https://www.scrapehero.com/location-reports

Enter a franchise name, find out how many stores there are in the U.S.

Death toll is at least 36 now

I grew up in Beijing but live in the U.S. now. This is not the worst flood in the city’s modern history (the one in 2012 killed ~80 people), but my impression is that this time (coupled with the rare heat wave several weeks ago) it’s really a wake-up call for Beijingers on climate change. I’ve heard people saying “scientists were warning about climate change as early as the 1990s, but this is the first time when the effect is right in front of our eyes.”

Non-paywalled version

An interesting read from 2017 about how wealthy Americans, especially tech bros on the west coast, scramble to prepare for societal breakdown by e.g. purchasing “survival condos”. It features Steve Hoffman, a.k.a. u/spez of Reddit, who was quoted as saying:

Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.

This must have something to do with how App Store calculates the score. I heard that if there are a huge number of 1 stars in a short period of time, they are not included. Not sure if that’s true though