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

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

While Biden did misstate China’s GDP growth rate, he is right that China’s economy faces serious challenge that is unseen in at least 20 years. The official youth unemployment rate is 21.3%, and the actual rate might be as high as 46.5%.

ProPublica is easily the best U.S. news source I’ve ever seen.

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

Funny thing that another Westminster Mall (in Westminster, CA) is also not doing well and there are rumors that it will be closed soon.