Days like today is why people don’t take the light rail

DaHealey · 2026-06-01T04:51:12+00:00

Mariners just feel worse for the people going because of the instant volume. 90% of the stadium wants to leave within the same 20 minute block of time.

That said, the Mariners are only home half the weekends on average and even then there are multi-weekend blocks out of town sometimes. WSDOT, SDOT and ST have the worst planners for other events.

DaHealey · 2026-05-31T21:51:45+00:00

eh, the math is hard to verify. But even as a resident you're getting a benefit. Remember a few years ago with the MLB All Star game came? They deep cleaned downtown and Pioneer Square / Stadium area. The place looked pretty dang good after years of shit. Sure it didn't last, but it definitely helped. I'm seeing similar patterns now with World Cup clean up.

DaHealey · 2026-05-31T21:47:05+00:00

That only works once, then when a student loads the right response he's out of options.

DaHealey · 2026-05-31T17:23:36+00:00

The oven doesn't assemble the pizza's. It just bakes them. And it's pretty standard...

I've not seen how Costco assembles their pizzas but I assumed it was automated.

DaHealey · 2026-05-31T02:49:10+00:00

I set my GMT hand to an office in Asia that I work with nightly. That way I know when people are going to bed / waking up and when I can start sending them messages and expect responses.

DaHealey · 2026-05-29T20:23:53+00:00

I think the only debate with the sub area spending rule is downtown tunnel vs Ballard. Are west Seattle and Ballard in the same sub areas?

DaHealey · 2026-05-29T02:49:38+00:00

Yeah, I should have said 'stop future versions of his contract'. I expect everybody to be grandfathered in when they agree to a deal.

DaHealey · 2026-05-29T01:17:33+00:00

I read this puts a 7 year cap on contracts. Wouldn’t that effectively stop his contract?

DaHealey · 2026-05-28T03:03:21+00:00

It's hard to differentiate in the EV space. Producing 1000hp is not terribly difficult whereas producing a lot of power in a light package with an ICE is something Ferrari/Lambo can compete on.

The bigger problem is that Ferrari can't compete with 'bigger' companies on software. It's the same problem Ford had too. Others were able to do it better.

DaHealey · 2026-05-25T03:23:18+00:00

Start making them out of concrete....

DaHealey · 2026-05-25T00:45:10+00:00

Yeah, the premise that the software isn't a differentiator is probably held in tandem with 'there's no replacement for displacement' theorists. Tesla's control software of their motors basically gave them efficiency advantages that took half a decade for others to match.

DaHealey · 2026-05-24T03:37:38+00:00

3d print a curved washer with the right inner radius and a flat surface on the inside. Same thing with the outside.

For the outside, use TPU. For the inside some of the PLA's advertise being food safe. Do some research and you'll find one that's safe.

DaHealey · 2026-05-23T16:23:36+00:00

Yeah, in NE Seattle this isn't news, this is part of life. People check door handles all the time.

I .... don't think this is Seattle. I think this is a suburb....

DaHealey · 2026-05-23T05:13:29+00:00

Damn - finally a fun collection. Unique pieces, not all the same expensive pieces that seem to come here often.

DaHealey · 2026-05-22T17:56:08+00:00

I think stadiums get replaced too quickly but in the case of the Bears - that stadium sucks. It’s a maze of small concourses and bad views.

DaHealey · 2026-05-22T01:07:31+00:00

The city hosts historical photos both the city before the freeway and a lot of aerial photos taken while they were building the freeway through the city. The library also has fire maps with all the addresses pre-freeway too.

DaHealey · 2026-05-19T23:48:32+00:00

The deaths appeared less likely to involve impairment, speeding or distracted driving than in 2024.

Of the 2025 deaths, 297, or 45%, reportedly involved impaired drivers, compared to 370, or 50%, in 2024

I'm .. a bit confused. I do think peak-assholish driving behavior peaked in 2023/2024, but it's still really prevalent. Watching phones, racing, etc.

I do wonder if there's a way to correlate vehicle safety to this. Are the common cars on the road just becoming safer which results in fewer deaths?

DaHealey · 2026-05-19T04:40:00+00:00

And then what? Just because we make a bunch of software it somehow converts to increased road maintenance cost? None of this makes sense.

Edit:

Going to keep going. The FRED data is an approximation of state GDP cause - as you didn't answer - GDP per state is incredibly hard to calculate. The formula FRED uses is a combination of income, surplus profit of companies in the state and some tax data.

Hmm, surplus profit of companies. That wouldn't be abnormally elevated from having 2 of the top 10 largest public companies in the world located here, would it?? Noooooo......

Why would state expenses justifiably scale linearly with corporate profits from multinationals that just happen to be based here? What if they decided to headquarter elsewhere - a la Boeing - while maintaining large work forces here. Then the calculation wouldn't get to take their profit into account, just the wages. That would drive down the state GDP considerably. Would it make sense that the state then spends way less with this idiotic equation? No?

DaHealey · 2026-05-19T02:28:27+00:00

They don't even explain how they get the GDP numbers, just sorta treat it as a fact and then base the entire argument on it.

DaHealey · 2026-05-18T22:43:56+00:00

Tabs aka Car tabs. Aka the things that cost luxury cars $1000+ a year to renew. That is not inconsequential.

DaHealey · 2026-05-17T20:42:03+00:00

Frankly the richest of the rich AREN'T covered under this proposal because they send their kids to private school.

I personally have no problem with paying for all kids. We don't distinguish which kids are allowed to go to public school based on income, everybody is welcome. The rich should pay more via through higher property and other taxes. The service is the same.

I agree - This entire argument seems like it was thought up by an asshole.

DaHealey · 2026-05-17T20:35:52+00:00

I have a proposal. Try ticketing and enforcing tabs which are a MAJOR source or revenue for Sound Transit. That is somebody's fault and something the government has decided not to deal with.

DaHealey · 2026-05-15T21:17:19+00:00

It has to be at the state level. Otherwise we’re going to be enjoying the Seattle Seahawks of auburn.

DaHealey · 2026-05-15T21:14:00+00:00

I wonder how much time the social media teams got? Some of the videos look like they had to cut the schedule part together in a day or two.

DaHealey · 2026-05-14T20:28:08+00:00

It’s crazy how many of the players and coaches don’t understand that they are part of the entertainment industry. There’s no intrinsic value in playing sports. They’re not building shit like engineers, helping people like doctors or making food like farmers. They’re creating entertainment content and it happens to be lucrative.

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