Dan Smith

A screenshot of an survey question from Apple asking: How do you typically listen to Apple Music? Select all that apply. • On my smartphone • In my car • On my home speakers • On my tablet • On my TV Other (specify): Under “other” the user has entered “On my Mac.” And, in retrospect, wishes he had added several exclamation marks.

I took Apple’s feedback survey for Apple Music and was surprised to see that for the question “How do you listen to Apple Music?“ the possible answers did not include “on my computer.” Which maybe goes some way towards explaining why the Mac Music app is so bad. @siracusa.social

The person who named them woofers and tweeters should have named more stuff.

James Madison:
“No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value … than that the proportion of representation ought to bear some relation to the population.”
And
“The right of the people to choose their representatives is the primary basis of our republicanism”

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“On June 15, 1992, [Dan] Quayle altered 12-year-old student William Figueroa's correct spelling of "potato" to "potatoe" at the Muñoz Rivera Elementary School spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey. He was the subject of widespread ridicule for his error.” — @wikipedia.org

I’m looking forward to a repeat of the election integrity freakout: “It doesn’t matter that the data is correct. What matters is that people *feel* like the data is correct.”

That phone pocket outline is a problem I’ve had with some jeans. I don’t think it looks good.

Official US economic statistics are no longer reliable and community efforts will be needed to replace them. Reply “YES” to this post if you have a job and “NO” if you don’t. Later on someone can count them.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Some of them could be impeached tomorrow.

You'll never guess how old Adele was we she recorded "When We Were Young" and "Million Years Ago" for the album *25*.

Convicted of murder in Venezuela. Freed by the Trump administration. The case of Dahud Hanid Ortíz, a U.S.-Venezuelan citizen brought home in Trump’s prisoner swap, has upset U.S. allies and sown division in the State Department.

Somebody should make a graph counting actual murderers sent to the US from international prisons, by year.

My reference point: family of four, live in Northern California, careful about dining out budget, have spent over $15k on food each of the last three years. Not sure how that would scale down to one or two people. But like, $20k annually on food doesn’t seem insane to me.

Mass Deportation: Analyzing the Trump Administration's Attacks on Immigrants, Democracy, and America - American Immigration Council The first six months of President Trump’s return to office have marked the most extreme changes to the immigration system in modern U.S. history.

Jan–Jul 2025: Abandoning fundamental American values to radically change immigration policy, animated by the lie that foreigners of all kinds and statuses are an inherent threat to native-born Americans. Causing suffering, fear, and instability for millions inside and outside the country.

I cheated with Wikipedia (sorry, @merriam-webster.com) and found that “A more restrictive and technical definition requires that homonyms be simultaneously homographs and homophones.”

So informally it’s a union in the Venn diagram, but formally it mat be intended as an intersection.

Is every homonym also a homophone, in the way every square is a kind of rectangle?

I visited the Topaz War Relocation Center with my daughter in 2022 for school so we could learn about what a horrible thing it was, and resolve never to do something like that again.

I wonder if teachers in Utah are still allowed to express the opinion that concentration camps are bad.

ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.

July 4, 2025: Increasing healthcare premiums in the private market (serving over 20 million people) by 75%.

Chart showing risk of being murdered in the subway if you rode 500 times last year (0.4 in 100,000) versus other risks such as that of dying in a traffic accident in the US last year (12.1 in 100,000)

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

Have you heard about Java? It’s pretty good.

Just discovered @adobe.com has the best subscription policy, everybody else should adopt it: cancel within 14 days of payment, and they'll automatically refund you.

“It was a very healthy reciprocal acceptance of suffering,” he said. “Which does not mean being defeated by suffering. Acceptance is not defeat. Acceptance is just awareness.” He smiled in anticipation of the callback: “ ‘You gotta learn to love the bomb,’ ” he said. “Boy, did I have a bomb when I was 10. That was quite an explosion. And I learned to love it. So that's why. Maybe, I don't know. That might be why you don't see me as someone angry and working out my demons onstage. It's that I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.” I love the thing that I most wish had not happened. I asked him if he could help me understand that better, and he described a letter from Tolkien in response to a priest who had questioned whether Tolkien's mythos was sufficiently doctrinaire, since it treated death not as a punishment for the sin of the fall but as a gift. “Tolkien says, in a letter back: ‘What punishments of God are not gifts?’ ” Colbert knocked his knuckles on the table. “ ‘What punishments of God are not gifts?’ ” he said again. His eyes were filled with tears. “So it would be ungrateful not to take everything with gratitude. It doesn't mean you want it. I can hold both of those ideas in my head.”

when i think of Colbert, i think of an interview he gave to GQ when he first took over The Late Show, and had this to say about losing his father and brothers in a plane crash. www.gq.com/story/stephe...

RNC Chair Reince Priebus condemns Trump for obscene comments about women in 2005 video Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus said "no woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about" like Donald Trump did in the video.

They could have been rid of him on October 7, 2016. They can impeach him tomorrow.

TIL Majel Barrett ≠ Major Garrett

The irony is that nothing is more antithetical to following Jesus than adopting this worldview. “Don’t do that” was his central message.

Serpent: "Why would God grow this fruit in the garden, if not for the obvious purpose of having you eat it?"

Why is “I took this vaccine and I didn’t get sick” never considered legitimate data?

Get rid of "million" and jump right to "billion" ("bi"=followed by two '000' digit groups, "tri"=followed by three '000' digit groups, etc.)