@paygoldengirl@206voter@hannahkrieg And fair enforcement is not gone, it was briefly during covid and then it was back. 206 Voter do you actually live here?
For the map
1. https://t.co/vHLPBkhbrg
For video calls
2. https://t.co/6ZssQJhUEV
Zoom is good, there are probably better free apps but I am just conaidering the problem
3. The database of users can be anything, small start is fine.
Ill have to review their actual product goals
You can hate sales tax, and I do, but to be clear, Mayor Wilson is doubling the small portion that pays for Seattle Transit Measure. It's not doubling from 10% to 20%, but rather adding .15%
Are you OK with this?
In June, the U.S. government began pulling more than 900 deep-sea instruments out of the ocean.
Instruments that have spent a decade tracking ocean temperatures, storm formation, and the currents that determine whether the American interior gets rain or drought.
This network cost $48 million a year to operate. That is less than half the price of a single F-35 fighter jet.
Think this doesn't affect you because you live far from the ocean? The Gulf of Mexico's surface temperature determines how much rain falls on Midwest farms. Ocean data is crop data. It is flood data. It is drought data.
If a current political party doesn't like what the data shows, just stop collecting it.
Is that the country you want to live in?
The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.
We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.
Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.
This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.
🚨BREAKING: The Secretary of Homeland Security just admitted, on camera, that he is going to violate your First Amendment right to free speech.
He said, “I have ZERO tolerance. If you verbally assault our officers… we will find you, we will arrest you.”
Except… that’s not how the First Amendment works.
Unless someone is making a credible threat of violence, speech… even rude, angry, or insulting speech… is still protected.
That’s the whole point of a free speech clause… to protect the people from situations where those in power don’t like what’s being said.
So, when a top federal official starts framing “verbal assault” as something you can be arrested for, without clearly defining it as an actual threat…
It stops sounding like protecting officers, and starts sounding like a government trying to silence people who speak out against it.
NEW: A fast-growing AI weapons company founded by a "radical Zionist" is quietly building autonomous warships in Seattle's ship canal. Kayak-tivists paddled over the weekend to raise awareness. https://t.co/0mnoBHOw9P
How does this even happen⁉️😭
A woman somehow drove her car onto Seattle’s elevated light rail tracks at Mount Baker Station on Wednesday evening, bringing train service to a halt. 😳🚆
Witnesses say the driver told people she was “following GPS” after ending up on the tracks and driving a significant distance before getting stuck. The vehicle had to be removed from the guideway, causing major delays for riders across the 1 Line. #DUBSEA
https://t.co/0nzzNPtC7R
For me it was the Iraq war where I was confused when I saw the ratio of Iraqi dead in a day, 700,
To 2 american pilots who tried playing "chicken" with jets.
When did you notice that something was strange in our endless wars?
Fife residents & conservationists are campaigning to prevent plans for a giant AI data centre in rural Fife. It’s one of the world’s biggest AI data centres. It has been calculated that it would use the energy of more than 50% of Scotland's households. No one voted for this.