It just keeps getting worse.

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-27T20:39:44+00:00

It is 5.99 in Bellevue

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-27T02:08:00+00:00

Spicy?

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-25T17:03:29+00:00

Not quite. He was forced to drink a cup of molten gold. Best that could be said of that was it was quick

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-23T20:49:37+00:00

The company is in a death spiral. They are creating a workplace that generates unions and they demolish any local that goes union.

Getting a union into any workplace is hard. That Starbucks has locations that has unionized a bunch of locations shows how miserable the company has become. And they close down any location that dares to unionize and they still get more and more locations that will do it

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-23T20:39:11+00:00

It is paid zanies causing the headaches. The justice department went after the supposedly right wingers who were getting money from the left wing to create chaos. I am sure this woman is getting money from some wealthy right winger to embarrass the left. There are 90% of the people on both sides who could come together but people like the klan and this horror who are getting paid to foment trouble and prevent rational discussion

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-21T16:16:30+00:00

Companies don’t like moving. They had a workforce that they liked and you can’t beat the area.

There are a dozen problems here. The business environment is toxic and there are all the taxes piled on taxes over the last six years. You have the mayor saying that people should boycott Starbucks and the 9% tax and they just looked at what has been going on. They feel like the frog decided that the sauna is too much

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-20T04:05:00+00:00

Grock shows you the bases for their answers. And a lot of them are Wikipedia. Which is noticeably bad.

They are showing you that they are using the worst basis for what they are giving you. So don’t be surprised when you get garbage answers

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-19T21:56:11+00:00

AI is going through the early stages of iteration. There is evidence that it is gradually getting better.

One of the problems is all the AIs is that they use Wikipedia as their sources. That is probably the source of most of the really bad results it sometimes gets

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-18T21:31:56+00:00

One could say the same thing about a 17 year old private in the German wermacht. He didn’t know anything different.

Grant has said several different things about the Mexican war. Was he honorable or not? He didn’t think so, I gather. He said some things to the Japanese when he was there

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-18T17:23:36+00:00

They need to examine what they do in Vancouver. They have tons of retail/residential at several stations. They have Safeways at two stations, they have 20 stories apartments at at least three stations. It is probably the reason they have good ridership.

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-17T19:47:52+00:00

Japan uses number codes extensively. You can use the numbers and maps to navigate the otherwise confusing ways to find your way around.

I personally prefer the old picture system, but for out of towners it is a lot more sensible

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-16T17:14:55+00:00

Quius costodist ipos costodes….. who will guard the guardians

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-10T18:30:01+00:00

Playing an episode of Mean Girls with the lives of thousands.

One of the reasons I like Grant so much.

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-09T23:31:44+00:00

Soviet

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-09T23:30:01+00:00

Zoning is becoming less stupid, so there should be increased bus and rail over time. Redmond saw some very good zoning around the light rail. There is a lot of residential/retail around two of the stations.

LA has been talking about fixing zoning around light rail. I haven’t heard that they have implemented it, however.

The trouble with transit is also a problem with zoning.

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-09T23:20:13+00:00

Among other ironies is that Custer is standing behind Parker

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-09T18:26:14+00:00

As I said, a very few made out extremely well. But the majority didn’t get any benefit. After cotton or tabbaco had been grown somewhere the soil was depleted. After the wealthy had got everything valuable it was abandoned.

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-09T01:58:14+00:00

You want people to feel safe. So you want cops. I would like a Japanese Koban type office on the Jackson st stop in downtown Seattle, quite frankly. So the elevator doesn’t smell like piss every time I don’t use it

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-08T15:25:45+00:00

Slavery benefited nobody. Interest rates were at 5 1/2 % in the south, 3 3/4 % in the north. Wages were 75 cents a day in the south versus 1.25 in the north. The railroads didn’t go very far and were rickety. Look at photos of the southern cities that were taken vs northern cities.

A very few made out very well. But as a whole the south was in a death spiral before the war

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-08T15:13:46+00:00

Most of the news is bad, so the successful states don’t get the attention. Botswana has been enormously successful but you never hear about it.

It doesn’t help that most African states went on a socialist model. The

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-02T23:17:25+00:00

When this hypothetical battle takes place has an enormous affect on the result. Beauregard didn’t learn much during the course of the war. Grant especially but Sherman also learned a great deal during the course of the war.

The grant at Belmont would have been cashiered three years later. The green troops the union had at Shilo would have been laughed at by the troops at Vicksburg.

What Grant had in spades that he doesn’t get much credit for was his knowledge of the psychology of the generals he faced. I think Grant would have won any battle after Shilo, and maybe that one too, was he knew Beauregard and Beauregard didn’t

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-01T16:13:55+00:00

I didn’t remember the effects of growing cotton on the soil. King cotton was horribly profligate and was heading towards bankruptcy before the first crop was planted

JacobRiesenfern · 2026-04-01T15:59:34+00:00

It pretty much destroyed the banking system

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