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May the spirit of St. Mangione soon visit Mr. Vance and impart upon him his Saintly honesty.

As is written:

Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.

Luigi 1:7

Sounds like a pretty reasonable projection to me.

Its pronounced 'About four thirds megabytes.'

You are correct, the more accurate description is... areas that are more likely to be wiped out by the effects of massive rainfall deluges from intsensifying hurricanes, the storm surges, as well as of course the more direct wind damage.

... Even assuming the self driving tech was actually capable of doing this, which is won't be...

How would this even make any sense?

Ok, if you live within about 200 to 300 miles of a Tesla factory, ... you have this option?

Fremont, California; Sparks, Nevada; Austin, Texas; Buffalo, New York; Lathrop, California.

Outside of 250 miles ish of one of those places? No self driving delivery for you.

... And I am pretty surr not all models are made at all those locations.

Despite long ago claiming his EVs and charger network would be capable of automatically recharging or battery swapping themselves... to make a long distance journey... that ... doesn't exist, he abandoned all of that.

Even funnier: Imagine a tesla self driving from the as of yet to be completed gigafactory in Monterrey Mexico... through the border checkpoint.

The auto charger network doesn't exist, the car would murder people, cause an accident or fucking explode in the border queue... and even if none of that happened... how in the fuck is a self driving car gonna get through a militarized border crossing?

If he just gives himself a waiver via DOGE for his cars... congrats Elon, you are now a drug trafficker / arms smuggler, whether you know it or not.

... fucking lunacy.

I absolutely despise the patronizing and bellittling nature of that phrase, and the tone it is usually delivered in...

... But at the same time... cleaning as you cook a complex meal with multiple steps and lots of involved cookware... really really does cut down on overall time spent in the kitchen, and makes for an actually usable and sanitary kitchen.

Worst case scenario, you've got everything but the final used cookware soapily soaking in the sink when you serve and eat... and then right after you eat, you rinse and dry those off, and then clean the final stage cookware and serving plates/utensils.

If you don't have the time or energy to handle cooking and cleaning a complex meal... you don't have the time and energy to just cook it, and then be overwhelmed later by the accumulation of 'dish cleaning debt'.

...

It can be somewhat challenging to learn how to cook and clean at the same time, and avoid getting soap into your food or visa versa... but it is by no means impossible, and is a huge time saver... and you can feel proud of yourself for legitimately learning an extremely useful life skill.

If you just set a rule for yourself or your apartment or house that ... there should basically never be any dishes left in the sink for over an hour... you avoid the massive pile up of dishes and always being overwhelmed and avoiding them... because your rule basically enforces breaking things down into cleaning smaller amounts of dishes at a time, and it also forces the generally positive experience of cooking and eating to be integrated with the generally negative experience of cleaning dishes.

...

I have, waaaay too many times, lived with people who just pile up dishes somehow in the sink and dishwasher, such that it becomes an actual biohazard (I mean it, rotting food and mold, swarms of flies in a sink that hasn't been cleaned in two weeks or more, nobody can even remember if the dishes in the dishwasher are all clean, all dirty, or a mix of both)...

...and that means if you wanna cook anything with a commonly used piece of cookware, ok, now you gotta pull it out of the ratsnest in the sink, hope nobody threw any knives in there to cut your hands on, and get an infection from the festering biohazard... and then also you must now somehow clean this cookware while the sink is completely full.

Which means you have to just clean the entire sink to begin to be able to clean the major cookware you need to begin to cook the food.

...

Hell, the solution that ended up working best for me was to just also throw on a 'no dishwasher' rule.

Force yourself to associate the actual cleaning cost with whatever you are cooking... and the result was that I ended up with a mental health affirming regular structured rule/habit, that I actually ended up genuienly enjoying, as another source of 'i actually accomplished something today'... as well as basically ingraining a better subconscious ability to understand what level of cooking complexity I actually had the energy to prepare.

If you find yourself being often overwhelmed by what you want to make... learn to make simpler recipes, get a rice cooker or crockpot and just have basically a constant supply of something approximating a stew, get an airfryer or toaster oven for rapidly heating up smaller portions, salads are great for you and often have a pretty low prep time.

Save the dishwasher for actual schedule emergencies and hosting an occasional get together or party.

...

Basically, treat dishes as credit card debt.

Pay that shit off ASAP, otherwise, it'll snowball into disaster.

Remove the 'i can handle the dishes/pay this off later' from your mental approach to it, directly associate all the costs together in a very near time frame.

...

tldr; that saying needs a makeover or rebrand.

Maybe:

Clean as you go, dish pile don't grow.

something like that? I am not really a ... sloganeer.

Mortgage payments definitely won't go down, if they're on a variable rate, they'll go up.

Property taxes... might go down... but as far as I can tell, most property value assesors and assement methods and schedules are somewhere between... esoterically arcane and inconsistent... and just openly corrupt.

But sure, if you do get assessed lower, a year into all this, then your property taxes go down.

And then the local government realizes that their revenue has gone down, and then cuts services, govt jobs, goes into debt, and/or raises taxes on everyone other than the wealthy and infuential, who then go on to buy the foreclosures.

... Yeah...

Ironically, the last job I had... before becoming homeless...

Was the Co-Lead of the Data Team... for Mary's Place, the largest non profit network of shelters and other programs ... assisting the homeless... in and near Seattle.

About 24hrs after the assault that crippled me, I dragged myself into the main office... for a sandwich.

They handed me my papers on the spot.

I told the HR guy to go fuck himself, as he was crying.

... Fuck Seattle, at this point.

They are almost certainly still using my databases, my online, public facing intake forms, my process flows and documentation...

Anyway, I was literally the expert on exactly how fucked I was, as a single white cis male, in terms of getting housing or shelter assistance in Seattle.

We shared at least shelter capacity and eligibility info with almost every other shelter in or near Seattle... and almost all of them prioritize families, minorities and/or female domestic abuse victims.

Made more sense to head pretty far east to lower CoL areas and stay in roach motels than to drag my crippled ass around trying to find a working path to housing, given how often I was being mugged, assaulted, held hostage by a psychotic fentanyl addict for a week at one point, missed being shot in a drive by by about 100 feet at one point...

Anyway, all our the widely publicized PIT headcounts of homeless people in any given city or nationwide... basically need to be multiplied by about 4 or 5. So that'd be about 3 to 4 million, not the almost 800k of the last nationwide PIT count.

If you compare the demographics of living situations people are in who requested our help... to the demographics of who actually gets counted by those PIT count methodologies...

Yeah, you need to multiply the PIT count by roughly 4 or 5 to make it actually representative of all the people who are requesting help, but are not counted by the PIT.

... And that will easily balloon up to 10, 20+ million ... fuck, probably within a year from right now given how utterly fucked the economy is about to become, and how many governement assistsnce programs are getting cut.

...

But uh, back to things I can now just laugh at...

yeah, Boeing is fucked. They were fucked before the tariffs, and now they are turbofucked, and all the right wing anti union asshats that work for them will just retreat further into delusion and a sense of enraged, denied entitlement as they all get exactly what their AM talk show radio hosts have told them they want for 30+ years.

... and of course who can forget about the liberal tinged, smug, self serving, fake ass corpo tech shitheels who all don't realize they're basically dressed down Patrick Batemans because they go to Pride marches... yeah, a whole lot of them are fucked as well as they get laid off, their 2nd and 3rd homes can't generate AirBnB rents anymore...

Oh no, who could have forseen that working for giant tech megacorps that have explicitly stated they want to automate everything for 20 years... are now automating their own jobs, and that they are not actually special?

...

I dunno if I qualify as a rags to riches tale...

I got maybe halfway through that article before I had to stop.

... Too similar to what I went through, too ... way too similar. Its not just that basically no one gives a fuck about it, its that almost everyone assumes the absolute worst about you, all the time, unless you 'perform' perfectly for them.

I was recently diagnosed with PTSD. I actually cannot handle reliving, or apparently even reading about those experiences.

They fill me with rage and terror.

Make me double check and make sure my knife is in the spot it 'lives in' in my motel room.

...

The teeth thing is real. Somehow I have been insanely lucky with baffling infection resitant teeth... I have never had a cavity in my entire life, despite literally being homeless for over a year.

But I've seen the immense agony of other homeless people with bad teeth. Seen people bite into a sandwich and 2 1/2 broken teeth come out in bits...

... Seen people with fucking gangrene, massively infected feet and other wounds...

... For a while I was able to trade my rudimentary first aid skills for respect, cigarettes and food, became kind of a defacto medic at some encampments and shelters I ended up at.

Seen people OD and die in front of me, stumbled upon the bodies in the back alleys, either OD'd or beaten or stabbed or shot to death.

... I can't believe I survived it. I can't make sense of why I did.

... Just a skinny, out of shape, Autistic tech dork, streets should have eaten me alive.

... At least I was able to eventually get connected to Physical Therapy, and ... not a very good one, but at least at newbie Social Worker.

Solid Snake may wanna go over the basics of CQC... I wanna go back over the basics of CBT.

Physical Therapist has me in aquatherapy. Too many torn and otherwise fucked up ligaments in too many places, have to have the bouyancy and water resistsnce to do any useful stretches without extreme pain.

... sorry. rambling. yay trauma.

Ah, my west side bias is showing, oops.

I've travelled over the Cascades many times, but only really spent basically vacations or weekend trips actually out in Spokane or the Tri Cities.

Tacoma is where a bunch of the hipsters I knew went in the early to mid 2010s... but now it has largely ... gentrified, and also crime and drug addiction and homelessness is now much more visible.

After I got assaulted, I ended up homeless untill the SSDI kicked in, a good part of that in Tacoma, and jesus fucking christ fentanyl addicts are basically fucking zombies, nearly got killed by a few.

But yeah, basically all of WA is just... way way way too fucking expensive to live in, unless you, individually, make at least 6 figures... and the job market for getting that kind of job is pulling in candidates from literally the entire world, competition is insane, nepotism abounds, basically all tech work treats you like or literally as a contract worker unless you have massive connections or got grandfathered in a decade or more ago.

Also Boeing is definitely gonna get fucking wrecked from retaliatory tariffs... there was already a story in the last 24 hours of a Chinese airline returning a recently delivered 737 Max because the Chinese ret. tariffs applied to it.

Just fucking flew it back to Boeing Field even after their local plant in China had just finished putting the Chinese airline's livery on it, fuck it, nope, return it, too expensive.

It doesn't matter how progressive WA is generally... untill it gets a state income tax, it'll be a playground for corpos and rainbow capitalism.

My current plan is to ... well, hope to god that my SSDI doesn't get massively curtailed or cancelled, keep doing physical therapy and living off of soup and trail mix untill I've built up some savings (all my fucking cards got stolen, years later i am still trying to convince all the credit agencies that I am me and 90% of the rung up CC debt was not me)... and then move on up to Minnesota.

Minneapolis/St.Paul is roughly the same population as ... the actual population that lives in Seattle, and just generally, way more affordable, not as solid blue, but decently so... and the risks from accelerating climate change are actually significantly lower than most of WA.

They've got more effective state based rental ... basically tax relief for low income people, you get a subsidy each tax year cycle that offsets some of your rental costs, SNAP (if it still exists) will go further...

... and their apartments actually have heating and AC, unlike a large chunk of PNW apartments... that fucking heat dome a few years back nearly killed me.

3 days, 72 hours straight of no less than 90 degrees indoors, up to 105, even with space blankets and then blackout curtains to try to keep the sun out... had to just keep taking cold showers... and I still ended up sweating out nearly 10 pounds.

Anyway, if I can get to the point I am not in constant pain, I am just gonna try my hand at making my own videogame, solo.

If it works out as a decent revenue stream, hurray! If not? Don't really care, I got absolutely chewed up and abused by the corpo data analyst jobs I worked, I'd rather firebomb their offices than go back to a similar job, I would literally rather be impoverished and at least mentally sound than have to deal with the hyper gaslighting corpo tech culture anymore.

Going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing you are describing either Bellingham or Everett (or their sort of... basically attached, suburb cities)... in which case, my condolences, I've lived in both rofl.

I hear Tacoma finally stopped smelling like farts all the time somewhat recently...

But yeah, all the 'medium sized' PNW cities are absurdly overpriced now.

I ended up getting assaulted and seriously injurrd.. and am living off of SSDI while recovering... many states away, where a person can actually rent a place off of disability alone.

Yep, there have been growing warning signs for about 2 years, with more and more areas piling up inventories, longer and longer times to close a sale, and actual amount of closed sales lowering... and then all the Trump induced insanity just kicked in the weak foundations.

No, you got it, a whole lot of the predicted losses are pretty highly correlated to areas that actuaries (who work for insurance companies and use highly advanced climate models based off of the science) predict will suffer increasing numbers and frequencies of climate disasters.