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Amazon decided enough was enough, and is building a 2nd HQ elsewhere. People are decrying this as Seattle's socialist policies ruining business. I say gently caress em.
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Maybe now the rents will stop rising so catastrophically haha just kidding the parasites will never stop sucking blood.
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Sep 7, 2017 19:26
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seiferguy posted:Amazon decided enough was enough, and is building a 2nd HQ elsewhere. People are decrying this as Seattle's socialist policies ruining business. I say gently caress em.
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Sep 7, 2017 19:31
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Socialize the costs, privatize the profits.
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Sep 7, 2017 19:55
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seiferguy posted:Amazon decided enough was enough, and is building a 2nd HQ elsewhere. People are decrying this as Seattle's socialist policies ruining business. I say gently caress em. Do they think Amazon's just going to set fire to the campus here?
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Sep 7, 2017 20:02
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Nucleic Acids posted:Do they think Amazon's just going to set fire to the campus here? It makes it easier to leave an area if you have offices already set up in other states. RE: what Boeing is doing right now with its Washington footprint.
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Sep 7, 2017 20:07
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I'm not sure what we're missing out on if they don't continue to grow like they have. The tax base isn't going towards managing any of our problems.
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Sep 7, 2017 21:06
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Nucleic Acids posted:Do they think Amazon's just going to set fire to the campus here? Eugene spent a shitload of money in tax breaks and other incentives to get Sony to bring a disc manufacturing plant here and it lasted for maybe 5 or 10 years. It's common practice for a company to move where the best incentives are and then once they've squeezed all they can out of it they simply move on to a new place with new incentives.
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Sep 7, 2017 21:08
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gently caress off, I like
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Sep 7, 2017 21:58
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HEY NONG MAN posted:It makes it easier to leave an area if you have offices already set up in other states. RE: what Boeing is doing right now with its Washington footprint. I definitely get that, but have there been any direct signs so far that that's what they're right now? Or would it be more of a "keep future options open" thing? And can any of these people even say what these socialist policies even are?
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Sep 7, 2017 22:01
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I haven't seen any indication that Amazon wants to leave Seattle. From what it looks like, Amazon realizes they've hit max capacity here and wants to expand elsewhere. Which I think is fine because Amazon's growth has severely hosed the area up, and anymore was unsustainable.
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Sep 7, 2017 22:09
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Freakazoid_ posted:gently caress off, I like And a huge-rear end late summer lightning storm. 
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Sep 7, 2017 22:30
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I just want it to rain on Seattle for over a week, non-stop.
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Sep 7, 2017 22:45
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seiferguy posted:I haven't seen any indication that Amazon wants to leave Seattle. From what it looks like, Amazon realizes they've hit max capacity here and wants to expand elsewhere. Which I think is fine because Amazon's growth has severely hosed the area up, and anymore was unsustainable. I don't know that I'd go as far as them having "severely hosed the area up," but yeah, I'd like them to stay about where they are for the moment, if only because so much of our economy is dependent on them, and I'd like to see us diversify a bit.
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Thanatosian posted:I don't know that I'd go as far as them having "severely hosed the area up," but yeah, I'd like them to stay about where they are for the moment, if only because so much of our economy is dependent on them, and I'd like to see us diversify a bit. Yeah, Seattle's economy heavily relies on them now, but they sure as gently caress contributed to ruining the housing market, as well as gentrification of Cap Hill. Seattle has Starbucks, Boeing, Amazon, Nordstrom, and Microsoft, plus all the software companies hanging out in Bellevue. If one of them left, short term it would hurt but I imagine another company would swoop in on the potential talent eventually. And maybe houses would be affordable in the short term 
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seiferguy posted:Yeah, Seattle's economy heavily relies on them now, but they sure as gently caress contributed to ruining the housing market, as well as gentrification of Cap Hill. I don't think speculators/investors absorb nearly as much of the blame for the housing crisis as they deserve (and no, I'm not talking just about foreign investors).
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Sep 8, 2017 00:38
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Amazon won't leave Seattle overnight if it leaves at all. Calm down.
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Sep 8, 2017 01:27
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Microsoft being down the road leaves a little too much cross pollination potential, Seattle would need all the major software companies to leave to go full Detroit and there's other stuff developing as well. Don't forget Valve and Nintendo of America are around too.
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Sep 8, 2017 04:06
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Don't forget that everybody wants to move here for some reason.
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Amazon's not going anywhere you ninnies. They've just run out of easily developable land in the downtown campus/SLU/Denny Triangle area (that hasn't already been snorked up for pre-permit work by other developers I mean look at this poo poo https://www.seattleinprogress.com/) and costs are skyrocketing for new buildings. They probably looked at doing another Rufus 2.0-size expansion and realized it would be impossible here.
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Sep 8, 2017 06:41
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I think people just have residual PTSD from Boeing in regards to the Amazon news.
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Sep 8, 2017 07:04
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https://twitter.com/OPB/status/905588554398547968
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Sep 8, 2017 07:33
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Yeah, while Irma was ramping up FEMA kinda ran out of money. Whoops.
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She's lying through her teeth then. FEMA Provides Federal Funds to Help Fight Chetco Bar Fire Release date: August 21, 2017 SEATTLE – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Chetco Bar Fire burning in Curry County, Oregon. The FEMA Acting Regional Administrator, Sharon Loper, determined that the fire threatened such destruction as would constitute a major disaster. Loper approved the state of Oregon’s request for a federal Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) at 12:35 a.m. PDT on August 20, 2017. FEMA Provides Federal Funds to Help Fight Eagle Creek Fire Release date: September 5, 2017 SEATTLE – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Eagle Creek Fire burning in Hood River and Multonomah counties in Oregon. The FEMA Acting Regional Administrator Sharon Loper determined that the fire threatened such destruction as would constitute a major disaster. Loper approved the state of Oregon’s request for a federal Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) at 4:30 a.m. PDT on September 3, 2017. SeaborneClink fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Sep 9, 2017 |
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Sep 8, 2017 08:41
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Make it 100%, Idaho and the reservations need the money.
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Sep 8, 2017 15:12
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3831792&perpage=40&pagenumber=1527#post476254699 Holy poo poo.
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Maybe quote the post instead of a mystery link with no contextpathetic little tramp posted:Alright, a little background, as the title mentions, I live in a suburb in Washington. What really started this issue in earnest for me was about a week and a half ago when someone who lives a few blocks from me in my neighborhood decided to have a large Nazi flag painted on the entirety garage door, the black, white, and red kind. I know it sounds really quite absurd, and it is, and I'd be willing to provide pictures. It's very clear what it is supposed to be, even though it seems to be professionally done, obviously it is still very offensive, and sticks out every time I drive past it on my way home from work. Tl;dr HOAs are in fact Nazis, who'da thunk it
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HEY NONG MAN posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3831792&perpage=40&pagenumber=1527#post476254699 I'm sure a few teenagers if provided some spray paint and 20 bucks would be more than happy to solve this issue. Edit: Or even better, I would have told the HOA that the local news would LOVE a story on them approving a literal nazi flag. Peachfart fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Sep 10, 2017 |
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HEY NONG MAN posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3831792&perpage=40&pagenumber=1527#post476254699
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HEY NONG MAN posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3831792&perpage=40&pagenumber=1527#post476254699
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Steve Jorbs posted:I don't fully understand this latch on to Nazi ideology given America has it's own culture of racial oppression and genocide to subscribe to. We are the source. Nazis got a lot of this poo poo from us, not the other way round.
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Thanatosian posted:It's a copy pasta from Reddit. Dollars to donuts it's E-WA. Or the peninsula.
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Thanatosian posted:It's a copy pasta from Reddit. Dollars to donuts it's E-WA.
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Javid posted:Maybe quote the post instead of a mystery link with no context CC&R is some Credence Clearwater cover band, right?
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xxgyq/no-one-knows-what-to-do-about-these-wild-turkeys-and-their-poop-vgtrn Wild Turkeys are really becoming a problem. My folks have a couple dozen that hang out in their driveway pecking at the chrome on their cars. I'm pretty sure my dad has shot and eaten a couple by now.
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coyo7e posted:https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xxgyq/no-one-knows-what-to-do-about-these-wild-turkeys-and-their-poop-vgtrn Isn't the obvious answer hear opening them to hunting? Are they even native to the area?
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https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/907276536826359810
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coyo7e posted:https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xxgyq/no-one-knows-what-to-do-about-these-wild-turkeys-and-their-poop-vgtrn Invite Johnny Depp over. He used to hang with Hunter S Thompson, noted killer of Wild Turkey.
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The final solution to wild turkeys is a $100 shotgun and a deep fryer.
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Javid posted:The final solution to wild turkeys is a $100 shotgun and a deep fryer. Please use steel or copper shot to protect the environment and not get lead in your food.
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