Yeah my wife and I go every few years. It's way more accessible than the San Juans too. Hoping for acreage and or proximity to the sound because we've farmed the hell out of our half acre in Black Diamond and nothing beats the seafood win rate of crabbing. All these lowland lakes are empty of anything bigger than perch.

We're stuck for another few months because of our newborn though. We keep seeing really good properties show up and disappear quick.

Does anybody live near the bridge? I'm thinking of buying a house out there, but I've heard the airbase has a lot of noise.

I mean, they asked what I'd like to do.

Buy a big boat and go fishing for weeks on end, slowly sailing up the Cascadia coast...

Then spend as much time as possible on pushing conservation efforts around the world.

Well, it's not a matter if need vs don't need. Someone will build it. If it's not a private company than it will be a nation state. If it's not the US then it might be an adversary. Get where this is going?

Engineering is extraordinarily hard. Manufacturing cutting edge hardware to spec and at scale is an order of magnitude harder than designing it. Most companies competing in bleeding edge manufacturing still struggle on resource planning problems. If AGI can improve performance just 10% it puts a company/nation at the top of the game. If i5 can boost performance 100x it will rip apart the need for human labor but it will also mean companies and countries become living entities with corporeal form and real minds.

The Taiwan chip issue and the global supply shock is just a shell game in a bigger arm's race for control of the planetary intelligence and its dominance over all material markets.

Buckle up.

Feudalism. That's where it's headed. Wealth inequality has created the conditions that match that time period, and bad faith actors like Peter Thiel are setting up the tech to rapidly enable it.

Oh I get it. Voter suppression and election engineering is already in full swing in the southern states. Dems will never win again in states with a Republican Secretary of State.

What does that even mean? Are you a bot?

I'm saying that Republicans voters are goddam sheep that think they are revolutionaries but really just crave to live under an authoritarian autocrat.

Dems are weak on most issues and are losing ground because they don't want to cut on education to pay for mass incarceration of the hundreds of thousands of drug addicts.

The GOP will get their way, and the Hegelian dialect tells us that eventually we get the American Night of the Long Knives, and neighborhood purges. It'll probably happen in the next five to ten years after the monetary system collapses.

The American Left doesn't really exist. It's dead and will be a other generation or more until it resurfaces. I think we'll probably get Ecofascism instead though.

Go read this book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1847-four-futures

"The People's Representative" ... I think we are starting to see a major shift of the working class towards the GOP. To them Socialist = Woke, and those "Marxist CEOs" need to be run our of town and replaced with the "Independent Capitalist People's Army."

It's almost as if there was another period of history, I. Other countries, where a far right group started using socialist talking points and blaming 'the other' to rise to power, just to rip away all labor unions, public services and education, and dump all the budget into the military.

Just as a fun note, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, The PRC, Venezuela, Pinchochet's Chile.... ALL banned labor unions, ALL of them eliminated opposition parties... ALL of them ruled/rule through terror and fervent nationalism.

Most people in this state don't even know about the Everett Massacre or the Technocracy movement. They just have strong opinions about the culture war.