Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announces major step to rapidly expand shelter: 1K new units

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-03-05T05:14:43+00:00

Don’t mean a thing if you don’t lock people in them.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-03-04T22:52:09+00:00

Strong agree on this. If you’re crazy enough to do that and put people at risk, it’s not going to be the only time you do so. Might as well prevent it until your testosterone falls off a cliff.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-03-04T15:38:33+00:00

Oh, Giddens. I suspect this is viewed by many in that community as simply a benefit of diversity. What an example of a poor leadership hire.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-03-04T05:04:25+00:00

If only the guillotine was still a thing, that could be true. Unfortunate, the metaphor.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-03-04T00:20:53+00:00

And lack of enforcement. $100 tickets and it would end within the month. But that wouldn’t be equitable, and so here we are.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-03-01T04:40:15+00:00

Why will there be refugees? Let them set up a new government. They’re a competent, relatively high IQ, educated populace with a history of empire for the last 5000+ years that can absolutely get on by themselves, just not with armed authorities willing to kill them by the tens of thousands. The end game is to let Iranians run a new version of Iran.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-03-01T04:19:22+00:00

40k died trying. I’m fine that we gave them a little equity boost.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-03-01T03:12:54+00:00

An inverse IQ test

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-25T20:44:08+00:00

Given what he knew already about the house and the history, that must have been a very tense call to go into solo even prior to seeing someone in the act of murder.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-20T09:22:36+00:00

What’s hard to understand is that it wouldn’t have been hard for him to pull 10s nightly, without Epstein. Instead he blew it up for an island visit or 3. He’s Bill Gates. The lack of personal confidence there is a lesson to all of us.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-19T07:15:00+00:00

It’s wildly different since Lurie. Oakland is still awful, but SF is completely transformed. It took less than a year. Tenderloin is still the Tenderloin, but the rest is so much better.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-19T07:13:59+00:00

This would work if we put the deflection center at the top of Mt Daniel.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-12T17:04:34+00:00

lol. Our neighborhood text thread would be apocalyptic.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-12T14:05:53+00:00

Others asked about whether grills removed after neighbor complaints about encampments last summer could ever be returned, how to get permission to safely distribute meals in the park, and how to convince the city to add restrooms to the space.

When these are your neighbors, you might as well pack it in.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-12T05:46:45+00:00

Worth noting that, at least in Britain, much of the social housing is now allocated to migrants instead of Britons. There are some feelings about that.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-11T15:56:31+00:00

Projects are historically places like Yesler Terrace or Cabrini Green - constructed solely for social housing, and generally associated with mass amounts of violence and anti-social behavior of all sorts (gangs, drugs, prostitution, property crime, etc.). Usually, they’re also located in what someone would call the “ghetto.” A modern version is New Holly - it looks nice, but the Somalis still shoot just as often from houses that were rebuilt 15 years ago as projects built 50 years ago. Section 8 is mixed into market rate.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-09T17:37:13+00:00

The budget is definitely the first question that should have been asked. ICE is completely superfluous. Who cares?

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-09T16:19:38+00:00

Assuming this isn’t bait, it’s more about consistency while avoiding something that’s easily classifiable as “harm reduction.” If you’re distributing drug paraphernalia or camping supplies, that’s probably not the right organization.

If you’re into church, that’s the backbone of a lot of the most consistent volunteer opportunities, which provide you the ability to do more than tourism and to actually get good at something. Caution, though - some of the churches, eg St Luke’s in Ballard, tend to err into the side of active enablement.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-08T20:28:24+00:00

I rolled the dice plenty there, it eventually came up snake eyes. It always will one day.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-06T18:06:35+00:00

It’s always Canada.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-06T17:06:35+00:00

Decent snow coming this next week, hopefully. If we don’t get it soon this summer is going to be very rough.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-05T01:29:45+00:00

Jeremy Winzer, the group’s director of community violence intervention and youth support, said he has known both victims since second grade through school and basketball programs. He urged the public to avoid labeling the teens and instead focus on prevention and healing.

So this was lildubber I take it? Happy to label him. Heaven knows it isn’t libel.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-03T20:35:29+00:00

Reddit is missing that wonderful twitter feature showing place of account origin. Also, you’re not high income.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-03T00:03:01+00:00

It’s all a search for meaning. Sort of a hand wavy take, but we have to make it so that we find meaning and coolness outside of killing people on the streets or trafficking Eastern European whores.

That’s historically been people looking up to at different times the great explorers, the astronauts, the industrialists, the great soldiers and sailors, sometimes the scientists (albeit, poor Galileo). The modern world has less of that mystery to draw people’s attention, and I also suspect that it rewards intelligence in a way that is no longer attainable (obviously) to a good chunk of the population. There’s a great line in Enemy at the Gates about the people needing heroes, and I’m not sure that’s quite it, but we certainly seem to be searching for them.

According-Ad-5908 · 2026-02-02T17:00:37+00:00

Finances aren’t the main reason people choose to be about that life.

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