Jeff Berner

Climatehawk. Democrat. Sounder Til I Die. Boeing Airplanes (retired). MIT alum. Progressive Christian. Cascadia Bio-region. Hike-Bike-Ski-Swim some.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@jonostrower FWIW the Boeing 787 team war-gamed this scenario when planning for major repairs.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@DeptOfDFENS @jonostrower 787 engineer here. Do you really think that we are idiots?

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@BasedMikeLee Hey aren’t you the senator from the state with no water in Lake Powell and a dried up Great Salt Lake? Seems pretty alarming to me.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@NoahRiffe I have a close friend that cancelled premium tickets for Seattle's World Cup worth many thousands of dollars when he was told that he couldn't bring a water bottle in for last year's FIFA Club World Cup. Yeah, he was that pissed.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@NoahRiffe But have to buy Dasani water from FIFA World Cup sponsor Coca Cola.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@stevemur Hot take. If Metro were run like a business rather than a public service then low-ridership routes to the suburbs of King County would be cut and more frequent bus service would be added to urban core of Seattle-Bellevue. The money losing routes are in the suburbs during daytime.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@stevemur There are some bus systems, like over in Leavenworth, where the cost of the collection system is more than the revenue that is brought in. Should Leavenworth not have a bus system at all?

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@WashingtonSRC Let's be honest here. The real problem is that folks are avoiding paying for road maintenance by driving across the border to Idaho for cheaper gas or filling up at tribal gas stations. States that have an income tax can keep gas taxes lower because general revenue funds roads.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@JimWalshLD19 US Dought Monitor at Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln takes into account many datasets including precipitation, soil moisture content, evaporation & long term trends to determine whether a region is in drought. Over the western US there has been very low precipitation & high temp.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@JimWalshLD19 As of May 1, WA Dept of Ecology was showing precipitation to be roughly normal for the water year in the Upper Yakama Basin. The low snowpack though and the higher percentage of rain is a characteristic of what global warming is projected to be like in the future.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@JimWalshLD19 As of May 1, WA Dept of Ecology was showing snowpack at 16% of median (1/6th of normal) in Upper Yakama Basin, which meant that stream flows in August were projected to be very low in August, ranging between of 1/3 to 1/2 of a typical year. That is drought-like conditions.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@JimWalshLD19 UW Climate Impacts Group projects that reservoirs will fill early under global warming because more precipitation comes as rain rather than snow. See Yakama River. Just because reservoirs are full in June doesn't mean that there will be water through a hot August.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@asher_971 Gee, I "wonder" who DeBene is carrying water for. Microsoft is a major funder of every transit advocacy group and none will tell the emperor that he has no clothes. There is no route. No business case. And no way to pay for it.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

This is the new map of Gaza.

Nearly 2 million people — most of them displaced — are now crammed into just 133 square kilometers. That is nearly 15,000 people per km².

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@mattyglesias Unwinding this policy is going to be very difficult as every corn farmer in Iowa has capitalized their farm based upon maximizing yield on every acre owned. My suggestion would be to provide more incentives/subsidies for taking land out-of-production.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@stevemur True, B&O is a very bad tax. Washington has looked at replacement in margin tax or value added tax. Just needs some business leaders stepping up to advocate for it.
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[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@WAPolicyGreen @JayInslee WPC should advocate for data privacy. Auto manufacturers, Insurance companies, Anti-theft devices, and governments should not be allowed to aggregate and re-market personal data. Tracking data needs to be regulated.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@WAPolicyGreen @AffableAlpaca @JayInslee 60% of vehicles are light trucks and SUVs where fleet average mileage is 18 mpg. Looking at new vehicles may not be the best way to evaluate the policy.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@WAPolicyGreen @JayInslee Washington's RUC would have replaced the $225 Electric Vehicle registration fees, which would be more or less revenue neutral to EV owners. It would be easiest for Washington to adopt Oregon's EV RUC and enter into an inter-state compact to address cross-state revenue.

[Jeff Berner @Pyth_of_Samos]

@cenkuygur Inflation! Biden utterly failed in naming the cause of inflation. You have to tell a narrative as to WHY something happened. Voters never heard the why.