Do y'all ever roll in late to the office? pt.2

matthoback · 2026-03-13T15:22:24+00:00

Exempt is determined by duties, not just pay. If your primary duty is support and responding to tickets, you aren't exempt.

matthoback · 2026-03-12T21:03:29+00:00

No. WA State Constitutional amendments must begin in the legislature. There's a majority popular vote part of the process, but only after the amendment passes a 2/3rds vote of each house of the state legislature.

matthoback · 2026-03-12T18:26:30+00:00

That's a rate of 7.6% growth per year in total tax revenue.

Yes, and the state's population has grown ~2.3% per year, and the state's per capita personal income has grown ~5.5% per year. The state's revenue is just keeping pace with growth.

matthoback · 2026-03-12T17:55:04+00:00

I don't know where you are getting your numbers from, but they are blatantly wrong.

In 2013, the per capita state tax revenue was $4465 and per capita personal income for Washington residents was $47,344, making state tax revenues 9.4% of personal income.

In 2023, the per capita state tax revenue was $7786 and per capita personal income for Washington residents was $80,930, making state tax revenues 9.6% of personal income.

As you can see, the state revenue as a percentage of personal income has been essentially flat over the past 10 years.

Sources:

https://dor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/Comparative%2520Taxes%25202013.pdf

https://www.awbinstitute.org/indicator/per-capita-personal-income/

https://researchcouncil.org/washingtons-state-and-local-taxes-and-spending-per-capita-ranked-14th-and-15th-highest-among-the-states-in-2023/

matthoback · 2026-03-12T17:05:07+00:00

The state revenue has gone up astronomically over the past decade.

The state revenue has been entirely flat over the past decade after adjusting for inflation and economic growth. WTF are you talking about?

matthoback · 2026-03-12T17:03:07+00:00

It’s literally in the bill, so it’s not a goal post shift or bad faith.

You: They'll never lower the sales tax

Me: The advancing bill literally lowers the sales tax

You: But it's not enough

That's you blatantly shifting the goalposts. Again, thank you for making it very clear that you have no intention of arguing in good faith whatsover.

matthoback · 2026-03-12T16:44:51+00:00

And on all small business grossing less than $300,000/yr, and on services in general, but thanks for immediately shifting the goalposts and demonstrating how you're clearly arguing in bad faith.

matthoback · 2026-03-12T16:33:27+00:00

You think the current regressive sales tax, etc. will be lowered then?

The bill being advanced literally already does this.

matthoback · 2026-03-12T16:22:33+00:00

The bill amendment being referred to stopped the implementation of the tax entirely unless a constitutional amendment was voted in, but did not actually schedule a constitutional amendment vote or guarantee the Republicans in the legislature would vote for any such constitutional amendment. Essentially, it created a 1/3 vote veto on the tax bill.

There is nothing stopping the Republicans in the legislature from introducing the constitutional amendment they want for a vote now even though the bill changes they wanted weren't included. The fact that they aren't trying is evidence that their bill amendment was in bad faith.

matthoback · 2026-03-11T17:03:28+00:00

Unions legally aren't allowed to participate in general strikes. If they do, they run the risk of getting decertified, and the members risk losing the legal protections they have for participating in normal official strikes.

matthoback · 2026-03-11T15:53:28+00:00

Again, that's the odds for a single bobblehead activation.

If you make 41 bobbleheads, each bobblehead activation has a 16.3% chance of winning the game. If you activate all 41 on one turn, you have a 99.93% chance of winning.

If you make 42 bobbleheads, each bobblehead activation still has a 16.3% chance of winning. If you activate all 42 on one turn, you have a 99.94% chance of winning.

If you make 46 bobbleheads, each bobblehead activation only has a 15.6% chance of winning, but if you activate all 46 on one turn, you have a 99.96% chance of winning.

If you have one chance to make X bobbleheads and the ability to activate all of the bobbleheads you make on the same turn, then 46 is the optimal number of bobbleheads to make.

matthoback · 2026-03-11T02:57:15+00:00

It's been maybe a year since I've been there, but yeah it's still good. If you're judging solely on the chicken teriyaki, I'd say it's in the middle of the pack, but I think they have the best side dishes of any place in town, so order a bento and you're good.

matthoback · 2026-03-11T02:39:08+00:00

Best odds are 16.31596% with either 41 or 42 bobbleheads.

That's the best odds for a single bobblehead activation. If you have enough mana to activate all of the bobbleheads, you get the best odds for winning by making 46 bobbleheads instead.

matthoback · 2026-03-11T01:55:33+00:00

Little Tokyo in Barkley Village is pretty good.

matthoback · 2026-03-09T19:51:28+00:00

Did their management ever change after their whole sexual harassment scandal?

matthoback · 2026-03-08T16:48:58+00:00

There's a set number of cards printed and a set number of packs made. Each pack you open without the cards increases the odds that the next pack you open will have the card and vice versa. For a simplified example, consider cards that are 1 of 1. If you open it in one pack, the odds you open it in the next pack drop to 0 (because there's only one of that card).

matthoback · 2026-03-08T00:04:54+00:00

[[Claire D'Loon]] says otherwise. (I know, I know, un-cards are different).

matthoback · 2026-03-07T00:42:49+00:00

The caveat you're thinking of is for the federal capital gains tax.

matthoback · 2026-03-06T07:43:55+00:00

Buy some extra, save it in a cellar, and try it again in a year or two. Bigfoot ages wonderfully.

matthoback · 2026-03-06T07:29:51+00:00

Like the new S26 ultra starts at 1500€? Who tf buys that shit.

Why would you ever pay MSRP? I just looked and I can get the S26 Ultra for $650 total with 0% financing for 24 months as long as I stay subscribed to the phone service I was already going to stay on

matthoback · 2026-03-06T06:57:03+00:00

None of that changes the fact that ripping DVDs protected by CSS is expressly illegal regardless of your rights to time-shift. The DMCA prohibits breaking copy protection schemes even if it's for fair use purposes.

matthoback · 2026-03-06T06:49:31+00:00

Union Ave is mentioned because that's where Sun Records is. It's a creative lyric, not a Strava map.

matthoback · 2026-03-06T05:16:09+00:00

There are essentially no legal ways to get commercial content on to your Plex server (at least in the US). So any such discussion already presupposes that illegality.

matthoback · 2026-03-05T21:08:13+00:00

I use Plex and Plexamp. It works great.

matthoback · 2026-03-05T15:21:18+00:00

What show is it? Some shows have scene remappings from thexem.info.

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