Loren Carmichael

@stevenmarkryan It will never work politically unless it's branded as the "Canadian health care option."

I still haven't heard a good reason why we can't offer every inmate serving life the option of being voluntarily executed.

@Micro2Macr0 @WellsFargo I'm convinced these banks have an office pool where they compete internally to see who can treat the best customer, the worst, and not have them leave the bank.

I've been a customer of @WellsFargo for OVER 30 years!!! After ALL THAT TIME, 4 active car loans, a 6 figure investment account, 1 million + in deposits last year, and never missing a payment on any of these accounts, and they just told me I have to wait for a letter to find out why they dropped my card limit to almost 0 on one account and will NOT activate another. This is after talking to 7 people to try and activate one account. Everyone should leave legacy Banks like Wells Fargo. They're absolute trash. I'm going to move everything I can over to @SoFi and just be done with this SHITTY customer service. Have you all had this problem with your banks? I've never heard of this before. And I used to work for a bank in the credit card division. 😆

This is a total waste of effort that should instead be applied to building permit and environmental remediation reform. The carrying cost of subdivision, and building permits taking years, and insane “environmental” remediation requirements is 100’s of times more than than this misplaced tax could ever offset. Protectionism between US states is not the answer.

I keep hearing about a "housing shortage" so we need more apartments. Wrong. I am proposing that we restore and unleash our timber industry and tax out of state sales of lumber to subsidize building materials for single family homes built in Washington. Grown in WA Built in WA. We can subsidize our building costs without taxing WA citizens and stop buying highly tariffed Canadian lumber at the same time. WA has some of the best lumber in the world and people will line up to buy it from all over the globe. It would create mass tax revenue and lower the costs of building significantly. We could harvest in fire buffer zones to not only protect the old growth from fire but limit future forest fire hazards. We could restore Aberdeen and the ports. It would create generational wealth and job opportunities while maintaining our forests. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. We can use the resources of our state for the benefit of the people who live here without destroying our home. We need affordable homes for young people to experience the power and wealth of home ownership. Most of the wealth of the middle class is in their home. If we make future generations permanent renters they will never accumulate any wealth in their lives and all the wealth of Washington will be in the hands of the top 10%. Democrats in Olympia are destroying the opportunities of the future generations with bad policy and creating a massive wealth gap in the process. My plan would actually make housing more affordable while providing the career opportunities that young people need so badly. Lets make Washington affordable and restore the American dream of home ownership. 🇺🇸

@PatrickSchuess1 @RKelanic I like this idea. Set the autopilot, take the people off, and just send it!

@RKelanic Just need some old tankers filled with enough water to ballast them to the right keel depth to blaze the way as mine sweepers.

The U.S. Navy doesn’t understand how resilient oil tankers are, according to comments from former CENTCOM commander in this TWZ interview. It’s surprising and not. USN rarely deals with commercial shipping issues. But could be why we’re still talking about naval escorts rather than air power to reopen Hormuz. Here’s Votel’s comments: “But the mines, I think, are a really, really hard issue. And when we think about one of these big tankers, so they are just really vulnerable, they’re thin-hulled, getting into this very narrow traffic scheme that’s there – two miles wide, right in the middle of the Strait and then hitting a mine and being disabled on the spot. Not only will we have a mine problem, we have a disabled ship problem and an ecological disaster, and a whole bunch of other things there. So in my view, I think the worst case situation kind of looks like a deliberate mining effort by the Iranians.” Wrong info: —Oil tankers today have double hulls, neither thin nor vulnerable. But even when tankers had single hulls during the Iran-Iraq war, they were so resilient to mines that U.S. navy destroyers sailed BEHIND the tankers for protection. *The tankers protected the destroyers from mines.* —The narrowest navigable passage is 20 miles, not 2 miles. The traffic lanes are 2 miles wide to reduce accidents in a congested waterway, but it’s not a physical barrier. It’s like the difference between the physical width of a whole highway vs. the lanes painted for cars. Tankers can sail outside the lines for 20 miles. Multiple disabled tankers couldn’t block the strait. To be fair, Votel called it a traffic scheme but I think this point is easily misunderstood. —Spilling oil isn’t ecologically good, obvs, but oil cargoes in VLCCs are stored in 15-17 different cells (depending on ship design) and if you rupture one, you only spill its contents — maybe ~120,000 barrels — on a total cargo of 2 million barrels. Still not good but not total emptying. —Even ruptured tankers, even incinerated tankers, usually stay afloat and can often be repaired so they can sail away under their own power. That happened with the MV Limburg off the coast of Yemen in 2002. It was struck by a suicide boat, lost 50k barres of oil and burned for 2 days. On day 3 it was repaired and sailed away on its own power. It was subsequently renamed the Maritime Jewel and was in service until at least 2009. Any mission to open the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian fire would be costly and risky. But it’s shocking to me that the USN @USNavy @CENTCOM doesn’t know the basics of oil shipping when they’ve been preparing this contingency for years. They need to talk with industry, stat. The Coast Guard @USCG might have this knowledge because they DO deal with commercial shipping issues but they’re so far down the bureaucratic prestige chain I’m not sure people would listen (sorry USCG, you rock and I’m a big fan). This lack of understanding might be why the USN and U.S. policymakers keep talking about using naval escorts rather than air power, as if this was still WWII. @defpriorities @haltman twz.com/news-features/…

@teslayoda I think it's pilot line in CA. Scale in TX. Same plan as batteries and bots.

Having Terafab pilot lines in two locations (Palo Alto, Austin) could ensure Church and State separation between TSMC and Samsung, keeping their respective IP, competitive interests separate.

@SpecialSitsNews I knew I should have "Invested" in a large collection of Tungsten cubes a few years ago. It was so obvious!

Tungsten shortage we don’t have enough for western military industrial complex Saw this coming from a mile away

@battleangelviv My daughter had a good friend when she was little, whose parents had 6000K bulbs in their house. Dropping her off to play over there felt like dropping your kid off at a serial killers. Very unnerving.

having a hard time trusting anyone with indoor lighting temperature above maybe 3000K why would you make your house feel like an operating room!

@basedseattle I think loosing the Seahawks would be a bigger wake up call than Boeing. Much smaller economically, but bigger impact to get everyone paying attention.

There's only one thing that will force Washington state democrats to wake up, and that's Boeing relocating everything—and I mean everything—to Wichita and Charleston. $BA should do just that.

@AndreaSJames We are looking at options to escape WA taxes, and I was recently shocked by the realization that CA would likely be similar tax wise for us now, and way cheaper at end of life.

You'd be surprised how many Seattleites would prefer California, but Washington's tax favorability has allowed it to better compete with its sunnier and more fashionable West Coast cousin. Techies had an economic incentive to learn to love the evergreens and clouds. Hence, as taxation continues to ramp here, the immediate winners won't necessarily be humid, income-tax-free states, like Texas and Florida, but rather, places like California. Washington has little parity with California, which has the best weather in the country. I guess up here, the air remains cleaner, so we got that. In the past two years, we have undergone a major erosion of incentives to stay, to found businesses here, to plant families. So much of the region is transient -- huge influx of people and talent from other places. It will change. Incentives work. Disincentives also work.

@growing_daniel If you could fill a coconut shell with oil...

just spitballing now. How much oil can fit inside an arabian seagull

I'm sure Tesla could take away Senior discounts on FSD at any time and not get any criticism in the media. They wouldn't even mention that Tesla did a bait and switch inducing poor seniors on a fixed income into buying a Tesla they could barely afford, only to later jack up the FSD price soon after.

@LorenCarmichael @herbertong @TeslaBoomerMama @ICannot_Enough @SjvTesla @teslaownersSV Senior, student, and veteran discounts already exist across a broad range of products and services. I haven't seen that result in the kind of scenario you describe.

Should Tesla offer FSD at a discount for students, seniors, veterans, and those with disabilities? @herbertong @TeslaBoomerMama @bradsferguson @ICannot_Enough @SjvTesla @teslaownersSV

@FutureAZA @herbertong @TeslaBoomerMama @ICannot_Enough @SjvTesla @teslaownersSV Once you give out a bunch of discounts, everyone will feel entitled to them forever. Robotaxi is not that far away.

@LorenCarmichael @herbertong @TeslaBoomerMama @ICannot_Enough @SjvTesla @teslaownersSV Robotaxi doesn't exist in any meaningful way. FSD does, and the people who should be using it are on the roads right now.

@growing_daniel Seems pretty easy to sink every fishing boat. Most of them will be tied up somewhere near shore.

At this point we can’t decapitate Iran from the air and as long as they have fishing vessels they have the ability to mine the Hormuz so it seems like it’s time to stand back and have Reza summon one million protestors for an internal revolution or am I missing something

My grandfather used to talk about the great food on the transport ship in WWII that took his unit from Europe to that Pacific. It was a civilian passenger line ship that had been put in military service, but they had kept the civilian cooking staff. It as the fanciest food he had ever eaten in his life. He made a point to finish every meal, despite being seasick for the entire multi week journey. Treating the troops good when they can was not invented by Hegseth.

I remember when it fell to anonymous shitposters like me to call out the $27 billion slush fund passed by democrats to pay climate change activist groups (OBBB canceled it). Our media watchdogs didn’t care, but they’re PISSED about a few good meals for our troops.

@farzyness The only way this could possibly be true is if they could roll them out off the beach with a hand truck, and the prevailing wind would carry them into the shipping lane. Any boat would get the Venezuelan "Fishing vessel" treatment immediately.

China ain't gonna like that.

@SaysSimulation An "Escort" would not need to be a US navy ship. It could be drones, airplanes, helicopters, etc.

Day Eleven of the Second Iranian War, and the Strait of Hormuz has now been *effectively* closed for nine days (more later on the exceptions). For verification, a good starting point is to look at what the Secretary of War & Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are saying. 1/

My 60's house has a very nicely done covered entryway that is done in white concrete with marble chip aggregate. I'm sure it looked amazing when it was new. If looks kind of shabby now as it is impossible to keep really clean and white looking. In fairness it would be much better in a super dry desert climate. The polished terrazzo version of the same thing inside the house is unbelievably perfect and beautiful despite being 60+ years old.

I think public opinion on brutalism would massively change with better concrete.

These are ships tracked by AIS. It's a system in the ship that sends out a signal about the location of the ship. I would hope that if a ship were going through the strait it would turn off its AIS so Iran wouldn't know where to shoot the missile. The strait may be closed, but an empty AIS snapshot is not proof of it.

Are you familiar with where the Strait of Hormuz is, Keith? It is conspicuously empty. marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/ce…

@JCChristopher My wife and I did the same 25 years ago. Best thing we ever did.

My son and his fiancée had a surprise for us tonight over dinner. They already eloped and got married in Vegas. So the engagement party is now a belated wedding reception 😂