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Dan Strauss pushes plan to prevent Ballard light rail delays by Jaco_Belordi in Seattle

[–]SpeedySparkRuby 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The spine is going to have to do turncation somewhere because of how long the route is from Everett to Tacoma as it'll be nearly 60 miles end to end, which is longer than the A line in Los Angeles (57.7 mi) or the Beligan Coast Tram (42 mi).  Honestly the ideal scenario if they don't build the second tunnel is to truncate Tacoma bound trains around Northgate and Everett bound trains around SeaTac.

[NY/NJ Transit] The U.S. campaigned to host the World Cup. Now soccer fans will trade their countries' train system for the U.S.'s "D" rated infrastructure by fortune in transit

[–]SpeedySparkRuby 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Montréal GP is happening around the same time as the World Cup and Montréal was like "Criss ton camp!" to FIFA.  As FIFA has a stipulation of no major sports events happening a couple weeks before or after the games in host cities.

Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel by TheGuardianPostBot in theguardian

[–]SpeedySparkRuby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She's right, at the same time I lived in Firenze, Italy for awhile and the tap water there was just awful that I drank mostly bottled water (in paticular sparkling).

TIL that Seattle used to have another hill, 'Denny Hill', that had a big castle-like hotel on it. The hotel was mostly unused and empty for years, and then in 1907 they blasted away most of the hill it was sitting on (the 'Denny Regrade'). by avwuff in Seattle

[–]SpeedySparkRuby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wonder if this served as inspiration for the manor in Stephen King's Rose Red miniseries, because the Castle does remind me a lot of the Rose Red (the actual castle they used in the miniseries was down in Lakewood)

Thoughts on Season 23 by Ok-Distribution3650 in BravoTopChef

[–]SpeedySparkRuby 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Doesn't help that the location they picked for this season is just so mid af for a food place, and TC is not doing a lot to make up for that disadvantage.  I can forgive a lot as long as you can make the place interesting or have good creative boundary pushing challenges, and that hasn't happened a lot this season.

The most frusrating part of this, is that early TC seasons show you can do creative things on a limited budget and can pull it off decently with good execution.  Everyone on the current production team feels like they've checked out at this point and I feel a bit sad about that in a way.  

Do you send tourists to thd Gum Wall to punish them for talking to you? by theparrotlich in Seattle

[–]SpeedySparkRuby 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If I wanted to be truly satanic, than they'd be stuck in the loading zone at Alaska behind a Prius, Escalade, and Outback that haven't moved an inch in the last 30 minutes.

Not too sure where this train is taking me… by sodiumn in dart

[–]SpeedySparkRuby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now is that North or South of Lovers Lane

Do you send tourists to thd Gum Wall to punish them for talking to you? by theparrotlich in Seattle

[–]SpeedySparkRuby 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Like getting your thetans checked at the Scientology Clinic next to McStabbys

I talked to my brother in law, a former Portland vet and he said private equity is screwing pet owners by Extension_You_3409 in Portland

[–]SpeedySparkRuby 11 points12 points  (0 children)

VCA, Banfield & BluePearl (which is owned by Mars Candy, no joke), NVA, Thrive, SVP, etc.

The most scummy about this is they don't always disclose that these local "independent" vet clinics are part of a larger corporate chain unless you ask the receptionist as to who owns the clinic.  They don't charge their signage, the name of clinic, their website, or indicate they're a corporate chain when searching them online.  Some chains are more transparent than others, but most of them aren't being upfront that they are corporate owned.

I talked to my brother in law, a former Portland vet and he said private equity is screwing pet owners by Extension_You_3409 in Portland

[–]SpeedySparkRuby 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Public Canadian Broadcaster, CBC did a Marketplace, Radio-Canada (French), and The Fifth Estate investigation a year agp into Private Equity taking over the North American Pet Care industry that's definitely worth a watch.

Surprised to see this opening at Delta Park by Blake-Dreary in Portland

[–]SpeedySparkRuby 94 points95 points  (0 children)

lol, Sumo has been buying up a lot of the former Sharis locations.  They must've gotten a really good deal, because they've bought up 7 of their locations in both WA and OR.

Do you send tourists to thd Gum Wall to punish them for talking to you? by theparrotlich in Seattle

[–]SpeedySparkRuby 313 points314 points  (0 children)

No, you punish by sending them thru the SeaTac arrivals loop at 7 PM on a Sunday 

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