It Makes Sense to Someone, Somewhere:
Do not 'push a slower friend down' if you encounter a bear, National Park Service warns.
If the bear notices you, you should "identify yourself" as a human…
Identifying as human…yeah…I don’t think the most popular species on Earth at the moment.
If I do come across a bear I am going to take my chances and identify as an albatross.
Also, beware of the feral cows.
>interchange is going on Spring break and will be back on Monday, April 17th - depending on if we encounter any bears and/or overly-aggressive bovines. If we don’t come back, tell our fellow albatrosses we went down fighting.
TOP 5 for the Week
>01. It’s Not Just Silicon Valley Bank — Americans Haven’t Trusted Banks For Years.
via FiveThirtyEight
In a 2022 survey, just 36 percent of Americans said they had a very or somewhat positive view of the banking industry, down from 40 percent the year before. Compare that to the 60 percent of Americans who have a positive view of the restaurant industry, or 57 percent who have a positive view of the farming industry.
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>02. Can Tearing Down Freeways Bring New Life to Cities?
via YES Magazine
The area near Park East has seen increased property values and created more space for pedestrians and recreation. Moreover, its rebirth as a lower-capacity boulevard has decreased emissions from the thousands of vehicles that once passed overhead daily.
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Widening Highways Doesn’t Fix Traffic. So Why Do We Keep Doing It?
In a Baltimore Suburb, NIMBYism Is Starving a Transit System.
>03. The age of the Silicon Valley moonshot is over.
via The Washington Post
The Waymo layoffs are just the latest example of a new reality that has settled over Big Tech: The age of the moonshots is over.
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>04. Future Fords Could Repossess Themselves and Drive Away if You Miss Payments.
via The Drive
The first thing to know is that if your vehicle is connected to the internet in any way, this system could theoretically work on it. The application likewise describes a "repossession computer" that could be installed on future cars to make this system function smoothly, but it also states no extra hardware necessarily needs to be installed on the vehicle for it to function.
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>05. How The Netherlands Built a Biking Utopia
via Distilled
With this blank canvas, the Netherlands didn’t immediately set out to build a biking utopia. In fact, the opposite happened. Like many countries around the world, the post-war era was a golden age for the personal automobile.
In 1950, there were 139,000 cars in The Netherlands. 20 years later there were 3.4 million.
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Tangents
Daylight Saving Time 2023: How to get used to a different sleep schedule.
Daylight Saving Time: Maps Show Why We Disagree About 'Spring Forward'.
I’m 53 years old. I’m 36 in my head. ← who here hasn’t seen a celebrity on tv - usually one that has been out of the limelight for a while - and thought, ‘wow they are old looking’! And then find out they are younger than you.
Quote for the Week
God created man, but I could do better.
Erma Bombeck
Best for the week ahead!
-Tim