*Checking in on the Western Washington Dystopia Zone

First up, the local Crime Report, courtesy of the KOMO Web site. Kent Detectives Probe murder of man found dead near licensing office. Dozens of evidence markers at scene where man shot in drive-by. Man shot while sitting in car near Northgate neighborhood. I understand that the "Northgate Neighborhood" is along Aurora Avenue North, notorious …

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*The Financialization of Everything: Engineer discusses Windows 11; RushBabe49 applies it to another area.

Just recently, a new guy I follow on X did a very enlightening post on Windows 11, and how Microsoft succumbed to the trend toward the bean-counters running the show. Reproduced entirely below, with link to original X post at the bottom. He connects all the dots leading to the short-circuiting of the process of …

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Resilience, or…Starting a new career in middle age

Any complete career change is a crapshoot when you’re a middle-aged person. I have a Master’s degree which I never used, and from the time in the mid- 1970s when I graduated, I spent twelve years as a hospital pharmacy assistant, gaining one of the first licenses given out after they were required by Washington …

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