30 April 2024

The city of Seattle might be using a drone-powered paint sprayer to get rid of graffiti. Might making doing so a little fun, as I'm sure it's a drudge to do in some of the more precarious places.

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What San Francisco is getting wrong about homelessness.  Yeah, "harm reduction" is anything but. Stop the addiction doom-loop. Yeah, it's painful in the beginning, but eventually it helps get people back on track.

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There's new consideration to open up Kalaupapa to tourists. It's one of the most beautiful places in Hawaii, and I regret not taking the mule ride down to the colony when I had a chance.

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Small business in America is also on a downward trajectory. Rent delinquency is at a 3-year high, and 43% of small business couldn't pay their rent in April.

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People are finding out that the alam on the iPhone 15 isn't reliable.  Apparently Apple incorporated an Attention Aware feature, where if you are looking at the phone, the alarm is silenced immediately. But it seems there's a glitch, and it thinks you're looking at the camera, when you're not.  Talk about over-engineering.

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