Thank you for sharng this. I really needed to see an example of being decent and growing today.

In tennis, I’m pretty sure it’s a lime.

There was a study years ago about American TV ownership. Size of television inversely correlates with income.

I visited Switzerland just after the vaccines dropped. The Swiss COVID response far surpassed the response in the United States. They rolled out a nation-wide app for vaccination attestation, and any museum, restaurant, etc. could scan a QR code on someone’s phone with a phone. But do they have a scary, socially reactionary subset of their population? Yes.

In some harmful ways they are fanatically culturally conservative. But they also care about community, sustainability, health, the well-being of children, environmental preservation, organization, and self-reliance. Being a small, rich, homogeneous, topographically-isolated country drives these characteristics.

Surveillance State developments are depressing but not surprising.

Licking Lead is only “not a great idea?” I think it’s squarely in the “Please don’t do that” territory.

Dudes were ripped too.

I read somewhere that if you’re angry when you’re driving, you’re actually angry about something not driving-related. It’s just manifesting while you’re behind the wheel.