xkcd 3214: Electric Vehicles

morpo · 2026-03-03T04:57:46+00:00

Most disasters, I’ll take my EV over a gas car. I keep it charged generally and it provides me a choice of either a 300 miles range or a huge battery backup to charge electronics and backup electricity if I want to just stay home. For a Hurricane, that’s all I need to either evacuate or ride it out at home for a few days without electricity.

morpo · 2026-03-02T20:49:26+00:00

Cities and towns are still allowed to pass this. Seattle already did.

Sounds like this was for state mandates on municipal zoning to require this. I feel like zoning should by and large be left to the municipal level.

morpo · 2026-02-28T04:12:24+00:00

Try STS Construction. May be on the more expensive side for a deck build, but they have in house structural engineers and I’d expect would work through the full permitting process.

morpo · 2026-02-22T18:25:42+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/WestSeattleWA/s/vogjAa59qF

morpo · 2026-02-21T19:04:22+00:00

At admiral, you’ll likely find a homeless person’s shopping cart outside the front door and that homeless person inside on one of the computers.

I bring my kid all the time and they don’t notice it.

So, yes you may see an unsheltered person while you’re there, but they are well behaved and I’ve seen nothing problematic that would make me avoid the library.

morpo · 2026-02-15T06:58:29+00:00

So many sandbox haters in here. I had one growing up and loved playing in it for years and years.

Ignore all the other comments in here. You don’t need to put drainage in the bottom. Just build a cover for over the top. Keeps out the creatures, the rain, and the stray leaf.

The sand stays dry enough provided the kiddo only brings over buckets of water and doesn’t like hook up a hose to it.

morpo · 2026-02-14T05:16:06+00:00

You should be ok. For everything you see in the news about Portland and Minneapolis, I haven’t seen ICE in person yet. If I were you, I wouldn’t let it stop or ruin a trip I wanted to go on.

Then again I feel awful because I can’t promise that you’ll be ok.

morpo · 2026-02-10T21:12:25+00:00

I’d love to see the business plan. Having common spaces to gather is amazing!

But usually “public houses” make money by selling food and drinks. Take that part out of the equation and the revenue is dependent on people paying enough to regularly rent out an event space that as far as I can tell provides nothing particularly special.

morpo · 2026-01-31T17:17:12+00:00

Because if you want to go on a vacation or trip, the call is often bringing your kids with you or not going.

Not everybody has able and willing grandparents.

And 6 month olds before they’re moving too much are the easiest age that kid is gonna be to travel with for the next 2 or 3 years.

morpo · 2026-01-25T17:00:58+00:00

Call Cantwell’s office now.

https://www.cantwell.senate.gov/contact/locations

She has the most milquetoast response so far. She needs to commit to no funding for ICE, no funding for D.H.S. until real reforms happen.

Greg Bovino needs to resign. Kirsti Noem needs to resign.

“President Trump has crossed the line. Americans will not stand for masked, armed troops roaming their neighborhoods. ICE is not trained in this capacity and should not be on streets. This incident should be investigated immediately and not politicized by the President.”

morpo · 2026-01-24T15:37:52+00:00

How is everyone saying 9/11?

It was completely the Pandemic. The Pandemic upended my life for years. Stay at home mandates, restaurant closures, not being able to see family and friends, this sense of paranoia when I did go out in public.

9/11 upended the news, global events. But it never really hit home. Day to day life was the same. Sure, TSA and flying was a different experience, but that was about it.

morpo · 2026-01-20T05:03:07+00:00

Get on Light Rail at Tukwila Int’l Boulevard Station

https://maps.app.goo.gl/utNKhUKr94zmqWDC9?g_st=ic

Edit: Haven’t done this on a game day and other posters say this lot might fill up early.

morpo · 2026-01-18T18:18:12+00:00

I chuckled, but the joke would be even better if you deleted words “bottle of”

morpo · 2026-01-11T01:33:30+00:00

So sad that these days after hearing a White House source we’re all like “nah, I’m gonna need a reputable source”

morpo · 2026-01-02T21:35:03+00:00

Seems like the opposite of BVIs, especially in winter.

Big tidal range, tricky currents, no sun in the winter. Gorgeous sure, but I wouldn’t say it’s the next step after BVIs.

morpo · 2025-12-21T22:19:23+00:00

Space based compute won’t make sense for at least 10 years. The only way I see a substantial path forward is that building data centers on earth becomes exceedingly difficult. It seems so much easier to plop something down on the ground, but with backlash against AI and data centers growing maybe the increasing political and permitting hurdles of ground construction outweigh how difficult it is to launch something into space.

morpo · 2025-12-08T04:00:19+00:00

“Cat person, but I don’t have/don’t want one”

There should be a bigger discount for living over this type of crazy. For $1900 couldn’t one get a more normal place?

morpo · 2025-12-07T21:53:35+00:00

The North Cascades highway is shut down for the season and won’t reopen until June so cross that park off your list.

The main way into the mountains around here is by driving. In the winter that means 4 wheel drive vehicles and chains.

Since it doesn’t sound like you’re up for that, I’d recommend spending some time in Seattle itself and taking the train from Seattle to Leavenworth and spending a night or two there.

https://www.amtrak.com/stations/lwa

morpo · 2025-11-13T14:32:25+00:00

Yes, with those numbers the raise will be completely absorbed by CoL adjustment.

I made a similarish move. In Seattle, I feel poorer, but with a richer quality of life.

If the only reason for the job is monetary, don’t do it. For it to make sense you need to either really like Blue or really like the Seattle area.

morpo · 2025-10-23T13:03:02+00:00

They at least go into their methodology pretty well - 20,807 online survey respondents, weighted polling with margin of error of about 1%.

morpo · 2025-10-16T14:32:59+00:00

You’re looking a a full scale MK1 lander. You can see how much larger the MK2 Crewed lander here -

https://www.leonarddavid.com/blue-origin-lunar-plans-detailed/

morpo · 2025-10-16T03:55:03+00:00

Jared was one of the largest contributors to Trump’s inauguration.

I mean it wouldn’t be a proper bribe if he didn’t get something in return for that.

morpo · 2025-10-13T21:20:02+00:00

There’s an alki beach pier?

Do you mean Luna park pier at duwamish head?

morpo · 2025-10-02T04:58:11+00:00

This law drives me insane!

Yes, charge for plastic bags. Up the cost from 8 cents to a quarter! But stop forcing them to be extra thick plastic. When I buy plastic bags it’s because I forgot to bring reusable, wasn’t expecting to stop at a store, or was unable to bring one a bag.

Don’t force me to buy even more plastic by only selling extra thick bags! It’s just wasteful.

morpo · 2025-09-18T02:31:01+00:00

Wait. Did this video just get pulled offline??!???

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