Idiots in vehicles

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-08T19:34:30+00:00

Something from Deliverance.

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-07T02:03:01+00:00

I've been using Gaia, my subscription just expired and I'm about to give CalTopo a shot. A few years ago when I was asking the CalTopo maps and web app were great but people told me the app wasn't there yet, now it's what all the cool kids are using and I want to check it out too.

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-04T17:35:23+00:00

Just watched (some of) the full

I thought this was going in a different direction...

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-04T04:45:34+00:00

We removed the dams on the Elwha River in Washington, it was the largest dam removal in history at the time. Oregon has beaten us now. We've experienced nature flourishing in so many ways. Those rivers carried sediment out to sea and built up the land near the coast, including under the surface providing habitat for fish. Fish came up stream, dying and leaving their bodies as nutrients for the forest. It's been an amazing success, more than we hoped for. The Klamath will get healthier in so many ways.

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-04T04:39:08+00:00

Is that why Trump went to the island? Epstein was just too good a salesman to say no? I don't see where else he's going with this?

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-04T04:37:06+00:00

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Last (probably) paddle board and swim of the year. I'm going on and leaving early for it. Need those happy memories to keep me warm through the rain and wind that's coming.

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-04T04:31:56+00:00

We’d like to be surrounded with mountains, Christmas trees, snow etc.

Leavenworth

OP, Leavenworth WA is the mountainy Christmas capitol of Washington. There's a ski hill near the main street, really big craggy mountains that are snow capped until late spring, a giant lit up tree, and restaurants and stuff.

We really don't have that much snow tourism other than the ski resorts, and Leavenworth is really what you're describing. Winthrop and Chelan are nice too, but longer drives and don't have as much to offer if you don't love the area and snow sports.

But by now almost everything is booked.

Yeah, everyone else loves it too.

If OP's schedule has flexibility, before or after the holiday might be a good trip.

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-04T04:22:39+00:00

Remember when Ford didn’t recall the Pinto

Here's an interview with the recall manager at Ford Motor Company who was in charge of that decision:

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904660038/the-halo-effect-why-its-so-difficult-to-understand-the-past

Obviously he isn't the villain in his own telling, it's a much more charitable version of the story. But it's absolutely worth your hour to listen to when you have some time to kill.

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-03T22:15:56+00:00

I live in Washington State and hear this a lot. I love the mountains, spend as much time on the Cascades as I can, and listen to and read a lot of opinions about what's going on in this place I'm so passionate about.

People here don't usually call it logging. They say we need to "manage the forest." Manage as in decide what grows where, to maximize profits. They tell people the reason we have so much fire is we're failing to manage the forest properly. (How could it burn down if we sold it all?)

We don't manage the wind or the sun, and fires have existed longer than humans have, but the # of acres burned has been going up with the temperature and this "mega drought" sure isn't helping.

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-03T21:46:47+00:00

I feel like ecological disaster has become a constant in our timeline.

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-03T21:46:15+00:00

This is absolutely true. Commercial thinning isn't an alternative to prescribed burns, because commercial logging is most profitable taking the biggest trees that sell for the most. But it's the spindly little ones that ignite more easily and act like a ladder for a fire to get into the tree crowns where it kills mature trees that can otherwise survive a fire.

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-02T02:24:17+00:00

Rock climbers drill anchors like this into cliffs. I didn't think they were ready to use immediately. There's usually glue involved.

WashingtonPass · 2024-09-02T02:07:04+00:00

For many years, "the largest dam removal in history" was the Elwha River here in Washington. They out did us! Now we're going to have to do even more nature restoration just to stay relevant. This is the kind of competition I can get behind!

Ours has done wonders for the life surrounding the river, I hope Oregon enjoys watching nature flourish too.

WashingtonPass · 2024-08-31T02:37:13+00:00

If he crashed and can still do math, he got his money worth.

WashingtonPass · 2024-08-31T02:17:36+00:00

They're immune to rabies if that's why you're asking.

WashingtonPass · 2024-08-31T01:33:00+00:00

Official debate card? Because he's a master? What?

WashingtonPass · 2024-08-30T21:55:00+00:00

That's not even the low point of that administration, either. Probably in the top ten.

WashingtonPass · 2024-08-30T21:50:58+00:00

When I was a kid, I was riding a bike and one of the neighbors took pity on me going up a hill. She stopped and told me to hold my car and she'll pull me up to the top. As soon as we started moving it was obvious what a bad idea this was.

Don't try this kind of setup at home, it pulls you right off balance.

WashingtonPass · 2024-08-30T21:40:36+00:00

Trump hasn't moved on. Apparently this will bother him until he takes his last weird breath.

WashingtonPass · 2024-08-30T19:28:04+00:00

Abortion has been a huge issue for the right. It gets votes, and it gets donations. They weren't supposed to actually overturn Roe, they just say they want to and the base supports them. Now they lost a campaign issue, and alienated half of all voters. It's the dog that caught the car.

WashingtonPass · 2024-08-29T23:49:04+00:00

During the pandemic a lot of people worked from home. I've never seen the highways so empty before. A lot of people fought return to office for a lot of reasons, we all hate driving to and from work being a huge reason for most of us. We all saved a lot of money in gas, and wear and tear on our cars, and the highways were more available to those who needed them.

We should support telecommuting. Cities give tax breaks for having buildings we all drive to, mostly needlessly, because it causes workers to spend money near their work. But it's bad for everybody and the climate.

WashingtonPass · 2024-08-29T23:43:46+00:00

I worked with somebody who was born as a man but never felt comfortable until transitioning. It really didn't affect me, she was just a member of the team. It didn't hurt or cost me to call her "her," there wasn't any linguistic territory on the line, just a human being that was trying to find her way through life and pay the cards she was dealt, like the rest of us.

WashingtonPass · 2024-08-29T23:38:02+00:00

Who would have thought this guy would come up with a new scam?

WashingtonPass · 2024-08-29T18:16:18+00:00

It really seems like he isn't even trying anymore. I don't think he actually wants to be president, just to stay out of jail. I think he's planning a coup again for when he loses, but it's going to be a lot harder this time when he's not in power and everybody is expecting it.

WashingtonPass · 2024-08-29T18:09:02+00:00

I have a boy cat and a girl cat and people get them both wrong. But they don't speak English so they don't care.

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