Notices by Daniel Howard 🌻 (dannyman@sfba.social)

Every decade or so I visit a Starbucks in good faith, and wind up disappointed enough that I have to write a whiney review about it, only to discover that I have rewritten almost the same review I had written about another Starbucks a decade earlier.

I have a similar relationship to Microsoft Windows as I do to Starbucks.

@clacke yes Trump is slightly more digestible when filtered through skilled comedians. Bless those folks!

I usually watch State of the Union type addresses, but not tonight:

1) I'm already exhausted.
2) There will be no good news.
3) Cheeto King craves ratings.

The US and New Zealand are the only countries that allow direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2801060

@evan parents "shouldn't" have to do anything.

So I voted strong no.

Would I let my kid on? Strong maybe.

@yogthos microsplinters

Oh, look. When you allow more housing to be built, the cost of housing goes down.

https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/berkeley-rents-fall-amid-construction

@evan 2c: rerun this poll with options: (I am white|I am PoC) and I say (yes|no)

Yesterday, my local Mastodon admins called for people to donate voluntarily. So much money was pledged that today they posted a poll asking how many months of reserve funding they should keep on hand before donating the overage to charity.

Meanwhile, Elon's breaking Twitter because he desperately needs cash.