Seattle refuses to reopen an otherwise finished park at Pike Place Market because [checks notes]
Some totem poles are not re-installed yet.
Via @stellasunwx at KOMO
🧵🚨 1. Of all the deceptive sales techniques the U.S. government has used on the American people, one of them—the Social Security Act—gets far too little attention. Buckle up because this is a wild ride.
Washington state had the highest loss in manufacturing jobs from 2019-23.
Yet another indication that Washington's tax and regulatory environment is harming job creation.
More regulation and government spending will make it worse, not better. - https://t.co/HrjfvyuvV9 #waleg
Taunting the crowd while the play is going on — with your back to the field — and then tipping the ball to the wide receiver to lose on a Hail Mary is a hell of a film review.
WA VOTER ALERT! 🚨 Vote YES on all four statewide initiatives. Lower gas prices, demand better climate policy, choose whether to use natural gas or electricity in your home, stop the state from sneaking through an income tax, and make your own decision about long-term care.
“proponents of the capital gains tax have already created new legislation (SB5335) to drastically lower the threshold at which the capital gains tax applies (down from $262,000 to $15,000) while also increasing the rate from 7% to 8.5%.”
- Vijay Boyapati @VijayInWA
That’s exactly right, Vijay! It’s a nefarious back door income tax that crushes innovation, and it’s clear Democrats will expand it to the rest of us.
Vote Yes, Pay Less on I-2109!
Since your handle is “Whole Mars”, perhaps this lengthy reply is apropos:
Getting the cost per ton to the surface of Mars low enough that humanity has the resources to make life multiplanetary requires a roughly 1000X improvement in rocket & spacecraft technology.
Recent US Mars missions have had a cost per ton of useful load to the surface of Mars of about $1B. Moreover, it has become more, not less, expensive over time!
To build a city on Mars that can grow by itself likely requires at least a million tons of equipment, which would therefore require >$1000 trillion, an obviously impossible number, given that US GDP is only $29T.
However, if rocket technology can be improved by 1000X, then the cost of becoming sustainably multiplanetary would drop to ~$1T, which could be spread out over 40 or more years, so <$25B/year.
At that cost, it becomes possible to make life multiplanetary, ensuring the long-term survival of life as we know it, without materially affecting people’s standard of living on Earth.
Starship is designed to achieve a >1000X improvement over existing systems and, especially after yesterday’s booster catch and precise ocean landing of the ship, I am now convinced that it can work.
The investigation was conducted by Dr. Stefan Weber, a famed Austrian "plagiarism hunter" who has taken down politicians in the German-speaking world. We independently confirmed multiple violations, which are comparable in severity to the plagiarism found in former Harvard president Claudine Gay's doctoral thesis.