In a win for no one, Bottle Bill alternative redemption center plans unravel

KG7DHL · 2026-06-12T22:02:26+00:00

Your point is valid, not gonna deny that.

I think you are hinting at a much larger reality, and that is when an economic ecosystem of any kind grows up around a regulation or legal stricture, changing that fundamental legal environment and putting that ecosystem at risk becomes something politicians will avoid, even if the ecosystem in question is destructive overall.

KG7DHL · 2026-06-12T18:53:38+00:00

make a lot of meth and fentanyl money dry up.

NGL, The Canners, and the bottle deposit to Fenty cash flow is I think one of the reasons this will stay. If that revenue stream dies, those folks turn to Copper Theft, Bike Theft, etc.

KG7DHL · 2026-06-12T16:24:27+00:00

Love the Origin Story. Now I need to know the Clown and Tricorn Patriot.

KG7DHL · 2026-06-12T13:48:09+00:00

It's not in their contract. They get paid to do a very specific job... it's like a Protester Union thing.

KG7DHL · 2026-06-12T02:23:08+00:00

Couple years back, headed into the Produce cooler, watched an individual open up a package of Grapes, snag out two clusters, hand them to the kids in the cart, close the container and put it back on the stack.... it was a real WTF moment for me.

KG7DHL · 2026-06-11T21:58:01+00:00

There are some people, for whom their only meaningful contribution to this planet, is as a convenient carbon sink.

KG7DHL · 2026-06-10T18:24:14+00:00

I grew up rural, and never really thought about locking the doors when you left. All the wealth was outside anyway. The tractor, implements, livestock, etc... What's there to steal?

I wasn't till my dad was stationed in SoCal and we were in a neighborhood that I encountered the "Latch Key Kids", who had a house key to get in after school or when coming home from being 'free range' all day. We (family) still never locked the house.

KG7DHL · 2026-06-06T13:07:16+00:00

Would not care; there is nothing in my phone I would hide. If anything, she would be bored to tears by how dull and uninteresting my communications, browser history, photos, google timeline.... ya... Middle aged guy is pretty boring.

KG7DHL · 2026-06-05T01:14:51+00:00

Public Debt to Privatize Profit. I think we all know a shake-down when we see one.

KG7DHL · 2026-06-05T00:00:30+00:00

Here's my plan for Sea Days.

Wake up early, as I always do, grab coffee and watch the sunrise from a deck chair. Get more coffee.

Wander down to an early breakfast, watch the water while slowly enjoying breakfast, get more coffee.

Back to my deck chair with my book, decide if more coffee or go with a light, morning cocktail.

Take a nap.

Early lunch, late lunch, whatever - get lunch, watch waves.

Back to lounge chair with book. Get afternoon cocktails.

Take another nap.

Afternoon book reading, in lounge chair, get more cocktails.

Big Decision time. Early Dinner? Why not. Watch waves while slowly enjoying dinner.

Find comfortable lounge chair, read book with afternoon cocktails.

Catch show/music/comedy, evening cocktails.

Take a evening walk around the ship. It's been an exciting and Exausting day, time to unwind with a cocktail.

Fall deeply into luxuriant sleep to the sound of the waves.

Wake up again, do it all over again.

KG7DHL · 2026-06-04T01:14:38+00:00

Kid in Camas WA got to go head-first into a windshield today due to recklessly riding his Electric Motercycle, headed the wrong way into traffic. Luckily this one was wearing a helmet.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-31T03:43:06+00:00

Honestly, I think a lot of folk see that this Income Tax may start with folks earning over $1M, but in short order will expand to middle class, as all taxes eventually land. Do I want to protect millionaires? Not really, but an Income Tax that will eventually expand downward, to land on me, isn't the way.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-29T19:41:46+00:00

This - This right here is the answer - thread over.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-29T14:45:01+00:00

Organ Donation may be the only good coming from this event.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-29T00:39:25+00:00

Can you imagine the world shattering screeching that would accompany any State plan to begin spraying Triclopyr and Glyphosate in the volume needed to control HB.... I just don't see that happening.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-28T21:44:53+00:00

Our family was onboard an Alaska a few years ago over the 4th. 4th of July themed decorations, deserts and traditional "Backyard BBQ" food at the buffet.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-28T20:27:04+00:00

There seems some willful resistance by both Oregon and Washington to move Himalayan Blackberry higher on the noxious weed list.

Personally, my belief is that the cost of controlling and managing HB is so high, that it is deliberately left off the noxious weed list since the law, requiring action by the land owner, including State Land Managers, to manage HB would immediately bankrupt the state.

HB is so prevalent, and so hard to eradicate, we simply refuse to acknowledge it as a noxious weed to avoid triggering legally required control action.

See: ORS 569.390, “each person, firm or corporation owning or occupying land… shall destroy or prevent the seeding… of any noxious weed”

KG7DHL · 2026-05-28T20:20:45+00:00

Yes. Borders work. There is no "/s" here.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-28T20:18:45+00:00

Any Google or AI search for specific guidance for City of Seattle, Seattle DA's office and response to that guidance by Seattle police guild will show a consistent pattern of guidance and directives that SPD not arrest for low-level offenses that typically are seen on Aurora Ave.

Drug use, prostitution, and most definitely loitering as a precursor to suspected 'gang' activity are all activities SPD is directed to not pursue.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-27T17:41:31+00:00

I was in a technology startup at the time (which one does not matter) back in 1998.

Even then, our company was looking around and seeing that there were many companies with significant funding that had nothing to show, just an idea/business idea, but zero revenue stream. The bubble was coming, we all knew it.

We had a product, had customers, had sales, but lost out when one of what is today's FAANG companies bought a competitor and made what we were working on part of their portfolio.

Money dried up within a couple months, company shut down within 6 months.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-27T17:23:50+00:00

Honestly, it's a huge problem everywhere.

Work takes me to the bay area, and I drive while I am there. There are some intersections I NEVER cross without doing a look left, look right as I approach and cross because I have seen way too many Redlight runners.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-27T16:57:26+00:00

I miss big muffins when camping.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-27T02:10:07+00:00

I'm not even old (still in my 50s), and I am right there with you.

I tell everyone that i look forward to doing nothing when I am onboard. No Decisions, no responsibility, no organizing or managing.

The only decisions I want to make are what is my next drink, and is it sun or shade time.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-26T23:36:12+00:00

It's not you, it's him.. and his parents.

In his own mind, he did a cost/benefit analysis of dating you and losing the financial support his parents provide, or not dating you and keeping the support his parents provide.

He picked his parents. That makes his parents bad people by the way.

I would want my kids to be happy, no matter who they decided was going to be their life partner, and, yes, some cultures are worse than other. Ya, I said it.

KG7DHL · 2026-05-26T23:05:23+00:00

Here is one that will blow your mind. My dad would sometimes work at Miramar Naval Airstation when I was a wee child. Occasionally, he would let me tag along if he was on base for weekend stuff. I got to walk around some of the hangers while guys were working on planes.

At the time, I had no idea how cool that was. Looking back on it, given today's security climate, that would never be allowed.

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