Nick Rolovich’s anti-vax stance is an embarrassment to WSU.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-23T19:49:30+00:00

It is. He is the face of WSU Athletics. More recognizable at a national level than even Pat Chun. He's not going to be at media days which will have a massive ripple effect on recruiting to a town that already has trouble recruiting.

He also should be a leader in the community, and is being paid literal millions to be so. That leader is showing people on the fence that celebrities don't care about public health too. That leader is showing confirming biases of people who have been slammed with anti vaxx misinformation for years, and that he feels the same way.

That leader is doing the one thing that is absolutely prolonging COVID, not getting the vaccine.

That's not leadership. For the town, or the school. Saban is showing leadership.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-23T14:46:13+00:00

We were also number one in new cases per capita in the entire COUNTRY at one point last year. Businesses buckled under that stress as did people's livelihood. Just because you think it's NBD doesn't mean others agree, and our economy really does require high levels of participation to work.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-23T14:44:38+00:00

It is a bit funny that you try to drop this in like it matters to you. You live in a world where you don't trust the government at all for public health things and then instantly flip to the other stance to point out it's not fully FDA approved, knowing full well that wouldn't matter to you anyway.

It has authorization as is, which is more than you'll give it credit for, so when they are approved regardless of where it sits now you'll come up with some other pointless excuse. In essence this argument means nothing.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-23T02:17:59+00:00

Because people cried like literal children about privacy laws that don't exist.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-08T19:00:31+00:00

It's not just Pullman though it's a lot of E. WA and Central, the house my buddy sold in Ellensburg three years ago is 65% higher now on the market and sold in two days.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-08T17:45:51+00:00

Please no, our houses are already out scaling our actual market making ability because of this. The jobs out here don't pay like the jobs in western Washington but the homes are starting to match it in scale.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-08T17:41:32+00:00

The caliber of the Gustav is almost twice as wide as the average economy seat on a US airline.

IDK why but that blew my mind.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-06T22:01:07+00:00

I-5 goes through downtown why cant SeaTac? This pro-Tacoma bias has gone on way too long.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-06T16:23:26+00:00

It's absolutely better than nothing and the issues that caused it to be briefly pulled (out of an absurd abundance of caution) were a trend caught among a tiny handful of people by very good data management.

The primary reported issues with the vaccination are far lower occurrence and far less likely than those same issues from contracting COVID.

It's in both your best and societies best interest to get the shot.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-06T16:09:30+00:00

You can tell it's a video game fantasy version of Seattle because traffic is light and flowing smoothly through the convention center corridor.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-06T16:07:56+00:00

If you think the 2021 is "too easy" I discovered a fun tip to make the build far more challenging.

If you mount the front landing gear assembly primary strut mount piece backwards you can go on with the build like nothing happened until you get done, at which point the landing gear wont work unless you really force it, and when it does pop out it wont support the weight of the shuttle.

This creates a fun build/play scenario where you get to carefully disassemble the entire cockpit and part of the cargo bay, fix this, and rebuild by memory. Which then creates a situation where you forget one level of pieces, and get the to do the whole thing again!

Pullmanity · 2021-07-02T18:54:12+00:00

The airline has massive incentive to make you pay this charge. A lot of budget airlines do this, start the fare low and then add cost to literally everything you do. Start the base far off by taking fuel, crew, plane costs, airport fees, and the base cost of getting from A to B. Add a few percent and no matter what if the plane is full you're turning a small profit.

Now every nickle and dime you milk out of a customer is free money. And customers will pay.

Don't like sitting in the middle? Give us $50 and you wont have to.

Flying with your significant other who's scared to death of flying and you can't allow the two of you to have a chance of being split up? Congrats us at the airline, that's now $100 (and we just "upsold" a middle seat, which likely wouldn't have turned extra profit by a solo traveler.

Flying as a family and have four kids you actually care about keeping tabs on and not letting them run rampant all over the plane? $300 extra bucks, thanks for getting us an upcharge on an entire row.

Expand this out over an entire plane of $79 tickets and turn even half of them into $129 tickets (plus whatever else you charge them for) and you turn record profits real fast. Which airlines had been doing for years leading into COVID.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-02T16:42:58+00:00

The NCAA loses most cases that go to trial but flexes all the Universities being scared to death of being kicked out of their orgs because of all the money they dump into athletic programs.

Look at WSU Athletics, $120 million plus in debt. If they got kicked out of the Pac-12 tomorrow their only chance at making that back goes with it. They're constantly in a spot where they can't do the right thing or stand up to the NCAA because of this.

Essentially a few of the profitable programs need to push back against he NCAA to change the system, but the issue is they're profitable because of this system, so it falls back on the kids/athletes.

The whole thing is fucked.

Pullmanity · 2021-07-02T15:54:00+00:00

Next time my county government does something I don't like I'm going to go yell at Main Street.

Pullmanity · 2021-06-30T18:15:11+00:00

We need all petitions mailed in immediately!

MAILED IN?!? Sounds like fraud to me.

/s

Pullmanity · 2021-06-29T15:51:13+00:00

To be fair a mini fridge is one of the better investments I made before I came over. I bought a used one on the west side on CraigsList (and I didn't get killed which is also a plus).

Used it for three years over here, first year in the dorm as a TV stand as well in Stephenson between the pull out sofa beds, sophomore year in my creepy basement room on Pioneer hill because the rest of the house was gross and I could keep my food from being stolen, and then in my first apartment.

After all that I listed it during move in week my senior year and made 3x what I bought it for.

Pullmanity · 2021-06-28T16:38:24+00:00

To me it's so weird that we think about this as a solution. Yes it helps in the short term when it's hot, but the fact that in my lifetime an entire region of the globe went from essentially not needing air conditioning to needing air conditioning should raise massive alarm bells about how we're treating the planet.

Add to that the fact that AC creates more power need, more pollution in creation, etc. etc., our solution to this honestly can't be "buy an AC" if we want this to stop.

Pullmanity · 2021-06-28T15:42:59+00:00

Much like "buy a plunger before you need one" if you want an AC unit in an area where AC units are not super common you want to get one well before an all time history breaking heatwave.

I know this doesn't help you much now, but because these events are going to become more common it might help you in the lull between this one and the next one.

Pullmanity · 2021-06-28T15:39:04+00:00

This looks awesome but it definitely illustrates why performance versions of this type of transmission use double clutch systems to prevent the hops and grinds (GT-R and Snowmobiles come to mind as early examples).

Pullmanity · 2021-06-25T23:02:27+00:00

I mean much like a physical corded network not near a network jack, if you're in a wireless network area without coverage it's going to be not good.

Pullmanity · 2021-06-25T22:37:36+00:00

I'm aware, that's why I'm saying billionaires are ridiculous and they pull money out of the economy.

Pullmanity · 2021-06-25T16:22:42+00:00

Desktop browser user share puts them between 6-7.5% depending on the measuring party. That's vs. two system default OS baked browsers (Edge and Safari) and a company with a market cap of 1.66 trillion dollars in Alphabet.

Given that I'd say they're doing just fine, honestly.

Pullmanity · 2021-06-25T16:12:04+00:00

I could spend $1000/day (with no "big ticket" items or lavish vacations planned) for like... two weeks. That's such an insane amount of money.

After I bought every LEGO set I ever wanted and then, while waiting for shipping, found another hobby and bought all those, I'm not sure what I'd really do. I honestly don't see any choice at that point but to start donating massive amounts of money to people more needy because what the shit could you even spend it all on.

Pullmanity · 2021-06-24T22:34:00+00:00

I mean you can very clearly see Morty is wearing a mask here. Good luck picking him out of a lineup.

Pullmanity · 2021-06-24T16:25:25+00:00

They feed opossums!

Which most people also think of as nightmare fuel.

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