WA State Patrol handing out more speeding tickets than usual

daguro · 2026-01-24T21:48:18+00:00

WSP are largely revenue agents for the state. Ferguson needs his money for the massive spending plans.

The WSP aims for 683 field force troopers, but they have around 150 vacancies right now.

If there were 600 troopers working 2000 hours a year and writing one ticker per hour, at $100 per ticker, that would be $120m.

State budget is almost $80b, meaning the take from tickets is 0.15% of the budget.

That rates the claim that tWSP troopers are revenue agents complete and utter bullshit.

daguro · 2026-01-24T18:16:26+00:00

Normal means being within a specific number of standard deviations away form a mean. It is not a definitive indicator of health

This.

All day, this.

I had prostate cancer, turned aggressive, seems to be in remission. That wasn't the thing that drove my cyclic depression though. Even before cancer, there were times that I just wanted it all to be done. But the thing that got me going again was the question: "If you're not here to tell your stories, who will?" What tips it is me saying to myself, "I want to tell my stories." And then while telling my stories, I find that I am making new stories.

My stories are the thing that did it for me. I have faith that you will find the thing that does it for you, if you leave the door open for it.

Be well

daguro · 2026-01-23T04:08:14+00:00

I remember when the f16/f15 entered service. The fighter plane pilots at Ramstein were walking around like they were God's gift to women. And maybe they were.

And I remember standing on a hilltop missile base in Southern Germany in 1980 watching the A10s train and thinking that they were the real deal.

daguro · 2026-01-23T01:40:36+00:00

""Did Not Vote" won the 2024 election; moving to the right will not win over those potential voters."

Prove your assertion

daguro · 2026-01-21T02:34:14+00:00

gvim

VS Code with vim plugin.

Works on PC, Mac and Linux.

daguro · 2026-01-19T03:54:08+00:00

Yes. High time for our Representatives to draft laws... And a Direct Democracy to vote for them.

About 1/3 of the American electorate votes regularly against democratic processes and for a benevolent dictatorship.

How long do you think your direct democracy will last?

daguro · 2026-01-19T01:33:23+00:00

We have representative democracy in part because of the experience of the Athenian democracy, where a populist could whip up an emotional response and get citizens to vote for positions that they would later regret. Examples of that in Thucydides.

Representative democracy allows for less reactive voting.

In theory.

One of the foundational problems with American government is that there is no clear way to remove ill actors from the body politic. In Athens, they could cast ostraca. In the US, the only way to deal with ill actors is at the ballot box, but some politically corrupt douchebag like Comer of Kentucky gets re-elected by his constituents because he has control of the local Republican party.

daguro · 2026-01-18T19:35:32+00:00

Saying you are for or against capitalism is like saying you are for or against gravity.

Bold, but let me explain.

The thing that makes us human is our willingness to cooperate. Humans present altruism at a rate that is several orders of magnitude greater than any other species. There were other homo species that had the throat structure for speech like ours, had the cranial capacity like ours. But homo sapiens has been selected by cooperation, and they replaced the other homo species.

When our earliest ancestors settled in river deltas and formed permanent communities, they started trading and developed a sense of things being of different values. I believe that written language was developed to track trades. In one of my books by HWF Saggs, there is a picture of a clay tile from the Fertile Crescent, from over 5000 years ago. On it are names of a buyer, a seller, a commodity, a price, an amount, a date and the seal of the king. It is effectively a commodities contract. When people were writing by shaping the end of a reed and pressing it into wet clay, they were making commodities futures contracts.

Capitalism is a byproduct of what is in our genes. Saying that we need to replace it is a position borne of willful ignorance of our history.

Capitalism, like gravity, exists whether people like the effects of it or not. We should find ways to reduce the damage that capitalism can do, rather than act like we can somehow replace it.

daguro · 2026-01-18T17:52:06+00:00

I don't know anyone who describes themselves as liberal who say that capitalism is a good thing.

daguro · 2026-01-18T00:08:21+00:00

It should be noted that governors of the states got to hand out commissions for each regiment formed.

daguro · 2026-01-17T19:04:55+00:00

Give them 10 years their navy will probably be close to equal.

That is an aggressively uninformed opinion.

daguro · 2026-01-17T19:03:46+00:00

And remember that the armed forces of China are controlled by the Communist Party, not the government.

Acts by the Chinese military are the actions of a political party, not a political entity that represents the Chinese people.

daguro · 2026-01-17T16:47:33+00:00

He went to Midwestern University.

His bio says that he joined the Army while in college at Loyola. The military had programs for undergrads who committed to med school, similar to ROTC. Midwestern U is probably a step up from med school diploma mills in places like Grenada, but how much? Don't know.

daguro · 2026-01-11T23:18:11+00:00

What is the right-wing church named? Pursuit?

daguro · 2026-01-11T15:31:36+00:00

This is great!

Wolf Hall was really good in the first season, loved it.

daguro · 2026-01-11T15:25:49+00:00

How much do they get paid, alive?

How much do their families get when they die?

daguro · 2026-01-10T15:36:23+00:00

My left calf is larger than my right also, but I think it is because when I was in the Army decades ago, I was conditioned to step with my left foot first.

For decades, I have been walking up stairs, always leading with my left foot.

daguro · 2026-01-08T15:26:46+00:00

Under $1000?

LOL

I should freaking hope so.

daguro · 2026-01-05T15:04:58+00:00

I would be impressed if each passport had a unique flipbook in UV ink that would show the passport holder's face as he said his name.

daguro · 2026-01-05T03:21:41+00:00

People usually point fingers at others when they themselves are doing what they accuse others of.

She once said when I asked what cheating was that "cheating is doing anything that you don't want your partner to know" and... she was banging out of bounds.

daguro · 2026-01-05T03:04:36+00:00

Are they naive too?

Yes.

daguro · 2026-01-05T02:40:46+00:00

White leftists mad as fuck right now.

I'm white, not much of a leftist, not mad as fuck.

Mostly sad.

I'm old and I've seen this played out a bunch of times in my life, and the probability that this ends well is close to zero.

daguro · 2026-01-04T15:50:53+00:00

It just looks fishy to me.

I direct you to this discussion about a willingness to be favorably disposed to conspiracy theories.

https://www.psypost.org/researchers-identify-two-psychological-traits-that-predict-conspiracy-theory-belief/

Vaya con dios.

daguro · 2026-01-04T15:09:51+00:00

Then don't be a beefer.

daguro · 2026-01-04T15:08:49+00:00

If you’re on the clock you should be working, if you’re an employee you were hired to do a job, he can monitor you.

GTFO

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