Chris McKenzie

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Chris McKenzie

Chris McKenzie

@ISuperGeek

Agile developer and Objectivist living and working in downtown Seattle. I've been called the Marie Kondo of Software Engineering.

Seattle, WA Katılım Şubat 2009
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MintyHawk
MintyHawk@minty_hawk·
Seattle is considering a ban on data centers for a year. 5 proposed sites. 369 MW. 4 companies that walked into Seattle City Light and asked to pay industrial rates. This is what de-growth looks like as a governing philosophy. They are choosing No. /1
Guy Oron@GuyOron

The Seattle City Council has announced a new moratorium on data center construction within city limits. The proposal follows massive backlash to the news that several companies, under the shadows of NDAs, were exploring siting 5 data centers in the city. council.seattle.gov/2026/04/30/cou…

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stevemur@stevemur·
WA Dems and @GovBobFerguson: “We must start closing popular campgrounds because of budget cuts” The budget cuts:
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Chris McKenzie@ISuperGeek·
This organization only ever existed to provide political cover to City and County officials. "It's not our fault--this is their responsibility." Glad to see it go. I have zero confidence that it will improve anything though.
Future 42@future42org

The King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) is officially being dissolved. All it took was: ❌$533 Million dollars in taxpayer funds ❌$44 Million in the red ❌$13 Million simply gone, unaccounted for ❌5 CEO's ❌5 years of continued failures ❌A registered sex offender board member nominee ❌Missed payments to service providers ❌A $12 BILLION request for funds ❌Accusations of retaliation against staff And finally... ❌A nearly 50% increase in homelessness @AlejandraG_TV | @fox13seattle 'King County Council votes to dissolve homeless authority' Article: fox13seattle.com/news/king-coun…

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Chris McKenzie@ISuperGeek·
The theme underlying projects in WA state is zero-accountability. This applies to the KCRHA and most other initiatives pushed by the state, county, and local governments. The sole measure of success in these programs is how much money was spent. No need to audit.
Elan@engele

A King County employee oversaw $800K in grant payments to five of their own family members. Red flags went unnoticed for years. When a colleague flagged potential fraud, he was fired four days later. If this happened at a public company, people would be going to prison. 🧵

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stevemur
stevemur@stevemur·
If your NGO has to fold up shop when federal government subsidy goes away, it was never a “non governmental organization.”
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Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley@NikkiHaley·
Businesses should thrive or fail on their own merits—not through government picking winners and losers. No bailouts, period!
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Anna B 🇺🇸
Anna B 🇺🇸@pnwmom91·
Senator, we already pay about $1.30 more per gallon than the national average thanks to the CCA carbon tax your party passed. Global prices are rising, but Washington families get hit hardest because we were duped into this ‘green’ program that hasn’t delivered visible environmental wins.
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Mercurius
Mercurius@MercuriusFilius·
How would you answer this common Goldman Sachs interview question?
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Chris McKenzie@ISuperGeek·
Vote blue no matter who though.
Future 42@future42org

"You can't count Tacoma out. That's not right." In 2016, Pierce County voted AGAINST Sound Transit 3, but was taxed anyways after it passed. As a consolation prize, they would get light rail to Tacoma by 2035. Then reality struck a few years ago and they were told light rail was not going to make it to Tacoma until 2041. Now...it is likely Tacoma is not going to get light rail at all. NO REFUNDS (This is what happens when $35 Billion of incompetence is rewarded and promoted to CEO) @JoelMorenoKOMO | @komonews Article: komonews.com/news/local/tac…

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Nico Perrino
Nico Perrino@NicoPerrino·
“No matter how you feel about social media, the minute we start treating speech as if it were just another physical product is the minute we hand the government the power to decide what we can read, watch, and say.”
FIRE@TheFIREorg

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@it_unprofession @JohnDCook I had the opposite experience once. Management wasn't satisfied with the highly paid consultant report. They asked me to do a report instead. I did and was very little fallout they made the changes I suggested. That only happened once though.
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IT Unprofessional
IT Unprofessional@it_unprofession·
We hired a consulting firm to tell us why our profits are down. They sent three 24-year-olds wearing vests. They spent two months interviewing us about our own jobs. Then they put our answers into a PowerPoint presentation. They charged us $250K for this privilege. During the final readout, one of them used the phrase synergy optimization without blinking. I looked around the conference room. Our CEO was nodding like he just received the Ten Commandments. The grand conclusion was that we need to increase revenue and decrease costs. I could've told them that for a gift card to Panera. But nobody listens to the guy who works here. You only listen to the guy who flies in on a Tuesday. I'm updating my resume to include synergy optimization. It feels like the right move.
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Nico Perrino
Nico Perrino@NicoPerrino·
I'm concerned about this verdict and the overall trend of treating speech platforms as addictive — and therefore dangerous — products. Also, the verdict diminishes the responsibility parents have to raise healthy kids. For example: "Kaley says she began using YouTube at age 6 and Instagram at age 9 and told the jury she was on social media 'all day long' as a child." Where were the parents?
The Associated Press@AP

BREAKING: A jury in Los Angeles finds Instagram and YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction trial. apnews.com/article/social…

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Hiawatha Bray
Hiawatha Bray@HiawathaBray·
Heck yeah. In a sane world, Norman Borlaug would be the most revered scientist of the 20th century. It's possible that Borlaug saved more lives than any other man in history. And yet many people familiar with that bonehead Ehrlich have never heard of Borlaug.
Owen Lewis@is_OwenLewis

🧵 1/14: Just days after Paul Ehrlich (the man whose 1968 book “The Population Bomb” predicted billions would starve) passed away, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate the scientist who proved Ehrlich and other doomsayers spectacularly wrong. Meet Norman Borlaug, the Iowa farm boy who launched the Green Revolution and quite literally saved a billion lives. This is the ultimate story of human ingenuity triumphing over scarcity.

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Jon is writing
Jon is writing@Jontalksgaming·
In a world of Paul Ehrlichs, be a Norman Borlaug
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Legal Phil
Legal Phil@Legal_Fil·
When talking about Ehrlich today, spare a moment to note that he set the template that the modern environmentalist movement still uses: apocalyptic forecasts that don't bear out, but which lead countless people to make disastrously bad personal & public-policy decisions.
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Ogiel (Moe Lane)
Ogiel (Moe Lane)@Ogiel23·
Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93. He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from 1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800 kcal (a 22% increase).
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