I prefer taking pictures through the rust holes.

Patternist is so good! I just read the first book straight. It reminds me of the Invisible Life of Addie Larue, but more gripping.

They already have to move out because prices are insane. There's no option that houses people that doesn't increase density. And this measure would mean things like duplexes which are pretty close to SFH. There's no reason SFH couldn't continue to be built, it would just adjust based on demand.

Please please please make this happen. I'd love to see my SFH neighborhood have duplexes and such. We have huge lots and prices have doubled in 6 years. Townhomes would be lovely. I know they don't have to build pretty, but I think they would anyways. All these custom homes are going in selling for 2mil, so even with townhomes, it's all going to be expensive. But it could be medium high income instead of extremely high income.

Super cool and pretty! Any particular favorite from scifi and fantasy?

Oh huh, what I was thinking of is a different acronym. Could have sworn that was the same one

MADD is a 1920s organization. People can't be taking it seriously. I've never heard of it outside a historical sense

Here's a article that references a few studies on the matter. https://www.tlflawfirm.com/blog/is-there-really-that-big-of-a-difference-between-05-and-08-bac/

The pertinent metric was a 1.38 incident rate compared to completely sober drivers. It's 2.69 at .08. given the target zero goal, and that . 075 seems like it would still be pretty high risk of accidents, I think this makes sense. That said, a sliding scale of punishment seems to be appropriate imo.

If you own a home, it's your home and no one is going to stop you having a dog. I guess you could find a shitty Hoa but usually that's a condo thing.

A house for 400k is really hard and won't have extra rooms. 400k is like peanuts unless you're really in the booneys

A cop really did give my dad a parking ticket for accidentally running into a ditch. My dad won in court.

That makes sense they would capitalize it, but the amortization is still a tiny percentage. There's no way to slice this that isn't very little money spent on r&d compared to the profits. I used to work health care supply chain and r&d was never a major expense. The selling costs including buying employees boats to take doctors out on "as friends" because it didn't count as bribery if you didn't give the doctor the boat directly. Crazy shit

A balance sheet is a statement of assets and liabilities. They mean two fundamentally different things.

Where are you getting that percentage? Compare like to like. They're paying 4% if that data is real, as their effective tax rate. For citizens, the effective tax rate is 14.6%, see source below.

The top 50% of taxpayers paid 97.1% of all federal income taxes in 2018. Among those taxpayers, the average income tax rate was 14.6% and the average tax paid was $20,663. The OECD reported that the U.S. "tax wedge" for the average single worker was 28.4% in 2021.

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/what-the-average-american-pays-in-taxes-4768594

4%? It should be 30 like a citizen.

The tax rate is so aggravating

It's expensive but it's still no where near a major cost and almost certainly bucketed into r&d. Otherwise you'd see it there. Besides, they buy up smaller companies that have already done it so they don't have to.

So beautiful!

Wasn't there an escaped sheep that just kept growing? When they caught it a few years later, it was a complete wreck of wool

Np, I found this link. I was thinking of the associate's degree version. The different levels of education might cloud the picture here. I think the person I was talking about went to community college for it because the neighboring town had one. https://simplenursing.com/nursing-school-cost/

Out of curiosity, I looked up housing costs. A home there has increased a lot lately - I'm betting because they started catering to retirees. But a good sized house is about $500k now, on redfin, which is anywhere from $800-1200k in the greater Seattle area. Rough estimate.

Yeah. School for these positions is pretty cheap. At least I know my self-described trailer trash ex's mom went into nursing on the cheap without leaving that cheap town.

When the state changed what are exempt roles, some of my dad's colleagues became hourly and made absolute bank in overtime. Overtime is how cops make so much money (some over $300k)

It really depends. Usually there are busy times and slack times. In tech, if you're only doing 30, that just means you're a slacker.

That's not enough for Everett, but that's pretty good in rural areas. You can't really judge salary if there's not context of where you are. It's like teacher and cop salaries are pretty good in Seattle but Texas is a whole other world.

Totally. I think moderates must have voted for her.

Yes! Hopefully this pushes any future nominees to be more moderate too.