When things are going well

Ukraine to fire all regional military recruitment chiefs

Ukraine has faced recruitment challenges as the war with Russia nears the 18-month mark and the military is occasionally hit by scandals revealing graft or heavy-handed recruitment tactics.

I guess you could describe kidnapping as a "heavy-handed recruitment tactic"

You can log me out, but I will never log off

I figured that the canal was filled with ocean water, I'm sure there was some design purpose in keeping it freshwater when you wouldn't have this problem with ocean water but it seems like a very poor choice at the moment.

Social media posts of "baby announcements" complete with several staged photographs, but it's for a puppy or kitten

Damn, that's some serious distance. I did 70 miles (about 140 km) on my ebike last week and was definitely feeling it towards the end. Taking my bike with me on vacation next week and I'm hoping to break 100 miles.

I used to run a lot but never really enjoyed it, cycling is so much more fun because you can actually go places in a reasonable amount of time.

Flesh color: If you split them in half Chanterelles will have a white interior, JOL will be orangish

This is the most surefire way to identify chanterelles for sure. They will also peel apart like string cheese down the stipe, which should not be hollow.

When trying to get an ID on mushrooms, best practice is to get a picture of the whole mushroom from pretty much every angle (top, side view, underside of cap), a cross section of the stipe (stem) and cap, and a picture of the place where it's growing. We also need to know the general location in the world for an accurate ID, and a description of the growth environment (what kind of trees are in the forest around you, what kind of tree is the mushroom growing on, etc.) can be helpful. All mushrooms outside of Asia can be handled, nibbled on and spit out safely, taste and odor are sometimes relevant to an ID as well. The multiple picture angles and world location are the most important things, though.

They are probably jacks (Omphalotus spp.) although it's hard to say for sure without more pictures and a location would be needed to narrow down the species. They are definitely not chanterelles.

South Florida and Phoenix immediately come to mind when I think of really terrible suburban design. Not a whole lot of high density zoning, just a massive sprawl of developments with only one or two exits to main roads so it takes like 45 minutes to walk a few hundred feet as the crow flies. Limited or no sidewalks, no effective mass transit, mixed-use zoning nonexistent. Population density is a great indicator as to how poorly designed a big city is.

Phoenix: 1.64M pop, 518 square miles Philadelphia: 1.57M pop, 134 square miles

Pretty easy to guess which one of these is easier to survive in without a car.

I love the game but it is very much carbrained.

1. Even if you make mass transit free and directly point-to-point, citizens will still opt to sit in traffic in their cars unless there is no road connecting their start and destination. Even then, they will often materialize a taxi to get to and from the mass transit hubs.

2. There is no way to directly connect freight trains to industrial areas, you MUST have trucks take the goods from the (massive) freight station to the buildings.

3. At least in the vanilla game, you can only have zoning around a road that allows cars. This is by far the biggest problem. You cannot zone on a bus-only road, tram tracks, or pedestrian path.