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Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Jay Inslee wants to run for president.

I don't think he'll get much traction, his main platform will be fighting climate change.

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Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
I had done most of my shopping earlier on wednesday, but I hit the stores last night for some last minute things for my father. Winco was a massacre. Had to hop around 3 different safeways just to find ground beef.

Sodomy Hussein's post is spot on for every store I visited. Only the last safeway I hit had some bread and beef, and only because they received a shipment two hours before it closed.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
I think this is the first time I've ever had to knock down icicles from our gutters. I've never seen 'em grow more than a few inches but I just knocked down a bunch that were nearly two feet long.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
shove that schadenfreude directly into my veins

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

George posted:

God drat it, that "Seattle is Dying" piece Sinclair made really seems to be getting traction. I keep running into people who are convinced that it's the poor and vulnerable we need to poo poo on to turn the ship around.

I was duped into watching the first half hour of it recently. At first I was like it sure is cop focused and they like this one homeless guy who's deliberately an rear end in a top hat, but it is an hour long maybe the other side of the argument is coming soon? But then came the demonstration against Kshama and I was like ohhhh nooooo.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Is it possible for Oregon to offer a bounty for these missing republican representatives?

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
4.7 earthquake centered near three lakes, wa

I felt it. It was a surprise but it was really short

here's hoping it's not a precursor like the quakes in cali

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Solkanar512 posted:

I wonder how many multi-thousand dollar japanese maples were eaten, holy poo poo.

Chances are they don't know and won't care.

A former neighbor had no issues uprooting his japanese maple so he could fit a row of small arborvitae.

My previous house use to have three, but the new owners removed two of them and replaced them with rock gardens.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
This has been a notable thunderstorm given how frequently the lightning was going off. I was seeing a bolt like every 5 seconds. Granted mostly cloud to cloud but drat what a light show!

And then someone in my neighborhood though it would be a good idea to have a fireworks show at the same time. gently caress them for ruining it and also putting themselves in danger.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
at last, the extremely wealthy have their views (and increased property value!)

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Everett finally did the plastic bag ban, now everyone pays for paper bags.

Thankfully my brother grabbed a big handful of plastic bags before the change so we can keep lining our little garbage bins for another year.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
dick swaab lmao

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

logger posted:

I live in Congressional District 2 in WA and today I got a donation request from someone wanting to primary Rick Larson, Jason Call. From looking at his website his policies look like it would fit in well with Rep. Jayapal so I thought I should advertise it here in case anyone else is interested in trying to get a more progressive congress.

this dude's a total goon. smokes weed, takes pictures of his cat and cut his long hair just in time to run for congress.

yeah I'll probably vote for him

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Back in 2000 or so, I tried to squirrel away some cans of soup as part of my first disaster preparedness kit, but my dad found it and ate it.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Does psilocybin have legit theraputic benefits? Or is this meant to facilitate legal testing?

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
If the ladder had not been kicked out from above me, it would be me owning that billboard and posting dickbutt

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Everett's mayor put down a directive to stay at home, but I get the feeling nobody's gonna listen. I still see lots of people out there going to work and shopping.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
lollin' at all the missing pasta at every grocery store I go to

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
look who's coming to dinner

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
The ESD is asking those who became eligible via the CARES act to wait until after April 18th, because that's when their systems will be updated. I don't think that means you can't apply now but like the rest of us already on unemployment before the CARES act was passed, you're going to be waiting until after the 18th anyway.

I'm not seeing anything related to the 28th so I think that's some republican fuckery going on. The 13 weeks where you get $600 a month are available to you through December 26th, so if you become unemployed anytime before then, you can start drawing from that.

Freakazoid_ fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Apr 16, 2020

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Thanatosian posted:

I mean... Snohomish county is full of CHUDs and NIMBYs, this isn't really surprising. The residents there are probably loving this.

There are, like, Texas-levels of churches up there.

As a former Snohomish County resident, I never saw anyone driving a truck with a big gadsden flag flying from the back, like I do in the city of Everett, the truck owner living only a few blocks from me.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

xrunner posted:

Until the state unemployment funds dry up.

but inslee said it was solvent?

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Thanatosian posted:

Seattle parks are open, but the parking lots are closed (at least, at the ones I've been to). This, as it turns out, does a lot to mitigate that issue.

Meanwhile, at Howarth Park in Everett, there's a residential area right next to the park and people just park along those streets instead.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
aww yiss long hair gonna make a comeba-

*people threatening to cut their own hair out of sheer desperation to fit in*

gently caress

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
I'm impressed Seattle is pulling off basically OWS 2.0, but I suspect they might be abused again by overburdened homeless shelters and food banks. While the previous OWS were able to help they went into overdrive trying to keep people sheltered and fed, cutting into their organizational time.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Inslee is going to approach this one month at a time because he wants this free ride to end as badly as the rest of the other cold, calculating "balance the budget" dems.

Thankfully, our state's high unemployment rate kicked in a law that allows extended benefits for an extra 20 weeks to the unemployed. I should qualify for that soon, but they aren't saying if that includes the extra 600 per week we've been getting from the PEUC.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
The lack of mortar is a nice touch, should make it easier to clean up when the police are disbanded and the precinct converted into affordable housing.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
I saw the sky today.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

uh, didn't rite aid get bought by walgreens? where's all that money coming from?

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Dude's been trying to gently caress with car tabs for as long as this forum's been alive. He should've taken the hint years ago.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
I miss NWCN.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Crumbskull posted:

People talked about CHAZ, lol.

Yes, but our only other contribution to national political discussion was the WTO protest 20 years ago. We were barely acknowledged for our part in OWS.

When I think of what a washington state having a strong presence in national political discussion would look like, I think of something like how msnbc has been constantly sucking Cuomo's dick throughout the covid pandemic just because he stood up to president cheeto. Could you ever imagine a theoretical Governor Sawant getting that kind of attention? Hell, imagine Inslee getting that kind of attention.

It probably doesn't matter though. If we can do more lefty stuff in our state, I think we'll be fine without national recognition.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Semper Fidelis Espresso

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
oh the bridge will be replaced alright

with a pedestrian and bike only bridge :getin:

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Jay Inslee being a sociopath would actually give him a personality.

In reality, he's trying to ride the line between capitalists and socialists, and so far he's done... ok, I guess? But he could be better. Like at this point you could argue the president has been pushed more to the left than Inslee has.

If we actually had a viable leftist challenger, I'd vote for them just to see how far we can push Inslee before he breaks or gives in.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
One of my favorite youtube channels, Sampson Boat Co., is being bullied by Clallam County over his boat restoration project. It sounds like a single neighbor has been trying to gently caress with his project for the past 3 years and finally got the county to nail him on a creative interpretation of what his business actually is. The county is being weirdly aggressive as well, the board of community development told him straight-up his request for a permit won't be approved by the committee, despite having met all the legal requirements. He really should've gotten a lawyer a lot sooner but he has one now.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Don't ask what one wears when preparing Kopi Luwak.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

frogge posted:

Hold up- the city that AFAIK gave the world bikini baristas decided to ban it? ...and then unbanned it? Maybe it shows my age and the town has changed since when I ran around there in my younger years but at least it's something different than the meth and buttrock they're known for in the area.

Now it's meth and the homeless.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Wayne Knight posted:

In a sane world we could show the data for this, prove that cops have abdicated their traffic enforcement duties, and defund the police transfer those duties to a new, separate department that works solely based on dashcams/ALPR. Don't bother stopping the car, just get behind them to read the plate, then pass them to get the driver's face on dashcam, ticket's in the mail.

Remember when the 520 bridge wasn't mailing out the $5 toll until it had crossed over into the $50 penalty?

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Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Laterite posted:

Yes, of course!

Unfortunately we still have to get the nuclear near-annihilation first.

And the eugenics wars. And the second civil war.

30% of the human population dies before vulkans discover we're warp capable in 2063.

In retrospect, the lack of climate change being a factor is rather optimistic.

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