Good luck to the NASA/SpaceX teams today!

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The gardeners at the zoo have been hard at work. The grounds were gorgeous!

First trip to the zoo in a while.

Hertz Was Already in Terrible Shape. The Pandemic Finished It Off. - WSJ

I last rented from Hertz in the mid-2010s. The car was garbage and the customer service was pathetic.

Also glad to see Carl Icahn take a $1.5B loss.

The unified Walmart app is horrible. 4 hours of background activity in the past 24 hours. Background app refresh: disabled.

Lazy engineering!

China’s Plan to Make Permanent Health Tracking on Smartphones Stirs Concern - WSJ

was considering a new, permanent version of the tool that would assign each person a colored health badge based on a collation of their medical records

Who could’ve seen this coming?

I prefer angel hair.

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House is clean. Now I don’t want to make dinner. 🍽

Governor Whitmer Orders Citizens To Barbecue Indoors - The Babylon Bee

Anyone who disobeys the order will be put on time-out and sent to bed without any dessert. Those who continually disobey will be grounded and have their Nintendo privileges taken away.

First gust. ⛈

Beware of Moralistic Narratives of the Lockdown Debate - WSJ

It’s not a simple moral story of Science versus Ignorance, of Right versus Wrong. But that wouldn’t really fit the narrative, would it?

Gerry on point!

China to Draft New National-Security Law for Hong Kong - WSJ

a draft resolution to allow the National People’s Congress to chart legislation aimed at stopping secessionist and subversive activity, foreign interference and terrorism in the city.

China, unmasked.

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A bad night’s sleep is tough to come back from. 🌔

U.S. Arrests Former Green Beret, Son, in Connection with Carlos Ghosn Escape From Japan - WSJ

federal prosecutors said they were acting on a request from Japanese authorities to extradite Michael L. Taylor and his son, Peter M. Taylor, for their alleged roles

Oops.

I think it’s time for iOS to give users control over app versions the way that macOS does.

The forced-update model is harmful to users. This is especially true when apps auto-update to new versions with subscription models and no path to reversion, let alone show-stopping bugs.