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mod sassinator posted:So reading that Colorado is making $19 million+ a month from marijuana sales, what's the hold up with Washington? I'm not busting down the door of the shops waiting to get in, but am curious weren't we supposed to have stores open by the summer? We decided to make it as complex as possible because we didn't think a simpler and more open initiative would get support. Growers licenses went out a couple months ago. Store licenses are going out now and the first are expected to open next month.
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the_seventh_cohort posted:The Seattle City Council has passed a $15 minimum wage, the highest in the nation I feel like I want to get a $15/hr dishwasher job. At $15/hr, I think it'd go from being a sucky job to a Zen job which also good exercise.
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Accretionist posted:I feel like I want to get a $15/hr dishwasher job. At $15/hr, I think it'd go from being a sucky job to a Zen job which also good exercise. Hope you enjoy the mounds of loopholes the employer has in the law to pay you effectively less than that!
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oxbrain posted:We decided to make it as complex as possible because we didn't think a simpler and more open initiative would get support. Plus some counties have placed moratoriums on recreational facilities for the forseeable future.
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I'm pretty happy Colorado is getting all the hype and weed tourists because weed tourism certainly hasn't made Amsterdam a more pleasant place to live. Weed should be legal but being an island of legality sucks, and I am thrilled Colorado is taking the bullet for us there.
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Accretionist posted:I feel like I want to get a $15/hr dishwasher job. At $15/hr, I think it'd go from being a sucky job to a Zen job which also good exercise. It's a poo poo job, 404 zen not found Gerund posted:Hope you enjoy the mounds of loopholes the employer has in the law to pay you effectively less than that! If you're implying they are tipped that is not the norm at all
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BraveUlysses posted:It's a poo poo job, 404 zen not found Maybe in a 'Dig a hole, fill it back up' kind of way. But yeah, I've done it before; it's lovely. But I was working 7 days a week while part-time at 39 hours/week with no benefits, getting paid below cost of living. I'm not sure how much of the suck was the job versus the context.
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It's kinda nice as an end-of-the-day cool down task when you can finally let your mind relax a bit after hours of cooking, prepping and dealing with vendors/deliveries/upset customers. The only way to make it not absolute garbage as a multi-hour job is to listen to podcasts or audiobooks on headphones while you work.
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Mrit posted:It was hilarious! Then awesome. Then hilarious again. And about 5 minutes into the 3rd quarter, depressing. I started feeling bad for Denver. Manning gets confusednon why the same short pass and screen play he used hundreds of times in the season stops working.
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So, those of you who followed Seattle's most recent mayoral election may remember Peter Steinbrueck--an also-ran candidate whose platform was basically "Not In My Back Yard"--who dropped out and endorsed Ed Murray not too terribly long into the election. Well, per the Seattle Times, Steinbrueck was just given a just-barely-not-six-figure no-bid consulting contract with the city. The mayor sees no problem with this. Honestly, my main problem with it is that Steinbrueck is an anti-development rear end in a top hat; the barely-deniable quid pro quo is just gravy. Ham Equity fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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BraveUlysses posted:It's a poo poo job, 404 zen not found I dunno, some people are just like that. I used to know a woman who told me that if only the pay were better, she'd be content to work as a dishwasher.
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Thanatosian posted:So, those of you who followed Seattle's most recent mayoral election may remember Peter Steinbrueck--an also-ran candidate whose platform was basically "Not In My Back Yard"--who dropped out and endorsed Ed Murray not too terribly long into the election. Well, per the Seattle Times, Steinbrueck was just given a just-barely-not-six-figure no-bid consulting contract with the city. The mayor sees no problem with this. Underneath the veneer of progressive slogans and Northwest fake politeness, Northwest politics are dirty as gently caress.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I dunno, some people are just like that. I used to know a woman who told me that if only the pay were better, she'd be content to work as a dishwasher. The stress of trying to live on so little pay is what often makes these sorts of jobs unbearable rather than merely boring.
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:The stress of trying to live on so little pay is what often makes these sorts of jobs unbearable rather than merely boring. This is often overlooked. In my experience, I accepted atrophy in order to achieve continual stress and insecurity as a trade-off against homelessness. It sucked, I hated it, and while Republicans might think, "But your ilk have female literacy and the refrigeration of food (without even attending church)," it completely misses the point. It's not about access to the modern day bread and circuses of inexpensive cheeseburgers and free pornography; it's about continual stress and continual insecurity.
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Thanatosian posted:So, those of you who followed Seattle's most recent mayoral election may remember Peter Steinbrueck--an also-ran candidate whose platform was basically "Not In My Back Yard"--who dropped out and endorsed Ed Murray not too terribly long into the election. Well, per the Seattle Times, Steinbrueck was just given a just-barely-not-six-figure no-bid consulting contract with the city. The mayor sees no problem with this. City departments are allowed to award consultant contracts of $280,000 or less without competitive bidding, as long as the consultant has been cleared as a part of a city roster of approved consultants.
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etalian posted:City departments are allowed to award consultant contracts of $280,000 or less without competitive bidding, as long as the consultant has been cleared as a part of a city roster of approved consultants. Just because something is legal does not mean it isn't shady as hell.
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etalian posted:City departments are allowed to award consultant contracts of $280,000 or less without competitive bidding, as long as the consultant has been cleared as a part of a city roster of approved consultants.
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FRINGE posted:So how do you get on that gravy train? Become a 'name' in the local civic scene with 'vision' and 'leadership'. aka go to a bunch of boring Parks & Recreation-style town meetings and be the least idiotic.
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FRINGE posted:So how do you get on that gravy train? Endorse the mayor, it looks like. For $98k, I'd hand over a report of my preconceived notions on development and a copy of my stump speech. Heck, i'd do it for half that.
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Gerund posted:Become a 'name' in the local civic scene with 'vision' and 'leadership'. 
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FRINGE posted:So how do you get on that gravy train? Not sure about Seattle in particular, but in other places you compete for it. You write a proposal and probably go to some kind of interview, just like if you are bidding on a specific project. Then they pick the qualified people to go on the magic list: either a fixed number of them or everyone who meets some minimum technical and financial criteria. Instead of the city having to go through the relatively expensive RFP and selection process every time they need some tiny bit of work done, they can do it once and then use a 10D roll or something to pick a qualified consultant from the list when the time comes. edit: This is actually more fair than the more common practice of doing the same thing but only picking one consultant for an on-call/IDIQ contract for $X million over Y years and being stuck with them for the next Y years no matter what. withak fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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FRINGE posted:So how do you get on that gravy train? Work on an election campaign. Same way it works everywhere else. Anybody with a job in the "port authority" in any city is basically phoning it in and collecting a favor payday.
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Reports are going out that there was a school shooting near Portland over the last hour. Police are saying that the shooter is now dead. It's a tragedy, but frankly this sort of thing is becoming so common I don't even know if it is national news any more.  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shooter-portland-oregon-high-school-confirmed-dead-police-n127401
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Kaal posted:Reports are going out that there was a school shooting near Portland over the last hour. Police are saying that the shooter is now dead. It's a tragedy, but frankly this sort of thing is becoming so common I don't even know if it is national news any more. To piggy-back, the SPU shooter was probably mentioned in passing in other threads but yeah, its kinda sad when a school shooting now only gets a mention in the local sources.
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Kaal posted:Reports are going out that there was a school shooting near Portland over the last hour. Police are saying that the shooter is now dead. It's a tragedy, but frankly this sort of thing is becoming so common I don't even know if it is national news any more. My neighbor is an art teacher at Reynolds. She texted my gf to say she is safe and in lockdown but it was pretty scary for a bit. Still haven't heard if anyone was hurt or killed. E: NPR just said one student was killed. Goddamnit, what the gently caress is wrong with this country and why does this happen like once a loving week? 800peepee51doodoo fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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800peepee51doodoo posted:My neighbor is an art teacher at Reynolds. She texted my gf to say she is safe and in lockdown but it was pretty scary for a bit. Still haven't heard if anyone was hurt or killed.  Only every other week. 
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Note that this doesn't count as a mass shooting because only two people died. In the official statistics anyway.
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Yeah, colloquial and technical usage of the term differs. People tend to consider any wanton shooting as a 'mass shooting' but the FBI requires 4 or more be shot dead, otherwise it adds to a different stat. For example, I think The Virgin Killer only shot 3 people, he stabbed the others, so he'd be counted under something other than Mass Shootings.
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Gerund posted:To piggy-back, the SPU shooter was probably mentioned in passing in other threads but yeah, its kinda sad when a school shooting now only gets a mention in the local sources. Honestly this is probably a good thing that school shootings only get reported in local news outlets and not publicized to hell like Sandy Hook was.
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Irradiation posted:
Well. What do you call a society that just has to live every day with idea that the school your attending can be shot up without any warning? America
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Last year Reddit put together a list of American shootings where four or more were shot (disregarding whether the victim died). They came up with 365, making mass shootings a daily occurrence in the United States. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/17/mass-shootings-us_n_3935978.html edit: This year they're up to 116 mass shootings so far, which is slightly behind where they were last year on Jun. 10 (142). http://www.reddit.com/r/GunsAreCool/wiki/2013massshootings http://www.reddit.com/r/GunsAreCool/wiki/2014massshootings Kaal fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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seiferguy posted:Honestly this is probably a good thing that school shootings only get reported in local news outlets and not publicized to hell like Sandy Hook was. Agreed. The instant-celebrity given murderers is a troubling aspect of commercial media. The best thing that came out of Elliot Rodger's killing spree was that he was such a ridiculous character that he presents an object of mockery, something less likely to encourage copycatting.
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We were just getting over the clackamas town center bullshit. (Also, sucks to be that kid who brought a gun to school for unrelated reasons today.)
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Lazy_Liberal posted:(Also, sucks to be that kid who brought a gun to school for unrelated reasons today.) Yeah, he could have stopped the shooter and proven Wayne LaPierre right.
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Irradiation posted:
Is there a version of this that's through 2013, if not current?
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Republicans posted:Yeah, he could have stopped the shooter and proven Wayne LaPierre right. That did happen in the recent Vegas shootings
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Ed Murray a ho. e: by which I mean he's corrupt. woke wedding drone fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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Hedera Helix posted:Is there a version of this that's through 2013, if not current? I'm not sure. It was originally posted in response to Sandy Hook. The reddit links are better anyway since they actually include incidents where multiple people didn't necessarily die from the shooting.
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President Obama spoke about the school shooting today during a Tumblr discussion with students at the White House. Pretty much said the same kind of thing that everyone is saying: This is becoming the new norm here in the US, it's terrifying, and Congress refuses to do anything about it even though no other developed nation tolerates it. http://time.com/2854043/obama-gun-laws/ http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/10/politics/obama-guns/ You can watch the full video of the discussion here. The discussion on mass shootings starts at -14m02 (the timer counts down) http://news.yahoo.com/obama-has-tough-love-for-young-people-in-tumblr-student-loan-chat-214118358.html Kaal fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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SyHopeful posted:That did happen in the recent Vegas shootings If only he'd had two guns. 
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