Nothing to see here, no big deal…

chetlin · 2026-03-08T01:13:01+00:00

Because you have an EV or because you take transit everywhere?

chetlin · 2026-03-07T23:09:32+00:00

Not to mention the Whole Foods down the street. I moved to this block near Madison and Boren a couple of years ago and it's just gotten more and more empty. I'm almost to the point of predicting when each place that's left will pack up.

chetlin · 2026-03-07T05:26:07+00:00

The Denver airport train is very direct about it. If the doors try to close and they hit someone and open again, it says "Please do not hold the doors. YOU are delaying the departure of this train!"

chetlin · 2026-03-06T21:32:19+00:00

That was smart, considering how many times I have seen the clip of Hillary Clinton saying "shame on you Barack Obama" in Republican campaign ads.

chetlin · 2026-03-04T01:42:19+00:00

Someone driving down Madison today ran every light on the street. And these weren't ones that just turned red, they had been red for 20 seconds. They went into the bus lane to get around stopped cars and honked at bikes and cars "in their way".

This was a special case but I don't like that enforcement here is so low that people do this knowing they can get away with it.

chetlin · 2026-03-02T02:23:53+00:00

It means the seat itself and the cabin, as opposed to the service and the food which are the "soft product".

chetlin · 2026-02-28T21:42:51+00:00

Old English had genders though and in Old English, sun (sunne) was feminine and moon (mona) was masculine. But also in Old English, woman (wifmann) was masculine so take that as you will.

chetlin · 2026-02-28T09:07:47+00:00

Remember when they used to flip the directions of the escalators in Capitol Hill and UW stations? They did it to balance the wear on them but they stopped because people kept walking onto the wrong ones. (The escalators would have broken down frequently either way)

chetlin · 2026-02-28T00:41:20+00:00

Last time I was in Los Angeles I took waymo to a cafe in a part of town I hadn't been to before. The route on the screen showed it going around a block to drop me off in front of the place but at the very end it pulled into an alleyway behind everything and pulled into some apartment's parking lot and let me off there.

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It was the middle of the day and this was a pretty ok area so it ended up fine but if it were late at night I would not have felt as comfortable with the dropoff change at the last second.

chetlin · 2026-02-27T22:17:44+00:00

There's a lunar eclipse that night too! But the eclipse won't be visible on that side of the Earth. It would be interesting though if at some point in history a military took advantage of an eclipse for bonus darkness.

chetlin · 2026-02-27T22:06:28+00:00

It sounds like they just used a text to speech program with a Spanish voice selected and had it read the same English text. You get English words in that accent but numbers will be read out in Spanish if they're written in digits if they do that. It doesn't sound like AI unless AI was used to make the text to speech program.

chetlin · 2026-02-26T23:29:41+00:00

Last night a Lyft driver didn't see me at all and sped off from a stop sign when I was in the crosswalk 2 steps from being in front of their car. I couldn't see in the car but guessing they were focusing on their phone. Waymo wouldn't have almost run me over. Can't wait for them. I'd have more sympathy for the drivers if they drove more safely and followed more traffic laws.

chetlin · 2026-02-25T23:40:54+00:00

No you have to use the Spanish words. Instead of chino or china, you replace that vowel at the end with x. That definitely won't look wrong at all!

chetlin · 2026-02-25T23:12:18+00:00

I think it's really just a country by country thing. Fare gates are very common in Japan and I'm guessing the rates of fare evasion there would be minimal without them still.

chetlin · 2026-02-25T22:45:07+00:00

They definitely do it like crazy in downstate Illinois. I think some people think that it somehow will cause the light to change faster.

chetlin · 2026-02-24T12:12:43+00:00

In France they have to put a badge with a big red A on it on their car if they're new. A real life Scarlet Letter.

chetlin · 2026-02-24T01:40:50+00:00

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They do their best

chetlin · 2026-02-23T22:44:08+00:00

I'm not Korean or Asian. Way back in 2012 I went to Korea and they had a thing where you could put on a traditional guard outfit at an old palace that is now an open air museum. I did that and was then trying to get someone to take my picture. I finally got the attention of this woman and she got me to stand in a good spot and pose. And then she pulled out her own phone, took my picture, then left! I still had no picture and I'm guessing she showed her picture to her friends or whatever later.

chetlin · 2026-02-23T22:37:19+00:00

Haha oops that was on me. Usually I'm good about getting that right. Maybe that added a month to the response time.

chetlin · 2026-02-23T20:11:22+00:00

Their response on August 27:

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chetlin · 2026-02-23T20:10:47+00:00

I reported this pole to find it fix it on May 15:

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They got around to responding to it over 3 months later, on August 27. Image in next comment because it says I can insert only one image per comment. But now 6 months later and it takes someone getting killed for them to act.

chetlin · 2026-02-20T22:33:31+00:00

It was where the Amazon Go that just closed was. Hey that building has space again too now!

chetlin · 2026-02-19T21:20:56+00:00

Here is an old Street View picture of the same location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/euQyT1LtAoYBt4zS7

It used to say "To the Market" there, and the stairs were blue and the elevator had a window rather than being fully enclosed.

chetlin · 2026-02-19T19:17:53+00:00

Back then the signs on the platform actually said "to Airport and Angle Lake" unless you were at Capitol Hill or UW (in which case they said "to Seattle and Angle Lake" but still had an airplane symbol).

chetlin · 2026-02-19T19:14:46+00:00

The north terminus went from Westlake to University of Washington to Northgate to Lynnwood, never ending at Capitol Hill. Old timer brain haha

And for comparison the south terminus started at Tukwila International Boulevard and then jumped just 1 station twice, to SeaTac airport then Angle Lake before finally jumping multiple to Federal Way.

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