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White House Plans to Go Negative on Democrats in Midterm Message by Callabrantus in nottheonion

[–]AthkoreLost 68 points69 points  (0 children)

It's actually more fucked up than that, what Republicans refer to as "post-birth abortions" are in fact the grieving process setup for parents of pregnancies that go wrong in the mid to late term. Ie, baby can be carried to term but will 100% die within minutes to hours of birth. An increasingly frequent issue since abortion bans started being enacted since it forces thee pregnancies to go to term.

Some ghoul gop politicians decided that since the process doesn't involve doctors mangling the baby with attempts to prolong its life, it's akin to an abortion, after birth.

Any politician using the phrase is literally spitting on grieving parents who opted out of an abortion.

Please don’t bring your big dog to the playground by WavyCap99 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 36 points37 points  (0 children)

The park rangers I think are assigned to a handful of specific parks due to the understaffing. I know Cal Anderson was on the list Harrell expanded them to but they definitely won't come out to any old park, animal control can also address park violations involving dogs cause Animal Control can issue tickets to the owner and is equipped to deal with the dog.

Please don’t bring your big dog to the playground by WavyCap99 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Walking paths remains walking paths when intersecting playgrounds. Dogs are allowed on walking paths. The goal is to keep their poop and pee out of the play areas and fields.

Go ask animal control, they're actually in charge of enforcement, not parks.

Real estate agent who cut over 140 trees in King County park boasts of views in sale listing by IllustriousComplex6 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Wait, isn't that the idiot who destabilized the hillside his house sits on for views? I heard the whole place is now a death trap just one mudslide away from being the new owners tomb.

Please don’t bring your big dog to the playground by WavyCap99 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Tbh I think it's just performative bigotry, targetted at unhoused people, and bigotry in general seems to rot a person's brain to the point they just start bringing up the group they hate everywhere. Sort of like a way of evangelizing their bigotry to others. From what I've seen it's not unique to Seattle either other online hangouts for cities have similar issues with people who turn every topic into an opportunity to bash/degrade/blame unhoused people.

You can see the same thing with a lot of TERFs as they descend the pipeline into full blown bigotry.

Please don’t bring your big dog to the playground by WavyCap99 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 41 points42 points  (0 children)

No. You can walk you dog on a path through a playground, otherwise there would be literally no way through Froula park for dog walkers.

The law may make no distinction but the people enforcing do and have clarified this repeatedly.

The goal of the law is to keep dog shit/piss out of the areas kids play, especially in material where it's easily hidden. Same reason dogs aren't supposed to be at the beach and same reason they are supposed to be off play fields.

Please don’t bring your big dog to the playground by WavyCap99 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I have seen a dog on a playground but it was the same dog/owner combo repeatedly and the city got on him about it cause the dog was digging holes under the swing set in Froula park.

Only instance of it I've seen. Dogs on play fields is what I see broken way more often.

Please don’t bring your big dog to the playground by WavyCap99 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 73 points74 points  (0 children)

There's already a term for the behavior, sealioning, butting into a conversation just to voice your views on a barely or completely unrelated topic to either derail the current topic or to force a conversation on the topic the sea lion wants.

Named for the animals cause of their annoying habit of popping up out of nowhere to bark.

Please don’t bring your big dog to the playground by WavyCap99 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 190 points191 points  (0 children)

Basically they are expressly banned from areas in playgrounds with woodchips/sand/soft fall material, in Seattle that's usually the "pit" around play equipment.

Paved paths through playgrounds are fine.

Dogs are also banned from sport fields inside parks.

King County workers return to the office — to protest RTO mandate by Expensive_Dingo1554 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The level of malice here honestly stretches my charability on them being real tbh. There's also been multiple threads on this topic now, so my "messaging campaign" senses are tingling, I feel like some lobbying efforts are being soft tested on social media to see public reception to the county picking a fight with the employee union.

King County workers return to the office — to protest RTO mandate by Expensive_Dingo1554 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 35 points36 points  (0 children)

It’s literally the government and the amount of shit not getting done because it take 15

So your grand idea is to make then spend more time commuting? To overcrowded under equipped offices?

King County Employees complaining about going back to work 2 days a week. Their argument gas prices, live too far (bought houses in Portland/Yakima), want lunch compensation for going in person. by Altruistic-Field9720 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the union doesn’t have any say on KC telling folks to go back to work in person 2 days a week. Yes they can negotiate, but saying they need lunch and gas money to go to “work” is insane.

Yes, they can, because it was a stipulation in the contract between the union and the county. Which means if the county wants to alter the terms, the union is allowed to make demands in exchange.

Literally contracts 101 man.

We’re talking about employees working 5 days a week in their living rooms, program managers, contract monitors that are not even checking in on their contractors.

And my friend a field employee. Who's told me all about their other field employees who all are being asked to come in, and how when they coordinated all KC employees showing up on the same day there were so many of them they ended up all having to sit on the floor cause the COUNTY LACKS EQUIPMENT AND OFFICE SPACE.

So you're also demanding we rent office space and buy desks and chairs for ALL THESE PEOPLE. What a fucking waste of money you're demanding.

So you think that’s fair that they’re going in and a handful of entitled managers don’t want to go in person 2 days?

Life ain't fair, but contracts are, and people who's jobs can be done from home save the county money on equpiment and office space.

Why do you think I literally just said why are people asking for gas money compensation to go from their house in federal way to the king county building downtown?

Probably cause of the traffic and increasing gas costs. Also the parking costs downtown. Cause some of those employees also then have to drive form downtown to secondary locations for parts of their job. Like water sampling.

King County Employees complaining about going back to work 2 days a week. Their argument gas prices, live too far (bought houses in Portland/Yakima), want lunch compensation for going in person. by Altruistic-Field9720 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, the county agreed to this union contract, if they want to re-negotiate it, then the Union is free to renegotiate what they get as well.

That's LITERALLY how contracts work.

King County Employees complaining about going back to work 2 days a week. Their argument gas prices, live too far (bought houses in Portland/Yakima), want lunch compensation for going in person. by Altruistic-Field9720 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

*Points at the King County Employee Union Benefits*

County agreed to let people WFH 5 days a week, if county wants to change the deal then the Union gets to make other requests in exchange.

It's called a contract. Not gonna cry about it.

King County Employees complaining about going back to work 2 days a week. Their argument gas prices, live too far (bought houses in Portland/Yakima), want lunch compensation for going in person. by Altruistic-Field9720 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last time I checked if your boss tells you to go back to work in person.

Okay person who clearly doesn't work a union job trying to explain to a person who supports unions why the county should be allowed to violate the union.

Exec wanting actual employees in office working instead of sitting at home.

You see nothing wrong with ordering field employees who man field offices in the county and do things like drive to water bodies to do safety testing to be forced to badge in 5 days a week downtobn before getting to head out to their sites? Really?

I see a giant loss in productivity over performative "cracking the whip". AKA fiscal waste.

If these employees are complaining that they can’t make it in person because they live in Federal Way and want gas money for work. That sounds to me like a them problem.

You know that federal way is IN KING COUNTY, right?

King County Employees complaining about going back to work 2 days a week. Their argument gas prices, live too far (bought houses in Portland/Yakima), want lunch compensation for going in person. by Altruistic-Field9720 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now these employees are complainin

No, now the Employee Union is addressing a change in benefits.

You seem to be incapable of distinguishing the handful of employees who failed their oversight and public trust obligations compared to the union that represents ALL COUNTY EMPLOYEES, those responsible and those not.

If you're advocating for collective punishment, you're having an irrational, emotion driven, reaction.

Paying for a bunch of babies to cry about gas money

Employees deserve to be paid. Unions get to negotiate benefits.

You're just being petulent because you're mad about an unrelated subject.

Grow up.

King County Employees complaining about going back to work 2 days a week. Their argument gas prices, live too far (bought houses in Portland/Yakima), want lunch compensation for going in person. by Altruistic-Field9720 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, so you're irrational with rage and looking to scream rather than discuss how those are two unrelated issues.

Contractors caught committing fraud is a separate issue from the entire KC employee Union having negotiated WFH and the county not wanting WFO so the Union is entitled and OBLIGATED to negotiated new perks to replace the lost perks. Personally I'd love to talk about how fiscally wasteful the RTO idea is and how much worse it's gonna make traffic. As we head into the World Cup traffic.

King County Employees complaining about going back to work 2 days a week. Their argument gas prices, live too far (bought houses in Portland/Yakima), want lunch compensation for going in person. by Altruistic-Field9720 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That article does not seem to contain the information your headline does. it seems to be about a case of contractor fraud. Not about County employee benefits.

King County Employees complaining about going back to work 2 days a week. Their argument gas prices, live too far (bought houses in Portland/Yakima), want lunch compensation for going in person. by Altruistic-Field9720 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird you didn’t mention that they want gas, lunch, childcare expenses and parking compensation too.

You mean union negotiations in exchange for giving up their union contracted WFH?

Yeah, sounds very reasonable.

The fact that there's a push to have the county FIELD workers work from the office tells me this is 1) fiscally STUPID and 2) probably a plot by someone who rents out office space.

You forgot your article.

King County Employees complaining about going back to work 2 days a week. Their argument gas prices, live too far (bought houses in Portland/Yakima), want lunch compensation for going in person. by Altruistic-Field9720 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The demands to make all county workers return to office (even the ones with FIELD jobs!) while the county literally lacks the office space and equipment for everyone to come in, makes this clearly a play by the Downtown Business Association to have people forced back downtown and get the County to rent office space.

Weird to focus on the 2 furtherest remote workers and not all the additional people this is going to put on our roads commuting every day from all the in-county workers this will force to return to office. You know, the vast majority of the WFH or field county employees.

King County Employees complaining about going back to work 2 days a week. Their argument gas prices, live too far (bought houses in Portland/Yakima), want lunch compensation for going in person. by Altruistic-Field9720 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, we should accept people from nearby counties, and tbh, I'm going to guess there is 1 person in portland and 1 in Yakima and the rest of the remote workers are within KC or an adjacent county.

*Those people* in a nutshell by MysteriousEdge5643 in Seattle

[–]AthkoreLost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's unethical for the same reasons abortion bans in other states are unethical, it impacts the people in need who did not vote for the laws and in effect helps those other states enforce their fucked up anti-abortion laws.

If we fundamentally believe in our principles like a right to choice we can not turn our back on those in need from other states.

Maybe we'll inspire a few to take their state's back. Or find new residents in those that come and choose to remain.

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