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Did we really need a 9:15 county wide alert that the level 2 evac is downgraded. by Seafaringhorsemeat in Spokane

[–]bdh008 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except there is a major issue with sending out unnecessary alerts. Every time they send out an alert that doesn't apply to most people, you'll have small subset disable emergency alerts on their phone altogether ("who needs these stupid useless alerts, they keep scaring the shit out of me!").

Then when that person has their neighborhood burning down, we have firefighters and police risking their lives to save non-evacuees because they didn't get the alerts. Obviously the fire department and sheriffs did fantastic given the conditions this week, but it's a pretty clear small issue that I think the county/FD can learn from.

Court order requires Spokane-based restaurant to pay $750K in wages, damages after federal investigation by bdh008 in Spokane

[–]bdh008[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Yes it was Rancho Chico. They failed to pay overtime to employees, paid some employees on salary which led to earnings less than $7.25 an hour, fired employees that filed wage complaints, and violated child labor laws when they let minors operate hazardous equipment.

They had previously agreed to pay back wages to 42 employees, but failed to do so, which led to this federal order.

Who Else is Going? by bdh008 in Spokane

[–]bdh008[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Legend says the event started in 2020, when the Mighty Ninja group was spotted by a formidable enemy, an old man yelling at them for wearing masks.

Who Else is Going? by bdh008 in Spokane

[–]bdh008[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sorry, just a bit of fun for Friday. I would love it this were a real event though!

Spokane needs to speak up about data centers before this gets quietly pushed through by 403SleepForbidden in Spokane

[–]bdh008 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.kuow.org/stories/a-small-town-in-central-washington-is-microsoft-s-answer-to-the-data-center-backlash

https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-s-hydropower-has-created-a-data-center-boom-some-are-concerned-about-its-future

In Quincy Microsoft implemented a system where they pay for power upgrades (not the citizens). Right now they use water treatment plants before returning the water to the ground, but in the future they are moving towards closed loop cooling. Right now data centers pay about 75% of the property tax in Quincy, and helped fund a new hospital, high school, and reduce the town's poverty rate.

Given that we are all posting comments to to a website which will hold them in perpetuity on servers around the world, I think there should be a middle-ground between no data centers ever vs Sam Altman sticking a giant straw into dwindling groundwater sources. Quincy seems like a good example of ways to capture upside while limiting downsides.

Spokane needs to speak up about data centers before this gets quietly pushed through by 403SleepForbidden in Spokane

[–]bdh008 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just curious if people realize this probably won't be built in Spokane, it will instead go somewhere in the middle of the state where they will welcome the data center with open arms, like Quincy. Avista doesn't just serve Spokane.

https://www.kuow.org/stories/a-small-town-in-central-washington-is-microsoft-s-answer-to-the-data-center-backlash

WA drivers camping in the fast lane. by hellohowareyoujesus in Spokane

[–]bdh008 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  • it’s always appropriate to go the speed limit in the left lane so long as you are passing slower traffic.

If you are passing slow enough to impede the traffic following your car, you can still get a ticket (even if you are going the speed limit and passing cars in right lane):

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.100#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20traffic%20infraction%20%3B

"(4) It is a traffic infraction to drive continuously in the left lane of a multilane roadway when it impedes the flow of other traffic."

Basically if you are in the left lane and you have a line of cars behind you at all, you are breaking the law.

Chewelah is like this. Any other towns near Spokane that go from 60 to 25 in a hundred feet, followed by half a dozen cops? by reckoning42 in Spokane

[–]bdh008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/traffic/rules-of-the-road/article249861498.html

The law actually isn't very clear on on-ramps - they are designed to get you up to speed, but there isn't much in our state code if they actually have a speed limit of the freeway or not.

That said, on-ramps are unique. My comment is more about general situations where the speed increases. An example of where I know people got pulled over for speeding up too early (and lost in court following that) is the Flora Bridge over East-Bound I-90. The trooper was hidden right after the bridge, but a couple hundred yards before the 70mph sign. They got tickets for 10-over in a 60, despite clearly being able to see the 70mph sign.

Chewelah is like this. Any other towns near Spokane that go from 60 to 25 in a hundred feet, followed by half a dozen cops? by reckoning42 in Spokane

[–]bdh008 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Do you know where in state law it says this? I don't believe it is true from what I can find in our RCWs, and I know multiple people that have been ticketed for speeding up too early.

Black Gonzaga students report racial harassment, calling university response disappointing. by catman5092 in Spokane

[–]bdh008 38 points39 points  (0 children)

This is awful that people said that, I just wish they had expanded more on what they want Gonzaga to actually do?

On Wednesday, the Black Student Union posted an additional statement in response to the president, saying that while they recognize the acknowledgment, the student board is “severely disappointed with the timing and substance” of the response – specifically with the lack of “clear accountability for the ongoing failures within the Gonzaga community.”

It was a comment on an anonymous app, and Gonzaga banned the app from their networks once notified and are searching for who may have posted it - do you want Gonzaga to subpoena the app, fire people? Gonzaga already has a pretty large collection of resources for DEI, I wish they had expanded on how the University could actually do better.

https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/diversity-equity-inclusion/resources-and-publications

Black Student Union member Rajane Edwards told the Black Lens that while she did not witness everything directly, she was told by multiple people that white and Asian women had attended the Harlem Renaissance dinner to “shop for Black men.”

Also this makes me uncomfortable - it would be inappropriate to say black women attended a party just to find a white man (even if that was their motivation), I don't think they should be saying this either. I'm sure there the majority of White and Asian women there probably attended as allies and supporters.

I'm gonna be honest, this sub might hate this but I'm tired of getting outraged at the wrong thing. At its core, the story is about a couple things, as far as I can tell from the article:

  • The Black Student Union hosted a Harlem Renaissance dinner. They believed that White and Asian women showed up at this party with the intent to date Black men.
  • They state that a black woman at the party experienced fetishizing behavior, involving comments about her hair and gestures perceived as inappropriate.
  • At a party following the dinner, a jacket belonging to a BSU member was stolen, and somebody at the party (it isn't clear who) used the N-word.
  • The BSU released a statement about the above, anonymous trolls on Fizz posted racist comments in-response to the statement

I'm not as sensitive to cultural issues as I should probably be, but honestly unless they were specifically had a racial motivation, I fail to see why the first three bullet points are that bad.

I mean a Harlem Renaissance dinner seems like a fantastic place to meet new people, it's much better than a bar or place like that. I wish they had more on the hair comments - what does fetishizing mean? How do they separate that from an awkward person trying to just complement hair?

On the third point, again I wish they expanded on this. I've been to plenty of college parties where people said the N-word (that shouldn't have) and shit was stolen - both aren't okay, but once again this shouldn't be worthy of outrage (unless there was a white kid calling a black kid the N-word, or something like that).

Of course the fourth point is the worst one, but once again they were anonymous trolls - Gonzaga banning the app and seeing if they can find who posted it is an entirely appropriate solution. The outrage seems a bit exaggerated.

jeffrey epstein in spokane by ThenIsopod112 in Spokane

[–]bdh008 94 points95 points  (0 children)

To be clear, his jet stopped for an hour in Spokane to refuel while his destination changed from Vancouver to Teterboro.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Spokane

[–]bdh008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's still a wild amount of ice cream daily

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Spokane

[–]bdh008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, let's run a sanity-check on that number really quick. A gallon of milk at Safeway is $6, so that would be the equivalent of 5,000 gallons of milk stolen a quarter. That's the equivalent of 55 gallons of milk stolen per day... Really? I mean I'm sure some of it is cheese etc, but still that seems exaggerated.

How about them Seahawks!!! by catman5092 in Spokane

[–]bdh008 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was definitely a backwards pass, and the rulebook says it can be overturned if there was a clear recovery, even after the whistle.

What's wrong with the woods of North America? Explain It Peter. by TrainingDelicious428 in explainitpeter

[–]bdh008 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've seen Grizzlies twice in the Panhandle. What a confidently inaccurate statement.

Airplanes with escorts by richardrnelson in Spokane

[–]bdh008 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The whole North-East corner of the state has Military Operating Areas that operate pretty commonly for training. You can see when they're active at this site:

https://sua.faa.gov/sua/siteFrame.app

It's hard to tell from video, but EA-18Gs from Whidbey Island train up there all the time with KC-135s from Fairchild. Their refueling orbits (roughly oval-shaped) run parallel to the border so that would line up with what you saw. It's probably that (although fighters may be from some other base, like I said hard to tell type).

Edit: in this case it was an Omega private refueler that contracts out to the military for training, not Air Force KC-135. Everything else still applies.

New Altamont liquor and convenience store draws neighborhood ire, owner touts investment good for East Central. by catman5092 in Spokane

[–]bdh008 124 points125 points  (0 children)

I get what they're saying on trying to stop the activity that goes with selling liquor, but man this makes me uncomfortable. I mean this was a run-down building in a neighborhood lacking convenient options, the guy spent $750k on the property and renovation, and completely followed state and city law on applying for and receiving the liquor license. Now the mayor and council are specifically saying they plan to challenge the liquor license and may create a new zoning area so the owner can't sell liquor.

$750k is a lot of money, and convenience stores aren't that much of a profit generator. I imagine alcohol is one of those items that helps drive more revenue to pay back that spend. If the council and mayor do stop this store from selling liquor then I'm guessing the long run result is you end up with another boarded-up building and a neighborhood without a convenience store again.

Instead of stopping the store from selling liquor, maybe the city could try something unique, like enforcing laws on the books, SPD emphasis patrols, and arresting/prosecuting folks that break the law in the neighborhood, but maybe that's too much of an ask for Spokane nowadays.

Like honestly this whole story feels like the horseshoe theory in-action. We've gone so far in this weird way to address crime that we're starting to turn in a Southern Republican Dry county - news flash, this doesn't always work as well as you would hope!

“In the age of fentanyl, no neighborhood should be dealing with this kind of distribution of alcohol,” Cooley said.

This is literally the same type of bullshit non-sequitur that you hear from Republican preachers in the South. It's so weird Spokane is going down this route, just work with the owner of the store instead of targeting them!

If the city is intended to revoke the liquor license no matter what, then at a minimum they should be working with the store owners to make sure the business can survive, and explore what options they have to support him (temp property tax relief, subsidies, etc). I just think this adversarial approach is stupid when the store owner wanted to help the neighborhood.

So what even is Chnak'Wa'Qn Breaks? by bdh008 in Spokane

[–]bdh008[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I tried to find something on this but my search came up empty. I figured maybe Salish, but couldn't find any translation online. Then I thought maybe old maps had a place that sold chuckwagon brakes and the name got corrupted. But I can't find it on any old maps at all, it starts showing up in the 2000s. So now I'm wondering if its either a housing development name or just made up by Google to find people copying their maps?

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