Usually you hear about some guy who got paid a couple hundred thousand by the russians and you wonder why he threw away his career (and betrayed his country) for so little.

“What about people who have to drive a car?” she complained about a measure that would help more people not have to drive a car.

you: what's happening in the US men's national team game against germany? me: (watching the Spanish language broadcast). something is... muy rapido. but you also have to consider: tambien

Parents’ risk tolerance has decreased over the decades, which is a problem. But the actual risk due to cars and people mixing has increased dramatically. Parents’ perception of risk from cars isn’t wrong.

Raising a kid in a city that lets through-traffic near housing is like raising a kid near rivers full of piranhas. Kids aren't free to run around and do kid stuff. Parents aren't free to let kids run around without oversight and sometimes physical restriction. Planners who allow this steal freedoms.

This is somehow the most offensive thing this little shit has ever said.

I had somehow never seen Master and Commander (wife claims we watched it years ago but I assume I fell asleep). But I picked it for Friday night movie with the boys and I think I gained some credibility as a movie picker! Man that was fun. Hope I can get them to read the books!

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Lol dude on week in review trying to shit talk the transit increase saying it's so expensive and Bill saying "well why wouldn't they quite accurately describe it as a 0.15% increase?" and the dude had nothing to say. Get his ass, Bill.

There is definitely a state capacity analogy to just how much Dems can do, though. It frustrates me they can't do more, but the entire government effectively (or actually) shutting down while we all spend a few weeks yelling at each other about this one specific thing is pretty common.

Virtue is a really good thing to signal! If you don't actually possess the virtue, but you fake it really well, that's also pretty good.

Bill Radke just now: "Should seattle voters double the sales tax to fund more transit?" Um "should the voters double a specific levy devoted to expanding transit in a specific way" is more accurate. In terms of the overall sales tax, it would be "should the voters increase the sales tax by 1.42%?"

Mom ate a bunch of carrots right in front of me and forgot to give me one. Dad can you talk to her?

looool.

Line of code I just read, that I am having trouble keeping a straight face about: .region(Region.of(region))

Middle school orchestra rickrolled us in the spring concert just now.

a year after we left comcast for fiber, comcast cold calls me to ask why. "did you really need *fiber* or did you just want great wifi or something?"

I'm guessing at least some of this is that the east side line and the spine line are now interleaved so if you're going anywhere north of downtown to anywhere else north of downtown, the trains are now twice as frequent. Incredibly convenient.

This cover is waaaay better than the zoomer version, though. How often do you get a chance to visually quote Rodchenko?

really want to be a professor of Some Bullshit at the university of heidelberg in the 19th century and just take 2 1/2 years off work because the doctor told me i need to rest my nerves and breathe mediterranean air

looool. investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking sick juice. We can't name the producers of the sick juice, cause there are other producers of the sick juice, and it would hardly be fair to single out these specific sick juice producers.

I used to take drinking water samples, testing for various bacteria, and one of my sample points was a dairy farm. I was sure that if the tests ever failed, it would be that sample point, just due to how knee deep in bacteria the whole place had to be, judging from the smell.

Not just jealous of the cost per kilometer, jealous because I cannot imagine sound transit putting stations less than a mile apart. That would be too useful to the population for getting around the city, so we can't have that. (great thread - read it!)

A hoverfly is hanging out in the kitchen and driving the dog crazy. He is standing there looking right at the fly, barking at it.

Black-Capped Chickadees took up residence in a forgotten birdhouse the kids had built years ago. In the warm weather, I just have the back door open, so I can hear the babies clamoring to be fed when they land. Now there is a Steller's Jay in the yard and the parent chickadees are very concerned.

our pool is bigger than skyscrapers bigger than cars bigger than the moon! you can tell, at night! the moon falls all the way in you can see it at the bottom our scientists are working on a way to extract the moon from the pool and unlock its resources (cheese, footprints, discarded flags)

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

I've seen my share of cars on the BG trail, including cars that had to have driven a long way from the last access point. But this is impressive.

Current Mariners win streak:

Good judgment has never been Bernie's strong suit.

YES. 🫡

Mayor Wilson proposes a sales-tax boost to 0.3% for the city's extra transit contribution, aimed at more frequency seven days a week. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This is going to be a huge deal. Not only are we getting back to 2019 bus service levels, we’re probably going to pass them. Unless city council ruins her proposal…

Now *this* is effective transit. Dumping more money into ST, even if they meet all their (updated) promises gives us trains to paine field. The Seattle Transit Measure gives us more frequent buses inside the actual city we live in. More frequency means more ridership, which is a virtuous cycle.

C'mon, Sound Transit! You can help us catch up!

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

If I were for some reason that rich I would commission a research vessel. Full of scientists doing cool stuff. A NOAA ship. UW Oceanography would get another boat. Maybe a small cabin set aside for me when I felt like visiting. But the scientists could use it for a rec room when I wasn't around.

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

Locally, this would be so much more fun and informative and community building than reading the dumbass Stranger election guide, which is what everyone actually does the night before ballots are due.

Mr. Frumble is a truly impressive fuckup. Like, legendary fuckup skills. And is a pig.

it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig

Had a student teacher in 9th grade who happened to be a member of the Spokane Tribe, assigned a task to write about family history in the PNW. Good chunk of class was military brats, and she could not process that while her own family history was rich & interesting, most of us had just moved there.

Me at a school levy election in like 1993: Here's my ballot Election worker: Ah! You must be a teacher! Me: Nope. EW: girlfriends or wife is a teacher? Me: Nope. EW: ...why are you here? Me: mom's a teacher!

IT’S PLUOT SEASON!

Cravat apparently being from Croat (Xrvat) soldiers and a particular kind of scarf they wore.

"MMA fighter" is the new "navy seal", I guess? Man, I wish "elementary school teacher" or "bus driver" or something were our default template for "don't worry, fellas, he's a real man" (whatever - if he caucuses with dems, it's an improvement)

I don't have language to describe how enthusiastically I would support the street in front of my business being pedestrianized and the street in front of my business is a state highway. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Apropos of the businesses on the ave who apparently have too many customers and have torpedoed what seemed like a great experiment.