"In January, PepsiCo nixed Sierra Mist, the lemon-lime flavored-soda that’s been around for 24 years…Sierra Mist launched in 1999 to much fanfare…it never made much of a dent in Sprite’s dominance. Sales data from Beverage Digest…shows that Sierra Mist’s share of the soda market barely exceeded a tenth of 1% and has been on the decline for at least the past five years." About the only place I saw it was on Amtrak, before they jumped ship to the Behemoth of Atlanta. https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/pastina-pasta-sierra-mist-8-120144065.html?guccounter=1

#Vote ! “If there isn’t strong Election Day participation from Washington voters, we could end up giving 2017 a run for its money and setting a new record for the worst-ever general election turnout in state history.” #WashingtonState https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2023/11/2023-washington-state-general-election-on-track-to-join-the-worst-turnouts-of-all-time.html @nwprogressive

“In the Bugs Bunny cartoons, Wile E. Coyote races off the edge of a cliff, looks around for a moment, realizes there is nothing below him but thin air, and then he falls. If infrastructure becomes most visible when it fails, we are at the exact moment when, like Coyote, we are looking around and seeing where our societal decisions have led us. But unlike Coyote’s fall, there’s nothing inevitable about what happens next.” —Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works #Infrastructure @debcha

@GPJohnston Maybe the next #HOV scofflaw can use a #dummy that looks like him. https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/10/24/creepy-clown-dummyHOV-lane-Washington-State-Patrol/9481698163093/

WA state senator Jeff Wilson, a co-chair of the Legislative Rail Caucus, is front-page news in Hong Kong, and now in many other places. https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/209560/US-state-senator-charged-for-illegal-possession-of-firearms #Rail #Gun #WashingtonState #HongKong

Magnitude 4.2 earthquake
Affected countries: United States and Canada
9 km from Freeland, WA, USA · 7:21 p.m.
#earthquake #WAstate