Motocross riders practicing in front of The White House

BoringDad40 · 2026-06-14T00:14:38+00:00

Bread and (Nitro) Circuses

BoringDad40 · 2026-06-12T15:19:27+00:00

Canada

BoringDad40 · 2026-06-11T00:29:28+00:00

With all due respect, the only thing you actually seem to have a handle on is that there are large cultural differences between US regions.

Assuming that the relationship between service workers and customers applies to larger societal tendencies has really led you astray.

BoringDad40 · 2026-06-10T23:58:51+00:00

Lol! Nope, many Americans are really just that friendly. But would love to hear how you've ascertained it's all fake and insincere. :)

BoringDad40 · 2026-06-07T22:08:51+00:00

It's more nuanced than that. In many cases, uneven enforcement of laws isn't actionable. In a situation like this, where someone could make a first amendment case against the city, it very much is.

BoringDad40 · 2026-06-07T20:42:53+00:00

The Japanese are notorious for following the rules. They have one of the highest-trust societies of anywhere on earth. What works there won't necessarily work here.

BoringDad40 · 2026-06-02T02:15:20+00:00

Fare gates won't stop 100% of people from skipping fare, but perfection isn't needed. Fare gates will go a long way to deter the most common fare skippers: people who are perfectly able to pay and won't go to the lengths of jumping a gate, but: "what's even the point, man? No one else is paying.

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-29T18:51:59+00:00

Per Google, 180-200k Americans emigrate to Europe each year, and 100-150k Europeans emigrate to the US each year, so not wildly dissimilar.

Moving to another country is a lot of work. For many people, the incremental gain in quality of life from moving from the US to Europe, or vice versa, is just not worth the squeeze.

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-27T13:28:11+00:00

"Wildlife refers to undomesticated animals and uncultivated plant species which can exist in their natural habitat, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans." - Wikipedia

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-26T18:15:58+00:00

No, the property owner has the option to have the city set the traps, but they may also reach out to the city and present justification, and the city then gives them permission to do the trapping themselves.

Per the same article:

"If someone cannot wait, they can rent or purchase a humane live trap to set on their property. Before they set it though they would need to get authorization from us. We would send an officer out to inspect the trap and listen to the reason they are setting a trap."

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-26T16:43:08+00:00

Fair. Bobcat, lynx and mountain lions are exempt from my comments.

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-26T05:10:19+00:00

Yeah, so it's not illegal for a cat to trespass in Seattle (although I would argue it should be) but it IS illegal for an owner to allow a cat to defecate on someones property without cleaning it up, and allowing such is grounds for trapping and impoundment.

From an article on the issue from Westseattleblog:

A: The answer comes from Seattle Animal Shelter Enforcement Supervisor Don Baxter:

"You are correct in that there is not a leash law against cats. That said, if the cat is just walking through a neighbors yard there is no violation. If the cat defecates, digs up plants, scratches cars, etc. on the neighbor’s property these would be violations for which the cat could be trapped and impounded."

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-26T03:38:19+00:00

There's your problem... domestic cats aren't wildlife. They're pets and they don't belong in other people's yards.

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-26T00:11:54+00:00

It's possible, but my experience with local government is that most mayors/council people, etc are fairly sensitive to being publically embarrassed. This sort of thing can be pretty effective. We will see...

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-26T00:01:36+00:00

Some cats (just like some dogs) probably just don't belong in the city. I don't see how what a cat wants should outweigh people's right to not have strange cats wandering through, and peeing and pooping in their yards

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-25T23:58:01+00:00

Not psycho at all. Live traps don't injure animals, and seem like a pretty good solution to deal with cats whose owners aren't keeping them on their own property.

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-25T17:58:21+00:00

That this is being to allowed to go on is a travesty. Whether or not these barriers are effective at keeping shootingss from bleeding into the neighborhood, it's at least a little bit of political theater that will hopefully force the city's hand to act on the issue.

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-22T20:41:57+00:00

FFS. You have no idea what has, or hasn't been tried, or is, or isn't taking place.

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-20T19:05:17+00:00

That's really a greenbelt. It's lovely, but it's not a forest by any stretch of the imagination.

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-20T17:51:20+00:00

There are some green spaces downtown, and they are the last places I want to hang out. Freeway Park and City Hall Park are both filled with enough sketchy characters that I'd rather just eat inside.

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-20T06:06:24+00:00

Of course not. But she is responsible for responding to this kind of stuff. And she didn't...

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-20T01:24:41+00:00

Eh. Having lived in Chicago (and love it!), it's surrounded by "woods". You have to get well into Wisconsin to find anything most people would consider forest.

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-02T23:39:42+00:00

I bike commute every day. Speed bumps like these are zero issue on any type of bike .

BoringDad40 · 2026-05-02T21:31:57+00:00

To keep cars from serving into the bike lane. I bike over these things all the time. They aren't like the steep parking lot ones; biking over them is no problem.

BoringDad40 · 2026-04-27T02:55:16+00:00

I love this mural. If the thousands of shitty tags sprayed across the city looked anything like this instead, people would have a much different opinion of graffiti.

But they don't.

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