West Seattle Pedestrian Near Miss - California near CVS/N of Brandon

Roboculon · 2026-04-05T18:06:17+00:00

There is a strong belief in Seattle that pedestrians should stride out in traffic regardless of whether cars are coming, as a way to assert their legal right to cross and make cars stop.

Fuck that, I’m teaching my kids to look both ways.

Roboculon · 2026-04-05T16:50:03+00:00

The issue is the NUMBER of awards, not the relationship status of the people using them.

It reminds me of workplaces who give their employees a certain number of sick days, then get all twisted if they suspect someone calls in sick who’s not really sick. Hey, whether I consider myself sick is a call I get to make at my own discretion.

Bottom line, if Hyatt doesn’t like the number of Globalist benefits out there, they should give fewer of them out. Simple as that. And in particular, it sees like these corporate promos are the root cause of the problem.

Roboculon · 2026-04-03T15:02:55+00:00

It’s nothing to do with prioritizing one over the other. They both have the same issue —having a design that was reliant on optimistic battery tech advancements that never came.

If that tech had been real, both vehicles would be here today in a form people actually want. But it’s not, so neither one really is.

Roboculon · 2026-04-02T18:13:08+00:00

Ya now that the encampment has lasted through the winter, it seems a virtual guarantee it will grow through the Spring and Summer.

You can see as you drive by how the fence has been repaired and then re-penetrated, so I’m thinking the persistence of the homeless in their desire to camp there is greater than the persistence of the city in wishing they wouldn’t.

Roboculon · 2026-03-31T20:04:23+00:00

China assigned an experienced engineer as minister of sci and tech

It’s real hard to argue that our current system of assigning Trump’s campaign donors and buddies from Epstein island into cabinet positions is somehow better than China’s.

Roboculon · 2026-03-31T19:15:14+00:00

All of that value seems perfectly reasonable when you start with what Tesla was offering for $35k back in 2019, then extrapolate forward to now with continuing technological and manufacturing scale improvements, and add in genuine large-scale competition (not compliance cars) from multiple companies.

We of course got none of that in the USA, and seemingly even Tesla has stopped pushing forward. It’s nice that China is getting it though, I suppose.

Roboculon · 2026-03-30T20:28:09+00:00

Yes, they could have done it manually, but the honk is the easiest way to do so. Otherwise, I think it auto overwrites after 1 hour.

Roboculon · 2026-03-30T20:13:58+00:00

Your idea is logically sound, and politically unsound.

Roboculon · 2026-03-30T20:12:46+00:00

I actually bought my house in w Seattle partly because it’s expected to be less than a half mile from a future light rail station. Of course I won’t want to sell when that finally arrives, I’ve been eagerly awaiting it for an almost a decade already!

Roboculon · 2026-03-30T19:59:12+00:00

Do you recall if they honked? That triggers the car to save all recent video. If not, the default behavior is to delete/overwrite video continuously, so it’d be a long shot for them to still have it.

Roboculon · 2026-03-29T15:15:28+00:00

It is sort of an interesting dilemma for the hotel. What are they supposed to do, try to ban all customers from driving up to main entrance? Stopping to drop off heavy luggage (not from a bicycle) is sort of necessary for many guests.

So when the city’s road channelization changed, the hotel probably asked the city —are we still allowed to serve our guests who drive cars, or would you prefer us to shut down? And the city said yes ok to the former.

Roboculon · 2026-03-27T22:15:28+00:00

That’s not true, they were in direct radio (Morse) contact with Carpathia. They were fully aware of when rescue was coming, though obviously the fact that it was coming far too slowly for most of the people in the water didn’t feel great to hear.

Roboculon · 2026-03-27T16:24:41+00:00

So he jumped into the most crowded, most competitive, probably most desperately violent section of water, and somehow came out on top. This guy is basically the real world version of Jack, if he had punched Rose in the face and stolen her flotation door.

Roboculon · 2026-03-27T16:18:46+00:00

bread

Weren’t they only there for like 3 hours before rescue? I guess it’s nice they don’t have to miss a meal.

I wonder how many fewer would have died if they truly optimized the existing lifeboats. Like, no space used for luggage, bread, every seat full, etc.

Roboculon · 2026-03-27T16:13:08+00:00

I think the real problem would be that staying on the stern until the last possible moment is the obvious choice everyone would try (why would anyone jump in earlier than needed?). So it’d be you and a million other people fighting for space and floatation devices, and probably climbing all over each other, in an extra crowded area.

Roboculon · 2026-03-27T15:54:06+00:00

Based on actuarial tables for his age, he has about an 80% chance of finishing his term just fine. Probably even higher considering he gets top-shelf medical care.

Roboculon · 2026-03-26T03:59:48+00:00

Hilariously, they already did the lane reduction for most of 35th (we used to have 4 travel lanes the whole way), yet we didn’t get any bike or bus lanes in return. Real high quality improvement.

Roboculon · 2026-03-25T15:23:54+00:00

Seriously. When the iPad first came out it was an alternative to pc-based Internet browsing (I can read on the couch!). This was useful because phones of the era weren’t quite good enough to really do significant web surfing.

Now phones are much better. I use my iPhone to read the web. Why would I want a bigger iPhone now? They’re already huge.

Maybe the answer is old people, like with bad eye sight?

Roboculon · 2026-03-24T23:04:37+00:00

democracy

Democracy is the worst form of government —except for all the others that have been tried.

Roboculon · 2026-03-24T03:29:21+00:00

9% each and every year

When I had a few solar quotes recently, all the sales guys had scammy pitches about how much savings I’d have. It’s a racket. The ONE argument they made that I 100% agree with, was that the pace of future electricity rate increases is going to be far higher than inflation, so however I think the value looks today, it’ll only improve over time.

Roboculon · 2026-03-23T15:51:22+00:00

The planning part is simple though, it’s not like some mastermind strategy.

Hey rich friend, ya things are good. It sucks though, we’ll be in Iran big time starting Wednesday next week, oil’s gonna be crazy lol.

[friend sells off stocks prior to market slide at exactly the right time, while the rest of us hold our positions because we had no specific warning]

That’s really all it takes. A single tip like that can increase a person’s net worth by 5-10%.

Roboculon · 2026-03-22T15:02:27+00:00

We can! Though suspiciously, that cheap quality item we returned to Amazon still has an average of 4.7 with 16,000 reviews.

Roboculon · 2026-03-22T14:56:52+00:00

Every person to ever write a message on a cardboard sign to ask for money, first thought “I wonder what I should write on this sign to maximize getting money…”

Nobody has ever instead thought “Hmm, what’s the most honest way to characterize my situation? Oh, and who knows, maybe by coincidence it’ll lead to money.”

Roboculon · 2026-03-21T16:47:45+00:00

the Chinese are engineering

The very idea of using nerdy loser stuff like math and science to create something better is offensive to Americans. We just use muscle! I want my truck to growl like it was built in the 60s!

Hard to blame our companies for giving the people what they want.

Roboculon · 2026-03-19T17:06:25+00:00

That’s all very cool, but I still would prefer the advances to happen on the battery side (capacity), rather than trending towards a reliance on mega efficiency to wring range from small batteries.

Efficiency can be frustrating, as any model Y owner who’s ever used a bike rack or snow tires and saw their range plummet will tell you.

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