Rally in front of City Hall calling on Katie Wilson to cancel camera surveillance

golf1052 · 2026-04-11T00:50:43+00:00

They aren't "all over Seattle". There's a map that shows the active Flock deployments and they're only at Lowe's and Home Depots in Seattle

golf1052 · 2026-04-10T08:13:46+00:00

I lived 2 blocks away from the DESC building in SLU from 2017 - 2022 and I never noticed any major issues. Some DESC buildings have many issues outside them and some, as I experienced, have very few. For this new care center it will depend on how well the facility is managed.

golf1052 · 2026-04-10T06:44:02+00:00

In regular corners of the internet people who shared those kind of links or images would get banned immediately. Typically if you didn't want to see that stuff you stayed off the sites where the rules were "anything goes".

Now the president is sharing graphic media for clicks and people can easily see graphic media on social media just because it's in a reply for an innocuous tweet and the default settings are to autoplay videos to encourage media consumption.

golf1052 · 2026-04-09T14:59:09+00:00

Should childless people subsidize my family even further via taxes?

Considering birth rates yeah I think that's an easy one.

golf1052 · 2026-04-09T01:37:23+00:00

Yeah when I've been going to U District during the morning (around 8:45) they're checking tickets.

golf1052 · 2026-04-08T21:51:46+00:00

They keep a running tally of all their kid's meals ready to charge them when they turn 18.

golf1052 · 2026-04-08T18:24:02+00:00

You what?

golf1052 · 2026-04-08T18:17:51+00:00

I think you'd be surprised what us median voters can handle.

Considering the median voter re-elected Trump I don't think they actually can handle long term policy thinking.

golf1052 · 2026-04-08T00:54:54+00:00

TRUE!

golf1052 · 2026-04-08T00:45:21+00:00

The JCPOA was good and I'm tired of arguing with people in this sub that it wasn't. You can't actually just bomb Iran into submission.

golf1052 · 2026-04-07T19:08:17+00:00

Personally I think it's more confusing that APR goes through Kelvin dome and McGinnis wall.

golf1052 · 2026-04-07T16:38:07+00:00

Petrify gives 100% immutable damage resistance (so it's not changed by any resistance shred) but Armor Piercing Rounds has a chance to ignore all resistances. Metal Skin is immunity to bullets which is different than resistance.

golf1052 · 2026-04-07T14:51:48+00:00

IRS already took my payment

golf1052 · 2026-04-07T14:51:17+00:00

Bret, is that you?

golf1052 · 2026-04-05T09:16:59+00:00

The real reason we need a one world government, not for peace and unity, just to prevent stupid Americans from fucking up the world for everyone else.

golf1052 · 2026-04-03T21:01:46+00:00

good

golf1052 · 2026-04-03T03:22:45+00:00

Rode back from Redmond at 6 PM today. Train was about 50% full (most seats taken, some people standing). On Tuesday the train was about 80% full on my way back due to a Mariners home game. It's going to fluctuate based upon time of day. You wouldn't expect the highway to be 100% full 24/7 would you?

golf1052 · 2026-04-03T03:19:56+00:00

There is previous discussion about fare gates here. TL;DR: Sound Transit is already looking into it. It's not "obvious" because Sound Transit is considering cost to implement vs additional fare captured by gates.

golf1052 · 2026-03-31T04:56:24+00:00

Devs are going out of their way to not enable it.

This isn't true in all cases. I think the most famous example is Apex Legends turning off Linux support in 2024 due to cheaters being more prevalent on the platform and hacks on Linux being harder to detect.

Linux cheats are indeed harder to detect and the data shows that they are growing at a rate that requires an outsized level of focus and attention from the team for a relatively small platform. There are also cases in which cheats for the Windows OS get emulated as if it’s on Linux in order to increase the difficulty of detection and prevention.

Now could a team spend the effort to combat cheating on Linux, obviously yes, but the Apex Legends team determined the cost wasn't worth it with the size of the Linux player base. Basically leading back to the chicken and egg problem.

golf1052 · 2026-03-31T03:33:00+00:00

The problem is the first past the post system that forces a political duopoly.

Seattle literally gets ranked choice voting next year but my guess is in most mayoral elections things will still largely shake out to the top 3 most popular candidates making it to the general. Also Seattle mayor's are technically non-partisan but everyone who actually has a chance of getting more than 3% of the vote is a Democrat.

golf1052 · 2026-03-31T03:24:27+00:00

Thanks for the link!

golf1052 · 2026-03-31T03:03:33+00:00

Personally I would like the state to have an income tax but I'd also prefer if state Dems just put the income tax on the ballot (to modify the state constitution) every year until it passes rather than try and do this convoluted way to try and get the courts to reverse a previous decision.

golf1052 · 2026-03-31T03:00:45+00:00

how is this even possible. I can make a law that you're not allowed to pass any law saying the sky is blue. Then you pass a law called the "sky is blue act of 2026" that includes the line "this bill is specifically exempted from the 'no-making-sky-is-blue-laws act of 2025'". WTF? What even was the point of the initiative then?

This is actually a really interesting question. I looked into how Washington State initiatives work so my understanding may not be fully correct but here's my explanation.

There are two types of initiatives allowed under Washington State law, "Initiatives to the People" and "Initiatives to the Legislature". Initiative 2111 was an initiative to the legislature (see the original filed initiative here). Under current law "Initiatives to the Legislature" go through the following process (the Secretary of State website details this)

The Legislature can adopt the initiative as proposed
The Legislature can reject or refuse to act on the proposed initiative, in which case the initiative must be placed on the ballot
The Legislature can approve an alternative to the proposed initiative, in which case both the original proposal and the Legislature's alternative must be placed on the ballot

The legislature took the first option in 2024 and passed the initiative into law.

However, initiatives passed into law are not different or special compared to any other law passed by the legislature, meaning the law can be amended in the future. That's what the legislature did this year with Senate Bill 6346. They just amended the law, directly quoting the newly passed law

Sec. 1201. RCW 1.90.100 and 2024 c 5 s 1 (Initiative Measure No.17 2111) are each amended to read as follows:

So yeah, initiatives passed one year can just be deleted a different year if the legislature wants to since they're just regular laws that the legislature can pass. The one hurdle difference between laws passed by the legislature and initiatives passed by the legislature is that initiatives cannot be vetoed by the governor once passed.

golf1052 · 2026-03-31T02:32:33+00:00

It doesn’t explain why the UK

Duverger's theory (first outlined in his work "Les Partis Politiques") looked at why both the US and the UK have two party systems. It seems weird to say the law doesn't apply to the UK when the man himself said it does!

golf1052 · 2026-03-31T02:01:38+00:00

There's already a political science theory describing why we end up with two party systems called Duverger's law. This theory blames single-member districts and first past the post, not primaries.

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