I am capable of converting. But I won’t. No.

We do beach cleanup fairly often, and it is the coolest thing I found so far. At first I thought someone had taped it together, then I saw there was paper under it, and for a hot minute I thought I found a message in a "bottle" which is my dream

Doesn’t it say that this is for initial employment?

Lmao, classist stereotypes- sure.

What about them? Based on my experience, parents in cities are either dismissive or easily enraged about school issues. I've had coworkers teach in those cities. Federal way had a ton of complaints. Auburn/sumner teachers seemed mostly happy. Kent... Shoreline is a great place to work. Seattle teachers tend to seem pretty content for the most part.

Many middle class folks see education and work ethic as a reason for success. Many impoverished folks do not see the value in education because it wasn't valued in their homes growing up, or it never benefitted them, so they don't encourage it with their children. Many upper class folks expect to be catered to, and education is not a service industry.

Again, classist stereotypes.

You can go from Olympia to Seattle in just over an hour with no traffic. It can also take 4 hours.

Thanks!

Lucky Dragon has good Chinese, and the Twilight movies had some scenes shot here.

They have ben using that paper for at least 15 years. Sorry.

One of the bays in marine Area 6 is as specific as I can be.

I figured that, I just couldn't remember when they started using that type of paper, and that would at least give me an idea of how old it possibly could be

> Every sawmill has to be retooled to cut in meters and centimeters instead of feet and inches.

I disagree that this is a concern in the short term. My initial push is not to legislate product offerings, but rather to push signage and mental shifts and making SI units ubiquitous. "You're refreshing this sign anyway, it now needs to include a little more info" is a pretty small cost burden spread over time.

Each industry will face challenges in metricification. You might never get the lumber industry to convert the product line: "lumber is Imperial because blueprints are Imperial because lumber is Imperial." I don't have a solution here, but retooling the mill is not where we need to begin. If a major home builder said "we're tired of doing blueprints in the US in Imperial, who wants to retool with us?" you'll get the demand. And if it doesn't happen, so be it. I don't want anyone to stop making / selling / speaking of 'a 2x4'. I just want Home Depot's sign to say 2"x4"x8' / 48mm x 98mm x 2.4m.

Bogging down in the late stage of "how each industry converts to metric" hides the issue that blocks getting started: as a country, we don't know how to think in metric, because we don't see it every day. Signs help begin to change that.

Here's my dream: someone visiting the US who doesn't know Imperial can see directions using km, to get to a grocery store where they can buy meat and produce and know the price per kg.

They use that plastic paper stuff for everything from game tags to parking permits. There's no way to know once the thermal ink fades.

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Not gonna lie, jealous

Puget Sound and Salish Sea are not two names for the same thing (unlike those other examples).

And as the other person pointed out, the Salish Sea is a very recent name.

What part of the Salish sea?

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?

Yes folks, the Olympics, Washington State has two mountain ranges. Also, in case one didn't know: a rain forest, Puget Sound, which has the largest octopus than anywhere else on earth, 4 mountains above 10, 000 ft, the Columbia river, which is the largest river by discharge flowing into the Pacific from the Americas, long beach, which is the longest beach in the U S and third largest in the world, and the birthplace of my friend Scott - the end.

Sounds kinda racist, what about the cities between Tacoma and Everett?

I was just more curious about if you just refuse to call it that, or hadn't heard they gave all the bodies one name. Some people hadn't ever heard of it yet Sorry to get you jumped on!

I didn't jump on that wagon. I knew it was new, and even we agreed with Canada to call it that. I just think it's kinda cool, and where I found it isn't easily accessible to the public, and I didn't want to encourage any beach combers. Plus, I am kinda of an asshole and I worry about people knowing where I live. Lol. I was surprised to wake up to that argument today.

That's fine, I have no problem with that. But y'all are jumping all over me for adding some geographic detail to your less-vague comment (specifying MA 6) as though I'm some colonialist monster. Friend, I've got news for you - the "Salish Sea" is not the original native name for these waters. It was coined in the late '80s by a WWU professor, using a term concocted by linguists from the name of a native people who live hundreds of miles away in present-day Montana, to express that the areas called "Strait of Juan de Fuca", "Strait of Georgia", and "Puget Sound" are all interconnected and should be thought of as one combined ecosystem in an inland sea. Just because someone wants a little geographical distinction in an area encompassing nearly 7,000 square miles, how about not assuming that they're a colonialist "a-hole"?

If you take the percentage of space these three countries represent and remove it from a soccer ball you can't play the game very well. But to be accurate, the U S is and has been using the metric system in industry, all branches of the military, and science, etc. for many a year.

That is a really cool shot! Love the color plane in there.

I was trying to be vague on purpose, that is why I used Salish Sea.