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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Yeah what's up with this one? I joined the Air Force to get the gently caress out of WI with no real plan what to do after, and ended up going to the UW because halfway through my contract I was like "ohhhhh, now I get why an education is important" I meet people from Minnesota and Wisconsin out here every day and it's getting weird.
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BrandorKP posted:Duh, Norwegians and other assorted Scandinavians. They do Syttende Mai in Ballard, why? P.S. I am a Minnesota/Wisconsin transplant
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Also: of all the local companies that are "killing the area", Starbucks is the funniest option to pick on. It seems no one living or working in Seattle is old enough/was here when Seattle was really badly depressed in the pre-Microsoft days.
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This seems obvious, but how much work you really need to get done in a day at an office job varies widely by job. In some positions, working from home is a great stress reducer. It's definitely harder to concentrate on work, but realistically most people tune out around hour 6 at work anyway. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/t...WT.nav=top-news Seattle does indeed realize that becoming San Francisco should not be the goal, and the only real way to do that is to get out in front of Amazon with realistic housing.
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Mrit posted:The best reason to not eat at Chipolte is that if you are looking for a giant burrito Qdoba/Gorditos is far better. Chipotle must be raking in money in Seattle, the line is out the door during lunchtime and dinner at every Chipotle I pass by. The burritos themselves, pretty bleh unfortunately.
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Kalista posted:Yes, the Kindle, the Fire, Echo, for the most part. The store isn't there to sell books, it's there to sell Amazon Product (TM), and they've shoehorned that into a "bookstore" format. This is almost indistinguishable from a Barnes & Noble.
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Where are all these bike things located? I've only seen one downtown, i.e. where a bike would be least useful and most annoying.quote:Yeah, Seattle is actually tough for biking beyond the roads and all of that (which could definitely be improved). I went on a bike tour of Paris, and it's basically mostly flat or small hills, and it seemed completely legit that a bike could be my normal form of transportation. But Seattle, it was just a harsh lesson that yes, Capitol Hill is a HILL. When Seattle became a thing, they spent a lot of time terraforming it so they could actually get up and down the hills with anything at all.
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Those sure are some words you wrote, sure. They don't fit in my mouth, though, so maybe you just keep them. quote:I graduated from college in 2005 with a degree in journalism (you know that industry that ate itself?). My wife worked at WaMu straight out of college (you know that company that set itself on fire?). gently caress off.
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ElCondemn posted:I keep hearing this, but I'm having trouble finding any Bernie bros, is there like some place people frequent that I'm not seeing that exemplifies this point? Locally? Not really. Sanders people like to put on the illusion on Reddit and Facebook that he is inevitable and the Hillary is evil (and is winning because she is evil!), and saturate political feeds as much as possible. A guy who's platform is essentially "I will break up the banks!" (lol) is still really attractive to Ron Paul types who like the premise but don't analyze the reality. Very little of the negativity comes directly from the Sanders campaign, though. The only real issues I have with him as a candidate are the viability of his "plans" and the distinct Walter Mondale vibe I get from him. For more about that, see the 1984 election. We've tried the transcendent left wing candidates before (Carter and Mondale), it resulted in thirty years of darkness.
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In North Seattle where I am, CenturyLink is something horrid like 5 MBPS down for $30 a month, Comcast at least has the full coverage. That being said, I never had issues with CenturyLink. We are pretty lucky out here as Comcast seems to be afraid of introducing bandwidth caps due to the competition.
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Zantie posted:Not that you guys care about the east side, but a fire just jumped Snake River into Whitman County. Speaking of caring, am I the only one who gets the sense that the common Seattlite more or less ignores everything south of the International District and just aggressively pretends that Aurora is The Worst though?
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Dick's is the resident incredibly overrated fast food, but every place has to have one.
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:Certain groups of white nationalists touted moving to the Northwest and taking it over politically to create a new white homeland. There weren't very many of them in the end, but they still exist, and still view it as a goal. White nationalists try to do this all the time, all over the place.
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seiferguy posted:The Seattle Times came out with another bad editorial about how light rail will ruin the city, we need more roads, etc. http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/consider-actual-benefits-from-sound-transit-3/ "We just need more buses, which is also a thing we do not want." I am not surprised the Seattle Times does not support a modern transit system, since only old people read it at this point and navigating around their site is a transit disaster in itself.
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My Linux Rig posted:Seattle desperately needs more light rails. Hopefully one day they can put one in that goes across lake Washington too. You can pretty much guarantee the NIMBYs hating the poo poo out of that idea.
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I noticed today that at my new apartment I can get CenturyLink again (at half the cost of Comcast and a pretty good but not insane speed), so I promptly switched.
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Solkanar512 posted:I'm going to vote yes on that as well. I'm getting sick and tired of folks on the left getting in the way of progressive policies that actually have a chance of succeeding simply because they think they have a better idea that they couldn't do anything with. If it goes down, it shows that the left doesn't actually give a poo poo about climate change. Yeah frankly, waiting for Goldilocks legislation is the definition of perfect becoming the enemy of good. And we live in one of the bluest states, it's not like it's just going to sit there and rot. Voted yes.
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People working in tech have all probably all met at least one Scott Adams-type, or five. The current trend in tech is a wave of companies that are mathematically incapable of making profit while providing little or no lasting benefit to their communities. Engineers are so in demand that companies hire absolutely awful people--misogynists, practicing alcoholics, victims of severe social retardation who could not find work in any other industry--as long as they have the skillset required, or at least have the certifications. That's a boom market for you.
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http://www.bullittcenter.org/ Can't find the certifications you're looking for when I look, but they are pretty dern green.
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:Anyone can download the WA state voter rolls, listing all WA voters, their addresses, and the last time they voted. It's a huge file, so good luck opening it without special software. Crashes excel when I've tried for work. This info from my experience is mostly what determines if anyone mails you anything.
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I had forgotten this was even a D&D thread and just treated it like a companion to the Seattle thread in Your City Sucks.
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