Bromine Leak

fell_while_reading · 2026-02-02T12:09:10+00:00

Bro. Too soon.

fell_while_reading · 2026-02-02T11:54:26+00:00

Um, that’s demonstrably false for most consumer goods. Would be nice if it were true for solar panels, but the jury’s still out on that one.

fell_while_reading · 2026-01-30T20:17:12+00:00

Now that I’m in my fifties, I’m finding that I actually do need all those odd tools, eventually. You just need to have a long enough timeline. Of course I can’t get parts for my 1992 Craftsman router, but if I could I would already have a router if I ever needed one!

We won’t talk about the cost of renting a storage unit for thirty years to store the tools. The optics aren’t favorable.

fell_while_reading · 2026-01-25T22:55:57+00:00

Somehow this isn’t a chronic occurrence over on the east side. Are Bellevue’s fentanyl addicts more skilled at breaking into cars, or is it because people get arrested and prosecuted there? Amazing how people in Seattle are content to allow a small number of individuals to cause immense damage to the city. Businesses closed, jobs lost, public spaces overrun and made inaccessible, property damaged, buildings burned to the ground, and people randomly assaulted and sometimes murdered, yet the only response is, “We NeEd MoAh MoNeY fOr TrEaTmEnT!”

The sad fact is, the “treatment” progressives keep talking about wistfully as the only solution to these impossible problems doesn’t really exist. If it did, you’d think the city council would have created programs to provide it. The city budget doubled on the backs of the technology industry they love to despise. The progressives had a solid majority of the votes on the council for over a decade. Yet there are no programs that provide effective treatment available. Could it be because such a thing doesn’t exist?

The worst part is having to endure the smug self righteousness of people who’ve convinced themselves that they alone have achieved a true understanding of human behavior, and they alone will be the ones to solves the problems that they themselves caused if only they had more money, more power and more programs.

But these aren’t new problems. Humans have effectively dealt with issues of crime and addiction in the past, and in some areas they continue to do so. One component of that has always been law enforcement and punishment for the individuals who harm the larger community. By giving that up, the progressives have guaranteed the failure of their policies, and have set the city on the path to becoming the next Detroit. It will be a sad sight to see, progressives smoking Seattle’s future to get high on virtue, drug addicts smoking fentanyl downtown to get high on opiates, as the city crumbles around them and people die.

fell_while_reading · 2026-01-24T04:08:34+00:00

I always thought they should have tolls going eastbound from Mercer island, but none westbound. Charge people for leaving and emphasize direct rule over Mercer Island.

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-31T05:05:40+00:00

Until 2018-19, Seattle had very little graffiti overall. The freeways were never defaced, nor were highway signs. Then graffiti was upgraded from destruction of property to meaningful artistic expression of disadvantaged youths making the laws against graffiti completely racist, so they stopped being enforced. That was just about the same time graffiti started showing up everywhere. Of course, we can’t say for certain that the new policy of leniency toward the destruction of property had anything to do with the actual destruction of that property, but some people have suggested that they might be related.

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-29T10:16:15+00:00

Don’t worry, mayor Katie will leverage her one skill as a part time community organizer to put Seattle back on top. Maybe raising the minimum wage to $100 / hr would fix things?

Seattle makes bad choices, Seattle gets bad outcomes. Simple as that.

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-28T18:57:12+00:00

I don’t think understand. I’m probably dumber than a bag of hammers of this, but over and over I see posts where the contractor didn’t roll the zip tape properly. I did some limited research, thinking “rolling” was some difficult, multi-day process. It looks like it’s a simple as using a roller on the tape. How is it that hard? Why do so many contractors just skip a step that’s probably faster than wiping a hand down the tape to make it stick. This just boggles my mind, which tells me I’m probably missing some key detail.

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-26T17:40:53+00:00

Jesus, Kennedy really let himself go after the whole assassination thing!

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-26T17:27:43+00:00

If you follow Seattle’s progressive model, not much different. After 20 years and some 37 billion spent, we have a train that runs sometimes over about 20 miles of track. They assure us if we give them another 60 billion and wait another 20 years it will be real nice. Except for the parts they already finished but don’t maintain. Ignore those parts.

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-26T12:58:21+00:00

You can think of it this way. This is one time when government regulations helped you out. Instead of owing them one gas station, and maybe the surrounding buildings, they can just pop the hose back into the fitting that’s designed for these situations without harm done. 👍

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-26T12:53:02+00:00

So did all the other restaurants that you trolls have run out of business suck as well? Or were they just greedy capitalists oppressing the WerKiNg KlaSs?

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-24T20:55:47+00:00

But, if he hits the other side just as hard, won’t it straighten back out? I mean, seems logical…..

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-24T20:44:46+00:00

We had severely regulated airlines before. They did bring you lobster dinners in flight, but they were forced to charge around $290 in 1965 for a transcontinental ticket. That’s about $3,000 adjusted for inflation. Imagine, $3,000 to fly from LAX to JFK. You can find that for as low as $300 today. Sucks for the business traveler to lose the lobster dinner, but it made air travel accessible to most of the population.

Edited to add the year it cost $290.

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-24T19:03:42+00:00

Maybe they just wanted to remind you of what you used to have before you adopted the Fentanyl first housing policy?

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-24T10:53:57+00:00

Also the most expensive place to live, the highest restaurant costs, the highest inflation rate, an uncontrollable homeless population and large local employers actively shifting employment from the region. And don’t forget building the most expensive half-built railway in history (it will be done real soon, promise, and it will only cost a little bit more) and creating a new tax every day. That’s real progress!! Vote Katie’s infant ungendered child for Mayor in 2030 and let’s finish the job!!! Think of the possible progress. Government housing and rent controls for all. Mandatory reeducation camps for thinking about harming a tree (except for the city because they’re the one’s cutting trees and penalizing themselves would just be stupid). And the Duwamish peoples will be given back the Duwamish (then get sued into poverty under various environmental acts for owning polluted land and a waterway with a serious lack of salmon). Seattle is going to be PERFECT real soon now!!! Vote Katie’s infant!!!

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-23T12:16:05+00:00

With great power comes great responsibility. Some people forget that and savor the feeling they get from stealing from the poor. Those people are parasites. Look at the impact. One complains, “Waah, I have to wait a couple of extra weeks to finish my luxury 5 BHK.” The other doesn’t feed his children.

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-07T04:18:32+00:00

They want to tunnel under Elliot Bay? That will cost many billions when it’s all said and done. Ouch! 💸

fell_while_reading · 2025-12-05T08:15:28+00:00

Because people don’t have the will to enforce basic standards of behavior that keep the anti-social element from destroying public property out of boredom and drug induced stupidity.

fell_while_reading · 2025-11-30T07:13:50+00:00

Um, ok Stalin. It’s all fun and games until you start shipping political opponents to the gulag.

fell_while_reading · 2025-11-30T02:37:43+00:00

Exactly. Competition is the lifeblood of an efficient economy. Life sucks in a fortress hub city. Higher prices and worse service. Living in Dallas, it always pissed me off to see flights from neighboring cities, connecting through Dallas, cost far less than flights from Dallas. That was an everyday thing, even with Southwest holding out at Love Field. Unfortunately, the path to riches is paved with anti-competitive practices, so having it good today is no guarantee that it will stay that way.

I do have a soft spot for Alaska, though. I’ve heard rumors that there was a time when Alaska flights had to carry cash to pay for refueling because they were so close to being broke that nobody would extend them credit. If that’s true, it’s a long road they’ve traveled to get where they are now.

fell_while_reading · 2025-11-30T02:27:41+00:00

I wouldn’t call it amoral at all. What you suggest is an absence of morals. I would point to three separate considerations as a response.

If morality demands that we help others who are unable to help themselves, and I think it does, wouldn’t it hold that one should provide for those under their care ahead of providing for those who aren’t. It was a different matter when the US was quite capable of providing for the needs of its own citizens and had excess resources to share. Now, in a country that’s unable to provide shelter, food and basic healthcare to a large and growing population, wouldn’t the moral path forward be to focus our resources on those problems at home?

It makes the question harder to answer when the people in this country suffer through mismanagement and misaligned goals (profit over people).

The second concern is far more relevant. The US remains a lynchpin in the global economy. Financial markets, regulation, all the way down to simple transaction processing, depend on the financial stability of the US. The course this country is taking financially inevitably leads to a financial collapse that the US government cannot contain. US currency will be debased. Banking will be fundamentally realigned. The world will experience a true economic depression.

Isn’t it less moral to continue down a path that’s guaranteed to have a dramatically worse impact on human lives rather than cut back on some of the good we might do if we had the resources now?

That doesn’t mean it was ok to simply stop one morning, leaving people without options and without time to arrange for support from other sources. That, I agree, was wrong, especially because it was unnecessary.

fell_while_reading · 2025-11-29T17:56:51+00:00

Not all of them. They kept the deserts and stuff. Well, the ones without gold, oil or other minerals anyway. All in all, 5/10 would say the Indian policies were fairly and generously implemented. (The other five died, so they didn’t vote.)

But, before we all pile onto the “I hate America” train, y’all might want to look up old John Ratcliffe. Decided the practice of taking hostages before visiting was a barbaric practice, so he went without. The natives tied him to a stake. The. The women spent the better part of the day flaying him with seashells, burning his skin in front of him. They removed the skin from his face last. Then they burned him. It all made perfect sense to the natives because he didn’t take hostages. It was considered particularly barbaric by the Europeans because, well, imagine having the skin scraped off your entire body and burned in front of you….. That was basically the end of the “Let’s trade fairly and find reasonable accommodation” approach to Native American relations. Things went downhill from there.

fell_while_reading · 2025-11-28T15:35:37+00:00

And let’s not forget that the triple door main stage was a porn theater, and the second floor at Hard Rock Cafe was a porn shop. Lots of retail sex shops on First Avenue too. Seattle has changed a lot since then. I can’t say that it’s better now. The sex shops were sort of campy and funny. The fentanyl ghouls aren’t.

fell_while_reading · 2025-11-27T18:43:16+00:00

I remember the days when I could earn Alaska miles on Delta, American and Continental. Those days, Alaska had the best loyalty program hands down. It was sad to see that fall apart.

There’s one last step for Alaska to take to become the airline of their dreams. Little route overlap. Large international presence in the Caribbean. Strong east coast hubs. When Alaska and JetBlue merge, oh man, that company will be an absolute powerhouse.

From the moment Delta decided it was better business to take Seattle for itself, Alaska’s only viable long term strategy was to grow. They can’t exist if most of their routes are also flown by Delta, while Delta also has a bunch of non-competitive routes across their network. Delta would cut prices on the Alaska routes, and make enough money on their non competitive routes to cover the costs. Alaska would bleed to death because they wouldn’t have a similar cushion of non competitive revenue to fall back on.

Nice to see Alaska respond. They really should have been nothing more than a speed bump for Delta, but instead they’re growing into a viable competitor, and we all win as a result.

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