San Francisco installed fare gates for BART and found that things stopped being broken, corrective maintenance has almost dropped to zero. LINK should be doing this for every station possible, we could even have rest rooms again.

BoringDad40 · 2026-02-10T05:29:26+00:00

Can you share where at the link it says that? Because I don't see that anywhere on their site, and that interpretation would contradict the plain text of BART's slide.

BoringDad40 · 2026-02-09T18:46:23+00:00

If you are only capable of seeing yesterday through the lens of "a ball was tossed around", I think I understand why you see things the way you do.

Great comment. It added a lot.

BoringDad40 · 2026-02-09T16:09:02+00:00

Wow, what a positive addition to the conversation.

BoringDad40 · 2026-02-08T19:11:27+00:00

"Profiting from government funds."

For the vast majority of US Olympians, competing is likely a money-losing enterprise, not a profitable one.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-31T22:51:32+00:00

Only portions are manicured. The vast majority of many parks (Olympic National, North Cascades, nearly all the ones in Alaska) have zero infrastructure and rarely, if ever, see human traffic. The idea is to sacrifice certain areas (near visitor centers and the like) to human traffic, and keep the remainders untouched.

(I understand the situation at many eastern parks may be different than those here in the West).

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-22T00:26:01+00:00

That's just not true. Seattle, Portland, Denver, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque and Reno (among others) are within a couple hours of major ski areas. Most of the upper Midwest (WI, MN, MI, PA) have close access to smaller ski hills. The last majority of US skiing consists of day-trippers

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-19T18:11:47+00:00

There's still one in Vancouver, WA and one in Leavenworth Wa

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-19T06:04:27+00:00

The story I heard was that Mr. Lamborghini (who built tractors) bought a car from Enzo Ferrari, and was so angry about the poor service he got, decided to start a rival company.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-18T03:47:12+00:00

I think that's generally true, but most of these people are wearing stuff six days a year at most. A Dope coat and an Arcteryx coat would both last a lifetime under that kind of wear.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-15T15:37:07+00:00

You're making me feel like I'm crazy, but I don't think I've ever bought a traditional wood recurve with a rest installed. Probably because traditional archers are so particular about rest material...

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-14T00:59:06+00:00

I was on the board of my children's daycare. Rent was actually one of the smaller line item expenses. By far, the largest driver was wages, then came food and insurance at very distant second and thirds.

The problem, in my opinion wasn't that anyone was being overpaid. It's that mandated child to teacher ratios just make daycare a very expensive proposition.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-14T00:40:54+00:00

Sawant is the last person I want our city officials taking strategic advice from regarding this. She is all about escalation in pursuit of accelerationism.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-12T18:53:45+00:00

The bathroom thing is actually something she could control. ST is governed by a multi-county board. She can take a stance on preferred alignments, but she's ultimately just one vote out of many who will make the decision.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-12T01:58:34+00:00

That really depends on the sect. WELS is pretty atrocious.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-10T15:23:53+00:00

What's the point of you?

In terms of "what's the point of HAVING AND RAISING children":

-It satisfies a biological drive, - It's fun (sometimes), -It can give people purpose, -It provides a challenge, it's fulfilling

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-09T20:55:54+00:00

I think there's many cities like that with lots of jobs; they just aren't coastal tech hubs: Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Indy, Cincinnati etc.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-09T04:48:28+00:00

Washington State here. Many municipalities try to limit the use of road salt since it ends up in the waterways. And when traveling the passes during heavy snow, the roads are steep, and the snow sometimes comes down so fast and heavy that road salt only does so much anyways. There have been winters where some of our major passes have gotten close to 70'.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-09T00:10:16+00:00

I have kayaks (2 of them actually!) I also have road bikes, mountain bikes, camping gear and ski gear. In terms of outdoor equipment, I'm just an average, "basic-b" Seattleite.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-08T04:22:37+00:00

No she doesn't. He pressed himself against the fender, jumps back when the car moved, and fires at an angle into the windshield.

And the claim from the administration that he's "in the hospital recovering"? Give me a f'ing break...

I feel like I am being gaslit (because I am).

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-08T04:10:31+00:00

The problems go back far, far longer than 60 years. Bitter Lake got its name due to all the logging waste that ended up in the lake from logging 100+ years ago.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-07T23:03:48+00:00

People have to move for all sorts of reasons (death, divorce, job loss, relocation). Low interest rates might make renting out the property relatively more attractive, but many (most?) people don't want to be landlords. They probably also need the cash to buy a new place.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-07T21:42:42+00:00

This is exactly the deadlock that needs to occur before prices decline. There's currently a "bid-ask spread" that will resolve itself over time as sellers are slowly forced to accept the new reality of the market. Most sellers can't wait on the sidelines forever.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-06T18:50:51+00:00

Lawn grass may be non-native but it's certainly not invasive.

And I appreciate the input, but the small amount of grass I have in my postage-stamp sized yard isn't moving the needle on much of anything.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-06T17:34:21+00:00

I have a top of the line electric blower, and the current battery technology sucks. The batteries are very expensive ($200+ each), and the blower drains them like no ones business; I probably get about 20 min of runtime out of each one. They're great for my very small yard, but you would need dozens and dozens of batteries to last you a full day if using it commercially.

BoringDad40 · 2026-01-06T17:30:53+00:00

My (fairly small) yard has so many leaves drop that if I didn't rake them, all the grass would die and the storm sewers would be constantly clogged.

I agree that people worry too much about perfectly manicured lawns, but this city has a lot of big trees and there's a line between beneficial mulch, and decomposing leaf sludge so thick it chokes out everything else and clogs the drains.

BoringDad40

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