marking (“we are tribe-family”), which is a pretty similar concept.

it seems to be on a level of intimacy to me that I find weird sharing with a pet.

Have you had (m)any pets?

Just so people know, this happened in 2024 and is not related to Spirit’s closing.

Mom’s so busy with my brother’s marriage plans, haven’t have much time to talk to me. Idk what to even say on the phone… I just wanna hear her voice… I kinda have a panic attach if i don’t hear her voice or if she takes too long to respond…

The people I love, I’ve started saving their voicemails offline, so I can remember their voices. Maybe you can do the same?

he would be fondly remembered today. There was a time when he was remembered as the hero that held NYC together during and after 9/11. If he just stayed out of politics after that, and was only remembered the 9/11 mayor, he would actually have a legacy worth remembering.

My family is from the Bronx; my sister lived in Brooklyn for ages. I was talking to her about Guiliani after 9/11, and she said everyone in New York absolutely loathed him.

sigh. Of course they did. They’ve been dumping East Wing debris on East Potomac Links for months. And now they’re planning to “renovate” those links. I can’t figure out what incredibly cheap Trump-branded idiocy is going to end up there, but I’m sure something will. Now with added toxic waste!

India is kinda over a barrel at the moment. They can barely feed all their people at the best of times, and the war in Iran has made fertilizer costs skyrocket. I don’t know the details of the deal, but I bet that, under the hood, the deal is actually “you give us massive amounts of fertilizer and fuel to keep our country fed and our economy out of the gutter, and we’ll let some of your troops and ships on our territory - but you’re not allowed to launch attacks from here”.

Russia gets to expand it’s influence at a time of waning influence. And India gets to feed it’s people and keep it’s economy running - when the alternative was some amount of starvation and the possible overthrow of the government.

There should be an oversized vehicle parking area in the most inconvenient section of the garage, and if your vehicle is too big, you have to go park there.

Has he paid off those Georgia election workers yet?

My beloved cat.

Waymo spokesperson Julia Ilina wrote: “We deeply value our partnership with first responders and our shared commitment to safety. Their ongoing feedback has been instrumental in driving impactful improvements to the Waymo service.” […] The company says it has conducted in-person training for more than 35,000 emergency responders across the country.

Instead of adapting Waymo to the needs of humans and emergency services, let’s just tell them how they need to change to fit us instead!

reflect long-simmering and sometimes vocal frustrations expressed by city leaders since at least late last year. Since autonomous vehicle operations are regulated in California and Texas by state rather than city officials, local first-responder departments and those who represent them can generally only request that developers like Waymo make specific changes to their operations.

Sounds like they don’t really value those relationships like they claim to.

to connect […] with Waymo operators to move the vehicle, […] it had taken up to three minutes to connect with a remote agent in the past. They reiterated that Waymos don’t always respond well to hand signals, especially ones from police mounted on motorcycles. Waymo declined to attend the meeting […] the Waymo spokesperson, said the company has "already had the substantive conversations this moment calls for,” and said the company has answered questions from city officials.

Translation: we’re tired of listening to you, get out of our way and let our cars run free!

“We will keep working with Austin’s leadership and first-responder community, because ongoing collaboration is how we build the trust this city deserves and make Austin’s streets safer,” she wrote.

Lol, that’s not at all what you’re doing. Are you taking Republican lessons in lying, double-speak, and aggressive non-listening?

The thing that absolutely infuriates me about this is that [?one of the fire chiefs? ?the county emergency manager? Someone] had been advocating for like 20 years to get a flood warning system in place, but it would have cost about a million dollars - less than $20 per person in the county. Except the county residents repeatedly refused to pay for it. Then the county got a bunch of pandemic funds which they could’ve spent on emergency infrastructure upgrades, but they decided to spend it on other stuff. And now they want the state of Texas to pay for it. Pay for your own damn infrastructure, assholes, and stop killing your kids.