Karl Alex Pauls ⚛️

@hannahkrieg “Socialism” 👻

Explain to me slowly what Katie Wilson has passed that would drive entrepreneurial couples out of Seattle

@loganb @AriDrennen That’s a significant premium. How will we satisfy the opportunity cost of geothermal over gas?

@KarlAlexPauls @AriDrennen Also, SCL’s IRP shows them planning to buy geothermal from Nevada and Utah, IIIRC.

80% of Washington’s electricity comes from renewable energy or nuclear. If you care about the climate, this slopulist NIMBYism should piss you off.

@north0fnorth Mam, that’s Harry Dresden. Show some respect.

do you really wanna be having this conversation lmao

If someone has MORE THAN A HUNDRED VIOLATIONS, the time has come to permanently take their driver's license and throw them in jail. This is "300 professional criminals do the majority of all shoplifting" but for cars. Don't let insane people kill us with their cars.

BREAKING: Neumos is organizing!

Girl and can he have my neck in one?

I’m sorry, I was reliably told this was going to be privately funded.

@kane It’s only called embezzling when it’s on the left.

The budget shortfall that’s making Washington state close multiple campgrounds is less than the amount of taxes embezzled by Seattle’s “anti racism” service:

@hannahkrieg Mamdani. Mamdani but woman. Mamdani but on bicycle. Mamdani but less photogenic. Mamdani but no car.

Gotta say something insane online so r/Seattle gets mad and my ex situationship sees it and thinks of me. Please advise

@CordWainerBird9 @hannahkrieg @SecDuffy @libsoftiktok @EricLDaugh @SaltyCracker9 Her personal bus. No one else ever uses it. 🙄

@hannahkrieg I thought it had to be satire till I looked for it. What a selfish person. For her own bus route. Of course, that is the definition of actual socialist leaders. @SecDuffy is there anything you can do about this @libsoftiktok @EricLDaugh @SaltyCracker9 dailymail.com/news/article-1…

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@BobStev32346970 @hannahkrieg @oddhanfoo Why are so many parking lots empty 99% of the time?

@hannahkrieg @oddhanfoo This is the lovely new Spring Street bike lane. See all the bikes! See all the cars! What a great idea.

@JasonBoyceX @hannahkrieg 🥺 oh no, did they take away your right to use up maximum space on the street for free?

@hannahkrieg How’s that for privilege? Socialists and Communists like to take away from others to get what they want for themselves.

@colinokeefe Just one more lane… I promise I can quit just give me one more lane. 🤪

Drivers in Seattle gotta come to understand driving a car in Seattle will literally never be less of a pain than it is right now. It will only get worse for the rest of your time in this city and on Earth. The ability to move throughout the city will improve. But not in a car.

The malicious packages: winston-middleware@4.5.3 next-runtimejs@1.0.3 Fake company GitHub: github.com/genusix-labs Both reported to npm and GitHub. If these are anywhere in your projects, remove them now.

UNREAL: 🇺🇸 Remember the whale we tracked for weeks? 11 oil trades. 11 wins. 100% win rate. Now holding the largest S&P500 long on Hyperliquid. $66,600,000 notional. Entry: 6891. Liquidation: 5223. S&P500 just hit an all-time high. Already up $2,180,000 unrealized. 158 trades. $68,200,000 all-time PnL. The White House denied everything. The blockchain keeps recording everything.

"So how does Slay the Spire II currently have a 'Mixed' rating on Steam?" What he typed: an essay about how the system is fundamentally untrustworthy The actual answer:

Spare me the complaints about Virginia's new districts. This is my new district in Texas. Unlike VA, I wasn't able to vote on it. The blue area is a very diverse part of the Dallas suburbs that was carved out & threw in with a bunch of rural (red) voters as far as 180 miles away!

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

@ImBreckWorsham I never invested in a businessman who filed for bankruptcy six times.

The weakest comments in my social media are "You voted for this." That is SUCH a weak, pathetic comment. Yes. I did. Yes, I worked this guy's campaign. I OWN it. But have you NEVER made a mistake? Never broken up with someone because you realized you were dating the wrong person? Never quit a job that wasn't right for you? Never bought something and had to return it because it didn't work? Sit down.