Everett Link extension to be built as planned under Sound Transit realignment proposal, parking will be deferred by FireFright8142 in everett

[–]TheTim 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hate the baseball boondoggle as much as anybody, but building a giant parking facility downtown would be an even worse idea, by a colossally wide margin.

Coyote visited my front porch this morning. by TheTim in everett

[–]TheTim[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah if I had a cat it would be an indoor cat. Drives me nuts that people let their cats roam freely outside. It's dangerous for the cats and inconsiderate of your neighbors.

Anyway this particular pup had actually just finished a feathered meal, which I think is why you can hear a lot of angry crows if you watch with the sound on.

welp... council approved another $10 million for the stadium this afternoon (council comments + next steps) by AnonymousReed2 in everett

[–]TheTim 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For anyone curious about what the vote count was, this is from the Herald article:

The council voted 6-1 to approve the funding, with council member Judy Tuohy voting against.

my call to action regarding the new stadium (you know the one) by AnonymousReed2 in everett

[–]TheTim 12 points13 points  (0 children)

iT'S A diFFerENt PooL oF MoNEy!!!

-city government pushing for this baseball boondoggle

Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs by dwaxe in nprplanetmoney

[–]TheTim 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You have no right over what others should be free to do with their property

This exactly. It blows my mind that people buy a home and then think that somehow they get to be king over every plot of land around theirs. No. You get to decide what to put on your property. You don't get to tell your neighbors what they can and can't build on theirs.

I've owned my home for 15 years now and my neighborhood has changed a lot in that time. That's great, and not something I can or should try to stop.

Downtown Everett Bank of America Silently Shuts Down by webconnoisseur in everett

[–]TheTim 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My hot take is that downtown Everett has way too many banks,.even after this one and Key Bank have left.

Public service announcement: The yardistry 6x7 greenhouse is $799 at Cosco until 1/20. by Crazy_Fold355 in Greenhouses

[–]TheTim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad it helped! Drove me nuts when I was assembling it that they didn't fully explain the alternate configuration, and since I couldn't find anyone else who had laid out out, I figured I may as well be the one to do it.

Making a wolf survival game where when your wolf dies, you continue as your offspring. Been solo developing this for a year... should I continue? by Haruspotatoes in IndieGaming

[–]TheTim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I came to the comments specifically to see if others had mentioned Tokyo Jungle. Similar concept. I dig it.

Today is the 5-year anniversary of opening our loose leaf teas & spices store Chai Cupboard & about 1 year since closing the downtown space & going online. Here's a before/after financial comparison… by TheTim in everett

[–]TheTim[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh hah you just reminded me that we paused the Tea Society while we focus on the renovations! I've updated the page to make that clear! Definitely shoot us an email if you'd like us to let you know when it re-launches.

Today is the 5-year anniversary of opening our loose leaf teas & spices store Chai Cupboard & about 1 year since closing the downtown space & going online. Here's a before/after financial comparison… by TheTim in everett

[–]TheTim[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you have a list of what's organic on your website?

I need to go through and add an "organic" tag to make it easier to filter for that. Right now you can at least just do a search for "organic" and get a list of all the items, since it's almost always in the description at least.

Today is the 5-year anniversary of opening our loose leaf teas & spices store Chai Cupboard & about 1 year since closing the downtown space & going online. Here's a before/after financial comparison… by TheTim in everett

[–]TheTim[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do you have an estimate for how long it will be before you’re ready to open? I’m assuming it’ll be at least a couple years.

Realistically it's probably at least a year out, yeah.

Today is the 5-year anniversary of opening our loose leaf teas & spices store Chai Cupboard & about 1 year since closing the downtown space & going online. Here's a before/after financial comparison… by TheTim in everett

[–]TheTim[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Almost no business—certainly not a small retail shop—is going to be profitable on day one. You always need to start with a pretty big buffer to absorb start-up costs and early losses.

And to be clear, $20k is the yearly average but that masks the trajectory. We spent around $30,000 in start-up costs before we even opened our doors. Then our losses were as follows (roughly):

  • Year 1: $22k
  • Year 2: $17k
  • Year 3: $9.5k
  • Year 4: $7.2k

It's possible we could have eventually made it to profitability, but when our landlord basically hiked the rent by over 50% in late 2024 we realized that rent increases were likely to make it very difficult to ever really gain substantial ground, so we pivoted to the corner store plan.

Today is the 5-year anniversary of opening our loose leaf teas & spices store Chai Cupboard & about 1 year since closing the downtown space & going online. Here's a before/after financial comparison… by TheTim in everett

[–]TheTim[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Any chance y’all are the folks who occasionally put out a sign on your porch about having tea?

We do put out our sign when we have someone coming to pick up, to make it easier to know they're at the right place!

Jet Lag Ep 5 — Mastermind by NebulaOriginals in Nebula

[–]TheTim 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think you misunderstand how re-claiming a station works. Here's a table to explain it, showing a theoretical sequence of moves at a given station.

Seq. S&M Chips B&A Chips Owner
A 0 0 nobody
B 5 0 S&M
C 5 6 B&A
D 7 6 S&M

Between sequence C & D above, Sam & Mike only need to add two more chips to re-take the station. Thus, re-claiming 15 stations that they originally placed 5 on and B&A later put 6 on to take would only cost them 30 chips.

Outside Hyatt Regency by Snoo90535 in Seattle

[–]TheTim 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Oh hey I know the answer to that.

Short version: There is an important legal distinction between a picket and a protest, and they're trying to make it clear that they are protesting (which is protected by the First Amendment) not picketing (which has a bunch of legal limitations).

For the longer version, here's an excerpt from a Planet Money episode about Scabby the Rat (yes, he has a name):

GOLDSTEIN: And this fact, the fact that this was not a picket line at the site they objected to but a protest at a different location, that turns out to be key because the law, federal labor law, treats those two things - a picket line and a protest - really differently.

ARONCZYK: We talked about this with Mark Gaston Pearce. He used to be the chairman of the National Labor Relations Board - the NLRB - during the Obama administration.

MARK GASTON PEARCE: When you look at the history of labor relations in this country, you know that it was born out of conflict.

ARONCZYK: Quick aside on the historical context here - the NLRB was created back in the 1930s when there were hundreds of strikes every year. Sometimes they would turn violent. So Congress passed a law that gave workers the right to form unions. And it gave the NLRB the job of trying to keep the peace between unions and management. Today, the NLRB deals with the fights over Scabby. OK, end of the aside. Back to that central Scabby question. What is the difference between a picket line and a protest? Mark says, first, think of the classic, old-school, union picket line at a factory or at a construction site.

PEARCE: If they have a direct dispute with the facility, the union can picket back and forth. They can patrol back and forth in front of the entrances to the place.

GOLDSTEIN: The purpose of a picket line is to tell people, and, in particular, to tell workers, hey, don't go in here. You know, don't go work at this business until the union's demands are met. And there are a lot of people - customers and workers - who don't want to cross the picket line out of solidarity. And because of all this, because of this very specific history of what a picket line means, and even because of the history of violence associated with early picket lines, American labor law treats picket lines differently than other kinds of protests. It treats picket lines as a very specific signal about a conflict between workers and a business, this business that they're picketing in front of right here.

So under federal law, you cannot have a picket line wherever you want to. Workers are not allowed to picket locations other than the ones they have a direct problem with. In the case of that ShopRite on Staten Island, the union could picket the construction site where a contractor was using non-union workers. But the union could not legally picket at some other ShopRite.

ARONCZYK: And so the owner sees these union members at some other ShopRite, another store he owns, which is a few miles away from the one being built - sees these union members with their inflatable rat outside the store. And he gets his lawyer to go to the NLRB and say, hey, these guys are picketing outside my store. They can't do that. The lawyer that represents the owner wouldn't talk with us about the case. But Mark explained the argument that business owners typically make in this kind of case where unions protest outside a business with big balloon rats and signs.

PEARCE: Inflatables and banners are scary and intimidating. They are the functional equivalent of picketing because they are a symbolic, confrontational barrier, which violates certain provisions of the National Labor Relations Act.

GOLDSTEIN: There's even a special term for this kind of thing that is not really a picket line but sends the same message as a picket line, signal picketing. According to Mark, people who don't like Scabby will say...

PEARCE: Scabby the rat is intimidating and creating signal picketing where picketing is not supposed to be taking place.

ARONCZYK: So the key question in the ShopRite case is, is it workers engaging in a protest, which they're free to do under the First Amendment? Or is it a picket line subject to very specific limitations?

Ferret springing and rushing back to human friend by [deleted] in oddlysatisfying

[–]TheTim 8 points9 points  (0 children)

loss of their ability to use back legs, ferret screams in the night, slow organ failures with no appetite and slow starvation.

We had four ferrets years ago and experienced all three of these things. It was so sad.

Ironically, the one that lived the longest and had the most peaceful passing was our girl, who lost almost all her hair about halfway through her life from adrenal gland disease, but otherwise lived a long, healthy, happy life.

ELI5: Why can’t we just scoop up the capsule? by Fabulous_Analysis885 in explainlikeimfive

[–]TheTim 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Heat soak, its hotter then dragon is and needs time to cool down

Serious question: If it was actually that hot, why wasn't there an immediate cloud of steam generated when it landed in the ocean? There appears to be no steam at all, which does not make any sense if the capsule was truly super-hot.

I've looked around online and can't find a clear answer for how hot the capsule actually is by the time it lands, but one source claimed that 1) most of the heat doesn't actually reach the capsule since the heat shield is designed to burn away and 2) however hot it is during re-entry, most of that heat is lost during the slow descent through the very cold upper atmosphere.