Spokane city is purple. There’s no industry here with products to sell to the Department of Domestic Terrorism though. I’m surprised central or eastern WA doesn’t (yet, AFAIK) have any concentration camps & related logistics companies. It’s interesting how much business MT got out of all this. They must be well-connected MAGA-wise.

shot a US citizen to death

The correct word, the one they’re avoiding here, is “murdered”.

You drive a hard bargain. OK if the 'Bans aren’t exactly new? Flexible on tiddie dimensions?

As much as I hate to allude to Rddt, r/QAnonCasualties is a great support forum for dealing with these kinds of people and with cutting them off when necessary.

Almost from the beginning, some transplant doctors had raised concerns that patients on Dr. Reddy’s tacrolimus were faring worse than those on other generics. The Cleveland Clinic was so alarmed that it banned Dr. Reddy’s generic for its transplant patients in 2013. Later, at the Tulane Transplant Institute, doctors found that patients taking generic tacrolimus by any drugmaker had a higher chance of organ rejection, and the hospital decided to use only the brand drug.

Holly knew none of this when she picked up her daughter’s tacrolimus at the local Kroger grocery store after Hannah’s discharge in the fall of 2019. (Kroger didn’t respond to requests for comment.) Unlike with Hannah’s medical care, where Holly could research and choose a doctor or hospital, the brand of generic tacrolimus Hannah received was out of her hands. She would get whichever one that pharmacy happened to have in stock.

Inova’s transplant team had typed, in the electronic prescription that it sent to Kroger, “do not dispense Dr. Reddy.” But that’s what Hannah received.

6502 assembly language

Z80 would be good too. The kids should be able to implement the instruction set on a breadboard by intuition alone. There’s something wrong with the teachers and Big School if the kids don’t have it running CP/M by the end of the school year, preferably with a working port of Hack.

IIII for four o’clock but IX for nine o’clock

Very interesting - I have a newer Timex with RN on my (left) wrist right now and never thought about alternate notations for the numbers. Turns out it uses “IIII” for 4 but “IX” for 9 rather than spelling it all out in additive form. The designers made a curious choice for people wearing the watch on their left - the 9 o’clock “IX” is upside down so that it reads “XI” from the point of view of the wearer rather than, thus it looks like 9 is 11.

We had to learn RN when I was a kid, and I assume that’s only because there were a few RN clocks remaining out in the world. I’ve never felt like I need to process the numerals on a clock anyway - once you know what position corresponds to what hour you’re good to go. Many clocks and watches don’t have numerals at all and that doesn’t impair most people from using them.

Seeing clocks in public is also becoming rare

Is it? I hadn’t noticed but I’m probably not looking for clocks in the wild much either. I can think of one big quasi-public space (my YMCA gym) that has nothing but analog clocks up high on the walls. I could speculate that analog is easier than digital to read from a distance, or that large digital clocks designed to be read from a distance are more expensive than analog or hard to find, but I wouldn’t think either of these would be true.

Yeah, especially with schools being somewhat evenly distributed around cities - this could really help with coverage. I’ve only read about Meshtastic but I recall it’s extremely low bandwidth so that would be a problem for the little dissidents.

Good question, I was just alluding to the part in the article that read

European settlers so disliked these “ill-shap’d” birds

but I too wonder if the birds have some other habits that people think they should die for? And the part about hunting … I’ve never heard of people hunting loons for food (? or for the feathers maybe?) so I guess shooting them would be for the fun of it and/or to reduce their numbers.

Reread the thread. I’m replying to frunch not innermachine.

I’m getting charged over $1000 for taking an ambulance to the hospital

It’s $5000+ here.

“analog” <> “old-fashioned”. Analog clocks are very common out in the world. Analog watches even more so, they’re the norm not the exception among people with an interest in watches. My take-away from this story is that 1) these schools are not teaching kids to read analog clocks, and 2) these schools have installed digital clocks rather than analog.

Both of these things are easy to remedy.

It’s bizarre to me that loons were hated and killed for fun. Just for how they looked?

I’m from Vermont and yeah when I was a kid we used lead sinkers without a second thought. We breathed it out of car exhaust without a second thought too. Today I can’t think of any behavior easier to change than throwing a poisonous element into the environment for sport.

All these years I’d been waiting for the Andromeda Strain, when it turns out now that our solution was right here on Earth.

I can’t see the words “Ecce Homo” without hearing the choir from the Mr. Bean intro.

I’m a drinker and the day Orange Diaper Baby kicks it, I’ll be heading to our fine neighborhood bottle shop, which is owned and run by some East Indians, to acquire some celebratory brews. One thing I’d love to be able to buy is a strong IPA brewed explicitly to celebrate Donny’s demise. I’m not sure if the brewers are clever enough to see the market for such a thing, and also not sure if the Narcissist In Chief will give enough notice to get the fermenting done in time. Just imagine what could be done with the artwork on the products - instant collector’s items.

Depends on where you mean. Spokane city is pretty purple and the city council is more left-leaning than ever: https://www.inlander.com/news/progressives-and-moderates-dominate-conservatives-in-local-races-flipping-a-spokane-council-seat-and-ousting/article_ef72e2af-a02f-4a5f-966d-9813d8ba585f.html . They just passed a ban on algorithmic rent price fixing by landlords for example.

When you leave Spokane, the closer you get to Idaho the more regressive things get. Spokane and Spokane Valley are night and day in my view - no good reason for going into the latter. The same is true when you head north (hwy 2, 395) and south, at least until you get to Pullman. I haven’t spent much time in central WA but my impression is that it’s pretty right-wing compared to Spokane or Puget Sound, so yeah.

That said, I’ve lived in Seattle and the S. Sound and once you get out of the city proper and away from the Eastside and close-in suburbs like Issaquah (Fall City, Snoqualmie and North Bend are probably considered suburbs now too!), and also out of places like Olympia/Tumwater, it gets redneck in a hurry.

Gotta protect Private Property at any expense. What next, will people be stealing slaves in America?

It’s only foul if the dead person is white and Christian. Funny the sad excuse for a news article didn’t mention whether the decaying body qualified as a Master Race member or not. You’d think the wife would have known the details but the sad excuse for a news article doesn’t say what happened to her. Maybe the cops killed her with their toys.