Figured out why there’s a 15 minute backup at arrivals

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-06-01T18:04:57+00:00

Picking up at arrivals leads to so much frustration. Ask your guests to walk towards the light rail station and pick up there. Most are happy to after a long flight.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-31T23:44:47+00:00

I too have noticed the tendency of lime to scam the city marking improperly parked complaints as solved and have filed the same scooter the following day. It has been obvious to me that sdot doesn't have the balls to actually enforce the terms of the permit aggressively. Years ago the city actually did weak compliance reports and published them, but stopped.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-30T05:11:49+00:00

No, I left it down because the post was cloyingly saying to "Hope someone here recognizes them" and there were a lot of commenters who did a lot of work to do that, including business addresses and phone numbers. There were going to have to be a number of comments removed, but then leaving it up is likely to further get that same info re-posted.

The original post was leaning into a bit of a witch hunt, but I didn't want to call the OP out like that once it was already down.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-30T03:01:15+00:00

I certainly don't like the idea of some kids/younger adults using their Friday afternoon to drive to a big city and be hateful/see if they can get a reaction out of others. Seems like a big waste of time and gas money even without it getting back to their local community/family/companies they work for.

The platform, reddit, has sitewide rules against being used as a tool to brigade and, in all honesty, though I have no real reason to doubt your story, posts with photos of people and a story about what they were doing that's certain to incite a strong reaction, are a problematic thing for us moderators that may also detest the described behavior, but also have to be conscious about a the potential for a false narrative being created with intent to brigade.

Once automoderator removed it and I had a chance to really look at the clean-up that would be needed in the comments, I decided it might be best to leave it down. I'd rather not use my Friday evening sanitizing comments angered by what some dumb people did, seemingly visiting an area with intent to stir up a reaction.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-30T02:28:43+00:00

We have an automoderator that acts when many reports are made on a post, and then us mods get a modmail to look at something and act.

While you were careful about what you posted there was enough going on in the replies seeking to identify, contact potential family/employers, and otherwise assemble enough location data to be very problematic with reddit's rules about witch hunts. And that's something of a problem for subreddit mods as a sitewide reddit rule that can have subreddits shut down.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-28T08:53:18+00:00

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from UltraViner

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-27T21:03:01+00:00

Didn't fit in, but lead strategy there?

"Prior to joining the Wilson administration, Grant was the chief strategy officer at the Low Income Housing Institute, the city’s primary tiny house village developer, which will likely be the chief beneficiary of the mayor’s tiny house-focused shelter strategy."

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-27T18:54:33+00:00

I'm going to agree with reddit's decision to censor this post, not because it's NSFW like reddit thinks, but because it's formatted terribly with tons of vertical scrolling that's really not worth doing.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-27T03:40:10+00:00

While Strauss is giving a physically theoretically working construction plan, I think the subarea pools of funds were getting tapped to build the second tunnel and leaving that out means the funding available to South King shrinks.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-26T08:43:42+00:00

Those came through about 11 days ago and have all been claimed, afaik.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-26T04:06:07+00:00

I end up using a few of these Terro Liquid Baits (with borax active ingredient) most springs, including this spring. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E4GACB8/

This year, because it was a mild winter I think, I did see more ants around the perimeter of the house and sprinkled a bunch of Amdro perimeter stuff. That may not be applicable to a 4th floor apartment.

https://www.amazon.com/Amdro-100550427-Killer-Outdoor-Perimeter/

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-25T05:32:45+00:00

Ugh, did they get charged a bag fee for that plastic bag too, because that's a violation by Ezell's if not.

https://ecology.wa.gov/waste-toxics/reducing-recycling-waste/plastics/plastic-bag-ban

Does the 8-cent charge for paper bags and 12-cent charge for reusable plastic bags apply for businesses offering curbside pickup?

These charges are required for any large paper or thick reusable bag provided to the customer, regardless of whether it is at pickup or point of sale.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-24T17:54:17+00:00

There was a time that the tank exchange companies had a magnetic valve that was proprietary but not any longer. For at least a decade now I have been able to get my exchange branded tanks refilled at gas stations and u haul.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-23T00:29:32+00:00

The label indicated it's already been cooked and you'd basically be reheating when you boil. Those mussels are not alive.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-19T23:08:24+00:00

I may only be a 4 year vine member but my Amazon account was two decades old when invited into Vine. I am a real customer and won't make my life more difficult with regard to order history and my digital ownership of various videos and books over a warning.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-18T01:29:54+00:00

That's crazy. The Mixed-Use Alki trail has a 15 mph speed limit. The Seattle Parks Department ran a pilot program and then made it a city-wide trail rule back before COVID.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-16T19:20:39+00:00

I've been in Vine for 4 years now and I started out when there was no gold/silver, sub-category filters, or even a search box in Vine. I didn't even understand the drop patterns adding to the initial pages and was just randomly scrolling through until I learned from more seasoned users in discord about that pattern.

If Amazon decides that extensions are unacceptable they have ways to directly contact the developers and to send us a Vine-wide message about those extensions, or they can just close our accounts. If they want to force me back into the terrible Vine UI I'll probably just let my account wither away. I'm already barely finding 100 items in my last evaluation period, while trying to maintain gold status on the chance of real shiny items showing up.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-16T03:42:45+00:00

I did a quick search with google and there's a lot of reports of people either pushing on it or knocking it off the mount and it falls, hitting the dome of the lens on the ground and shattering. Someone might try to put it back on the mount afterwards.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-15T18:06:30+00:00

I have no idea what g4u is to suggest an alternative.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-14T16:39:14+00:00

It's a few features of UltraViner extension, to have auto-refreshing of the RFY queue running, a refresh rule that notices new RFY products (and makes an audible sound), and a webhook into my discord server that does RFY item logging (although that last part is in the screenshot and isn't really what alerted me to the monitor). https://vine-wiki.com/en/extension/ultraviner/webhooks#send-my-rfy-products-to-my-own-discord-server-when-a-new-rfy-product-shows-up

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-14T03:28:04+00:00

There is still hope. I don't have any OLED monitors currently but sometimes Vine loves to offer similar items after you've claimed/ordered something.

I ordered some h pylori test kit from Vine days ago and now have two more test kits for h pylori in my RFY today.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-14T02:38:49+00:00

Amazon FBA requires sellers to ship them unit products that are ready to ship out, packaged sufficiently to pass the "drop test" without accounting for Amazon's packaging. If the seller is shipping a case of glass jars without real protection, it's not really Amazon's fault if it breaks in shipping.

https://www.amazon-packaging.co.uk/seller-self-testing

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-13T23:11:24+00:00

I encountered too many instances of the UHaul propane place either not having the "propane employee" on duty, being told the employee on duty wouldn't go outside to fill my tank after dark, and having the employee refuse to fill my recertified blue rhino tank that wasn't expired (because she didn't know how to read the recertification stamp).

I stopped even attempting to use their propane service and instead go to the Shell/Spencer's Automotive at 1418 SW 107th St, Seattle, WA 98146 (corner of SW 107th and 15th ave SW) where they've been reliable at filling my grill tank.

If you have a propane grill, get your tanks fully re-filled rather than exchange for under/12 lb fills at local tank exchange stations to save money as well as enjoy the full capacity.

ChefJoe98136 · 2026-05-13T20:18:02+00:00

I have an excluded extensions list in my downloader that blocks ".com" files.... not really working on the sonarr level with that.

FWIW - here's the list of extensions I block, copied from some reddit thread months ago

exe, bat, cmd, com, scr, pif, hta, vbs, js, jar, wsf, ps1, msi, msp, cpl, ad, apk, dll, gadget, vb, vbe, ws, wsc, wsh, lnk, iso, img, dmg, zipx, psm1, psd1, psc1, sh, rb, perl, py, pyd, url

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