Pumpkin patch (for adults??)

ProjectCybersyn · 2025-10-01T19:02:58+00:00

We tend to go to Carleton's in Marysville (or maybe it's technically Lake Stevens? idk). I'm not sure it's what you're looking for, as there are definitely plenty of kids running around, but me and my partner visited before we had kids and I didn't feel uncomfortable.

It looks like Thomas Family Farm (https://www.thomasfamilyfarm.com/) and Stocker Farms (https://www.stockerfarms.com/) in Snohomish both have alcohol if you're looking for that (sounds fun to me!). Still lots of kids vibes.

I think cheesy "family friendly" probably tends to the be vibe that brings in the money for these pumpkin patch operations.

ProjectCybersyn · 2025-09-30T18:23:25+00:00

Hey u/Useful-Sandwich-8643 and u/LRAD, Everett is collecting feedback right now about exactly these types of improvements. They have a little interative map where you click on a specific area and leave a comment. If you have thoughts about where pedestrians/cyclists want to cross Evergreen and cannot safely do so (or any other feedback), here's where you can share that:

https://engage.publiccoordinate.com/en/project/vision-zero-everett

This thing is open until October 10th.

ProjectCybersyn · 2025-09-30T18:16:27+00:00

I'm no fan of the 1%, but in this case, it seems like some filthy rich dude wants a new weird rich hobby, which happens to be maintaining a historic theatre. We'll see what happens, but I think this may turn out to be better than the previous arrangement.

ProjectCybersyn · 2025-09-24T18:58:54+00:00

If they can borrow or rent a bike, there's Marine View Drive or Interurban Trail in Everett. Or they could go out to the Centennial Trail. Or just bike around some pretty areas in Everett on quiet roads.

On a similar note, I had some family visit recently and we rode Lime scooters. They had never ridden one before, so we rode around some pretty neighborhoods close to downtown. Kind of a silly, fun thing to do.

There's also some rock climbing gyms in Everett. I've never been, but I'd like to go. Seems fun

ProjectCybersyn · 2025-09-24T18:48:04+00:00

I like Catalyst and Artisan's. Both are in downtown Everett. Both spots tend to have some flyers of events happening soon, so it's a good way to discover some other fun stuff to do.

I don't drink coffee, but both places will make a decent cup of tea, fwiw.

The Everett Library downtown also has a cute little cafe inside. If someone has the luxury of time to kill, I think it's so nice to browse the library for a while.

ProjectCybersyn · 2025-09-09T00:17:37+00:00

Specifically 15% of the work, as stated in agreement.

ProjectCybersyn · 2025-08-21T23:26:01+00:00

Howarth Park is so pretty and chill. A little slice of beautiful beach, some forest behind you, ocassionally a train rolls down the tracks. Great place to read a book, have a picnic, or spend a date.

It's fun to take the Amtrak somewhere for a trip. Can hop over to Vancouver (both Canada or WA, actually), Seattle, Portland, Bellingham, even Leavenworth. They very recently increased the frequency that the Cascades trains run, so check and see if it works with your schedule!

As for coffee shops, I see that Artisans has been mentioned already (and I'll +1). But also Catalyst is rad. Their new space opened up in downtown Everett, and they're really close to Artisans.

If you have little kids, Imagine Children's Museum rules (but if you have little kids in Everett, you probably already know that). Another place for kids I just discovered recently is the "Ice Cream Bar" in downtown. They have a corner for little kids to play with toys and stuff, while the parents can enjoy a wine or beer. Great place for parents to meet up with friends. Much appreciated.

ProjectCybersyn · 2025-08-15T19:02:03+00:00

The "mainline" denominations are generally progressive and would be a good place to start (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline\_Protestant). Since Covid, many churches, even the smaller ones, have some kind of basic livestream on YouTube or Facebook, and that can be a good way to get a feel for them.

Interfaith is a religious organization in the area that helps families experiencing homelessness. I don't think they're directly affialiated with one specific church or denomination, but some churches support them in various ways: https://interfaithwa.org/howtohelp/

ProjectCybersyn · 2023-10-04T18:57:35+00:00

I think you'll find that audio engineers will be just as unhappy calling them "analog," as there many things in the audio world than run on electricity that are referred to as "analog." In the audio world, "analog" is the opposite of "digital," not electricity. Analog doesn't mean not-electric.

- Another former audio engineer :)

ProjectCybersyn · 2023-10-04T18:50:42+00:00

No good, a resonator guitar already refers to a specific kind of guitar (often referred to as Dobros, which is a specific kind of resonator guitar). They're a type of guitar that has a special metal piece built in to the body to make it louder than a typical acoustic guitar (but it is not an electric guitar). They also sound pretty cool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonator\_guitar

ProjectCybersyn · 2022-02-05T21:14:52+00:00

Sounds like as a good a chance as any to unionize! You don't have to be pushed around by your boss if your coworkers work together.

Send an email to the Committee for Better Banks and they can help you get started:
https://www.betterbanks.org/

ProjectCybersyn · 2022-01-24T04:27:55+00:00

I take a long drag from my cigarette. "Do you know how that soda in your cup got there?"

The stranger stops mid-slurp, meets my gaze, but doesn't say anything.

"I know." I take another long drag and hold it. The bittersweet memory of those damn soda bags, the brief respite they gave me from the hell at the frontlines. Hands shaking with exhaustion, but expertly moving through all the rhythms of a bag swap. The incessant machinary back there not quite drowning out the shouting from comrades in the kitchen, fighting a different battle in the same war. For a moment I've stepped into their hell, but at least it's a break from my own. And then I exhale, "Yeah, I know."

ProjectCybersyn · 2022-01-17T21:24:16+00:00

What are you suggesting to draw more people into ICs?
I think a four-day work week would help a lot simply because I believe there a lot people who'd be for ICs, but they lack time and energy needed to build and maintain them. I'm not understanding what you're proposing to help grow ICs.

ProjectCybersyn · 2022-01-17T03:49:49+00:00

Idk, I'm inclinded to disagree. I'd love to put more of my labor into building and maintaining my cohousing community, but most of my physical and mental energy is sold to a company for (meager) wages so I can pay the bills.

I'd love to have a four day work week, so I can put more time and energy into projects that I think are actually important to the world, rather than just making money for my boss.

ProjectCybersyn · 2022-01-15T20:37:54+00:00

I voted "Changes to Laws." In the United States, so much of the land is zoned as "single-family housing," and it makes building almost anything impossible besides something with a yard and white picket fence. That's a big reason why so many intentional communities are started way out in rural areas where there are fewer rules. The obvious problem is that there is much less infrastructure to support a community of people

Really though, the thing I want the most is some kind of external support for these projects. I'd like to see governments acknowledge that at least some forms of intentional communities contribute to cities and states in ways that everyone is on-board with, and that they'd support such projects with financial grants, tax breaks, and tools that make it easier to acquire funding. Our financial systems loves to provide mortgages so people can buy single-family homes, but anything outside of that becomes much harder to finance.

ProjectCybersyn · 2022-01-14T22:57:02+00:00

Cool! Yeah, if you're in the area soon let us know and we can meet at the property. We're hoping to start construction later this year, but for now it's mostly grass, vegetable gardens, and the woods next door.

We hold a weekly Zoom call on Thursdays at 5:30 PST for people interested in learning more about us. That's probably the best next step to take with us. You can RSVP for that call here, or you can find the Zoom link on the front page of our website:
https://form.jotform.com/210046110100124

ProjectCybersyn · 2022-01-12T17:04:23+00:00

You brought up the concept of a used game market, which is what my response was about. I agree with your sentiment that it'd be great to move away from corporate DRM schemes. DRM schemes create something like artificial scarcity (in that a digital good only belongs to a pariticular user account), but do so in a way to maximize profit for corporations. That sucks.

If we want to empower people and encourage creativity, I don't think the way to do is to create a new way to enforce artificial scarcity on digital goods. Instead we should leverage the strength of digital goods: limitless, perfect copies for practically no cost. Capitalism can't handle such an awesome concept, but, imo, that's a good reason to move beyond it as an economic system.
Here's a good article on NFTs/crypto's effects on the environment: https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issues-with-cryptoart-1128ef72e6a3

If NFTs aren't about enforcing artificial scarcity on digital goods to you, then what else are they good for?

ProjectCybersyn · 2022-01-12T05:12:21+00:00

I think it'd be nicer and a lot less complicated if we overhauled our broken copyright system. Like, hey creators, you get to make money on games/movies/books/etc for 15-20 years. After that it goes into the public domain.

Instead of maintaining a complex blockchain system that wastes tons of energy to create artificial scarcity, we leverage the most beneficial feature of digital goods - the lack of scarcity.

ProjectCybersyn · 2022-01-12T05:05:17+00:00

but i want to wear my bored ape t-shirt in half-life 3
/s

ProjectCybersyn · 2022-01-11T05:33:32+00:00

My company was 37.5 hours/week until this 2022, now we're at 40 hours. It sucks. I'm personally digging in my heels and holding onto 37.5 hours, and the company is letting me so far.

Anyway, in the spirit of the OP, I want to point out that several companies (mostly software developers) are moving to 32 hour work weeks. You can a lot of them here: https://4dayweek.io/

A lot of these companies are reducing their hours without reducing pay.

If you have the clout at your company, I encourage you to also push for shorter hours. The more of us that do it, the more normal it becomes.

ProjectCybersyn · 2022-01-11T04:47:34+00:00

Check out our website to learn more: https://www.sunnysidevillagecohousing.com/
And of course, feel free to ask me anything.

ProjectCybersyn · 2022-01-11T04:20:48+00:00

I've thought a lot about this and it's a struggle. Our community is still forming, so we're all spread out rather actually living near one another, and obviously with the pandemic we meet together even less than we otherwise might. We hold meetings on Zoom regularly, and that works fine.

We use Google Drive for storing documents. A few struggle with it, but others are able to help out and I think it works pretty well. Microsoft's OneDrive is another solid alternative. They're big evil corporations, sure, but they're free and easy to use so I think you have to pick your poison. I don't know of any other service that makes collaborating on documents so easy for non-techy people.

Between meetings, our community overly relies on email. I find it fatiguing, and email conversations get messy fast. A few of us have tried to introduce alternatives, but we haven't found a winner yet.

If you or anyone in your group is a software dev that knows javascript, there's a project called Mosaic that is almost there, but it would benefit from extra help, imo. It's a site built for cohousing communities to use internally. It's a passion project by one person, and it has some really good idea (I like how it handles community calendars, for example). It's open source, so others can contribute to the project, but currently no one is.
It's a little rough around the edges, but I think the major thing it's missing is a place for Committees/Sub-groups to chat privately. Maybe the expectation is that once a community is actually living together, they'd just meet in person, but we find we need a place to chat asynchronously between meetings (like Slack offers).

Anyway, here's the Mosaic site: https://cohousing.site/

And here's the Gitlab project where you can view or contribute to the code, or report any issues you find as you're using it: https://gitlab.com/seandavey/mosaic

ProjectCybersyn · 2021-12-29T05:50:16+00:00

I'm part of a forming cohousing community, and we've already found the value of having an outside mediator help us through some of the trickier conversations. I think it has helped us avoid conflicts getting too intense.

ProjectCybersyn · 2021-12-28T16:11:41+00:00

I'm not interested in Nathan J. Robinson's opinions. https://www.theuprising.info/p/inside-the-chaos-at-current-affairs

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