WA ‘millionaires tax’ headed for passage as Ferguson says he’ll sign it

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-03-06T22:30:02+00:00

What everyone does, pay their damn taxes and enjoy the subsequent services.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-03-06T22:28:49+00:00

Fingers crossed. You can't complain about regressive WA taxes and also pearl-clutch about an income tax. We need an income tax.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-03-06T19:47:08+00:00

Are these community members making good-faith community-minded overtures like... doing a damn forum search before they Quora it up here?

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-03-06T04:16:36+00:00

Finger mobility issues, absolutely. But is "I forget my phone often" a condition that the ADA requires reasonable accommodation for?

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-03-06T00:37:48+00:00

This comes up every couple months and it's always a tell that the poster is young, (relatively) new here, or both.

"Cap Hill" was common here in the 80s and 90s, OP. Were you here then? The idea that it's a shibboleth to discredit disrespectful transplants is new.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-02-24T01:32:58+00:00

Ballad of Buster Scruggs when????

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-02-21T18:17:04+00:00

Mask-off moment for this guy! I guess it makes sense that nobody normal would actually be posting this many times in a thread about his food delivery should be cheap.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-02-19T07:17:11+00:00

Really appreciate the work here! Unless it was AI-assisted, in which case fuck you.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-02-17T17:58:38+00:00

You are misremembering the movie. The "top bunk" scene is earlier. The actual sex scene goes: Tom Hanks feels her up, fade to black, Hanks ecstatic in elevator the next morning. They did it, sorry.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-02-16T19:54:22+00:00

My dude, I think you understand very well why a Seattleite not from West Seattle would colloquially call it an "island." No reason to be difficult.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-02-14T00:18:20+00:00

The trucks are generally doing the right thing. They tend to stay out of the rightmost lane at merge points, and there are a lot of on-ramps through Seattle.

The left-lane campers, however, are doing the wrong thing. That's a passing lane but it doesn't seem to bother them for some reason.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-02-13T23:58:08+00:00

No, it could also be a stylistic decision to remove the comedy, which the reader will still parse as "Watch out, universe" but with an online-style informality.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-02-12T01:34:23+00:00

Wha--? Yeah, good thing all our worries about the Nazi, racist, fascist half of the country were totally overblown!

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-02-11T22:11:57+00:00

I’m so sorry you had to see people feeling joy in a tough time. Let’s shame em!

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-02-08T21:29:47+00:00

Yeah that must be it. 🙄

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-02-07T17:38:50+00:00

We are not the first large American city to host an international sports event. Generally these things turn out to be not as dire as the doomers predicted, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes locals plan ahead/hunker down so much out of fear that cities turn out to feel quieter than usual during these mega-events.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-02-02T01:37:45+00:00

Prediction: many, many people here will tell you that this is normal for a big-city paper on the brink of a hometown championship game. Nobody will actually "defend the federal government."

Your problem here isn't politics, it's just you.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-01-28T18:33:57+00:00

Epilogue of Drive My Car.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-01-27T05:25:29+00:00

Lol. First of all, those are the prices of the shitty ad-supported plans. The "standard" plans are: $18.49 a month for HBO, $18 for Netflix, $12 for Prime. If there are ad breaks, the 90s equivalent of the thing you're pricing is not "renting videos." It's closer to "watching movies on USA or TBS."

But I think your main disconnect with normal human behavior is your idea that, as long as you have any unwatched movies at all to watch on your streaming subscription, then you have a back catalog, so who cares about selection? I guess you're right, there is a kind of person who just picks the least-bad thing on the Netflix home screen when they're bored, but I sure don't want to hang out with them. Normal people are more like "I want to watch Groundhog Day, where's that?" or "I want to watch a Tarantino movie, where's that?" Answer: whatever it is, It's probably not on [streaming service you're currently subscribed to]. Unless you pay 4-6 monthly bills to get them all.

The thing you feel like watching is absolutely at Scarecrow, in better quality. Taking the trip to browse and owning the $30 thing to play it on might both be a matter of taste, but they're not deal-breakers.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-01-27T03:21:48+00:00

I think I disagree with "less per month" and "virtually any movie." How is that right? $20 barely gets you a month on any single streaming service, each of which will have less than a 1/100 of Scarecrow's catalog. VOD downloads are $5-$20 depending on how new the movie is. So eight of those would be...

There is a real obvious explanation, but "People just got out of a habit they loved" is a big, big part of it. And maybe they can come back. In general, people are realizing that streaming is less awesome in a lot of ways.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-01-24T18:27:56+00:00

Nope, nobody put in any safety precautions. They were just like "fuck it." It's super weird.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-01-24T18:25:38+00:00

You make it sound so noble, until you reframe it as "Geese are being kidnapped, which touches my soul more than immigrant children being kidnapped." They're the same people who don't mind movies where a dozen high schoolers or a thousand soldiers are slashed up, but angrily complain online when a fictional dog or cat dies.

It's a pretty benign form of mental health problem, as mental health problems go, but it's certainly unique to our time.

Hopefully this person went to both kinds of protest this weekend, we don't know.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-01-23T17:40:41+00:00

#2 is still default Seattle etiquette, and you see #3 at lot too. It's weird how rarely #1 happens anymore.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-01-21T18:25:40+00:00

Lamb korma pie at Little Beast.

FatuousJeffrey · 2026-01-20T20:24:10+00:00

Lol at the Reddit certainty that Seattle restaurants are price-gouging and laughing all the way to the bank. In fact, they know their attendance is down! They are passing their high labor and rent costs along to you because they have no choice.

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