8 February 2024

Seattle broke a record in 2023 for fentanyl overdose deaths. Probably better get more diversity, Seattle.

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I don't get it. We were told that Multnomah County had a surplus of funds to pay for the preschool program. Even when the wealthy folks "forgot" to pay their share. So now, they can't fund the preschools without another 0.8% tax? What gives?

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As Warren Buffet said, "For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit."
They're inefficient, ugly and take up a lot of valuable space. The only winners are the windmill owners, getting that valuable tax credit.

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Biden Hits Worst Approval Rating. Yup, still 37%. These reports are a joke. Wake me up when it's below 30%.

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Portland’s only earthquake preparedness employee on budget chopping block. The only person Portland has on staff to make sure that when disaster hits, there is an organized response, has retired. Now due to budget cuts, they're thinking of eliminating that position. Obviously to give free monetary stipend to the homeless. And free preschool. And teachers unions.

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Portland's tax base is shrinking, but their expenses aren't. In fact they're growing. So they need to increase taxes on the poor slobs that are still stuck in the city.
And then Kotek called for the three-year tax moratorium in December, throwing the district’s plans into chaos.
Of course. What do you do when you're a failing city, and everything is more expensive to fix now, because you ignored it when it was cheaper to solve. Many are leaving, because the leadership is crap and ranked-choice voting makes sure that problem will never be solved.

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Rachel Levine under fire after HHS offers single study to back claims that child sex changes are 'necessary' healthcare.

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A search engine in 80 lines of Python. Wow!

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Watch out when you go through Seattle. The I-90 rock thrower is back again. Ready to dispense more life-altering injuries again.

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The small intestine has five distinct parts. In medicine, the small intestine is usually divided into three parts, the duodenum, jejunum and ileum, but this group has found five distinct parts, both in terms of function (what gets absorbed in each segment) but also distinctions in stem cell derivation. It's amazing that we're still discovering things about the body.

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Tritium-based fusion breakthrough. Five seconds of fusion action, resulting in a ground-breaking record of 69 megajoules using a mere 0.2 milligrams of fuel. Great!

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