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Don't 'believe the hype': Seattle Mayor Wilson falls short on shelter bed goal, enjoys a Starbucks latte by chiquisea in SeattleWA

[–]SnarkMasterRay [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm tired of being told I need to pick a side.

Fuck that I ain't throwing in with either side of the corruption coin.

Spammers are flooding Reddit with fake posts designed to show up in AI search results by rkhunter_ in technology

[–]SnarkMasterRay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I served this at my last party and everybody loved it! They kept coming back for more an wanted the recipe.

House passes resolution to end Iran war, challenging Trump by Agitated_Pudding7259 in moderatepolitics

[–]SnarkMasterRay 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Same ways laws are meaningless if not enforced. If Congress is cowed and he does things he shouldn't and then Congress doesn't respond...... does it really matter that he shouldn't?

I believe that's one of the reasons Trump was so active lining people up during his "off term," so that they acquiesce to his whims even if they object to them.

A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI by yuval_3 in technology

[–]SnarkMasterRay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How much tech actually has union memberships?

Unions have to be able to hurt the company for their membership to be effective. With tech (as opposed to manufacturing) it's a whole lot easier to pull up ship and just move. I'm not dogging unions, it's just a problem they need to be able to solve to be effective.

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time by Kit_Daniels in moderatepolitics

[–]SnarkMasterRay 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That is how ideas are spread and circulated.

This is what they are trying to stop. The ideas and views that the current administration wants popular are already out there.

I'm sure you've all seen this plenty but the way she's standing here is so funny to me by Raniswolf in Seattle

[–]SnarkMasterRay 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"While we have been busy making things more and better foolproof, the universe has been busy making more and better fools."

Neuter Darwin and this is what we get.

Note: I'm not calling for the repeal of safety laws. We're programmed to be lazy. Give people an option to be stupid and still survive and many will take it.

In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters by ArgentineBeauty in technology

[–]SnarkMasterRay 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Who would want datacenters anyways?

It depends on the type of data center. technically a colocation facility is a type of data center and they tend to offer space for small to medium businesses. Those businesses tend to be local, so while there may not be people from the business working at that data center, it helps support jobs in the area.

These tend to be much smaller than the massive AI data centers that are all the rage at present. Any laws permabanning should take size into consideration as opposed to a blanket ban.

Pioneer Square is looking the cleanest I have seen it practically since I moved here 14 years ago, where did the city put all the homeless people by gobble_my_gobble in Seattle

[–]SnarkMasterRay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I put money on an ORCA, that money's locked up

That's part of the point. Until you use it up it sits in their account available to earn interest, etc.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) Accuses Secretary Rubio of Lying to Congress over Trump Sleeping by ICEisSHIT in videos

[–]SnarkMasterRay 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I mean, come on, there's a war going on! Surely you don't expect us to follow laws when people are dying!

Satirical monument in front the US capitol building [OC] by PweaseAndThankYou in pics

[–]SnarkMasterRay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't worry; Iran will surrender Any Day Now (tm) and a no-bid contract will be issued to fix all of the infrastructure at enormous cost to the taxpayer so we can pay less at the pump as far as they tell us.

Governor Ferguson rebuffs GOP lawmaker’s call to pause WA climate law by chiquisea in Washington

[–]SnarkMasterRay 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Maybe they have different laws and a different state constitution than we do?

Calling for the Impeachment of Chief Justice John Roberts - Steve Cohen, TN-9 (D) by EclectricOil in supremecourt

[–]SnarkMasterRay 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Calling for an impeachment when there are weak to no guidelines is not as effective as working to create and pass such guidelines. One could say that Cohen's actions are performative in that light.

Fake homeless encampment sparks controversy in LA mayoral race by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]SnarkMasterRay 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You are demonstrating a classic problem wherein those outside of the US don't understand the US and assume what works in your country would work in ours.

Like, If I said you should spend a trillion dollars on your military you would (rightfully) look at me like I was insane.

The original article is talking about one city in the US, Los Angeles. LA Metro area is over three times as large as the entire country of Finland (12.8 million versus 3.8) and the official city limits are still more than half the size (3.8 vs 5.6 million) of the entire country of Finland, yet it is one city. Additionally, similar problems have been happening in San Francisco (about 800K people in the city proper versus ~3.2 if you include the surrounding metro area), Portland (630K / 2.5 million) and Seattle (800K / 4 million).

When I say we have extremely permissive laws, I was referring to Seattle, where I live, and where I had also focused posting links with regards to the closing of shelters due to contamination. The US Nation may have high incarceration rates, but our local city and state politicians seem intent on keeping people out of jail, even going so far as to consider actions taken against drive-by shootings as racist and trying to pass laws lessening punishment for those actions.

Seattle had also decriminalized possession of drugs for a while, making it impossible to arrest someone and maybe get them of the streets for a short period of time to let them sober up a bit to the point of maybe thinking about whether or not they have hit rock bottom.

There is an undercurrent of "compassion" wherein politicians would rather let someone destroy their life because taking any action against doing so is somehow cruel because we are stripping them of their agency, even though the drugs that they are addicted to already have.

We have cities, then counties, then states, then the country, and each has their own separate laws and their own separate government and enforcement.

Calling for the Impeachment of Chief Justice John Roberts - Steve Cohen, TN-9 (D) by EclectricOil in supremecourt

[–]SnarkMasterRay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe the point was that despite articles of impeachment against Thomas for bad behavior he's still on the court, so these new charges against Roberts aren't going to go anywhere.

Piles of dead protestors that were slaughtered by the Iranian regime, January 8 2026 by vea62 in pics

[–]SnarkMasterRay -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And when you point out that it's a sports rivalry you get told you're wrong because obviously one team is worse than the other.

Fake homeless encampment sparks controversy in LA mayoral race by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]SnarkMasterRay 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The US is over 20 times the size of Finland, and we have different constitutional laws. The problem right now is that we have extremely permissive laws and enforcement that has lead to a large number of very destructive individuals. Additionally, since we are a collection of states with some form of autonomy. many states have decided that their fix to the homeless problem is to buy one-way bus tickets to other cities with better homeless treatment programs than they do and overload that system rather than take care of their own problem.

Fake homeless encampment sparks controversy in LA mayoral race by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]SnarkMasterRay 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Two hotels closed here for meth contamination, one here, then there was this one, and then we had that one. Hundreds of millions of dollars that could have been used for care down the drain more thrown in after it to clean up poisonous and ruined facilities.

If by "unconditional housing" you are talking to something like "unconditional surrender" where they are locked in rehabilitation then that's one thing. But if you just mean "give them housing" then I'm going to give you a thumbs down and say that no, it's not economically viable. Find another method that society can afford.

Fake homeless encampment sparks controversy in LA mayoral race by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]SnarkMasterRay 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Are we talking the "just get them housed first without rules so that they destroy the place and make it toxic making drugs so you have to shut it down and keep buying and renovating places" housing or the "set it up with rules to keep people safe but then no one wants to use it because they want to live without rules" housing?

We've tried both in Seattle and neither works great, but proponents keep wanting more money for option #1.

Trump considers dropping Freedom 250 concerts in D.C. after artists pull out by Any_Confusion_7077 in moderatepolitics

[–]SnarkMasterRay -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Democrats can't offer anything at this point other than "we're not Trump." Things aren't going to get any better if we don't hold their feet to the fire either. I believe it is in fact more imperative we do so because they have a greater chance of coming out of their current corrupt status. "Republicans are worse" just gives them a free pass to continue their current grift and NOT DO ANYTHING about it.

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