Seattle continues efforts to kill jobs...

on this self same page... wherein you eventually went on to defend genocide after a couple of failed tu quoques

Defending genocide? I don't even need to run a search to know that's horse shit. I am not responsible for your dishonest "interpretations" of what I say.

We’re not responsible for tendency to say stupid shit.

*things that offend you.

"Stop misinterpreting me ".
"What you really mean!!".

Only Albert gets to wrap his made-up personal dictionary around reality, because he's the holy prophet of Atheismo.

Stop flattering yourself

yet there you are, equating inter tribal conflicts with cultural extermination...

tell us that lie about how you're not a liar again?

I get to deal with mentally unhinged folks all day but my job doesn't allow for me to make them look like fools.

running circles around him in a paragraph or less is an amusing distraction. like the Al Jaffee books where there'd be a blank speech bubble so you could fill in your own...


Besides, he seems to enjoy his role getting bukaked on the daily by us low hanging fruit.

They don't have to be identical to be comparable enough to mention.

Another victory lap in imagination land.

and sometimes this shit writes itself...

especially if it serves your justification?

https://x.com/abughazalehkat/status/1706777915516715084

Fox News comes to Seattle and reality isn’t what they were told.

@Volpone: "you're missing the poiiiiint!"

The state of Washington has reached 8 million people, and it's growing twice as fast as the national average.

Each November, the Office of Financial Management shares the most up-to-date forecast for the state's population. The latest report shows Washington grew about 14.6%, which is about twice the national average. Most of that growth has been in the Puget Sound region. [Anc: Emphasis mine. Any guesses as which city is the center of the Puget Sound region? Anyone?]

https://kuow.org/stories/washington-state-population-tops-8-million-and-it-s-not-getting-any-younger

The concerning part is that we are getting older and the biggest culprit is housing costs. We HAVE to build more housing. Yes, the state needs more social housing for those at the bottom but we across the board need more housing of all types.

Otherwise we will end up like California where we start to ‘lose’ population. I’ve explained before that that is a misleading stat. If a middle class family of four moves from the Bay Area to Phoenix so they can afford a 3-bedroom now that their kids are getting older and get replaced by two tech bros statistically speaking that unit has lost HALF its population. Even though it doubled its income and similarly cut state expenses in half. And while I’m not saying middle class families with kids being forced out is a good thing, far from it, it isn’t the doom and gloom that the right feeds their rubes that everyone is fleeing Cali because it sucks.

People are leaving Cali because the supply of housing isn’t meeting the demand of those who want to live there meaning that richer (generally smaller households) are pushing out poorer. Or in other words… capitalism.

Capitalism ain’t why the housing isn’t getting built.

Touché. I was mostly using it sarcastically. It’s modern American capitalism in practice not necessarily in theory.

Although I would say that the gutting of pension systems leading to the commodification of housing as a necessary retirement plan (meaning prices need to continually rise) leads to a lot of the NIMBYism that constrains supply.

Builders Remedy shows some promise. We’ll see if it is enough.

Prop 13 needs to go both for freeing up supply and budgetary reasons.

Hey! Along with being the fastest growing state in the nation, here is a fun trivia question:

What US state* has the highest minimum wage in the nation ($15.74 to Cali’s $15.50)?

Anyone want to take a wild guess?

*there is a Columbian District that has a higher one

The Northern Mariana Islands?

I wonder how it proportions out with cost of living.

I really can't wait for the Uncle Faceman account.

For the rural areas hella good.

More expensive areas still better than $7.25 states, going by adjusted median income and poverty rates.

But also with Seattle having a minimum wage of $18.69 (nice) and SeaTac of $19.06 it has forced businesses in surrounding areas to increase their wages to keep workers from taking jobs in Seattle and SeaTac.

One nice thing about all this is that it is tied to inflation. So automatically the state min will rise to $16.28 and Seattle’s to $19.97 Jan 1st.