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@Liamjsm They had a union in 2025 too. This raise didn’t happen because they formed a union

Unions work

@Bitcoin_Teddy Boomers got drafted into the Vietnam war. Older generations went to Korea and WWII. That’s struggling. They were dying not just drowning.

Older generations say “we all struggled in our 20s.” No, you didn’t. You didn’t pay $3200 for rent and $10 for eggs. You didn’t graduate into $50K student debt and $0 job security. Gen Z isn’t dramatic. They’re drowning.

@WallofWTF @Bitcoin_Teddy Boomers had free college because they fought in Vietnam. Gen Z could get free college from joining the military too but with the added bonus of not being in a major war zone.

@Bitcoin_Teddy Boomers had free college and $5 rent. We get $50k debt and eggs that cost more than therapy. Rent’s a subscription now and the landlord still ghosts you harder than your situationship.

@Boenau This isn’t about following all laws. They are going the wrong direction on the road

Car Brain is what leads people to say "bicycles are required to follow all traffic laws the same as any other vehicle" AND "driving 5 over the speed limit is fine."

@ContextXplained @reduxx They moderated a transgender sub (mtf) so it seems relevant if the story you are telling is about them being a reddit mod.

Does it matter that the person is transgender, or is the issue that they’re a convicted sex offender? Why highlight “transgender” at all? That would be like saying “a Black sex offender” or “a white sex offender.” A criminal is a criminal. Why attach an entire group to one person’s crime?

A top transgender Reddit moderator has deleted his account after being exposed as a convicted child sex offender. Branden "Brynn" Dunleavy was a moderator at r/MTF, and was reportedly protected by the head of the moderation team. reduxx.info/transgender-re…

@buildhomez I reached out to Tiffani McCoy to offer advice, an affordable property tour, or anything she needed. She isn't interested. I've heard the same from others. I just don't understand why they think they know so much they don't need to talk to others with experience in housing.

Seattle's social housing developer: Why are stupid Americans so ignorant... this is just like Vienna ☹️😿 Also Seattle's social housing developer: We're doing radical anarcho communism, voters have zero say in what we do lol

@Wide_Angle_Mind @gutter_sniper @profstonge We legally treat rape different than assault because there is a dick involved. I’m not sure why you don’t understand the difference

@gutter_sniper @profstonge That's not the question. What about a swinging dick offends you? Have you actually thought about this? I'm not defending it. I'm trying to understand. I'm not offended by boobs or vaginas or dicks. I am not. Don't know why. Doesn't bother me at all. Why are you offended by it?

Woke Ninth Circuit decides Korean spas have to let biological men swing their gear in front of women and children. The dissent is pure gold:

@fuelgrannie @conorjrogers Just because you can’t afford it doesn’t mean they are unaffordable. People will live in them. People who make higher incomes need places to live too

@conorjrogers most of these homes won’t be affordable and will remain empty how does that help anyone?

"only 320 affordable homes will be where 0 affordable homes currently are" how many affordable units did the burger king have

@mbadgerley @BenThePCGuy @jwhittenbergK5 The concern is about what them moving away does to the rest of us. No one is playing the violin for them but some of us know the Laffer curve is real and are concerned this tax is on the wrong side of the curve

@BenThePCGuy @jwhittenbergK5 I hear the world's smallest violin playing for people making more than 10x the mean Seattle salary who will be asked to contribute 10% to fund public works (on earnings over $1mil, not their entire income).

What would happen in Seattle if all the mega-rich moved away?

@ajlamesa @blairDow That’s a road design issue. The waymo probably did better than most humans would have. Though it must have been super scary since it’s a robot and who knows what it was doing

@blairDow yeah, this video (from Phoenix, Vegas, inland Los Angeles, or somewhere in the Southwest) is extremely disturbing. we still have a lot to learn. x.com/Tslachan/statu…

I like Waymo as much as the next person (I'll always choose it over Uber), but self-driving cars will never provide the same social benefits as public transportation in busy urban areas -- because geometry. Americans have to figure out how to make public transportation clean, safe, efficient, and frequent or quality of life in our cities is going to be a major drag on future economic growth and prosperity.

@offgridPorter @Les_Aker @DarrigoMelanie The company also doesn’t “write it off”. It just goes as a business expense just like coffee beans

@Les_Aker @DarrigoMelanie The company can. The individual cannot.

The Starbucks CEO can write-off the cost of his private jet on his taxes because it’s considered a business expense. But Starbucks baristas can’t write off the clothing they have to buy to adhere to the Starbucks dress code. This is what an anti-worker tax code looks like.

@BryanMyrick People want to buy homes because they want to make money on equity increases. But equity increases only happen because prices go up and when they go up people can’t afford them.

Pretty much every poll find that on affordability, housing is the #1 concern for a large portion WA voters. Democrats in Olympia did precisely zero to address it. Is homeownership only for the wealthy? Seattle buyers now need $182K income #waleg mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/h…

@DivestSPD So if you don’t count assaults then the far left is not violent?

Those big red lines represent rightwing terror since 1994. The blue lines represent left wing. In several single years, the right was more violent than the left was in 20 years. (Not included: people yelling at or splashing water on Brandi)

@gavin_gee It’s the hospital

Reports on Amazon no longer the biggest employer vs UW in WA kinda miss the point. How does the university have 50,316 employees in seattle? And we are shocked that college costs so much and the value isn’t there?

@benmaritz @loganb Don’t give Washington lawmakers any new ideas about adding more housing regulations

@loganb I’m calling for a complete and total shutdown on new competition until my profits rise

lol they’re doing all the policy enshittification that made taxis terrible

@montlake48 @seattletimes But credit card may not work and if you need pick up they may or may not show up

@seattletimes Use a taxi. They’re half the cost of Uber these days.

An excess of ride-hailing drivers in Seattle is driving down wages and increasing pollution and traffic jams, a drivers union says in a new report. st.news/40xWPUS

@herotimeszero According to you it’s the USA players that are confused. They are hating America because they hate Trump but Trump isn’t America

You're a bit confused. USA players don't hate America, they hate Trump. And Trump is not America. He's the opposite of America. Hope that help.

@OhGeeJade @DivestSPD Licensed to clean homes? What license do you think is necessary?

@DivestSPD Is Andrea even licensed to do this type of work? Like, is Andrea involving herself here w even legal?

It looks like she needs to live in supportive housing, where they have hoarding specialists on staff and won't evict someone for hoarding. It's too bad that Andrea, Choe, et al. literally exist to demonize Housing First and shut down supportive housing.

@b2wicey @SawyerMerritt @grok A better question is how many of those did Tesla learn from and improve software so collision doesn’t happen again

@SawyerMerritt Well, everyone wants to know is, out of those 830 major collisions with FSD supervised engaged, how many of them was the Tesla at fault? @grok do you have any information on this?

NEWS: Tesla has released new FSD (Supervised) safety data. Total major collisions: • Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 830 • Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 16,131 • Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 250 • U.S. average: 4,989,713 Miles per major collision: • Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 5,300,676 • Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 2,175,763 • Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 855,132 • U.S. average: 660,164 Total miles logged: • Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 4,399,561,339 • Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 35,097,234,145 • Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 213,783,029 • U.S. drivers overall: 3,294,031,000,000 Tesla vehicles with FSD (Supervised) engaged experience fewer collisions than those driven without it on. This is North America data across all road classes (highway and non-highway). The latest 12 months of collision rate metrics is used.

@sampullara @victor_vibing @SawyerMerritt Not 100% true. FSD is used during the best scenarios. When driving is harder people tend to take over. So it’s probably not quite apples to apples but the difference is significant enough it probably overrides that

@victor_vibing @SawyerMerritt the only thing that is important is the mile per data. the others are just absolute numbers.