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 glowing-fish posted:The Washington Senate is a little odd: there are 23 Democrats and 24 Republicans, but 2 of the Democrats have joined with the Republicans to form the "Majority Coalition Caucus". This is a bit unusual given the overall politics of Washington, and anyone who wants to explain this should feel welcome to do so! The way the districts are balanced, there is some pretty huge anti-Seattle sentiment in state politics. If some sort of legislation can be seen to benefit Seattle you can be sure everyone else opposes it. Much like the way Republicans treat Obmama by taking a poo poo on everything he does even if they may agree with it in principle, WA state Republicans do the same. Mostly finding ways to gut public transportation and education. It is much more nuanced than that but it really is the gist. As progressive as it is, there is an equal amount of asinine backwardness here as well. WA state has no income tax, but a 10% sales tax, the most regressive tax structure in the country. *No love for the Walmart in Tacoma, they tricked the Elks chapter into selling their land to a developer on the condition they wouldn't sell to Walmart then used a shell developer to do it anyway. There is a move to Unionize it in hopes they will just close shop and leave....
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ansel autisms posted:Make sure you wear flannel and talk like a good old boy, too. You must wear flannel, its kind of the PNW uniform. Evenon the west side. No one will take you serious otherwise.
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Reason posted:You guys should think about getting involved with Socialist Alternative if you're happy with what shes doing, I've talked with a member down in Olympia for a while and actually ended up joining up. There's supposed to be a fairly large conference in Seattle this month, the weekend of of the 26th with saturday focusing mainly on the 15 now stuff and sunday being sort of an international meet up thats supposed to have a lot of interesting information. Planning on being there. Socialist isn't nearly as bad of a word it used to be. Next time someone who is a self identified leftist independent goes yabbering, call them a socialist, or Canadian, which whichever will get you more traction.
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Republicans posted:If that actually gets any traction I worry for my boss's health. Not that that it's too much consolation but Occupy had a much more successful foothold in Tacoma then it ever had in Seattle. Because it was smaller it was less about herding cats than getting useful bodies. I know of many of the same activists coming to the cause, if a bit slowly due to fatigue from the slog that was Tacoma's Occupy. As red as Tacoma tends to be, there won't be nearly as much push back if certain parties can get in line behind. (Longshoremen's, IBEW, teamsters, UW, and, University of Puget Sound just off the top of my head) They have no real objection, but vocal support from these groups would go a LONG way and would be relatively easy with the right kind of outreach. 253 Goon's with idea's would be useful, or someone to make some call's, connections count.
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SedanChair posted:What? Did you mean to say Graham or something? Eastern Pierce County War Zone.
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May 5, 2014 19:47
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Thanatosian posted:I wish Sawant would start pushing harder for municipal broadband. It's something relatively radical, that could potentially get the tech community in her corner, as well as help out poor people. It seems win-win-win for her. It would be. Seattle is being rammrodded by Centurylink and Comcast. Comcast outrages on lake union are pushing to 5% downtime over the last week . Its ridiculous. I heard a new bill is allowing centurylink to put fiber cabinets on easements without notification which is interesting.
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RuanGacho posted:We have some virtual machines that talk to each other over a Comcast connection (don't ask) and their current up time according to my outside monitors is at 98% and some decimal change over the past 6 months. I think for those of you familiar with SLA's should tell you all you need to know. (It's not 99.9999) I've got some Smokeping servers running at multiple sites along Lake Union to poll the data so I can put the screws to the reps. I'm consistently down from around 10:30AM - noon. Maybe not everyday but pretty drat close. Some outtages correlate and some don't which makes me think its on the backbone and not localized.
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Sep 20, 2014 15:11
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RuanGacho posted:Its definitely up in their part of the network, I've had half a dozen techs to three different sites and they can find nothing wrong. It really is, I've been working the Wave folks to pull lines down on the docks but havn't got too much so far, at this point I would be grateful for Century link to pull fiber as well. I just have to say I love my Tacomian, municipal broadband and will shout its praises as long as I can. It's worth the extra 5$ to say "F** you Comcast"
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The Stranger has been doing better journalism that either Seattle papers for years now. Even the Seattle Weekly seems to put out something worth reading at least once a month.
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To be fair in Tacoma we have the Volcano which isn't fit to line a birdcage with. Though RR Anderson does draw pretty good comics.   *fixed bad form. BlueBlazer fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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anthonypants posted:Uh, this guy owns and his comics own, so maybe don't hotlink his images? BlueBlazer posted:To be fair in Tacoma we have the Volcano which isn't fit to line a birdcage with. no more posting drunk on Rhubarb Cider, got it. BlueBlazer fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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Oct 9, 2014 03:47
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Mrit posted:So, um, sure was windy out yesterday! gently caress you rest of the neighborhood! Look at all those leaves that used to be on my lawn. *Goes and cleans street drains before someone asks questions.
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Javid posted:Put me down for "include it in the price". I still don't like it but it's less of a pain in the dick if you can pull out exact change to begin with and not have to do math. It screws legitimate small business owners as well. As an IT guy I have to charge sales tax on all billable labor as well. It's really iffy on contract labor as well, so much so it's easier to charge it and pay at the end of the year than worry about getting my rear end handed to me in audit. It amounts to a 10% income tax at the end of the day if you run your own gig. I'd rather pay that as an actual income tax then screwed coming and going.
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Nov 12, 2014 23:58
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Gerund posted:Bertha is stuck between Jackson & Main. The pit to REACH Bertha and to hopefully repair or move it is at 84 of the 120 ft depth necessary. Bertha broke a year ago. Where Bruce Willis when you need him.... McGinn must be the smuggest rear end in a top hat ever after all this. The only guy against the whole Seattle political elite.
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gohuskies posted:There's a 15 foot crack appearing right now in the road at 1st and King St in Pioneer Square: More than a couple engineers are writing their resignations on this on and/or making GBS threads their pants.
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Best Friends posted:
Water front back to the Billionaire real estate investors who bought up all the land. "Sure we will add some green space in front of brand new views." It really should been shouted who was really benefiting from this. Billions to not really fix traffic but to fix views and make the land more valuable for real estate. ROI not for the public on this one. Now I live in Seattle, gently caress you guys for letting this happen. Tacoma lost it's light rail for this project, and I wouldn't of had to move up here.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Although given the Washingtonian attitude to the CRC, I'm not sure I'd bet against at least a few nutjobs in Tacoma sincerely arguing that the I-205 bridge is perfectly adequate and maybe we all just need learn to live with a little less anyway The I205 bridge is perfectly adaquate. If the bridge falls down just build another I say! 
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tgijsola posted:
As a Tacoman crackpot I say let nature run it's course. 
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Bargain World. On Pearl st in Tacoma near Point Defiance. Not a piece of furniture in my house cost me more than 30$. It's as big as a value village but it's locally owned so 3$ levis are a thing. Also Goodwill sucks. You shouldn't shop or go there. Donate to your local one off thrift store instead.
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Gerund posted:You don't fund a localized infrastructure improvement with state-wide consumption taxes: "Spokane is not paying for your stupid loving monorail." -Washington State Legislature If you give it to Seattle, they just throw it down a big hole anyway. A millionaire's tax needs another go around. Eastern WA win's the most in this scenario, just need to convince them of such. Self interest should trump group-think, right?
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Since we are talking about Chinese Expulsion and the horrible things that PNW's have done. As Seattle's meth addled older brother we pulled it off to a much less comforting ending. historylink posted:Tacoma expels the entire Chinese community on November 3, 1885. So awful we made a park to show how bad we all feel about it. http://www.tacomachinesepark.org/tacoma-chinese-park/ Least sometimes we take the effort to acknowledge the past BlueBlazer fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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effectual posted:So to top the tank up you'd have to keep paying a dollar at a time til it starts overflowing? Stupid. Pay 20$, go as far as it goes refill, not that hard. Also I drive back and forth from Tacoma to Seattle everyday, fill-up in Tacoma, save 20$  over the course of the month.
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Thanatosian posted:Yup, I kicked him some cash, too. I feel like he'll have a good base of support up here. No one is so delusional that he'll win. If it stays Hillary vs Bernie for the next year it could be the best thing for the D party in decades.
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Whenever talking about any f'd up issue in America, I always start with, "There is a mental health problem in this country." Tends to tone down the rhetoric of burning undesirable s. No one has ever argued the point.
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Soooo, I've lived in Seattle for 6 months now, when the hell is this place going to get rent control. I can't go a day without hearing a horror story wiithout some poor working class guy getting his building bought out by some developer douchebag and jacking rents by 20%-100% a month till they move out so it can be bulldozed. The WA sate ban on rent control is BS http://www.seattlemag.com/article/it-time-bring-back-rent-control-seattle-0 Also on a climate change note, I hope eastern WA burns to the ground so we can get the ban lifted. You think if we were to frame it as us killing ourselves they might go for it. Can't have nice things unless we convince the 25% of the state that holds progressive policy hostage that we are are killing ourselves.
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Vavrek posted:Have you considered Estonia? Been trying to get a job there as a web-dev for years.... one day....
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im gay posted:Long NYT article on Amazon: “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.” This article is pretty spot on, I really try to avoid folks fresh off the Amazon train. It breeds a certain toxic working relationship and ultra competitiveness that's not healthy. I've been living in Eastlake for almost a year now and the most distasteful encounters I have had were with Amazon "Devs". "Yes I work IT, I'm an admin/infrastructure guy, yes I've built a couple web applications/appliances, no I'm not giving you my contact information so your hiring goons will harass me for the next 3 months. Also no I probably don't understand your super specific Dev environment off the top of my head, and I rather you not insult me for the next 30 min on my chosen areas of study." BlueBlazer fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Aug 16, 2015 |
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Solkanar512 posted:For longer distance commuting I had actual motorcycles in mind, but scooters make a lot of sense if you're not hitting the freeways. Long distance commuting by motorcycle sucks. Especially on the freeway. In the rain. Not a viable solution for the sane imo. Did it for a few years. Too many close calls, near misses, and idiots out there. Any improvements made for bikes have some residual for motorcycles just due to awareness of two wheeled vehicles. Bike rant.... Separate roads and trails are the best answer. Slapping them on top of the normal thorough fares is asinine and just pisses everyone off. Use alleys or side streets. Bikes can deal with the "uniqueness" of odd street widths that cars and trucks just can't. I've gotten into shouting matches in public at the city bike planners in Tacoma for adding bike lanes down the main traffic streets and loving up the car lanes/creating death traps for cyclists when there are double wide side streets everywhere that would just need a bit of paint and a few well placed yield signs to become effective bike trails. I know it's different in the middle of the city, but man city planners are in such a bunker mentality on this crap. Don't get me started on the bs that is the Seattle Westlake cycle track project. (please do)
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Delta-Wye posted:America runs on spite There is a mental health problem in this country.
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krispykremessuck posted:The west sound isn't nearly that bad, but Seattle side is certainly trying to catch up. You're gonna be fine with your budget, and you should even have plenty left over. The point I was making to SedanChair is that Bremerton's supposed character likely won't make it an attractive proposition to most people, unless you're gonna live in the more affluent parts of Illahee, Madrona Point, Manette, or Tracyton. Downtown Bremerton is a mess in every sense of the word. Just move to Tacoma and make your coffee from the street grit. There actually is a downtown and it's still affordable. .
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Tigntink posted:If he moves to Tacoma he will become desensitized to the aroma and be one of those people who claim they can't smell anything odd when they drive through. It smells like home. You only get it once a year now anyway 
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SedanChair posted:Tacoma schools produced me I knew there was a reason I liked you despite you being a terrible human. Just don't eat the grass. It's not like kids play out doors anyways.
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Officer Sandvich posted:The view from that development they're building on the smelter site is nice, but despite the cleanup I don't see myself ever moving to a Superfund site. Point Ruston is driving the fiefdom of Ruston into bankruptcy, Tacoma will annex then can burn it to the ground and leave the land as it was. Covered in ash. Ruston can eat a dick.
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If the Sounder ran at proper hours it would solve ALOT traffic issues. I5 is a parking lot into Seattle everyday. Last I checked every time mass transit tries to leave cross counties it's clobbered by petty bullshit.
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staticman posted:I'm seriously starting to wonder where people get all these stories and legends about Tacoma being some hive of scum and villainy. I mean yeah we had pretty bad gang violence in the 90's on Hilltop, but they act as if some evil witch cult is brewing dark energy to cause violence and/or riots out of thin air. What do you rational guys think of these Tacomaphobes? Part of it is true. All that meth and asarco has given many of us black magic powers. 
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Soarer posted:Fingers crossed the next sink hole just collapses on the machine and we can just bury it for good, or add it to the Seattle underground tour. A new Seattle underground. Neat. BrandorKP posted:Pacific Brewing and Odd Otter make pretty good beer. Good beer to be found to the South Want a good pub crawl. Start at Tacoma dome and go all the way down Pacfic, you even get a nice free street car to ride on.
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Bassist Hound posted:I clicked the "What is this?" button, but it just told me about CSS lakeunionwebdev.sh
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Speed relates to crashes perhaps When I ride my cruiser i ride on the sidewalk, am not an rear end in a top hat and not likely to get killed. When I ride my 10 speed I ride it in the street and wear a helmet, because I'm going fast and will likely flip over my handle bars or get plowed by a car. I'd rather compete with pedestrians, then compete with cars and go fast. I ride from Eastlake to Westlake every few days and generally dont have problems, people who ride/jog in the parking lot on westlake have a death wish.
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mod sassinator posted:I can say with a ton of experience and regret, do not ever buy a condo. You're paying house money for an apartment, and on top of that you're paying for the entire building. Drains back up and a bunch of units get flooded? Guess who has to help foot the $100k bill for the repairs to the building... You might feel like you're throwing money away renting and think you're making a smart move, but in the long run it's a terrible, terrible idea in my experience. Just keep saving until you can buy a real house. I'll just buy a boat and live on Lake Union. Got it.
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BrandorKP posted:And you've got to remember we discussing this are "affluent people without value", most people cannot save quick enough to keep up with the way the market is going. Median 30-35 year old has a net worth of what 8,000? This is the second time of heard this in as many days.
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