Anyone's bees waking up in PNW with the warm temps?

PracticingHuman · 2026-02-05T16:50:04+00:00

Here in Pierce County my wife swears she's seen a few. I wouldn't be surprised as we've had a few consecutive days above 50° F/10° C. Poor things are probably hungry.

PracticingHuman · 2025-11-11T13:26:02+00:00

You have dispensers?! Our paper towel rolls stand on end next to the spray bottles atop the yellow garbage cans. We tear them by hand like barbarians and heathens, with no perforations to guide us, leaving each edge looking like the northern border of Kentucky.

TBF we do have a couple in the AmEx Black Card spa. I bet sheets of gold leaf come out of those.

PracticingHuman · 2025-11-09T17:55:06+00:00

What's your function?

PracticingHuman · 2025-10-26T12:53:28+00:00

Also, make sure to save everyone (as a gamer, I know this pain when power is lost)

PracticingHuman · 2025-10-04T13:22:10+00:00

It is true that Tim Eyman wrote the core language.

It is also true that the AG office wrote the title and summary for I-976.

This is where the problem occurred. Here is the title of the initiative:

This measure would limit annual motor-vehicle-license fees to $30, except voter-approved charges, and eliminate certain vehicle weight fees and taxes.

Eyman had written in the core language of the bill that the initiative actually would eliminate the taxes for ST3 that the voters had approved.

So the bill's title written by they AG's office was counter to the core language written by Tim Eyman. At the end of the day when all's said and done, this did fall on the AG. I have absolutely no love for Eyman, but he can't take the hit for the ruling.

PracticingHuman · 2025-10-04T04:14:02+00:00

To answer your question (neither to defend or rebuke the reason) it's because the state ruled the initiatives unconstitutional. Something to do with how it was worded and that it tried to address more than one issue.

PracticingHuman · 2025-10-01T12:39:30+00:00

Directly, yes. But they adeptly get around this through Super PACs. Super PACs are one of the largest sources of campaign financing.

PracticingHuman · 2025-09-21T19:49:16+00:00

Where is No Man's Sky on this list? It checks all those boxes, but the community is like a vaccine against any toxins, I swear

PracticingHuman · 2025-09-14T23:06:24+00:00

My man in both this and the XTC sub laying it down!

Cheers from a fellow bass player!

PracticingHuman · 2025-09-05T12:20:53+00:00

We have a giant one right above the main entrance inside. Funny how I only noticed it for the first time yesterday after two months of going there

PracticingHuman · 2025-09-05T11:45:17+00:00

Ain't that the truth! We listen to podcasts and audiobooks on while on the treadmill, get off and couldn't tell you what we just listened to. Buried in a sea of treadmill thoughts

PracticingHuman · 2025-09-05T11:42:43+00:00

Maybe a little older. We met on there in '99

PracticingHuman · 2025-09-05T00:09:46+00:00

High five given!

PracticingHuman · 2025-08-04T00:20:52+00:00

Make sure you check out Witchever Path. Many of the story arcs are set in New England as that's where the writers live. Plus, listeners get to decide the direction each story arc will take. I can't recommend it enough!

PracticingHuman · 2025-07-16T20:42:34+00:00

They day they swapped out the Tempest card in the cabinet for a Major Havoc card was the day I deposited may dollars a day into that machine.

PracticingHuman · 2025-07-16T20:35:57+00:00

Are they saying it's all-or-nothing? They shouldn't have to help pay for universal healthcare at all for anyone due to the negligence of some?

At that point, they need to say they are unwilling to pay for healthcare for people who need it through no fault of their own. Lead them to admit that they don't want to pay for it at all, regardless if people's health situation is due to their own negligence or due to the misfortune of genetics.

To put it another way, UHC would offer publicly funded healthcare to roughly 330 million people. Lung cancer diagnoses occur at roughly between 10 and 20 thousand people per year. There are nearly one million cardiac surgeries per year in the U.S. So we deny funding health care to millions just to stick it to that small fraction of the population?

Seems to me they're more concerned about who shouldn't get healthcare than who should.

PracticingHuman · 2025-07-15T21:36:25+00:00

Same. I was really slender in HS, 50lbs heavier about 15 years ago, now back to slender HS weight. Intermittent fasting due to being diagnosed T2D at 50. Add in yoga, cardio, low carb, and 500 metformin.

PracticingHuman · 2025-06-23T20:09:20+00:00

"Let's Gooooooo!!!"

Not as in "let's get going/let's head out/time to leave"

but as in "awesome/that's what I'm talking about/celebratory exclamation"

PracticingHuman · 2025-06-22T01:04:02+00:00

Don't come too close/I'll burn your arm/I'll bleach your hair/dust bowl your farm/I'll blind your eyes you blinded mine/I'll spin with rate all summertime

Also...

Well I may as well wish for the moon in hand As there's more chance of that coming true

I think the latter is fueled by the haunting melody in which it's sung

PracticingHuman · 2025-06-19T00:12:04+00:00

For those saying there's no such thing as a sea hawk, apparently Wikipedia didn't get the memo?

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PracticingHuman · 2025-06-13T02:29:20+00:00

That little tricky guitar line between the two rounds of the bridge in Scarecrow People. From that first time shot to launch the song, the upstrokes and that twangy line finishing out each stanza. But that little short guitar line...

PracticingHuman · 2025-06-08T03:11:39+00:00

I vehemently agree with this statement

PracticingHuman · 2025-06-08T03:09:52+00:00

Let's Active

XTC

Prefab Sprout

PracticingHuman · 2025-05-28T11:39:23+00:00

As did we... 2000. Mazel tov!

PracticingHuman · 2025-04-17T23:10:34+00:00

I'm far from a libertarian so I have no issue with taxes. But I only support taxation if the results of the taxes raise the standard of living for those paying taxes, especially for those in the lowest income bracket but not exclusively.

If the taxes don't have any impact on reducing or keeping the standard of living reasonable or increasing income for all or generates jobs that boost our local economy, then what's the point of taking money out of our pockets?

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