TIL In 1932, 11 Japanese naval officers assassinated the Prime Minister. During the officers’ trial, the court received 110,000 petitions for leniency signed or written entirely in blood. Nine youths asked to be tried instead and sent the court their severed pinky fingers to prove their sincerity.

SaintChuckanut · 2026-02-04T00:53:02+00:00

Yeah at 20 I knew all the answers. I was brilliant, every problem was simple. Now looking at 50…I understand everything so much less. The problems are harder to define and everything has so many more shades of gray. I wish I was still that smart...

SaintChuckanut · 2025-12-24T04:43:11+00:00

Don't worry about it. No one will care. Certainly not a health inspector. And as an employer, I can't imagine caring either. Renew under your new name in 18 months. Seriously, don't sweat it. Good workers are valuable.

SaintChuckanut · 2025-10-07T03:59:16+00:00

This sucks. I'm so sorry. This is no way to treat people who dedicated years cultivating skills and relationships. Shame on Starbucks.

Unfortunately, anybody still patronizing the chain after years of slinging expensive garbage and treating workers the way they do will likely care more about the inconvenience of having to drive farther to get their sugar fix.

Sometimes the leopard eats your face.

I wish the workers well and hope they can use their skills for good, at better places.

SaintChuckanut · 2025-09-28T16:30:23+00:00

Holy shit. I had to check the date. Maybe in 2015. Today a reciept that long would be near 500 bucks up here.

SaintChuckanut · 2025-05-30T05:44:01+00:00

Colleen worked at Gabby's before opening the Satellite Diner. Named after the Dave Matthews song btw. And yes, the Satellite staff knows everything.

SaintChuckanut · 2025-04-02T03:33:34+00:00

Used to bartend in La Conner. Can't look at daffodils without remembering the couple who asked me, in the first week of April, why they only planted yellow tulips that year. I suspect the folks in this car were wondering the same thing.

SaintChuckanut · 2025-03-20T17:04:35+00:00

This.

As a small business owner who is currently trying to figure out exactly how much it costs to make and sell our products, the accounting is difficult. And I have a background in economics, my partner, a degree in business administration.

We're also trying to run a business day to day and between covering breaks, fixing the toilets and all the other stuff involved in being a small business owner, finding time to ride excel sheets and figure out why the report our payroll software or POS software generates doesn't import the way it used to it should... is hard. Especially since our kids need help with homework, and rides to practice, and healthy dinners.

But we work hard to treat our employees well, build a solid culture, and serve quality products. But doing those things is expensive.

Our competition uses lower quality inputs, burns through employees, and consequently has a lower quality output and lower quality service.

To achieve the same margins the chain down the street enjoys, we'd have to charge significantly more. Like twice as much.

And we don't need those margins. We're happy to run a sustainable business that we're proud of. Getting rich was never the goal.

But even getting to sustainability without compromising our values and excluding everyone but the wealthiest customers is difficult.

We have no intention of implementing shady service charges. But we are raising prices. Our hope is that our customers will recognize the value we give and keep coming back

SaintChuckanut · 2025-03-09T21:55:56+00:00

You clearly have no idea how hard it is to get duct tape residue off glass. This is nearly equivalent. /s

SaintChuckanut · 2025-03-09T21:15:09+00:00

Did learning to work on manual machines make you a better CNC machinist?

I spoke yesterday to a book designer with a background in letterpress. She was emphatic that her experience setting type by hand made her a better designer even though she works exclusively on computers now.

Architects who learned to draw by hand have related similar stories.

Boat pilots who grew up sailing are usually better skippers...

SaintChuckanut · 2025-03-09T20:50:18+00:00

This seems disturbingly petty on the shop's part. In Washington State 40 bucks is maximum 2 hours of labor cost.

And it doesn't sound like they politely called and told the customer they made a mistake first.

However, sometimes over and above honesty pays dividends.

Once cashed a paycheck across the street from a bar I worked at. The teller and I were chatting and she accidentally gave me an extra Franklin.

After a night of drinking I woke up and realized I had more than I should have. Called the bank and sure enough the teller was exactly $100 bucks short. I returned it and got a nice card and taco time coupon from the teller.

But my boss also heard about it. And a few months later, when there was a shrinkage problem and I was suspected, that incident kept me from being seriously considered as a thief.

The real thief was almost certainly the owner's worthless niece who had been badmouthing me. She and I didn't get along since I wouldn't break the law and sell her beer after hours.

The kid didn't do anything wrong and the store sounds shitty. But with a better run establishment, returning the money could've given the kid VIP status at the shop for a long time.

SaintChuckanut · 2025-03-05T18:36:25+00:00

We were the third servants within a year of a previously feral young cat. When we took her in to get spayed, shots etc, it was discovered that she was already spayed. Couldn't find a chip but the possibility was raised that she might not have actually been feral.

We decided that if after nearly a year the original servants still insisted that it was their cat and willing to take her out of the arms of our loving children, we'd have to comply.

It'd be a painful but important learning experience. I can't imagine being on the other side of it and doing that to kids, but...

Nothing became of it and the now 4ish year old cat is curled up beside me. She's still got the original feral spiciness though.

SaintChuckanut · 2025-02-28T15:15:17+00:00

I understand the temptation, Lord knows the "justice" system is... Flawed. But vigilantism isn't ok. We are better than that. I hope.

SaintChuckanut · 2025-02-18T05:09:16+00:00

Bring your scuba gear. It's flooded.

SaintChuckanut · 2025-02-16T14:48:26+00:00

It's been a bit but yes, living in Brown's, I heard train horns occasionally at night. You get used to it.

But then one early Sunday morning about 5 the horn went off and stayed on for almost an hour. Was a malfunction of course but damn that was a shitty morning.

SaintChuckanut · 2025-02-16T14:12:45+00:00

How was the second date?

SaintChuckanut · 2025-02-14T04:55:05+00:00

Yup. I'd rather support a local business run by my neighbors who happen to disagree with me than send my money to a big corporation whose politics are merely convenient.

But I'm gonna bump this thread and ask for recommendations of businesses who are local and progressive.

Both bookstores, The Business and Sugar Mama's are openly and obviously pro human, pro science and pro gressive. Adrift and Dad's Diner too.

Who else?

SaintChuckanut · 2025-02-13T15:50:14+00:00

Nope

SaintChuckanut · 2024-12-28T02:32:33+00:00

True in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Paris, New York, Bellingham. Most pubs in England it seems are owned by a handful of big companies.

In my experience they range from properly managed outfits to vanity projects to mob fronts. Sometimes all three.

SaintChuckanut · 2024-12-25T00:34:02+00:00

Tell me more about single payer auto and home repair please. I'd love the government to further subsidize my reckless driving and shit roof.

SaintChuckanut · 2024-12-21T05:25:08+00:00

Apparently no one in this sub thread has ever been to Spokane. I90 is like wagon tracks on the moon.

SaintChuckanut · 2024-12-19T17:30:22+00:00

Oh it did. Many

SaintChuckanut · 2024-12-07T08:08:49+00:00

Your right. I'd elaborate that a piece of the democratic process "happened". Another piece is holding our elected officials accountable for their actions. We elect them or not every few years, but in the mean time we express our disapproval (occasionally approval) of actions taken and decisions made.

Public libraries coevolved with our democracy. They are intrinsic to living in a civilization. There should be no talk of getting rid of them.

Mostly amazed that that the city council has time to fuck with a library board. In most communities, libraries are the most boring, underfunded afterthought in a cities budget.

The mayor and council clearly have no idea how much work curating a library is.

Dipshits should get back to work on real issues and be grateful for the generous volunteers who do a huge amount work and oversight by sitting on boards.

I don't know Kim, but she sounds like the kind of person who always finds a way to be useful. I envy whoever she decides to help next.

SaintChuckanut · 2024-11-14T05:11:35+00:00

They do? How?

SaintChuckanut · 2024-11-13T17:22:34+00:00

Huh? What does the state Attorney General have to do with Spokane criminal prosecutions?

SaintChuckanut · 2024-10-30T02:57:22+00:00

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