To be clear, I am not in a position to purchase a street clock.

IIRC the TJPA charges more in rent for bus bays than Amtrak is willing to pay.

It’s like the billboards on I-80 in downtown San Francisco that are aimed at a few dozen tech execs and VCs

I’ve been criticizing Google’s degradation over the past several years, but I think a big part of it is the degradation of the underlying internet. The freely published, available to anyone spirit of the internet has disappeared, so what’s left for Google to index?

The same goes for homestarrunner, StumbleUpon, or the Ta-Nehisi Coates comment section. I remember when the @redditcfb.com subreddit had a drive to 100k members, and wondering, “why?” Because that’s about the threshold where subreddits stop meaningfully fostering communities.

Forums made sense when there were enough people online to populate forums for obscure topics without making popular topics too busy to be usable. They went away when they became too busy.

All the past eras and institutions of the internet were smaller, of course, just due to the relentless growth of the internet since its inception. But I also think what made them good was only enabled by the scale of the internet at the time.

Only the ones who also know what “Charlie the Unicorn” refers to.

This appears to be the paper the article is based on. It does not appear to mention income, wealth, or anything related to finances or economics or class (in the British sense). academic.oup.com/jcem/article...

The studied population, btw

I moved to California from the southeast. I miss the way that seasons give a rhythm to the year, but Atlanta gives you four seasons without most of the suffering. (A lot more bugs than San Francisco, though!)