Users Underwhelmed by iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, Survey Suggests - MacRumors

Less than one percent of respondents thought that iMessage’s “Shared with You” feature, Health app upgrades including fall-risk metrics and data sharing, and improvements to Apple Maps with more transit details and AR walking directions were the best new features.

So much truth.

Son built a LEGO with a flag.

Today will be my 2,000th consecutive day of journaling.

The Filibuster Helps Nobody, and That Means You - WSJ Opinion

Eliminating the Senate filibuster would end the freedom of America’s political innocents. The lives that political nobodies spend playing, praying, fishing, tailgating, reading, hunting, gardening, studying and caring for their children would be spent rallying, canvassing, picketing, lobbying, protesting, texting, posting, parading and, above all, shouting.

I bought 30 cedar planks from Lowe’s on May 25th to be delivered to my house tomorrow. I paid $7.32 per board.

I just checked the price: they’re now selling for $11.57 each. That’s a 58% price increase in four weeks.

Buckle up, America.

I woke up just before midnight with a bad dream about a home invasion.

As I got back into bed and the thoughts started to cloud up, I remembered my mindfulness training and was able to quiet things down in just a few minutes.

Nice tools to have!

I’d set an informal deadline to publish something in September. I didn’t think I was going to make it, but all of the sudden, it’s possible again!

Colorado Lets Cities Set Their Own Gun Laws, and Boulder Plans to Move Quickly - WSJ

Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed legislation Saturday making Colorado the first state to repeal what is known as a pre-emption law.

This is terrible. Pre-emption laws dramatically reduce the burden on ordinary people who seek to engage in a hobby and do so legally. This is a recipe for innocent people with no ill intent to get jammed up.

Equal protection under the law is best fulfilled when a citizen has one set of rules to follow, not a patchwork depending on what city they’re in.

Tips to Stop Your Kids From Using Your Credit Card on Videogames - WSJ

“I thought we had an agreement with our boys that if they were interested in buying something, they’d ask us.”

You mean a 10 and 12 year old didn’t do exactly as they were told? Gasp!

This article should be entitled Tip to Stop Your Kids from using Your Credit Card on Videogames. The article would be four words: Don’t give them access.

Treat for the summer readers.

Future of U.S. Healthcare Is Playing Out in Nevada - WSJ

Nevada recently adopted a law that increases the state’s role in healthcare

Healthcare and health insurance are completely different things. Still not sure why over a decade later we haven’t figured this out.

Bishops Advance Effort That Could Restrict Communion for Biden - WSJ

The controversial measure, which had drawn objections from the Vatican and from Pope Francis’s strongest allies among the U.S. bishops, required only a simple majority but passed with 73%, or 168, of the 229 votes cast on Thursday. More than 270 U.S. bishops were eligible to vote.

In 2019, Pew Research said their survey suggested that only 31% of Catholic believe in the true presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. I guess we can stop the false surprise. 27% of bishops don’t either.

HUD Aims to Boost Homeownership for Buyers With Higher Student Debt - WSJ

The surge in student debt over the past two decades has coincided with historically low homeownership rates among younger households.

So the solution is to loan more money to people who are already having trouble paying off their loans?

Is There a Central Banker in the House? - WSJ Opinion

Near-zero rates and asset purchases were sold as a response to the pandemic emergency. With Covid-19 fading and the economy’s health improving, shouldn’t the Fed be returning quickly to normal—or at least to a slightly less abnormal—policy stance?

Wonky but true. This is no longer an “emergency” in any sense of the word.

How committee members think they can project with any certainty the shape of the economy or appropriate monetary policy in 2½ years is a mystery. And everyone knows it.

ProPublica’s Plan for a Poorer America - WSJ Opinion

ProPublica laments that taxpayers are acting “perfectly legally” in not paying a federal wealth tax, which doesn’t exist.

Experts in conflation wrote that PP piece

Private investment has created $32 trillion of equity wealth in America. “Public investment” has created $21 trillion of public debt. Proponents of a federal property tax on wealth offer guarantees and protections that they will only tax the superrich like Mr. Buffett, promising not to touch your retirement plan, home, farm or business. But the federal income tax started out only taxing the superrich like John D. Rockefeller. The same politicians who promise to protect you from the federal wealth tax voted to impose income taxes on “wealthy” Social Security retirees with an annual incomes above $25,000. And these are the same politicians who are proposing to tax your businesses and farms at 43.4% when you die, before they take another 40% in death taxes.

I didn’t think that moving my daughter to sleep in the office would be so disruptive to my productivity.

Totally worth the quiet sleep at night, tho.

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Supreme Court Exempts Catholic Foster-Care Agency From Nondiscrimination Law - WSJ

Philadelphia prevailed in lower courts, but the Supreme Court, particularly with the arrival of three Trump appointees since 2017, has repeatedly found that secular laws and regulations must yield to the requirements of religious exercise.

True that those three Justices played a role, but it should be strongly noted that this case was unanimous.

The California and Texas Greenouts - WSJ Opinion

Millions of Texans lost power in February amid an Arctic blast that froze power plant equipment including wind turbines. Climate activists blamed fossil-fuel plants for not rescuing the state though they supplied power that more than compensated for the ebbing wind power. Texas was also berated for not “weatherizing” power plants to operate in frigid conditions. But heat waves are common in Texas. So what’s the excuse now?

Number of things on AppleTV+ I’d like to watch: 0.

Number of dollars I’ve paid for months of access: $0.

Coincidence?