The Daily Parker

I'm having a series of productive days lately, which has taken me away from wasting a bunch of time. So for example, I haven't yet today read these items:

• A group of Redditors has put a short squeeze on two hedge funds to the tune of billions of dollars, and there was much rending of clothes that kind of, sort of, made the Redditors' point for them.
• Journalist Yudhijit Bhattacharjee investigates a source of thieving phone scams in India.
• From November 2019, National Geographic explains how a phenomenon called "true polar wander," caused when the entire surface of the planet rotates around the core, in turn caused massive climate shifts 174 million years ago.
• General Motors announced it will cease making gasoline-powered cars within 14 years.
• The Chicago Transit Authority released renderings of the four new Red Line stations whose $2 billion construction project will affect my neighborhood for the next two years. Of course, we get another 120 years of functioning public transit out of the deal, so we're not complaining.

And all of this on the coldest day in two years, in a month in which most days have had no sunlight. But hey, we're still having an abnormally-mild winter, so again, we're not complaining.