13 January 2024

A warming fire, likely started by a homeless person, resulted in an art gallery catching fire, and priceless artworks being damaged. How much more will Seattle put up with until they start to deal with the homeless problem?

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Afterlife Industry? There's a risk that someone may recreate you after you are dead, without your consent. Not likely to happen to me, but there are some for which this might not be desirable. But what are you to do? Especially if the part that is recreated is something that puts you in a bad light?

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Jerry Nadler says illegals are needed to do menial tasks. I could easily see Nadler advocating for continued slavery back in the 1850s.

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Much ado about probably nothing. There's been so much Omicron floating around that I am quite confident that EVERYONE has been exposed to the virus by now. Everyone. So that if you are unvaccinated (as I am) you have natural immunity. I would be that the ongoing exposure to Omicron variants, which have been everywhere, is the best vaccine you can get. And if you haven't been ill, your immunity is probably very good. So this report that JN.1 is now the dominant variant in Oregon is quite the yawner for me. But if you have had the vax, you probably have the well-described immune imprinting, and can't fully mount a good response against newer variants. The last mRNA vax update from Pfizer was against the XBB.1.5 variant, and XBB variants make up only 16% of all variants in Oregon.
Oh, and Fauci admits he lied. This is why trust in doctors has really declined lately.

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SCOTUS is going to review the Martin v Boise case (in the Johnson vs Grants Pass case). Let's hope they rule more sensibly, because the homeless are ruining our cities. Yes, taxpayers have the right to clean cities. Maybe this will force the drug abusers into treatment.

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Clackamas County dismantles their DEI Office. Clackamas County was always more conservative than the rest.

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Who thought this was a good idea?  Rolling blackouts will be a fact of life on Oahu.  The Kapolei Telsa battery site is online again and Oahu will have to deal with the rolling blackouts. What crap.

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The Chinese have developed a nuclear battery, the Betavolt BV100, based on nickel-63.  Nuclear batteries have existed before, but have not been commercially available to regular consumers for various reasons. The Chinese hope this will catch on and sell.

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People on Reddit are lamenting that Theo Chocolate is closing. But do they know that Theo Dark Chocolate had high lead and cadmium levels?

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Funny. Portland summed up:
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