At least it’s a suspension without pay this time? That’s the tiniest marginal bit off improvement. But really, if one of my coworkers barged into my office to tell me there’s a life-threatening emergency, then I proceeded to finish my lunch break before helping, my ass would get fired.
A nice idea, but then they’re also enforcing a defacto 7% minimum, too. I’m lucky, I guess, that my landlord basically forgot to put up rent the last few years.
Yep and your landlord, nor any other, will ever, ever, ever forget to do that (or decline to raise it) if this passes. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I don’t care if they install shot-spotter or not, it’s not like SPD is gonna fucking protect the public. There are shootings ALL AROUND spd south precinct and they rarely if ever respond.
Took me 5 minutes while I read the statements from the people running for the position. It seems a bit sketchy they only ask for your first, last, and DOB in order to allow you to vote. I’m hoping in the backend they are looking at other data points like source IP, timestamp, etc. to ensure no election hijinks.
“It would be great to audit the full budget, but that’s not practical,” Rivera said. This is something their opponents noted repeatedly on the campaign trail, but both stuck with their “audit the budget” promise until the end of the campaign, abandoning it only once they were securely on the council.
tl;dr: Between the University Street and Westlake stations, the tracks make a 90-degree turn. When taking this turn, riders were experiencing a very herky-jerky ride. The closures and repairs were intended to fix that. The sharp turn had caused the tracks to wear down in the spots where the wheels were grinding against them. This wear-down lead to extra space between the rails that the train wheels would slide back and forth on (causing the train car to rock back and forth). The repair involved replacing the rails at the 90-degree bend.
I used to absolutely love pink ladies, but a few years ago I noticed that every time I got them, they were really hard and lacking in flavor. I kept buying them for a while until I realized I couldn’t remember the last time I enjoyed one. It’s possible I’ve been extremely unlucky, or that I’ve only bought them out of season, but I’ve stopped buying them altogether.
Fuji is my favorite apple and they are going this way. Can someone explain why? Especially since (I assume) they’re the same trees (Google says Apple trees produce for 50+ years).
I’m not educated on this in any way, but I’d assume it’s something to do with either soil nutrient depletion or pesticides. Or maybe crop inbreeding. (Is that even a thing?)
On the one hand, I’d not put it past corporations to simply replant the same crop over and over until the soil is ruined. On the other, I’d also not put it past corporations to switch to a cheaper pesticide that ended up damaging the product in the end.
Apples are propagated by grafting because the fruit are not true to seed. If you plant a seed, you have no idea what the fruit will be like. So they take known good trees and graft a part of them onto existing root stock of a compatible tree.
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