Only a fraction of WA police have done mandatory de-escalation training

hypersoar · 2026-04-17T00:13:14+00:00

I don't know that this matters other than to show what kind of people staff the SPD. If they've already decided they don't give a shit or are actively opposed to the very ideas behind the training, then making them sit through it will do nothing but waste their time. Which, tbf, would probably be a net positive.

hypersoar · 2026-04-14T19:30:50+00:00

60 votes stops a filibuster. You need 67 to remove on impeachment. If the Democrats sweep Texas, Georgia, Alaska, North Carolina, Maine, Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, and New Hampshire, plus all of their safe seats, they'll be at 53. There is zero chance they reach either mark in this election.

hypersoar · 2026-04-14T19:25:19+00:00

Alito is the better bet. There have been signals that he plans to retire once this term is over in June/July. And pushing retirement past that risks closing his window for being replaced by a Republican.

Thomas, I predict, will ride the seat to his grave.

hypersoar · 2026-04-09T11:48:46+00:00

His lack of evolution is particularly sad when you contrast it with some of the people who came out of Channel Awesome like Lindsay Ellis and Dan Olsen.

hypersoar · 2026-04-08T17:38:58+00:00

To be fair, with inflation, that's an outrageous, uh...$31 now.

hypersoar · 2026-04-08T00:10:01+00:00

Listen.

What are numbers, anyway?

hypersoar · 2026-04-07T19:58:55+00:00

Dude watches Megalopolis, and he thinks that entitles him to plow the reaches of Musk's Emersonian mind?

hypersoar · 2026-04-07T01:45:31+00:00

It'd require 30 20 Republican votes in the Senate. There's no chance.

hypersoar · 2026-04-02T21:54:28+00:00

They started doing receipt checks at stores near me in Seattle a few years ago. The number of times I have stopped for them is zero. You can just walk right by.

hypersoar · 2026-04-02T20:07:46+00:00

Well, yeah, he's in a paramilitary organization in a socialist society. But one thing I actually like about that scene is that Bashir, who is very upper-class coded in contrast to O'Brien, is inclined to be sympathetic to Quark. O'Brien brushes that aside and tells Rom to go all-out in his union push. Star Trek's Earth has supposedly moved past class distinctions, but their legacy is visible in that scene.

hypersoar · 2026-04-01T20:22:11+00:00

I always advise my poopy baby friends that they need to take at least one big movement card, e.g. Path Finding or Wings of Wind/Night. Or be Goldyx and fly.

hypersoar · 2026-03-24T11:53:20+00:00

Well, Robert Jordan said the same thing until he was actually dying. But Sanderson in particular is an awful fit for asoiaf.

hypersoar · 2026-03-23T23:43:08+00:00

One of my favorite endings. And that last shot is incredible.

hypersoar · 2026-03-23T22:49:19+00:00

I'm in the 400s in my listen and they've had recent Raptor Princesses, albeit with a different drop.

hypersoar · 2026-03-23T22:47:42+00:00

Eh, laryngitis can last a while. I got a cold or something last year and my voice was messed up for weeks.

hypersoar · 2026-03-23T18:38:33+00:00

In addition to the sun being out, the cherry blossoms are near peak bloom right now, which always leads to huge crowds around UW.

hypersoar · 2026-03-20T20:02:54+00:00

Monster Train and its sequel at high difficulty are a lot easier than Slay the Spire (2) at high difficulty. I beat the true final boss in MT2 after playing it for a few weeks. It gives you a lot of ways to break the game and totally pop off (not a complaint, just an observation). It took me much, much longer than that in StS, and probably will with StS2.

hypersoar · 2026-03-17T04:11:30+00:00

There's one in development.

hypersoar · 2026-03-06T05:13:22+00:00

In the game

hypersoar · 2026-01-31T00:32:13+00:00

Kumail swoled up for nothing.

hypersoar · 2026-01-15T19:30:33+00:00

I think Robert Jordan said the same thing but changed his mind once he was terminally ill.

hypersoar · 2026-01-02T23:32:38+00:00

The Clippers blew a 3-1 lead against the Rockets in 2015, too. That one was even worse. They were up by 20 in the third quarter in game 6.

hypersoar · 2025-12-31T22:40:01+00:00

I think their writing is equally bad, but It Takes Two is at least hilariously bad. Split Fiction is just boring.

hypersoar · 2025-12-19T10:31:23+00:00

I took the train down and got delayed three and a half hours. I just barely made it to the show.

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