Spokane here, no one outside of a survey team would call it that.
"Inland Empire" maybe, but that's about as specific as "Tri-Cities" or "the lake". PNW is the tri-state area of WA/OR/ID in casual conversation.
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For that they're waiting on the paperwork to go through with Apple.
The study is talking about overall numbers of jobs, not specific companies. Get fired from McDonalds closing a location, get a job with higher pay somewhere else that's paying the new minimum wage, is a net zero result.
McDonalds is gutted that their 2024 earnings are on track for only a 5% increase over 2023, which saw a 10% gross profit increase for the year.
Remember when there was a "shoplifting crime wave" that it turned out was just profits were down so they had to blame something?
...and they shouldn't. It's a government service vehicle, form and function over aesthetics.
They could've bought a fleet of EVs off the shelf but they would'n't've been fit for service and more expensive per mile/year of use.
It's...a problem.
The second volume of White Sand specifically was out of print for a long time. There is/was an omnibus edition published a few years ago that Diamond royally screwed up on delivering on time, but I think should be able to be ordered at least?
Drop bears attack from the South.
It is just an out of touch rich guy struggling to make small talk, but a particularly bad example. It's made worse because of his self-mythologizing of growing up 'normal' and poor and incessant talk of how if all "these people" behaved as they should they'd be where he is.
It's really weird for a national politician going out to shake hands to not have the charisma to have no more than a single question and single response and seem to have negative interest in the visit.
Check out "Barb and Starr go to Vista Del Marr".
Just to go ridiculous:
You can get your Private Pilots License by buying a Phenom or Citation or Lear jet and doing all your training in top of the line luxury, if you spend the money. If you then find that what you want out of flying is going into backcountry airstrips and camping your initial investment is now worthless to you, and you not only need to buy a different type of plane, but learn an entirely different set of skills. So you should probably do the "basic beginner thing" and rent a basic flight school / club plane and see what you like/care about.
Every hobby is fractal. If nothing else, if you buy the top of the line super specialized equipment you might miss out on the other branch of the hobby you would actually be interested in. (that has it's own, different, top of the line super specialized equipment)
"Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat."
- The Communist Manifesto
Nixon's Southern Strategy and it's fallout made a lot of things weird.
Not sure about the second part, tanks are built to go over things. Their "negative slant" seems more likely to push things under than a car's hood or a truck/SUV's flat face.