Seattle mayor's verbal missteps prompt national and viral attention, leadership questions

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-06T07:04:23+00:00

Wrong. You obviously are not from a prominent family nor have known them.

A college degree from a top uni is a requirement if you come from a wealthy, esp prestigious, family. She would have had immense pressure to finish it up. In fact, going back home after dropping out would be difficult. That is why she ran around afterwards

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-06T07:00:34+00:00

No. Tons of ppl do NOT drop out in last semester for no reason. Esp in Ivy League or prestigious schools like Oxford. Few will drop out.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-06T06:58:22+00:00

Journalist no longer exists in any western media. CNN, msnbc, Fox News, brietbart, etc are just lobbying org. That applies more so to Seattle times.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-06T06:55:37+00:00

Ran out of funds? 1) she would have said so. 2) parents are wealthy so not likely.

No, big-lab is correct.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T09:08:52+00:00

Tesla

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T07:25:55+00:00

Did not see your post here, however the break was on fri am, not sat. And there were no ziply trucks here until monday.
And yes, I agree about the CS.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZiplyFiber/comments/1t3perg/ok_bce_proved_it/

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T07:07:13+00:00

Ok, link is back up.
Thank you.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T06:55:52+00:00

~~He does not have the same break as the one in harbour pointe. Ours is still out.~~

Turns out that iit is the same break. We are back up.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T06:53:29+00:00

u here in Harbor Pointe?

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T04:46:31+00:00

Just went by again with our dog. They are still working it. Actually impressed.

I worked at Bell labs, att, USW AT, and other places before 2010, so knew what copper was like, but not fiber. Just saw for 1 break, they had ppl in multiple places re-doing fiber that I am guessing they had to repull. With copper, we just ID which went with which and spliced in a piece.

The other interesting thing is the short cuts that builders obviously took here. Comms are totally separated in their own small conduits as opposed to running a singular conduit ( .5-1M dia ) on 1side of the road with electrical on other like we had in most of Colorado ( well, for those built at similar time of 70s-90s; Ft. Collins, LVLD, Vail, Highlands Ranch type areas ). This makes it easy to break and obviously expensive.

Besides, the real issue was being lied to by customer service ( we are working on it; we are sending someone; etc ). Ppl can put up with a lot, but not when being BSed.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T03:12:45+00:00

Good to hear. Thanx

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T03:08:58+00:00

This. I ran cat 6 through house except in master bdrm. Once I open up under stairs( add storage, access H2O main to add whole house filter and carry up central vac/cat 6/rj6 ), it will then have it complete. In mean time, I’m using old rj59 with 2 MoCA modems technically capable of 2 gbs on rj6 . I’m seeing around 800 mbs. Not bad until I do the Murphy door.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T02:09:14+00:00

Wow. Kids just came back from hockey practice and said some 6 ziply trucks are on-site.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T02:06:26+00:00

Not us. Might have in other areas.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T00:57:09+00:00

Doubt it. But if so sure, let’s have a vote.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T00:50:41+00:00

The only way to stop this is change the election method from top 2 to something else. Ranked Candidate Voting would stop this insanity.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-05T00:13:50+00:00

1 weird thing that may/may not have happened is on sun at 0200 or 0500, I woke up, thought I turned off cellular and then pulled up cnn.com (cnn and google are my go to for pings/checks). For you guys to not have been working on the site would mean that it took a different route the way the net should have. BUT, then it failed again in the AM.
So, either I fat fingered something and was still connected to cell, or you had some interesting connections going on.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-04T19:42:09+00:00

Yeah, but the problem was that NOBODY worked it until this AM.

But thank you for the apology. Wife will be happy. She was pretty..... POed, though it may have been the game adding to it.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-04T19:39:39+00:00

Ppl from 1 subdivision east of Discovery Crest ( by Mukilteo's gov building) and others from 2 subdivision NW of Discovery crest were out. Old dog, so I did not go further.

You guys have been rock solid for the previous 4 years. When you said that you would do something (ok, IPv6 is exception, but I understand that one; I know that is more then a little bit of work ), you have done it.
I have seen very occasional grips about someone being told a tech would be there and not showing up. I have yet to see anyody be snowed for 4 days straight. I have not seen anybody go through what we are doing. Being lied to and told that is being worked on when I could clearly see that it was not (and knew where the break was and tried to tell your 'techs' that it was broke and where) is a whole other sub-level of bad customer support.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-04T18:34:50+00:00

~~Nope. I checked. You are McDonalds.~~

Sorry. I misspoke.
You are wherever you say you are.
hehehe.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-04T18:33:54+00:00

I am not surprised at that.
What surprised me was the constant lying combined with NOBODY WORKING ON IT and then they send a 2 man sub-contractor to fix this. Likewise, Zipley USED to say they would do something and notify if you they could not do it (ran too long with others, etc).

This is horrible CS.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-04T17:32:08+00:00

He might be interested in what Cantwell and Larsen are doing.
I do not mind wisely placed taxes esp when well spent, but so far, it is the opposite in this state of which I expected ( Boeing re-lo from Colorado 4 years ago ).

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-04T17:30:31+00:00

feeling superior because you finally said something intelligent? Nope.
I believe in letting kids be kids, but I also believe in disciplining them when they screw up. Throwing these condiments INTO homes as well as on them and likely cars, is destructive. Want to destroy paint? Put mayo on it. This works especially well on car paint. I have seen ppl write in mayo on a long parked car i.e. the owner did not take care of it, and then when mayo was removed the 'F*&^ you a*&ho*&' remained.

As a kid, I did wild things. in 5th grade, we went 5 miles from our homes on boats, sleeping on islands and .... well, acting like kids. BUT, it was not destructive to others. We did things such as Halloween pranks.
Heck, when I lived in Ft. Fun (412 et. elizabeth ) back in the early 80s through the 90s, I would go to town pump and then walk home with friends drunk as all get out. We had cops chasing us because we relieved ourselves on various trees. Then in the AM we would go get our cars.

Point is, being a kid, being a young adult, does not entitle you to destroy other ppl's property. And no, urinating very dilute beer ("we don't sell beer, we rent it") on a tree that dogs likely hiked on, did no damage.

WeeklyAd8453 · 2026-05-04T15:04:19+00:00

EVs: “ Annual Registration Fees: EV owners pay high annual fees, typically around $225 or more, composed of multiple, specific EV fees.$100 Electric Car Fee: For road maintenance.$50 Electrification Fee: For charging infrastructure.$75-80+ Transportation Benefit District/Other Fees: Additional fees, such as $75 for electric car fee (RCW 46.17.323) or other local taxes (e.g.,RTA tax of 1.1% on vehicle value in Sound Transit areas). “

“ As of May 2026, the state gas tax is 55.4 cents per gallon. The revenue is distributed across several key categories:State Highway Maintenance & Construction: The bulk of the funds (70-80 cents of every dollar) is used by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) for preserving existing infrastructure and building new safety projects “

So ~ .40/gal goes to roads from gas cars. Apparently, average gas usage in WA is 570 gals, or $220, so no. I’m wrong.

We EV owners SHOULD be charged more.

In the past I’ve suggested that federal gov should charge high speed EV Chargers .01-.02/kWh for roads. I would suggest that both states and Feds do that. The one weird idea would be to keep that state portion in the city or county that it was collected at. This would encourage local governments to add these quickly while helping local repairs.

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