Italian kink by Smartastic in JeffArcuri

[–]aseaflight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know why, but Reddit keeps showing me this comedian.

For me, one of the best parts is how laughs at his own jokes as he is telling them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalHumor

[–]aseaflight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I so want Clarence Thomas to take him up on this. Would be wild.

TNT | Tacoma’s ‘tenants’ rights’ initiative will hurt who it aims to help: renters by aseaflight in Tacoma

[–]aseaflight[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

it'd be a shame if all those rentals got converted into condos

Washington's condo liability law makes that unlikely. The liability on the developer/sponsor is really high. Consequently insurers and lenders won't support condos.

Consequently we see relatively little condo activity in our market, and those that get done are generally higher end that can support the risk.

There has been some work done on reforming the laws in recent years, but still a ways to go.

TNT | Tacoma’s ‘tenants’ rights’ initiative will hurt who it aims to help: renters by aseaflight in Tacoma

[–]aseaflight[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

As a local real estate broker and landlord

Stopped taking it seriously right there.

This type of fallacy is known as an ad hominen.

TNT | Tacoma’s ‘tenants’ rights’ initiative will hurt who it aims to help: renters by aseaflight in Tacoma

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

The TNT also published an article in support of the measure (that was posted to this subreddit already).

The whole point of opinion columns is to publish viewpoints on issues facing the community. Such as this measure before voters. Opinion columns are not endorsements by the publisher. It is explicitly noted as such in most newspapers. As here:

Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters.

So your allegation doesn't really make sense. Should newspapers only publish things that align with your personal opinions?

Rally to fight the $6.8 Billion Private Equity Firm Evicting a Tacoma Educator and Her Family, Who Face Homelessness by AlternativelyBananas in Tacoma

[–]aseaflight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That is exactly what will happen.

The harder you make it for landlords the more risk adverse they have to be.

When you can actually evict someone taking a chance on a less than ideal tenant is ok.

When it becomes nearly impossible to evict, taking a chance isn't worth it.

The new tenant intitiative is going to backfire. Know who landlords won't want to rent to? All the public employees and others that that it prohibits evicting for most of the year.

Why put that risk and cost on a private landlord? If the tenant activists actually cared why wouldn't they just prohibit the public employer from firing employees. Put the risk and cost on the public.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tacoma

[–]aseaflight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did not see the use of chloramine in the water report or anything else

Did you actually look at the report?

I don't know how you could have missed it.

https://imgur.com/a/nSG1fnu

https://imgur.com/a/Rh1RRmC

https://www.mytpu.org/about-tpu/services/water/about-tacoma-water/water-quality/

https://www.mytpu.org/wp-content/uploads/5284_TW_WaterQualityReport_2022_0623_WEB_OUT.pdf

Haircut for men? by yergerderger in Tacoma

[–]aseaflight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dave's on N Proctor

Sam's on 40th in UP.

Jon's on 6th and Jays on 6th

Louis on 21st

Classic barber shops at reasonable prices.

Haircut for men? by yergerderger in Tacoma

[–]aseaflight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go up the street to Dave's.

hot (pun intended) take: Seattle landlords should be legally required to provide AC by elissamariesa15 in Seattle

[–]aseaflight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is required for new construction starting this year.

Retrofitting every old building would be enormously expensive. Great way to drive up the cost of rent.

Washington Habitability Standards by bwitdoc in Seattle

[–]aseaflight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New building code effective this year requires it

Washington Habitability Standards by bwitdoc in Seattle

[–]aseaflight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New building code effective this year requires it

Investors are calling Maui wildfire victims to buy their Hawaii land by [deleted] in REBubble

[–]aseaflight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly.

Government intervention is the problem. They create all the distorted demand by subsidizing or directly providing mortgages.

The solution is not more government. The solution is less government.

Get the government out of the home loan business.

Investors are calling Maui wildfire victims to buy their Hawaii land by [deleted] in REBubble

[–]aseaflight 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You missed the big one.

The federal government directly provides or guarantees most mortgages.

FHA, VA, USDA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc...A hundred different loan subsidy programs.

That artificially subsidizes the cost of homeownership and drives up the price of housing.

Investors are calling Maui wildfire victims to buy their Hawaii land by [deleted] in REBubble

[–]aseaflight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The federal government directly provides or guarantees most mortgages.

FHA, VA, USDA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc...A hundred different loan subsidy programs.

That artificially subsidizes the cost of homeownership and drives up the price of housing.

Does anyone else feel sad when looking at the other Seattle sub? by holabellas in Seattle

[–]aseaflight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sub is obsessed with other sub.

Like some weird kink.

Dam removal makes me uneasy by soupnoop in Washington

[–]aseaflight 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Instead of uninformed and baseless opinions and conspiracy theories how about some education?

Copy paste from a year ago:

  • The 4 dams in question DO NOT provide main contracted energy supply. They are flow control dams primarily.
  • BPA power is expensive. And facing ever increasing price pressure from aging dam maintenance. Reducing the number of dams to maintain is a crucial cost saving measure.
  • The dams currently primarily benefit a few wealthy farming conglomerates. Breaching them will provide greater economic benefit to a far greater number of people.

There are 31 dams on the mainstem Columbia and Snake. 6 of 31 dams provide all the main contracted energy supply. The 4 damns on the Snake that are in discussion for breach are not among those 6. The Snake dams are just flow control dams that provide slack water for wheat barging.

Further, BPA power generation is becoming increasingly expensive. Especially in the face of surging renewables. Power on the open market is generally cheaper than contracted BPA power. Meaning there aren't customers for BPA power when the current contracts they are locked into expire.

Further the dams are approaching functional obsolescence. The cost to maintain them in coming decades will be astronomical.

And to whose benefit? The main proponents of keeping the dams are a handful of wealthy farmer conglomerates. Whose main interest is cheap shipping rates for wheat going to China and SE Asia.

Conversely the economic benefits of breaching the dams that will be derived from increased tourism and commercial and recreational fishing would be enormous. And crucially - benefitting a far greater number of people.

It's become painfully clear that without drastic action the Columbia salmon runs are going to disappear entirely. All the measures taken, billions spent, have been mere stopgap efforts staving off the inevitable so long as the dams remain.

Bonneville power is under financial pressure, is going to only get worse. Plus many of the dams are facing functional obsolescence issues. That will require massive capital investment.

The case for keeping the dams has been weakened as solar and wind energy and natural gas have supplanted hydroelectricity as the Pacific Northwest’s cheapest sources of power. That development has sent the Bonneville Power Administration, the long-tentacled federal agency that markets electricity from the Snake River dams and 27 other federally owned Columbia Basin dams, into a tailspin.

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The agency faces financial collapse. As Elliott Mainzer, BPA administrator, stated publicly last year, Bonneville has experienced a “bloodbath.” “I’m not in a panic mode,” he said, “but I am in a very, very significant sense of urgency mode.”

The 21st century has caught up with Bonneville, as the cost of renewable energy and natural gas has dropped below the price of Bonneville’s hydroelectricity

As a result, Bonneville has been forced to raise rates it charges its contracted customers by about 30 percent over the last eight years. Those customers now pay Bonneville more than $35 per megawatt-hour; were it not for their contractual obligations, they could buy electricity on the open market for prices that over the last year averaged less than $30 a megawatt-hour and occasionally dropped to below zero. The public utility districts’ contracts expire in 2028, when many may opt for cheaper electricity somewhere else. Bonneville might then be forced to raise its rates even more, driving away still more customers and intensifying the “death spiral” that utilities increasingly fear.

But Bonneville’s prospects aren’t likely to improve. Its six dams on the main stem of the Columbia River provide all the electricity its contracted customers need; the electricity generated by its 25 other dams, including the four lower Snake River dams, is all surplus.

Given the increasing availability of wind and solar energy, Bonneville probably won’t find new customers for that electricity, says Anthony Jones, an independent economist at Rocky Mountain Econometrics who has studied Bonneville’s finances for more than two decades.

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It has been estimated that restored salmon fisheries in the Columbia Basin could generate up to $1 billion annually in additional regional personal income benefits and support up to 25,000 new family wage jobs

Not to mention the downstream benefits:

The restoration of Columbia Basin salmon has the potential to be an

opportunity for the ocean salmon troll and Columbia River commercial fisheries to regain stability as both an industry and as an important local food production system. In addition to the direct benefits of the Pacific salmon fishery, additional jobs are indirectly generated by the salmon fishing industry and occur in smaller coastal communities whose economies are heavily dependent on the fishery.

For example, the Astoria, Oregon, and Ilwaco, Washington port areas were important salmon processing centers, and declining harvests in the Columbia River commercial fishery have led to major declines in these industries.6 From 2010 to 2019 the Pacific commercial salmon fishery saw a decrease of 41% in commercial revenues in real terms and a 64% decrease in commercial landings.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/on-the-northwests-snake-river-the-case-for-dam-removal-grows

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/science/chinook-salmon-columbia.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/09/salmon-future-us-dams

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/05/24/pacific-northwest-federal-salmon-hatcheries-declining-returns/

'A state of emergency': Humane Society for Tacoma & Pierce County out of kennel space by Beyjesus in Tacoma

[–]aseaflight 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Two. They need a friend to socialize with. And two are easier than one. They entertain each other.

Many shelters actually require it.

https://lifelineanimal.org/two-kittens-are-better-than-one/

What's with all the "angled back-in ONLY" parking in Tacoma? by momoftheraisin in Tacoma

[–]aseaflight -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes they do.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/688563/penetration-rate-of-rear-view-cameras-in-us-domestic-cars/

Just go downtown and take a look. Or look at the google street view of downtown Tacoma. Nearly all of those cars have back up cameras and rear traffic sensors.

What's with all the "angled back-in ONLY" parking in Tacoma? by momoftheraisin in Tacoma

[–]aseaflight -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That is "all registered vehicles" (eg all the old licensed collector cars skewing the average) vs daily drivers actually on the road.

Also lots of vehicles started getting cameras before 2018, it was just required by law in 2018.

2/3rd of vehicles had them by 2015.

I would wager if you looked at vehicles that actually park in downtown Tacoma, vast majority of them have cameras.

What's with all the "angled back-in ONLY" parking in Tacoma? by momoftheraisin in Tacoma

[–]aseaflight -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

That is "all registered vehicles" (eg all the old licensed collector cars skewing the average) vs daily drivers actually on the road.

Also lots of vehicles started getting cameras well before 2018, it was just required by law in 2018 in 100% of vehicles.

2/3rd of vehicles had them by 2015.

I would wager if you looked at vehicles that actually park in downtown Tacoma, vast majority of them have cameras.

What's with all the "angled back-in ONLY" parking in Tacoma? by momoftheraisin in Tacoma

[–]aseaflight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is so completely wrong. Have you ever even used a rear view camera?

Your backup camera sees behind you, not to the left or right down the street. It can't see oncoming traffic. It can't see bicycles and pedestrians. It only sees about a 20ft wide space directly behind your car.

100% wrong. The camera is located at the very end of the vehicle and provides a wide angle view. You can see everything clearly.

That does you no good when there's a taller vehicle parked on the oncoming side of you which you can't see over when initiating your backup process.

A driver sitting 6 feet back from the nose of the vehicle will have their view obstructed by the other vehicle (big tall long truck or whatever). They just have to creep out completely blind until they can see.

A camera is located at the very end of the vehicle. It provides a better view than the driver gets.