Daryl Sng
@darylsng.com
Public sector strategy & energy/environment consulting at Accenture. Former Singapore diplomat & climate policy guy. Proud papa. Loves cities, wordplay, trivia, food, sport. Pronounced “suhng”
Joy! Not being sarcastic. I'm wearing fleece-lined pants today, and it's 83F outside
Capital Weather@capitalweather.com · yesterdayGet ready to sweat. A prolonged surge of tropical humidity is headed for the DC area, with oppressive dew points, heat indexes nearing 100 and almost daily storm chances for more than a week. Details: www.capitalweather.com/a-surge-of-o...
I hate that so many flavoured sodas say "natural flavours" when they mean stevia. Bought a 6-pack of Liquid Death root beer and basically spat out the first sip.
Looks like this will be my Paris & London year: found a ridiculously good points deal for a Virgin Atlantic flight to London for Thanksgiving week.
This summer, if you're foraging for mushrooms, always remember to take care and look at what you're gathering! I remember watching a documentary where an Italian plumber touched a mushroom and it caused him to double in size
Also very Bluesky to see a quote of the CEO saying he wants Bluesky to be “not just liberal politics”, assume he means “we want the conservatives here”, and rant, instead of actually seeing the full quote, where that statement is followed by how Bluesky should be the place for sports
An example of UI that is trying to be helpful but ends up being annoying is when iPhones capitalise the next word when entering in names or addresses for a contact... I always invariably hit the shift and accidentally de-capitalise the name because no other name-input form does that
I sometimes see people say "do you know that if you're a native English speaker you have internalised a natural order of adjectives that ESL learners have to learn?" ("Big bad wolf" vs "bad big wolf") While that is true, it's not unique to English - it's in fact pretty universal to all languages.
With heat deaths this has happened forever, and it's not just discourse but affects public policy. In most cases: grandma died not because she was old and infirm, grandma died because you didn't have good policies that made sure she got to somewhere with air-conditioning
Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 2d agoNot a big fan of the "sick, elderly and/or disabled people don't count" discourse that appears to follow public health disasters these days.
It’s weird to think that literally only two weeks ago, Gianni Infantino was sitting pretty having wrapped up a successful World Cup
Yes, it’s not a minority opinion, it’s a vast consensus. The problem with getting support for cash transfers is a political one, not an economic one
川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸@nkfinity.bsky.social · 4d agoStuff like this is what makes the left’s aversion of economics so silly. There’s strong consensus amongst economists that cash transfers to the poor are great!
I ran The Stranger through an Al checker, and it confirmed that the book was indeed written by Al (bert Camus)
Seems unfair, when CBS hired Romo there was already plenty of video proof that he couldn’t lead a successful drive in Wisconsin
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 5d agoFormer NFL quarterback Tony Romo is “on leave,” a week after he was arrested in Milwaukee on suspicion of impaired driving, CBS Sports says.
Was so happy to find this recording of the Polka Dot Door theme song. One of the shows I watched quite a bit as part of my raised-by-TV childhood. IIRC it either came before or after Rainbow
Does Joyce Carol Oates talking to Emily Wilson about the Odyssey pass the Bechdel test?
Looks like CONCACAF is joining UEFA in opposing the FIFA proposal to sell shares of the World Cup. For reference, North America and the Caribbean makes up about 20% of World Cup broadcasting rights revenue, and UEFA about 32%. So that's over half of all broadcasting revenue against the proposal
I’ve spent a good part of today just watching versions of Glen Hansard singing “Falling Slowly” with different people (including Marketa Irglova of course) and it still breaks me everytime. That song is absolutely, perfectly, crushing. RIP
This month I’m trying not to be the type of reader who only likes the beginning of things - completed 3 novels that I started in early June, and finished another 4 books I started this month.
I don't think my brain will ever default to reading POS as "point of sale"
Tony Romo leading another failed drive in Wisconsin
CNN@cnn.com · last wk.Bodycam footage released by the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office shows former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo being arrested on suspicion of operating while under the influence. CNN has reached out to Romo’s lawyers for comment.
This is the part I don't get about the NYC grocery store discussion - it's a pilot. Governments should try stuff, and when it's new stuff, it's prudent to try that out in limited ways and build on the successes. Great to see government innovation
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · last wk.like, i am skeptical the grocery store thing will work, but it might! that’s the point of a small pilot! a small pilot is not just “doing stuff”, it’s attempting to solve a problem on a small scale to see if you can learn how to solve larger problems using similar approaches
This could be the plot of a Chaucer tale
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last wk.It took a team of crack surgeons to resolve this situation.
Discovered that the Singapore Straits Times (Sunday Times) used to run a crossword, back even before I was born. Very pithy clues, a few unchecked squares.
Culinary history: curry appeared on British menus and cookbooks almost a century before fish and chips. The first known curry recipe in English is from Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, published in 1748. Meanwhile fish and chips as a combined dish exists only from the 1860s
How many houses down is it fair to still describe someone as your neighbour? Assume this is an American suburb of single-family homes
I get why people say "Westerners working in Asia shouldn't call themselves expats, they're immigrants" but that to me seems like a very Western-centric perspective, which assumes that the only issue is that soi-disant expats feel above the (presumed poorer) country that they live in