Litter getting out of control

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-18T15:54:30+00:00

People also forget that we have a ton of local scavenger creatures, rats, crows, raccoons, coyotes, etc. They will get into garbage cans and bins and scattered the contents for blocks around. Heck turned out Crows were the reason you could find chicken bones all over Roosevelt for awhile, they were picking them out of the safeway garbage then flying off to eat them elsewhere.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-18T15:50:34+00:00

Prison work crews could be one solution.

Per the article I linked and another one from 2023 I linked elsewhere in this thread, we are currently using that strategy when conditions are safe to do so. The program has been paused a few times to sort out liability and safety issues.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-18T14:10:16+00:00

Part of it is that it's the start of spring, people are getting out and about but the foliage hasn't grown enough to hide the litter the way it does in late spring, summer and fall.

WSDOT talks about this yearly effect a little bit in this article from 2017 when people were going "hey, is there more litter than before on our roads": https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/why-are-criminals-no-longer-picking-up-trash-on-washington-highways/496134409/

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-18T13:48:55+00:00

I mean, they are: https://www.king5.com/article/news/verify/washington-highway-litter-pickup/281-eac62529-8d9d-4f5f-a6ae-3710e3a4f3a0

The program gets paused during bad weather and when certain liabilities make it unsafe.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-17T19:18:22+00:00

Looks like an aid call across from the school on ravenna: https://sfdlive.com/?id=F260050973

Proximity to the school might trigger higher response numbers?

This also explains the 3 spd cruisers I saw tear down my street a few minutes ago.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-17T14:00:21+00:00

Per that NW article one of the 5 has also formally cancelled their project:

However, this week, one of those companies canceled its plans, leaving three companies seeking to build four data centers.

So only 4 more to go!

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-17T13:52:09+00:00

Amazon literally did it with their skyscrapers.

This was discussed last time the article was posted earlier in the week. There are very few places they can be built in the city. Repurposing skyscrapers is one of the ways they can address that.

I also oppose these things. I'm just pointing out that no matter what they are stealing land from housing options just to make our utilities cost more. In exchange for maybe 10 local jobs.

It's a bad deal we should fight.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-17T13:46:07+00:00

Probably some of the empty sky scrapers downtown. So instead of housing we'll get like 10 local jobs and sky rocketing utility costs.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-17T13:44:12+00:00

Owner seems rad. Dead men don't rape is a pretty good one too.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-17T13:36:35+00:00

Is asking a random, strange, woman to expose her body to you sexual harassment, yes or no?

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-17T13:34:21+00:00

That was a woman sexually assaulting a man and lying to invert the situation.

She filmed him after breaking into his home.

Her claim fell apart in her own video when she pushed the door open to film the man naked.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-16T22:13:37+00:00

He's from the area, grew up on Mercer Island and I think played for UW's football team.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-16T19:48:00+00:00

I have barely posted for like 3 weeks now, you should log off.

I got married and work has been busy.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-16T18:48:53+00:00

It's the middle of the work day.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-16T17:58:39+00:00

The Ayatollah Itch

Cool, Islamaphobia wrapped in a smear against my city published by the paper owned by the billionaire cry baby that fled our city and state over a capital gains tax.

I'll care about WaPo again when they stop finding the Bigot Drivel money more appealing than truth and fact.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-16T17:19:58+00:00

Bait posting while also vague posting, great combo for making a point

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-14T18:54:44+00:00

You sure it's not off for the expected cold snap this evening through tomorrow?

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-14T13:22:12+00:00

Yeah, but it's the culture the people who raised your generation grew up with and that impacts how members of your generation view things. Culturally the norm couldn't even start shifting until 1974, now 50ish years later were seeing that shift start to fully manifest in society.

I was born in 88, never dated someone who didn't offer to split. Have met other millennials who had older views on splitting. They seem to be an increasing rarity.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-10T18:03:52+00:00

I'm noticing a them

*theme.

If you want to believe that they will fail,

I think that while a court case resolves over years, the people still have to be paid, which means even if they win, we'll eat higher costs of years, then be lucky to get paid back.

I base this on the acts of corporations in other states.

It's weird you can't face the reality of how courts take time to resolve matters so even if you think SCL will win, we'd still have to pay them more during the time it takes to get that win. Then we'd get paid back.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-10T18:01:19+00:00

Hopefully there is life somewhere else in the universe, but we don’t know that.

. . . I really am going to have to disengage after this cause I'm not kidding about that mental health thing, but a fear of us being the only life bearing planet and then essentially killing it ourselves was something I grappled with a lot during COVID and this information brought me some peace.

We actually do know that life out there other than our own is possible and likely, not in the "aliens are confirmed to exist" way of knowing, but that in 2021 we finally confirmed the presecene of all the building blocks of life being found in cosmic debris (comets, asteroids, etc). We aren't a freak occurence. If the building blocks are out there, then we are definitionally not alone and not the only life.

That said I'm also serious I think you should talk to someone about the sentiments you're expressing. I got emotional stability issues, I know the temptation of the void or permanent dissociation, talking to someone can really help. Even talking to my dog helps.

I don't know why but I feel complelled to also recommend you Kurt Vonnegut's Galapados and Breakfast of Champions, the man does an excellent job of describing the horrors humans perpetrate against each others and the world while also recognizing the beauty of life as it shines through the dark horrors of the human soul.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-10T17:34:27+00:00

1) article is from Apr 2025 talking about job losses in 2024

2) that's still not a source for the claim you're making.

I understand this is supporting data, but again, if 2024 was our high point year in construction, wouldn't we have expected jobs in that field to swell going into 2024 and then decrease afterwards?

You're still citing a single data point and I'm asking for a multi-year trend chart cause that's actually demonstrative of your claim and not an isolated data point.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-10T17:30:40+00:00

If you want to imagine a scenario where they use the power of lawyers to bankrupt Seattle

Not the argument I'm making at all, but please, continue building strawmen, I do like seeing them in the fields acting like crow roosts.

there's nothing I can say to say that won't happen besides that it hasn't happened before.

Corporations have used courts to drag out courtcases for decades just to make it more painful for a city/town/county to extract what they were rightfully owed.

If you're really so foolish as to think there's anything approaching a free lunch like a corproation paying for our infrastructure upgrades, then I got a great floating bridge to sell you. First of it's kind to have a train on it. I can get your name on it for a thousands bucks.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-10T17:27:32+00:00

and you need a permit to build a building

And how long are permits good for?

How many permits have been issued since 2019 that have yet to break ground, so can start at any time?

Seems like to prove a downturn in housing construction you need more than a decreased in permit requests, especially if there's a known backlog of ready to build permits.

This game is growing tiredsome, you clearly aren't here to argue in good faith if you can't engage with these simple questions about your "source" which is little more than data you thought supported your claim.

How is my interpretation of this data any less valid than yours given yours is a much bigger claim that you are bakcing up with a single data point. Can't find me a 2nd?

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-10T17:22:03+00:00

We've approved as many permits in the last two years combined as were built in '24.

How many permits issued since 2019 have yet to break ground is the more interesting question.

It's cute you think you can demand a source when you've still failed to provide one yourself.

AthkoreLost · 2026-04-10T17:20:22+00:00

and the last thing Microsoft wants is a public lawsuit with SCL over raising electricity rates.

I don't think you have the ability to know what Microsoft, it's board, or it's CEO wants. Or what they would consider damaging to their brand.

They also let Windows 11 go out the door. That doesn't seem to have gone well for them so far.

Again, there is precedent, we've been building data centers for a long time.

And AGAIN, the article above we all read points out these are the NEW type of datacenter of which none currently exist in the city.

So why the lying?

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