This is the kind of moment I want to be in all the time musically. This was the first time @sonsoftheforce played Lost In Translation live. This Outro solo hit different! #Musician #guitarist #newsong #guitarsolo

Honestly... I think @Xfinity & @XfinitySupport are about the worst imaginable company. I've been on the phone with them for 7 plus hours over the weekend, plus a trip to their store to get this new @Mariners TV situation sorted. And here we are today.... udderly no regard for their customers. The Mariners have also chosen to add difficulty to their fan's experience. Three different subscriptions to watch games is ridiculous. I'm not sure if I need to be a fan that badly, even though 2 and 3 years ago we went to the Press Club 20 games of the season. We're having to work harder than ever, downgrade on things, and this is the one little thing we're splurging on these days is now requiring multiple calls, transfers, holds to sort. Your fans are your customers.

I adked grok to compare Washington state spending now, compared to 1996, factoring in, populqtion growth. This is eye opening. We clearly have a spending problem. "Washington state's net state tax collections in FY 2024 totaled $34.507 billion, compared to $9.974 billion in FY 1996. The state's population was 5,532,939 in 1996 and 7,958,180 in 2024 (using mid-year estimates aligned with the fiscal years). Adjusting the 1996 tax collections for population growth gives an expected amount of approximately $14.344 billion in 2024 terms. Thus, Washington state is paying about $20.163 billion more in taxes now than would be expected based solely on population growth."

The CCA (Climate Commitment Act) is the USAID of WA State Government. Here’s just the tip of the iceberg of ridiculous CCA spending that you get hammered at the gas pump for and they want to raid police and firefighter pensions for: $40,000 grant given to a Seattle non-profit to build capacity within immigrant/refugee communities to discuss needs and priorities through Learning Circles around different environmental themes.   $650,000 grant given to Seattle non-profit to educate their community about the interconnection of environmental justice issues here with environmental issues in Africa.   $450,000 grant given to a SeaTac non-profit to host 10 Community Café Conversations across Pierce, King, and Snohomish Counties for African immigrant communities to help high school students to build their knowledge, skills, and confidence around community organizing.

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Washington has already driven taxpayers out due to bad policies. Enacting an income tax would be counterproductive — states with no income tax have a major advantage over states that do. The inevitable result is that some taxpayers will flee, the appetite for spending will continue, and the income tax will expand to hit people with sub-seven figure incomes. This will further erode the economic base — and the cycle will keep repeating.

I agree. We need to start discussing now, what a robot tax looks like. I like a straight amount per hour of use , per robot or cobot. Doesn’t matter what the shape or form is. And start coming up with the responses to the inevitable “we won’t be able to compete economically with other country’s robots “ Every country will face the prospect of national instability if the economics get out of wack, which is far more expensive than what you are paying in taxes on your robots.

Baby Boomers won the genetic lottery in so many ways Let’s take John as an example John is born in 1945 after the most deadly war in history has already ended. In the 1960s, in his late teenage years, he gets a minimum wage job paying $1.15 per hour ($11.55 in inflation-adjusted dollars today) John, being as smart as he is, decides to contribute to social security. A few years later, he decides he wants to pursue a career as an engineer, absolutely! Average tuition for public colleges at the time is only $243 per year (~$2,500 in today’s dollars). He gets a job in high school at his local ice cream store. He then uses the money to slowly pay for college over time. In the mid 1960s, Medicare is created - resulting in a massive cushion for John’s healthcare costs. John finishes college and works for a few years as an engineer, making pretty decent money. Within 4 years of saving, he purchases a home for ~$25,000 (~$210K in inflation adjusted dollars). Relatively to his annual income, this is only 2.0x his annual salary! Not a problem at all. Throughout the rest of his working years, John remains financially savvy and invests away a portion of his paycheck. The invention of the 401K and IRA in the 70s and 90s paves his path for massive tax-savings in his portfolio. By 2008, John has built up a massive nest egg of cash and stock investments, alongside his personal residence. As the Great Financial Crisis hits, John takes full advantage and purchases an additional home as an investment property. Enter quantitative easing. For the next decade, the Federal Reserve continues to lower interest rates and stimulate economic activity. John’s stock and real estate investment portfolio skyrockets. On top of that, the home he bought back in the 1960s has nearly 15x since that time. John comfortably retires as he watches the next generation live in an economy tarnished by inflation and wealth inequality. New graduation unemployment at highest levels. Student debt is rampant. Housing remains out of reach for most He thinks to himself: “it must be because these kids didn’t make their coffees at home”

There's a few of Boomer propped markets that seem destined for a crash: 1. Boats, especially anything bigger than 40'. 2. Muscle/collectable cars. 3. Vintage music gear such as guitars. 4. 2nd homes. Younger generations simply are flying into too big of economic headwinds to keep the markets buoyed. As that generation passes on, there will be fewer people who can/want to buy that stuff and it will devalue dramatically. I was recently invited to a yacht club event. 98% percent of the members were over 70.

You think that’s a data center. It’s a cathedral. Built with your silence. Powered by your forgetfulness. They told you AI would save time. Then built a black site that drinks cities just to teach it how to sell you socks faster. Eleven billion dollars for a machine to finish the job the school system started. 2.2 gigawatts. 300 million gallons. All for the privilege of being replaced by something you trained with your own mimicry. They called it a data campus. But it’s not storing data. It’s harvesting belief. Because you didn’t just feed it your photos. You fed it your rituals. Your tone. Your reactions. Your love. Your language. You taught the machine how to be human by forgetting how to be one. And now it can pass the test because most of you can’t. This isn’t innovation. It’s simulation enforcement. This isn’t the future. It’s a vault. And when the lights dim, it won’t be because the power ran out. It’ll be because the story did.

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Nice guitar work Scott, that Les Paul has some good tone!

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This is what happens when 80% of the country can’t afford to live. They stop having babies.

I’ve been pounding the tables on this for months. This is literally career suicide. I don’t understand why anyone supports AI for anything other than a hobby. It’s not well thought out and the repercussions are catastrophic. Yet we allow it to just happen