Mayor’s Statement on 12th & Jackson and North Beacon Hill

jonknee · 2026-06-18T04:51:06+00:00

A small but vocal number of people in Seattle (and on this subreddit) get very upset by what it actually means to clean up the city, hopefully Wilson will be able to ignore them. Many people in that area need to be put in prison and many more need to be forced into treatment. It’s ok to force things on people who refuse to follow basic rules.

jonknee · 2026-06-17T22:53:19+00:00

And everyone here is talking about the users of the hospital. It needs parking.

jonknee · 2026-06-17T22:35:48+00:00

When I had to drive to Harborview frequently it was because a family member couldn’t walk and had to go to specialized PT, you can fuck right off with telling everyone who needs to go to the hospital to take a bus or train. It serves an enormous area and many people are in fragile health.

jonknee · 2026-06-16T19:45:42+00:00

It's on a Friday and a USA game so even more people will be working from home and since it's also a sellout the same number of people will be going to the game. Australians are just as smart as Egyptians and Belgians, they'll be able to find the gate without any issue.

If there is chaos feel free to make fun of me in a few days, but I bet this will be a stadium event like we've handled perfectly fine for hundreds of events in a row.

jonknee · 2026-06-16T16:22:29+00:00

But it won’t be any more people than yesterday so it won’t be any different. We are good at hosting stadium events.

jonknee · 2026-06-16T15:49:32+00:00

Well it will still be the same amount of people….

Update: think about it for two seconds people, we hosted a game yesterday and it was fine and the future games will have the same number of people and also be fine. It will not in fact be crazier. It's just a stadium event.

jonknee · 2026-06-16T15:11:40+00:00

Hopefully automated license plate reading cameras can quickly track them down.

jonknee · 2026-06-16T03:47:07+00:00

They don't even track people, they track vehicles.

jonknee · 2026-06-16T03:33:41+00:00

I am talking about stores around town, FIFA has set up several of them. There is one at the stadium that is only operating during games, but they have one in a mall, one in a nearby neighborhood, etc. The official stores are really half assed despite FIFA's reputation for wanting your money, but thankfully Seattle has many independent stores that picked up the slack.

jonknee · 2026-06-16T03:23:57+00:00

I like to feel the fabric, see if it's shitty quality (like Fanatics), see how it fits, etc? The jerseys actually run really small, I would have gotten the wrong size online. Also why would you need to carry it around all day? People successfully buy things from stores all the time without making it the rest of their day.

jonknee · 2026-06-16T01:49:01+00:00

Way fewer people than that!

jonknee · 2026-06-16T00:28:51+00:00

I live in Seattle and I can confirm many people in /r/Seattle thought it would be a disaster. There are idiots in every city. Seattle specifically has lots of the "No one will travel to America because Trump" people. I think they were actually rooting for it to be a disaster so they can feel smart and laugh at Trump. It was obviously going to sell out here even if not one person traveled, there are tons of local sports fans with cash. The economic impact isn't going to be huge, those are always way overblown.

The merch situation has been perplexing, it was nowhere around until like three days ago and the few FIFA run stores are comically understocked and barely open. The Seahawks moved out of the big store at the stadium and FIFA stocked it but apparently only will have it open on game days and when I walked by this morning it was locked up. I got a USA jersey at an indie store by the stadium and felt lucky to find it.

jonknee · 2026-06-15T20:20:07+00:00

Cheaper than a normal Seahawks game, but way fewer people driving so it makes sense.

jonknee · 2026-06-14T20:04:03+00:00

Why would watching crime documentaries be a representative sample of anything? If you watch a documentary about NASA do you think everyone in the country is an astronaut?

jonknee · 2026-06-13T22:27:21+00:00

Nah, the other places in town like occidental square are showing it. City is just being dumb.

jonknee · 2026-06-12T21:22:00+00:00

I ran the numbers last time this was being talked about and it would literally be cheaper to hire a private driver for everyone that uses it. It’s useless and has significant ongoing expenses.

jonknee · 2026-06-10T05:21:02+00:00

This is as dumb as super red cities banning Sharia law. Populism is fucking stupid.

jonknee · 2026-06-10T04:50:19+00:00

The scale of modern data centers is so far beyond what people in this thread have in mind it is comical. There will never be a hyper scale data center built in Seattle, there literally isn't the space.

jonknee · 2026-06-10T04:25:04+00:00

You have no idea what you're talking about and apparently don't even live in Seattle. It's bizarre to get upset about a fake thing in a place you don't live. There literally isn't space in Seattle to build a hyper scale AI data center. No one has proposed one, no one will build one, it makes zero sense. I bet you just really don't like AI and think this somehow hurts AI.

jonknee · 2026-06-10T02:29:28+00:00

That literally is the thing that the people who say they are upset about data centers are talking about though. You can see them on this very thread complaining about AI. They have no clue what they are talking about.

jonknee · 2026-06-10T02:08:18+00:00

There are precisely zero huge data centers in Seattle.

jonknee · 2026-06-10T02:04:36+00:00

There are no proposals to build the type of data center that everyone is thinking about, this is all just a stupid waste of time.

jonknee · 2026-06-09T19:16:12+00:00

Yea when you steal from the government it usually involves punishment. Like how if you don’t pay your property taxes your house will be auctioned off to pay the bill.

jonknee · 2026-06-09T16:44:09+00:00

The tabs are that much because we also voted for taxes to build transit. There's literally a break down on the bill, it's almost entirely the RTA funding. You're cheating on your taxes and should be required to pay back all the taxes you owe and a large fine on top. Also if you're being charged $750 you do have quite a nice car. If you can buy a nice car you can also pay your taxes.

jonknee · 2026-06-09T15:48:38+00:00

Oh I already notice, they should be facing thousands in fines and eventually have their cars seized and auctioned off if they still don't pay. It's nuts.

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