28 February 2024

Yipee!  Sun Sui Wah is coming to Bellevue this April. This is some of the best Chinese food around. Won't have to go to Richmond for this.

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Life under Democrat rule. Macy's flagship store in San Francisco's Union Square is closing. Really sad but no surprise. We can't have nice things when Dems are in charge.
Like Denver is going downhill because of being overwhelmed by migrants. The people will have to do without, so that the migrants have monetary support.

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I've noticed that even though it might be cloudy, as a solar eclipse reaches totality, the clouds seem to part. I thought I was just lucky, but it turns out that this often happens. There's science behind that phenomenon.

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Senior OHSU physician is trying to organize a protest over David Jacoby's ouster as Dean.

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This makes no sense. Harvard is planning a sale of $1.65 billion in taxable bonds to raise revenue.

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Measure 110 can't just roll back. Nope, it has to come with $211 million more in spending. Just make drug abuse illegal. That's free. Make it the way it was before. Everything Dems do has to come with more unnecessary spending.
Saw this video about the dangers of whippets. Whippets are illegal in Oregon, but fentanyl is OK.

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Leave it to Oregon. While the nation's average gas prices decrease, Oregon's average gas price increases.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai is aghast that Gemini committed errors. He actually called them errors. Like it was not intentional. He just regrets that what they did was too obvious, that's all.
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Japan's birth rate hit a new record low. South Korea is turning Japanese, too. What gives, Asia?

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40 Hz sound and pulsating lights, for an hour a day, alleviates Alzheimer's disease? Call me skeptical.

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New search engine (PimEyes) checks to see where your picture is online. And supposedly it lets you delete that image, although how it can do that without write permission on someone else's server is unclear.  But you can set an alert when your picture appears somewhere. Seems a little sketchy.

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Want to learn something new in a technical field? Plunge into a new field? Try GlobeExplorer.

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Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, is buying up much of Waimea, Hawaii, and locals there are concerned. I feel like Hawaii is just a dish of expensive desserts, which used to be enjoyed by everyone, and now the ultrarich are coming and reserving parts of the dessert for themselves. I think the locals have a point.

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So many startups are failiing, that taking care of the failing procedure is now a viable business. Wow, life during the Biden administration sure is full of new business opportunities.

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California is a banana republic now. Gavin Newsom's good friend owner of Panera has carved out a special exemption for their new minimum wage law. The Dems don't even pretend to hide it now. It's raw cronyism for everyone to see, and what are you going to do about it.

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That homeless tweaker that was building a cabin in the middle of José Rizal Park in Seattle is finally arrested, and his shack taken down. No one expects that he'll stay jailed for long.

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  • First, universities and professors need to realize that students are no longer extraordinary but merely average, and have to adjust curricula and academic standards.
  • Second, employers can no longer rely on applicants with university degrees to be more capable or smarter than those without degrees.
  • Third, students need to realize that acceptance into university is no longer an invitation to join an elite group.
  • Fourth, the myth of brilliant undergraduate students in scientific and popular literature needs to be dispelled.
  • Fifth, estimating premorbid IQ based on educational attainment is vastly inaccurate, obsolete, not evidence based, and mere speculations.
  • Sixth, obsolete IQ data or tests ought not to be used to make high-stakes decisions about individuals, for example, by clinical psychologists to opine about intelligence and cognitive abilities of their clients
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Why does Washington state wants to know which political party you are on the outside of their mail-in ballot? Do they have a special place to put the ballot with the "wrong" party marked on it?  Mail-in ballots just have to be scrapped. In-person is the only way.
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