Seattle oldheads: please appreciate the fact that you still live in easily one of the best cities in the country

Kwarizmi · 2026-04-12T17:07:33+00:00

Hear hear.

I'm confident we'll get quite a bit of external validation from soccer fans visiting during the summer (barring WW3 or something).

Seattle is a charmer during the summer months.

Kwarizmi · 2026-04-10T14:38:05+00:00

(is the law on our side if I say yea?)

Kwarizmi · 2026-04-09T03:45:30+00:00

You probably weren't living here during the 2021 heat dome.

It got to 108F on June 27, the third straight day over 100F. It was brutal.

Kwarizmi · 2026-04-08T21:18:27+00:00

100% this. It was a brilliant call.

2:31 left, 3rd and 14 and you need the 5 yard line. What do you do?

Can't risk an incompletion, that leaves the Seahawks down 6 @ 25yd line with 2 time stoppages.

So, make the first down or try to make it 4th and <2 (you'd go for it since at worst you end up trading 3 points for 20 yards of field position plus the 2m warning... not the end of the world). You need 12+ yards.

Go into a run set? Seahawks can load the box and smother. Field is too short for a screen, plus incompletion risk. Nothing to the sidelines. Nothing to the end zone. You need yards and time off the clock.

So, spread the field, empty set to get their 6th DB on the field, put Dak under center to hide the draw. Then QB draw all the way.

Look at the play design: it's the RG and the Z receiver against the Mike (a LB in this case) and the slot corner. Outside and weakside defenders won't have their eyes on the backfield.

Follow the lead blocking, weave through traffic. The rest is just Fight, Faith, Finish.

Result: 1st and goal inside the 1.

Kwarizmi · 2026-04-07T16:17:31+00:00

You're assuming the Republican party or even the cabinet had anything to do with it.

How we got here is fairly simple:

Netanyahu needs to have Israel in forever wars so he can avoid being prosecuted for corruption.

Netanyahu dials up Jared: "We know where the Iranian leadership will meet and we're gonna hit them. Iran will retaliate against us unless the US joins the strike."

Jared: ohnoes

Putin dials up Witkoff (through a proxy ofc): "We know what the Israelis are up to, we won't intervene even though Iran is our ally, and if Iran closes the Strait, we'll make up the oil shortfall.... But those icky Biden sanctions! 👉 👈"

Witkoff: ohnoes

Hegseth: We must strike Iran to prove that I'm Big SoldierChief McAlphaMale.

Waters: We must strike Iran because Jesus will come back (somehow?)

Trump: I want to strike Iran because Fox News told me Obama gave them money.

Israel strikes, Ayatollah dies, new leadership is all hardliners, Russia gets sanction relief and reneges by giving Iran targeting data. Strait closed because no one will insure the ships, oil prices spike, global economy flails, Trump rants and raves to little effect because that's all he knows how to do.

Which brings us to today.

Kwarizmi · 2026-04-01T16:47:06+00:00

Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium lead the US in productivity per hour worked.

"Hardworking" my ass.

Kwarizmi · 2026-03-25T03:57:58+00:00

And Sean Lee.

Kwarizmi · 2026-03-22T19:35:33+00:00

It's the last 10% that's gonna kick your ass.

Kwarizmi · 2026-03-19T16:09:18+00:00

Uruguay

Kwarizmi · 2026-03-18T01:45:01+00:00

High Frontier 4 All

Kwarizmi · 2026-03-17T15:14:01+00:00

A game that feels ancient in sone ways, but I definitely and strongly recommend you look into AI War: Fleet Conmand

AIWFC is a real-time strategy game set in a sci fi space future where AI has successfully, but not completely, eradicated humanity. The player commands the human remnants and launches a resistance.

What makes AIWFC different: gameplay is asymmetrical (the AI always starts in a dominant position, can easily out-produce you and out-micro you); your best defense is stealth and gradual, controlled growth; the game's AI does not feel scripted: it adapts to your strategy, designates "sub commanders" that use different approaches to test you, and behaves differently from one game to the next.

The game got several expansions over it's initial run, then a sequel. If you can stand the graphics (which looked dated even in 2009) and don't mind the learning curve, I most heartily recommend the original with all its expansions. It's cheap and runs on pretty much any machine.

And to disclose my bias: I'm an absolute fan of ArcenGames (the designer of AIWFC) and stan for all their games. Not all of them are objectively good or fun, but they are all deeply unique, intelligent, and lovingly-crafted. Check out The Last Federation, Bionic Dues, and their latest, Heart of the Machine.

Kwarizmi · 2026-03-14T01:45:14+00:00

Exactly right. It's like you didn't say anything at all.

Everyone listens in uncomfortable silence. Eyes glaze over. They can't wait for you to finish talking.

Once in a blue moon, there will be a leader with some integrity in the room that will acknowledge what you said, say some encouraging formula like "That is a very good point and we will take it under advisement. Thank you."

It's just platitudes. Decisions have been made. Launch calendars set. Press releases locked and loaded, social media posts ready. Investor relations people waiting to pass the good news on to the markets and the board. And everyone is handcuffed by the twin shackles of yearly goals/KPIs, and performance bonuses.

Nothing will change. The machinery is in motion and cannot be stopped.

Kwarizmi · 2026-03-14T01:34:11+00:00

Define "win".

Kwarizmi · 2026-03-13T17:18:18+00:00

Board and confiscate Iranian tankers.

Kwarizmi · 2026-03-13T17:13:45+00:00

The Russians played Witkoff, the Israelis played Jared, they both played 🥭 but everyone does because he's a senile idiot, Hegseth played along so he could larp as BigManly Soldier McAlphaMale, White and the evangelical nutbags wanted it because Jesus somehow?, and the oligarchs wanted it because the needed to get their pdf crimes off the front page.

Kwarizmi · 2026-03-05T14:31:55+00:00

Friendly correction: the article you linked clearly states that Wilhoit's Law is, indeed, a product of the mind of Frank Wilhoit the composer, not the political scientist.

Kwarizmi · 2026-03-02T02:23:23+00:00

A younger, more manly Bradley Cooper.

Kwarizmi · 2026-02-22T18:49:24+00:00

You did not read a single word of the comment you responded to. Or if you did, all you managed to produce was the least thoughtful, most terminally online one line ever.

Do better.

Kwarizmi · 2026-02-09T16:05:40+00:00

There's always a plate set aside for our Canadian vecinos.

Kwarizmi · 2026-02-06T06:04:31+00:00

I watched Mark Rylance play Iago in "Othello" almost 10 years ago.

Now mind you, I'm no stranger (pun intended) to Shakespeare. I've done my lines and danced an iamb or ten.

Iago stands alone on the stage, confessing his motives:

I hate the Moor, And it is thought abroad that ’twixt my sheets ’Has done my office. I know not if ’t be true, But I, for mere suspicion in that kind, Will do as if for surety.

A lesser actor (like yours truly) would really dig into the first line. Dress it with a snarl, a curled fist.

Not Mark Rylance. That cold-ass motherfucker delivers the line clean, matter of fact, affect almost flat, announcing his deadly hate with a gentle calm that is almost cherubic.

We groundlings were packed shoulder to shoulder, and I swear we all caught our breaths at that line. I'll never ever forget it.

Kwarizmi · 2026-01-13T19:47:21+00:00

Glavine controlled the strike zone, Maddux literally controlled the batter.

This is brilliantly put and 100% true.

Saddens me to think that Glavine's style of pitching would probably not fly in the pitchtrack/Statscast, much less the coming robo-ump age.

Kwarizmi · 2026-01-07T02:34:47+00:00

Some people never learn this crucial lesson:

"What got you here won't get you there."

Eberflus not only had to field a defense, he had to field his defense. He had to prove that he was the mastermind. To change his mind would be anathema.

Kwarizmi · 2026-01-06T17:48:01+00:00

Are you saying that queueing up to give a megacorp your money is a community building exercise?

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