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Seattle Police officer pulls over Metro driver, goes on power trip
  • Well that was somehow worse than I thought it would be.

    It is difficult for me to square a need for law enforcement with the reality that the people doing it are often not the people you want doing it.

    The old saying about how I’d never join a club that would have me seems apropos.

    My councilperson is Rob Saka. His deep commitment to more cops being the answer strikes me as deeply unserious.

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    What are some things that used to be expensive, but which no longer are?
  • Wikipedia functionally ended the market for encyclopedias. When I was a kid I would go to the library and read an encyclopedia just to see what random knowledge was in there. Traveling salesman would sell encyclopedias door to door and they were hugely expensive. Then Encarta came along and it was mind blowing you could have all that information on some CDs. Then Wikipedia killed all of them and did it for free.

    When computers began to take hold in middle class homes, one of the biggest gold rushes was to be the encyclopedia of choice on the computer, since consumers saw encyclopedia software as an obvious (and maybe best!) use case for a computer.

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    Steam :: Introducing Steam Families
  • My account has been locked up because my daughter has three separate BG3 games going with friends. Last week my son said we need to put a time limit on her because nobody else can play on Steam.

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    What are you excited for this upcoming summer? Whatcha doin this summer?
  • If you're ok with small spaces, the Seattle underground tours are really really fun.

    I live in West Seattle so I'm biased, but I think the best park in the city is Lincoln park over on the west side of West Seattle. Grab some sandwiches (or ice cream) from Husky Deli in Alaska Junction then head down to Lincoln Park, get a bench down by the waterfront, and just hang out. The southern most part of Lincoln Park is the easiest way to get to the water. You can go thru the park too (which is a big beautiful urban forest) but the walk down to the water thru the park is a little steep, especially for people not used to hiking.

    If dorky Americana type stuff is fun for you, there are lots of semi-pro sports happening around then. Our family likes going to the Dub Sea Fish Sticks games here in West Seattle, but there's teams all over Seattle. The Fish Sticks play low level baseball and it's much more people having a good time outside and screwing around than actual serious baseball. There's also Ballard FC for soccer, with the same vibe.

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    I don't care about school shootings, and neither should you
  • Imagine being so divorced from your community that you think only the actual act of being killed in their school affects children and not the practicing for active shooters, dealing with the fact that people walk into schools and murder children in your society, etc and not understanding the possible consequences of that on small children.

    Very good statistical argument. You may have missed a very small issue though, the part where it's children and being murdered and them having to deal with that. Other than that, well done.

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    Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump, sell voters on a second term
  • Oh, when was that, when two people were honestly debating their views and policies? Was it Nixon? Reagan? Bush? other Bush? Which Republican was it?

    what bullshit

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    Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump, sell voters on a second term
  • ...so then you totally did understand, you just wanted someone to waste their time explaining it so you could immediately come back with jill stein nonsense. that was a dick thing to do.

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    Yeast strains for wine and cider
  • KillerTofu got it right, I just wanted to post and agree rather than just upvote. Yeasts changed the flavor of my homebrewing pretty significantly as well.

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    You can't claim to be an environmentalist and be anti-nuclear energy at the same time
  • In the mind of the pro-nuclear advocate, they imagine oil and coal plants being decommissioned and beautiful, brand new super perfect never failing nuclear plants taking their place. In these dreams these nuclear plants are never made by the lowest bidder, are never under staffed or inadequately maintained, are never involved in war, are never targeted by terrorists, and are never struck by acts of God. These plants have perfect supply chains whose materials are exactly as durable as described and never less. They are run by people that will, quarter after quarter, year after year, never take shortcuts for profit or make decisions that will negatively affect the plant or the people working there. You see, even the capitalists are perfect little angels in this perfect plan that makes perfect sense.

    Because what they're selling is a perfect version of a perfect nuclear plant. All inputs and outputs are perfect with the very small exception of the nuclear waste of course, which they have a perfect answer for as well. You see, we will perfectly store and perfectly wait for a perfect answer to our perfectly nightmarish waste product from our perfect energy source.

    hey bro its cleaner than oil hey bro we could get rid of coal hey bro it's super safe that's why my plan calls for it to be built in South Dakota

    No thanks. We don't need to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire to prove our environmentalism. Renewables are here. Let's make the great leap forward of this generation be the deployment of renewables on an unimaginable scale.

    Even the baseline assumption that oil producing countries and corporations would just sit there and let it happen is so patently absurd that it's hard to take the conversation seriously at all. Sure buddy, Exxon and Saudi Arabia aren't going to deploy their armies of lobbyists and use their cartel to undermine the wholesale transition away from their product.

    Sure buddy. Environmentalists against nuclear are binary thinkers but our idea of using nuclear isn't just naive magical thinking. Sure.

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  • We’re camping at Orcas, got a room at that hotel at Paradise in Rainier, and got season tickets to West Seattle FC. Also looking forward to my Dub Sea Fish Sticks.

    Zoo concert series looked okay. Hoping the music festivals kill it this year.

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    Cherry smoke. 4 hours at 225, then wrapped in paper and back on for another hour at 275. I moved to Seattle a couple years ago and have been doing tons of briskets and boudin for the Seattle people that don’t know great bbq, but I was missing a nice rib. Cut em up and served em but kept the chonky ends for myself. Left the silverskin on and it came off crackly and delicious.

    Damn ribs are good.

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    My first. 10 lbs, bone in. Cooked at 175 for 6 hours until temp hit 128. Out of the oven for a rest with a light foil tent for 45 mins. Internal temp rose to 133.5 during the rest. Back in to oven on air fryer at 500 degrees for 6 mins. Exterior was blistered and delicious. Medium rare and just right. Served with homemade chimmichurri and horseradish sauces. Both were a hit.

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    United vs. Gala was a hilarious disaster of a game punctuated with some great moments.

    I left Sevilla PSV when it was 2-0 in the 60th. Apparently that was one of the worst decisions I've made in a good long time. How about Pepi with the killer header to win it?

    Arsenal stomped Lens.

    Inter vs. Benfica was amazing.

    That Athletico goal was some bullshit, but it looked pretty cool.

    What did I miss?

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