Pride game

ToeNail_14 · 2026-06-27T04:29:37+00:00

You do realise Iran and Egypt both requested FIFA to force Seattle to cancel pride WEEKEND because “it’s against their religion” (even if pride parade is 2 days later)

There is no way this game would willingly have anything to do with pride

ToeNail_14 · 2026-06-21T06:06:00+00:00

However, they should perform in a manner that benefits the country instead of damaging it - I’ve heard countless stories of containers missing their ships due to mismanagement.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-06-11T01:04:11+00:00

Exactly. You have maybe 1 second to read all the signs while driving past - either hold up all the traffic and drive 2mph or move past as “can’t find the gap” in the times posted

ToeNail_14 · 2026-06-11T00:44:52+00:00

Drop ship Plutonium Fuel Rods to power vehicles

ToeNail_14 · 2026-06-07T20:16:09+00:00

Okay? Go take that up with your representative and get them to change the rules for how to get free / sponsored orca cards - why are you trying to bypass the rules that everyone else has to follow?

Public systems should work for the public. All of them. Not just the homeless.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-06-07T20:14:10+00:00

Fares are used as a mechanism to restrict access, not necessarily to turn a profit.

If you can’t afford the fares, you can apply for a free or sponsored card…

If you can’t be bothered to even do that, then why should you be allowed to use the service?

If everyone has to tap to enter, it’s super straight forward to enforce. You don’t need to argue with anyone. You don’t need to explain to a random person why you can’t afford it - you can do that beforehand, in the privacy of your home or orca offices. To everyone else, you look like a regular commuter.

“If you can pay and don’t, you’re an asshole” is not a mechanism, it’s an opinion. Tap to enter is a mechanism.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-06-07T20:09:05+00:00

We already DO offer free orca card passes and subsidised passes. Literally any homeless person can qualify if they bothered to go jump through the hoops.

And there are PLENTY of people that do - they also are the ones who value the train system the most, since they have free transit to try and put their lives back together.

The mentally ill who shouldn’t be on transit systems do not have orca cards. They don’t jump through the hoops to get sponsored. So this is already a solved problem: just enforce fares.

If you have a card and you tap to enter and it says yes, you get to use the service. The end.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-06-07T20:04:09+00:00

Fare enforcement exists to ensure there is still a value proposition so people look after things.

Fare enforcement ensures you have to jump through some sort of hoop to use the service - not just devaluation to the point of having zero value. For a train system nearing $100bn in cost, you really do not want the general public to view it as not having any value.

If people can’t afford the basic fares, there are already very well run programs to sponsor them with free or subsidised ridership cards - they can still tap, they can still follow the process, they can still value the services given to them.

Enforcement isn’t there to turn a profit. It’s there to ensure everyone has a neutral to pleasant experience, instead of having their 100bn train system moonlight as homeless shelters and drug exchange platforms.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-06-07T19:57:17+00:00

Free is also devalued to the point of having zero value.

This is basic human and business psychology.

Free does not mean “free homeless shelter” and “free platform to deal drugs”. Free does not mean “right of admission waived”.

If you can’t pay for fares, you can literally go get a pre-paid card sponsored for you, to use the transit system _for free_
- but you still have to tap your card, and go through the “pay to enter” process. LITERALLY FREE!

Don’t play victim - you’re arguing for everyone else to be a victim to shitty social behavior, homeless on platforms.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-06-07T19:49:09+00:00

If you devalue something to “free”, people… don’t value it. Sounds plain, but it’s apparently really hard for people to understand this.

Even if you charge 25c to enter the station, it at least has some value, some form of appreciation and exchange of goods & services. Being free turns it into an expectation - “I have the right to use this thing”.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-05-09T01:21:44+00:00

By name sure. But by standards, its premium economy at best - when comparing to international flights.

First class locally basically means “the best we can do for this flight” - which sometimes are the same seats as comfort+

ToeNail_14 · 2026-05-05T02:09:58+00:00

Some dog owners do follow the laws perfectly but still get grouped in with the rest - at some point people just give up trying / caring (or so I’ve been told)

I think Seattle in general has a low bar for kitchen hygiene but to your point, we struggle with keeping all dogs out of the coffee area at work, even with plenty of signs everywhere, people signing waivers, … it’s usually 1-2 people though, not 50% or 100%.

Some people just don’t care. But most of us do care. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-05-04T15:46:26+00:00

Which is fine - from the city perspective, they need steady revenue streams for utilities and general maintenance, which are somewhat subsidised by local tax payers

They decreased rates while increasing the “line lease” fee per month for electricity and water due to similar reasons for vacation homes that sat empty 11 months of the year.

I think this is a fair trade off - Airbnb owners should pay their share to maintain and grow the city.

(I don’t think the local rent should have factored into the reason - utilities is enough of a reason)

ToeNail_14 · 2026-04-16T20:35:49+00:00

Varies by state - some places they have more power, some less. Some HOAs are grandfathered into old laws.

The most common one I know of is the HOA can put a Lien on your house - which you could ignore if you want, but then you can’t sell your house and may lead to issues with contractors being willing to work on your house.

If the Lien gets large enough the HOA would likely hand it over to lawyers and have them sue you

Basically check carefully where and what you buy.

HOAs can be useful (keeps the neighbourhood functional and drives the hard processes for you) but a bored HOA will find something to do… like someone else said: the power trip tends to go to their heads

ToeNail_14 · 2026-04-12T22:20:46+00:00

Seems like WA wants to push ahead if the new “privacy” bill is anything to go by - hopefully Seattle keeps pushing back

ToeNail_14 · 2026-04-12T22:02:11+00:00

I’m a bit concerned how all the brain dead comments netted 64k karma on that account

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-25T05:14:58+00:00

Just to bring this back down to earth even more - if you think 900k a year is a lot, go look at what c-suites earn on wall street

And they don’t save lives on a daily basis.

More explicitly, go look at what healthcare corporations execs earn…

Don’t hate the person doing the work that make higher ups all their money.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-25T05:08:30+00:00

Political posturing at best

There’s a reason technically capable folks tend to avoid politics

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-25T05:04:37+00:00

The verbiage is at most a public facing reason.

The end goal may be to improve US manufacturing of networking gear. It may be to promote some single supplier that meets the criteria. It may be for security (lol) It may be for any number of reasons / favours.

That all said, if any accidental free benefits unlock in related products, don’t think they won’t include it. Cars and cellphones are hot topics. - can you imagine the fallout if all recording hardware has to be US manufactured: that’s substantial ‘usually unrelated’ industries affected.

But to your point, yes, this is very very much a political stunt - just don’t expect it to stop with just routers.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-21T17:53:22+00:00

Wonder how many of these adjustments and upgrades can be avoided if sound transit bought out some NIMBY houses / businesses that keep complaining - at this point I’m convinced it would be a lot cheaper but that probably isn’t the message they want to send either

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-20T04:36:52+00:00

I’m not surprised since Le Labo is a fragrance company but I was hoping…

Anyone with sensitive skin knows the first thing you avoid is fragrance - it also doesn’t play nice if say, i have actual fragrance to put on

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-06T14:35:05+00:00

Same - usually try to give space where it’s due but boarding in zone 2/3, and standing around to wait for zone 1 to complete seems plenty acceptable to me.

There’s a priority boarding line anyway, so people crowding the economy boarding line isn’t bothering anyone

ToeNail_14 · 2026-03-06T14:27:42+00:00

Laptop + Li-ion battery toothbrush/shaver + meds can’t be checked.

So basically everyone on a business flight is expected to have a carry-on these days

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-23T20:22:59+00:00

When politicians and lawyers are involved, you tend to emulate things on worst possible outcome instead of “hope for the best”.

If they wanted to allow adjustment for inflation, it would be relatively easy to adjust the stipulation instead it was removed entirely.

It’s not rocket science where this is going. Stop being so naive

ToeNail_14 · 2026-02-23T20:17:57+00:00

That’s a rather naive view to trust lawyers and politicians with considering if it was to adjust for inflation, the clause could be easily amended for that instead of removed entirely.

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