The first three paragraphs focus on that, but the bulk of the article is more general, and talks repeatedly about impairment.

Being a NORML article, it belabors the point that tests don't tell whether a person is impaired at the moment, only whether the substance has been used.

So I'm interested in any answer to the question, because the article doesn't address it.

The article goes into some detail about the inapplicability of various tests, but says nothing about how employers can detect whether a worker is impaired.

Are we left with employers just making subjective judgements about whether a person showing up to work seems like they're under the influence?

Sure. I was taught it in elementary school and it always made more sense. I still have the conversion factors memorized.

But I won't hold my breath on the timeline. Elementary school was 50 years ago and nothing has happened yet.

Well, it would buy a studio, food, and about $1800 a month extra after taxes... it's a matter of what else a person needs besides food. If health care were free, it'd be a comfortable life and would probably include a car. But as we know, health care is far from free, in Lynnwood or in Yakima.

That's quite reasonable pay, but the big question is whether you're guaranteed full-time work for the long term, whether health benefits are included, and whether you need a car.

$25/hr is about $4000/month. You can easily find an apartment for $2000/month, and probably more like $1400/month for a good studio apartment. Less, if you're willing to live in Everett instead of Lynnwood.

Riding the bus and using a bicycle is cheaper than having a car - a bus pass is $90/month.

Food for one person is probably $300-400/month. There are other expenses like electricity, phone, and so on but rent and food are the biggest.

If you have to pay for your own health care, that is a large cost. I don't know the details. There are lower cost options like Community Health Centers, but if you have to have emergency surgery in a hospital that would be catastrophic to your budget unless you have health insurance.

Getting into an apartment may be difficult...I see one for example that says "must have 1 year employment history, $3500 verifiable earned income, excellent credit score". So that's another hurdle.

This explains virtually nothing.

That measly $2 is actually $1000 per year for any house within 10 miles of where I live. Ask me to pay $1000 this year for something, and it better be something I really support. It isn't a "negligible amount".

I don't automatically vote to give $1k a year to "education". Nobody should. The measure must clearly state what the money is going to be used for and it better be a good reason. Otherwise I have other things I could use that $1k for.

There was no single reason. It will take a detailed analysis and comparison to understand all the differences. In addition to other points made here, they happened at different times of day, and in Turkey there were aftershocks that were as bad as the initial Nisqually quake. And earthquakes are all different: some last longer, they cause different motion (up/down, sideways, rotation).

But you can see for yourself that they were just vastly different phenomena. The Nisqually quake caused visible cracks that were maybe a meter wide. You could hop across from one foot to another. The one in Turkey caused visible rifts the size of a large river, dozens of meters wide in places.

https://www.insider.com/turkey-earthquake-olive-grove-deep-chasm-split-2023-2

"It's" means "it is". They're pointing out the punctuation mistake in the title.

Yes, about 3 years ago. At that time we went up in the lighthouse, I don't know about the current rules.

It's a long walk. I didn't realize it was 5 miles, but not surprised. It's slow going in the dry sand.

But the traffic is so heavy there, and something was wrong with either the design of the joints or the way the concrete work was done. The ruts in the concrete over time created a massive transition that just hammers the suspension.

Los Angeles has used concrete for decades and generally does not have this problem. Whatever LA did, Seattle and WSDOT didn't. If it's fixed now, here's hoping the fix works long term.

Only place I've ever seen a wild moose is Alaska.

There's this just today: https://www.reddit.com/r/Washington/comments/zgmsln/first_recorded_moose_sighting_ever_in_mount/

But in Washington, your best bet is to buy a ticket to NW Trek.

No. Different start/end points, and different trails. I think WTA lists both.

The article says the North Cascades are prime habitat and reintroduction of grizzlies is feasible, while the last process was "discontinued due to overwhelming local opposition". Also that there have been grizzlies sighted there as recently as 2015.

I wonder what the point of expanding the population is? What do grizzlies bring that black bears don't?

The ads don't sway people, but they do work.

Few change their opinion, but quite a lot of people fail to vote because of apathy or laziness or because it's inconvenient. Ads MOTIVATE people. If Smiley spends more, then more people who already dislike Patty Murray will spend the ten minutes it takes to sit down and vote.

So the ads don't have to be so good that they convince opponents to change views. They just have to push the right buttons.

A significant portion of the state probably disagrees with you. I don't know if they read Reddit, but if any do, you just provided free advertising.

Is there a creek? I don't see it.

Yeah, the article says there are 1,100 people involved. Either it's spread out across many locations, or someone couldn't be bothered to get a photo of the real action.

There are 13 people and a dog in that picture.