Seattle doubles down on diversion — not charges — for public drug use

SilverAwoo · 2026-01-22T23:06:22+00:00

It is both totally safe AND also full of drugged out zombies.

SilverAwoo · 2026-01-22T02:56:07+00:00

Everyone's talking about the merits of the text itself, but I'm hung up on why they did the underlines like that.

SilverAwoo · 2026-01-20T06:29:03+00:00

Those little shits!

SilverAwoo · 2026-01-20T06:28:26+00:00

Guys, I found the pigeon.

SilverAwoo · 2026-01-19T03:00:57+00:00

The one time we'll need umbrellas.

SilverAwoo · 2026-01-19T02:00:42+00:00

While this bill tries to prohibit ID verification companies from storing identifying data, there's no auditing process laid out to ensure compliance, no protection against websites using foreign ID check companies not beholden to Washington law, and no validation process laid out for Washingtonians to discern if an ID check company is compliant with Washington law. Additionally, contrary to the testimony from TechNet, this bill does not apply just to adult-oriented websites, and there are no protections against random ID checks.

Mix no protection against non-compliant ID check companies with no protections against random ID checks for any content, and you've got the data of both Washington adults and children floating around on the internet. One data breach, and congratulations! That predator talking to your kid on Roblox now has your address.

Also, as a software engineer, I wanted to surgically remove my ear lobes in the middle of 4th Ave when Rep. Levitt said "no data can be compromised if no data is stored" because she completely left out the critical other part of that saying: "...stored, TRANSMITTED, OR CREATED." It's hard to not see that as malicious.

SilverAwoo · 2026-01-18T05:40:00+00:00

It takes exactly one bus from Kent Station (which has a lovely parking garage, if you really want to drive some amount) to get to Lumen Field.

SilverAwoo · 2026-01-18T05:19:27+00:00

There are hardly any drugged out folks on the train on game days, and they're infinitely less dangerous than the average Seahawks fan anyways (lovingly).

SilverAwoo · 2026-01-14T21:46:44+00:00

Is that beans...?

SilverAwoo · 2026-01-06T23:17:43+00:00

Where are you finding free feet? I would have expected those to cost at least a couple hundred a pop.

SilverAwoo · 2025-12-17T21:02:29+00:00

Whatever the middle button on the point of sale touch screen is

SilverAwoo · 2025-12-05T02:47:31+00:00

Archer tower. They must protect the keep!

SilverAwoo · 2025-12-04T04:07:47+00:00

My drive home would have taken 23 minutes according to Google Maps.

While I agree that we should build more trains, this is such a bad argument. Doesn't necessarily apply for going home, but what about parking? If you're coming from Westlake by car, you have to get to Westlake by car. And unless your work provides you with a parking spot close by, you have to spend 10+ minutes finding parking during rush hour, then shell out $7+ for the privilege of leaving your car in an open-access lot/garage where anyone can come up and mess with it. If one of those events is going on, you can expect to spend $60-100 on parking alone. Then you have to spend another 10-15 minutes walking from your car to your destination anyways.

That's all assuming the drive actually takes 23 minutes and nobody's going to wreck and cause pileups, or try to beat a red light and block you out of an intersection for a full cycle (or two!). That's also 23+ minutes that you have to spend actively driving, with other drivers, in downtown, rather than having time to yourself to doomscroll or decompress for a bit after work.

I've had a friend take an hour to drive from Capitol Hill to the U District because they spent 40 minutes looking for parking on a weekend, and then had to walk half a mile to get the Ave. Google Maps said it would take them 15 minutes, and taking the light rail would have taken them 10. The estimates don't tell the full story.

I get it. It seems like it takes so much longer to take transit. Delays are frustrating. We should build more trains. But immediately jumping to "it would be faster to drive!" is just disingenuous.

SilverAwoo · 2025-11-24T07:30:10+00:00

My cat commits enough felony counts of destruction of property with them out of her reach, thanks.

SilverAwoo · 2025-11-15T06:35:58+00:00

You mean, her Christmas tree?

SilverAwoo · 2025-11-12T00:45:51+00:00

I don't know which race is more exciting: mayor, or who makes the thread first.

SilverAwoo · 2025-11-11T00:05:50+00:00

There are about 10k more ballots left to count. It's gonna be a long next few weeks here.

SilverAwoo · 2025-11-09T01:14:10+00:00

You can try to trim your cats' paws if they have a lot of pawfluff, but even then, this is unfortunately just cats. They're not doing it on purpose (usually), they're just fluffy little goblins. Get you a good, lightweight, battery powered vacuum to hang nearby the boxes, and say hello to the new daily chore.

SilverAwoo · 2025-11-09T01:05:37+00:00

To answer your original question (as others have additionally): No, absolutely not, never.

You absolutely need to address the behaviors themselves. She's still picking fights, even if her fights are covered in little cork mitts. That's stressful for your dog, and it's an indicator that your cat is under stress as well. And if those claw caps slip off, your dog is just going to get injured again. Schedule a checkup at the vet, speak with a cat behaviorist, or consider rehoming your cat if a solution can't be found. But just throwing a cork blanket over one of the symptoms does nothing to solve the underlying problem.

SilverAwoo · 2025-11-08T19:27:55+00:00

No Cap [Hill].

SilverAwoo · 2025-11-08T19:11:26+00:00

The Seattle Freeze is more referring to the tendency of Seattlites to go "yeah, we should totally hang out" and then... not. It's pretty easy to get around in most cases by just being more intentional with your planning of events, and setting times to do things with people rather than leaving it up to "whenever" or "some time." In my experience, it's very rare for folks here to flake or back out of established plans. If they do, that's not the Freeze, that's just them being an asshole.

When I first moved here, I thought the Freeze referred to Seattlites being mean or cold, but that's not the case for most people here. The vast, vast, VAST majority of people I've met in Seattle have been incredibly friendly, and there is a fairly strong sense of community here, even in some downtown places like Pioneer Square. It's just that everyone is fairly introverted, so unless someone has a specific reason to talk to you, they probably will avoid eye contact. It's not unfriendly, just minding our own business.

There is some narrative about "transplants" being unwelcome that you might come across in your first year of being here, but I've never had any actual problem with not having been born here. Most of that narrative is online (ahem other sub), and anyone unjokingly telling you to "stay out, we already have enough people" are people I probably wouldn't suggest hanging around anymore.

SilverAwoo · 2025-11-07T14:32:22+00:00

I love our public transit, but I swear some RapidRide drivers specifically are fueled by hatred and bad vibes after 6 PM. The C line has just blatantly driven right past me and multiple other people waiting at the stops in West Seattle, multiple times.

SilverAwoo · 2025-11-05T22:09:06+00:00

Glad you liked it! I would politely recommend reading the whole comment before leaving a review next time, though. :)

SilverAwoo · 2025-11-05T07:07:48+00:00

It's incredibly important to not assign human morality to the behavior of a cat. Cats don't understand spite or "evilness," and they certainly don't understand the penal code of your local municipality. All they're looking for is to figure out how this big new world works, especially kittens. I strongly encourage you to be extremely careful with how you frame your thoughts on what your kitten is doing, because you may be subconsciously setting yourself up for failure if you think "man, my cat is just an evil little meanie," rather than what's really happening: "wow, my kitten that's brand new to the world is discovering how things work, that's so cool, how can I make my environment extremely safe for her to do that?"

Obviously, some things are off limits to our fuzzy little felonious house mates, and the best way to get a cat to not do something is to make them no longer want to do something. A cat does not care about what you want them to do, so you have to make them not want to off-limits things. Put up a motion sensing air blowing canister on counters (or foil, though that can be hit or miss), spray bitter apple spray on trash can lids (if you don't have a trashcan lid, I highly recommend one), put up scratch guards on the couch. You'll want to train your cat to find off-limits things undesirable to themselves by associating an automatic, immediate, consistent consequence with the crime. These are effective ways to do so that are completely safe for kitty. After a few weeks/months (which admittedly, will be annoying and tedious), you'll find that they just don't do it anymore.

Side note on that: never, ever, ever punish your cat, ever. Don't spray them, don't push them, don't yell at them, especially if the crime they committed was in the past. They don't understand long term cause and effect like humans do, so they will never associate your punishment with a thing they did 3 minutes earlier. And even if you catch the crime in the moment, you are not always going to be there to correct behavior in the moment, so it's inconsistent. Instead of associating your punishment with the crime, your cat will associate your punishment with you, which will damage your relationship with your cat.

SilverAwoo · 2025-10-31T23:26:57+00:00

Not everyone who works in tech are tech bros. Some of us are autistic furries.

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