The United States is obviously in turmoil today. We have protests around the country, federal troops attacking American citizens on the street who were protesting indiscriminately, thugs who are coming into Black Lives Matter protests because they see an opportunity to cause mayhem, and more. This is all you can see on the news today. …
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Hope
Hope enriches my life by allowing me to see the way out of times of trouble. It allows me to make and keep strategies for my own success which over time will allow me to spread my success to others. I do this by finding job opportunities for friends of mine, working on building up …
Carbon dioxide to biochar
Problems with the video The above video from Cheddar examines how scientists have developed a brilliant way to fight global warming in a community by using your air conditioner. Our homes contribute about 10% of our global warming emissions, which of course is a very serious problem and we have about 30 years to solve …
Coronavirus Aid
It took me some time to unravel why we are losing Coronavirus aid today. This article from Marketwatch explained it very clearly in a single sentence: On Monday, Senate Republicans unveiled a new stimulus package, dubbed the Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools Act, or HEALS Act, that calls for implementing supplemental weekly unemployment …
Obama supports ending the filibuster
Today was John Lewis’ funeral. John Lewis was obviously a truly great member of congress, renowned for being part of the March on Selma, and remembered just as strongly for being a stalwart in the United States House of Representatives, the conscience of the nation, a life long civil rights activist who ascended to the …
All politics is local politics
Our local elected officials make significant decisions which directly impact our lives every year. One example is how there are resolutions in every city council across this country right now which are restricting police violence or giving them more leeway. When it comes to the management of local police forces your city council has far …
The Derivative of a Constant is 0
We are going to start today’s lesson with some mathematics, at the end we are going to fully understand the roots of why a basic income will not impact the amount people work. What is change? In order to understand the impact of basic income on unemployment we need to start with some fairly basic …
My Machete Order
I’m watching a modified Machete order for Star Wars this week, as part of my work. My plan is as follows: The reason why I made this is I wanted to watch the machete order, and I wanted to include all of the content which has come out over the last 10 years. This is …
Ranked voting ballot design
As I was going for my daily walk this morning I was thinking about options on how to design ballots for ranked voting elections, and I thought of several ways to do it. Write a number next to the candidate’s name. N – 1 bubbles next to the candidate’s name where n is the number …
We can afford education if we defund the police
Olympia and Thurston County Defund the police means transferring those funds to other programs. Here in Olympia, Washington 4.8% of our tax dollars goes to police and military from all levels of government. About $1000 per capita between Olympia and Thurston County. Simplifying the data from this spreadsheet from the county: Age group Population Percent …
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