🛸 Miscellaneous
- DOGE feels like an eternity ago
- Jimmy Kimmel’s ousting was so brief but inordinately impactful.
- No King’s Protests are having a real type of influence.
- Sidewalks should have a slow and fast walking lane.
- Calling a hotdog “a glizzy” is hilarious, but should be illegal outside of Washington DC.
- If you are using your phone in public, other people have the right to look at your screen.
- All two-factor authentication is fake and should be optional rather than forced.
- The drinking age in America should be 18, not 21.
- We need to build public playgrounds for adults.
- We need remunerations for people who were told they’d need to know cursive.
- Going to the movies and/or a restaurant by yourself is a form of therapy.
- Kraft Mac and Cheese is better than 99% of restaurant Mac and Cheese.
🚕 If you use a rideshare app in NYC, the latest NBER study may save you $:
Among consumers who opened either the Uber or the Lyft app on a given day, only 16 percent opened the other. The report found that the average absolute price gap between Uber and Lyft was approximately $3.50, representing roughly 14 percent of the average fare price, with higher gaps for longer rides. Price differences exceeded $1 about 75 percent of the time, and the distribution of price gaps was relatively symmetric, meaning neither platform was consistently cheaper. NYC riders collectively forgo approximately $300 million in potential annual savings by not comparing prices between platforms. Consumers may benefit from comparing prices more regularly. The market could also become more competitive if there were increased access to price aggregators, reducing search frictions.
In sum—check Lyft and Uber before booking a ride.
🐢 Well, a random Youtube Animator has made the coolest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles adaptation since the originals. No AI was used.
🔭 In 1609, Galileo made six watercolor paintings of the moon for his book, Starry Messenger, from one of the earliest iterations of a telescope. These paintings are the first realistic depiction of the Moon in human history and lie squarely at the intersection of art and science. Captivating, isn’t it?
If you’re a vampire and trying to get invited into a house, whats your best angle and/or sales pitch? Go.
(Today’s conversation starter brought to you by Sinners)
🖊️ My older brother, a city councilman in Oregon, wrote an open letter to government officals expressing his serious concern over the overreach of ICE in his state:
An agency that operates outside constitutional boundaries forfeits its legitimacy as a law enforcement institution. An agency that disregards due process, lawful authority, and civil protections becomes a risk to public safety, not a guarantor of it.
Excellent reminder of the constitutional rights at stake and the legal precedent that undergirds them. Please take time to read the whole thing.
🛸 Not sure what it says about my personal interests and/or lifestyle when all of my personally targeted ads are for senior citizen products.
❄️ Gorgeous snowfall in NYC today.
A stranger at a coffee shop warned me not to face the windows, lest I be too distracted to read.
“I’ll make no such promise,” I told them.
One hour of daydreaming later, I had to take their advice. ❤️
🛸 For those who have a hard time describing their emotions—the feelings wheel.
💉 Apologies if blood makes you queasy! But here’s the easiest way to make a massive difference in your community—literally, while lying down. NYC residents can set their appointment here. 🙃
🇻🇪 It has no real bearing on my life, but knowing that Venezuelan President Maduro is being held in a Brooklyn prison roughly three miles from my apartment makes me feel strange.
🎥 Casey Neistat’s latest video about this young man with Cerebral Palsy running the NYC Marathon is so encouraging, heartwarming, and dignifying. It’s worth the 9-minute watch. Disclaimer: you may want to grab a tissue.
😱 Had a dream that Timothee Chalamet was cast to play Eminem in a biopic.
Finished my last final of the semester, which gives me few weeks worth of free evenings until next session, not to mention a lot of head space. What will I do with all this time? 🤔
🇺🇸 Kyle Tharp with an intriguing breakdown of this year’s top political conversations, based on social media engagement.
Brief thoughts:
🚊 If you live in NYC, then you should live in constant readiness—or fear—of Kareem Rahma from Subway Takes appearing and asking you for your own unique/controversial opinion. In case you don’t have one, here are some of mine for free:
HMU if you want more or feel free to comment your own on this post. Stay ready friends ✊