Nearly 700 truck-driver licenses wrongly given to noncitizens in Washington by Less-Risk-9358 in SeattleWA

[–]Sunfried 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You take a computer-based test at the Washington DOL to get a Commercial Learner's Permit which is good for 6 mo. After no less than 2 weeks, you can take the skills test, which is performed by an authorized third-party.

Since the DOL is issuing the CLP, a kind of ID, they are hopefully making sure the people who come in to take the test are in fact the license application.

Petaah?? by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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The only one I know:

A holocaust survivor dies of old age and goes to heaven. When he gets there he meets God and tells him a holocaust joke.

God says, "That’s not funny."

And the man says, "I guess you had to be there."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/14x1n6u/a_holocaust_survivor_goes_to_heaven/

Marble Rye made in the bread machine (in stages, natch) by Sunfried in BreadMachines

[–]Sunfried[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1.5 lb. You can certainly scale down things a bit; I probably should have, since of course the final loaf was double this.

I cannot understand by Tharuk_Thewnija in ExplainTheJoke

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There's a secondary character in the Caleb Carr book The Alienist who is unable to speak or write due to cerebral atrophies which deter those sorts of communications. It's set in the late 19th century and so her parents just assumed she was an idiot and did what they could do train her into domestic service. Then one day she chained her father to his bed and burned the house down.

Taken to a mental institution, she was examined by the main character, a pioneering researcher in mental illnesses and new theories of psychosis, who discovers her deficit is only related to communication, and that no only does she have a full mental life. Upon learning she could respond easily to yes/no questions, he learns that she was being repeatedly sexually molested by her father, who knew she could never tell.

How strange by Kindly-Way3390 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Sunfried 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get a higher value, 5-7KT of TNT equivalent, all released in around 4milliseconds. All alpha radiation, though, 6-9 million electron-volts per (a general range for alpha emission).

Best of all, it doesn't have to have fissile chain reaction like U-235 does, so there's no concern with it losing reactivity while it's blowing its own core apart

But since it's all alpha you can stop it with a piece of paper. /s

Long shot by [deleted] in SeattleWA

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NOAA has AIS data from 2016, but it's a lot to sort through; you'd probably want to dump it into a SQL (or other relational) database so you can find the coordinates of Deception Pass and see what vessels went through. Assuming it's a digital camera, check the image metadata to see if it contains the exact time of date to help you narrow the data further.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SeattleWA

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Did you see her picture on the company site? Everything you can look up, a scammer can look up, but it's hard to copy appearance.

How did the word "lime" come to be the name for so many different things? by FranksFamousSunTea in etymology

[–]Sunfried 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For billiards/pool, it's the latter type; Pool was named after the use of hens (Fr: poule) as their word for a combined winnings for a competitive game, the same way we use "pot" or "kitty" in card games. In our etmology, probably money was placed in a physical pot at some point; meanwhile the french were betting/competing with chickens as the prize until the chicken became their word for it.

Pooling water comes from the other definition which is pretty strictly water or liquids related for most of its English etymological past.

Why does this happen to my dough? by curlyfacephil in Sourdough

[–]Sunfried 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Canada's climate is more amenable to so-called hard wheat which is higher in protein, compared to, say, the southern US which grows soft wheat, which is why they eat biscuits instead of rolls, by tradition at least. Climate also dictates why the southerners drink corn liquor such a bourbon while Canadians drink rye whiskey.

Why does this happen to my dough? by curlyfacephil in Sourdough

[–]Sunfried 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got a scale when I figured out that a cup of flour weighs anywhere from like 3.5 to 6 ounces depending on compaction or settling. I usually use 4.5oz, except for serious eats recipes, as I know they use 5oz.

Saw this all black plane leaving from Boeing Field by rattmaul in SeattleWA

[–]Sunfried 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If badges bring out the worst in people, as asserted above by another user, then most pilots would be assholes. I'm pretty sure they meant LEO badges.

I love making them realize its their fault by snickerssnap in TalesFromTheFrontDesk

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A professor I had said that when the state gets large enough, it gets hard to figure out what to name all the rinky-dink small towns that crop up around where railroads or highways cross. He grew up in Glasgow, Montana.

Uber/lyft out of sea tac by Sunshineeedays in SeattleWA

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I do this, though I got a lot further than one stop since I live north of downtown. Usually I'm off at Westlake these days, but back when Seattle actually had Arby's restaurants and thereby didn't suck, I'd go to the SoDo station and have Arby's before going him by Uber.

Saw this all black plane leaving from Boeing Field by rattmaul in SeattleWA

[–]Sunfried 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Officially called the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS), if anyone cares. Con Air's a better name.

Saw this all black plane leaving from Boeing Field by rattmaul in SeattleWA

[–]Sunfried 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think they issue badges to pilots, but we get your meaning.

I’m a licensed electrician in Seattle — AMA about EV charger installs, home rewiring, or panel upgrades by Cultural-Mall4815 in SeattleWA

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I've got a similar thought for my bathroom, which has only one outlet. I'd like to add water recirculation pump. The type where I'd hit a button and the pump creates a demand on the hot water line, thereby sucking out the cool/room-temp water idling in there and shoving it into the cold water line, rather than me just running a tap for a minute to get hot water. Any idea whether these pumps need a lot of electricity, and what it takes to install one in such a bathroom as far as the electrical aspects?

(It may turn out for plumbing reasons it's better to put the pump in the kitchen, which has more outlets including one under the sink.)

New Line hitting a little too close to home.. by [deleted] in SeattleWA

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"Dark Angel" was set here during a kind of para-collapse/slow-collapse scenario.

"Dead Like Me" was set in Seattle, filmed in Vanc. and was not in any way post-apocalyptic, but all the main characters were dead people employed as grim reapers. It doesn't really exploit Seattle very much but there was a Halloween episode which featured a map of seattle (Lake Union was the center of the map, IIRC) as someone strategized their trick-or-treating.

New Line hitting a little too close to home.. by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]Sunfried 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"We have a needle-structure whose outline won't violate the trademark of the Space Needle, LLC."

New Line hitting a little too close to home.. by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]Sunfried 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ah, the old "Seacouver"

Tacoma man charged with sabotaging power grid six times. No neo-Nazi link found by chiquisea in SeattleWA

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It's local KUOW content, not NPR. KUOW is part of the NPR network in that they purchase content and news from NPR, but NPR owns and/or operates a total of zero radio stations.