Are you listening to this? Elon Musk is making enormous cuts on the Bonneville Energy Administration (BPA). What? Is not that “the spine of the Northwest energy grid.” Certainly, it’s, and it is being strangled by the fingers of DOGE. An essential be aware: BPA was not funded by taxpayers, however ratepayers. So chopping jobs there can have minimal to no affect on the deficit. However the worth of the cuts will probably be enormous. We are able to count on, as two BPA directors predict, that the workers discount “will critically degrade BPA’s skill to keep up dependable energy service.” To make issues worse, earlier than the layoffs, the BPA had one thing like 50 openings. They wanted extra staff to make sure the resilience of the grid. And now they’ve misplaced a bunch of staff. Although BPA rehired 30 staff, it’s nonetheless “eliminating about 430 complete positions.” So, the rehiring means jack. We’re fucked. The BPA provides 75% of PNW’s energy.
As a result of we stay within the time of the goras (vultures in Shona), we have to assume like preppers. They’re not that loopy. The chance of energy outages has elevated from 1% to 10%. Mix that with excessive climate occasions brought on by local weather change, and you’ve got a recipe for catastrophe. Get a conveyable generator whereas they’re nonetheless reasonably priced. Mine value $400. I additionally purchased photo voltaic panels for $200. The goras are circling the sky; they are going to be round for some time.
True, English has a time period for the sort of society we are actually in, a society the place an organization fires federal staff willy-nilly: vulture capitalism. However in Shona, gora additionally means an individual who has no inhibitions. They do no matter they need and have a look at penalties with eyes which might be as useless as a doornail. For that reason, this additional and deeper that means, it is higher to name the economic system we entered a bit of over a month in the past: gora capitalism.
There will probably be clouds as we speak, however little probability of rain. And temperatures are anticipated to stay to the low 40s. Additionally, did you see the clouds final evening? It appeared like that they had someplace to go in a rush: Ellensburg? Walla Walla? Spokane? The morning clouds, nonetheless, are a lot slower. They wish to dangle round and see what Seattle is as much as.
After fucking up America each which means from Sunday for 4 a long time, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is hanging his hat. He won’t run in subsequent yr’s election. You toerag. Thanks for nothing.
Once you say the Sonics are coming again, and also you occur to be the mayor, folks will consider you. Nevertheless it appears Bruce Harrell had no concept that shedding the Sonics as a result of a billionaire needed to make much more cash than they already had within the financial institution wasn’t a laughing matter. What universe does he stay in? The interim information editor of this paper, Marcus Harrison Inexperienced, has to go all the best way all the way down to Portland to observe an NBA recreation. And the journey between that metropolis and ours is, not like the one between Seattle and Vancouver, ugly. Nicely, nobody laughed at Harrell’s joke, and so he needed to apologize for making enjoyable out of one thing that is hardly humorous.
Harrell, you could possibly’ve simply repeated this joke by The Needling: “Trump Pardons Howard Schultz for Shifting Supersonics to Oklahoma Metropolis.”
Harrell is definitely not laughing on the revelation that he was “arrested 29 years in the past in Iowa” for packing warmth. He claims that the matter had nothing to do with the cost (carrying a hid weapon), and every little thing to do with racial profiling. I hear that. By the best way, do you know “iowa” means “no” in Shona, Zimbabwe’s number-one language.
How a lot is Delta providing the passengers on the airplane that flipped after touchdown at Toronto Pearson Airport this Monday? 30,000 bones. It comes with no strings connected. Simply take the cash and let’s transfer on. You lived. You bought nothing to complain about. Use the money to purchase an influence generator or stuff it right into a mattress. The US economic system is certain to crash at any second. Take into account your self fortunate.
Graham, Washington misplaced the soul of a 15-year-old boy “after he lit a ‘mortar-type’ firework” close to a church. This occurred on Monday at 2 am. As a result of the church is watched not solely by God, however a surveillance digicam, there is a recording of his final moments on this world, which is the one world. Nothing comes after loss of life. The boy is seen hopping the fence with different boys, he then climbs “a grassy hill [by one] of the church buildings,” ignites the firework, places it in a tube, and it explodes.
Jeff Bezos now owns James Bond. Sure, he does; he purchased the franchise. And there is nothing King Charlie can do about it. Take into account “on her majesty’s secret service” the stuff of the previous. Bond should now name an American billionaire with the telephone in his shoe.
By the best way, in case you are fortunate sufficient to be rolling in dough like Bezos, you would possibly contemplate this new alternative: “Penthouse that impressed ‘Fifty Shades of Gray’ up on the market in Seattle.” The movie is a few kinky billionaire. The penthouse is asking for $11.5 million.
My latest put up Do not Grasp the Bartender, which involved the cultural significance of letting bartenders play their very own music, reasonably than programming that drained music (Stones, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, and so forth) we hear all the time, failed to say this French-pop gem: “Christine” by Christine and the Queens. I first heard it two years in the past at Saint John’s Bar and Eatery whereas Michael Lee was bartending.
