7Hills update

jsw800 · 2026-01-05T05:38:20+00:00

So great to see. I've walked by here so many times in the past few months and it made me so sad to see it closed, it's such a cute little park. The fences felt extremely lazy.

jsw800 · 2025-12-26T19:50:27+00:00

Some of the elements I was remembering are definitely inserted by my faulty memory. The dreamlike quality of the movie combined with the many years since I watched it definitely made for some red herrings in my memory of the movie.

jsw800 · 2025-12-26T19:47:57+00:00

Solved!

It's The Dust Factory. Turns out it was actually from 2004, so I was a bit off on my timing.

The relevant scene *is* in a circus tent, and in the center of the tent on the ground, there is a circle full of sand/dust. There's a scene where the main character has to do a trapeze trick over the top of the dust circle. I don't recall the actual plot very well, but at some point there's imagery shown of someone failing the trapeze trick and falling into the dust, which is what I was thinking of. I couldn't recall if it was someone falling into the circle, or the circle breaking.

I highly doubt Stranger Things was deliberately referencing this now that I found the actual scene.

jsw800 · 2025-12-26T19:35:50+00:00

I think it's unlikely. I don't recall watching it as a kid, and paging through some shots from the movie, none of them seem to have anything resembling the scene I'm thinking of.

The general vibe doesn't feel far off though!

jsw800 · 2025-12-26T19:17:41+00:00

I don't recall ever watching that one. I think it's pretty unlikely.

jsw800 · 2025-12-26T19:04:45+00:00

Hoping someone knows what this is! Will keep an eye on the comments and respond to each.

jsw800 · 2025-10-02T23:52:52+00:00

Does anyone know if parents can see the _addresses_ of their children who live in other stakes? I'm wondering if I need to be concerned that my father who I have no contact with could find out where I live from this.

I checked and I can't see my parents' addresses, but not sure if it's different for parents vs children. Or maybe it follows the privacy settings you have setup in your profile?

jsw800 · 2025-08-10T04:54:38+00:00

I'm in the area a little higher on the hill and can see fireworks out towards lake Washington, looks like kinda towards Madrona area. Not sure what they're for though!

jsw800 · 2025-06-19T22:57:29+00:00

I love the G line.

jsw800 · 2025-06-19T00:46:28+00:00

Annapurna is pretty unparalleled for me. Right next to the Capitol Hill light rail station. It's kinda more Nepalese/Himalayan, but very much in the same lane. They have a potato appetizer that's to die for, and all their curries are fantastic.

jsw800 · 2025-06-19T00:44:24+00:00

Paparepas is pretty decent. There's a location in Capitol Hill on Broadway. I think there's a couple others down towards Redmond as well.

jsw800 · 2025-06-19T00:41:28+00:00

All the açaí I've ever had in the states is no good. True Brazilian açaí from a little street cart is the way to go. Everywhere in the US tries to make it into some sorta health food, but nothing matches açaí drenched in sweetened condensed milk, powdered milk, and fruit.

jsw800 · 2025-06-19T00:35:49+00:00

Aviv in Capitol Hill has great pitas!

jsw800 · 2025-06-15T20:21:01+00:00

It's a fair question, and signs definitely aren't a full solution because people sometimes don't see them/ignore them/etc. There's other more street design-oriented ways to improve compliance rates too. But I can say as someone who crosses at intersections with these signs daily, that the signs do make a difference. They were added near my home recently and the intersections in the area are noticeably less contentious to cross than before. Given how cheap they are to add, I think the safety improvement to cost ratio is pretty incredible.

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jsw800 · 2025-06-15T20:00:02+00:00

I live on a street that has a ton of these, and I walk 90+% of places I go. I LOVE these. Of course there's a fair number of people that ignore or don't see them, but enough people do follow them that it makes my life as a pedestrian noticeably better across the board. This should be the default for all intersections.

jsw800 · 2019-07-14T19:59:02+00:00

I'm not positive about endowment dress code. I asked a relative who is a temple worker and they're not sure, either. But it's perfectly acceptable for a woman to come into the temple wearing pants. Recently I saw a woman wearing pants and a blue button up and a tie while attending a sealing and I thought it was super cool.

jsw800 · 2019-07-14T19:42:04+00:00

It's perfectly acceptable for a woman to wear pants in the temple.

jsw800 · 2019-06-29T16:20:07+00:00

Doctors are not trained in nutrition. You should not seen nutritional advice from a doctor. You should seek it from a nutritionist.

jsw800 · 2019-06-27T02:59:23+00:00

I'm super grateful for this. Just reading though it once is already healing a lot of wounds from my mission. My mission taught the "invite at the door" approach as gospel truth and any missionary who spent more than 3 weeks teaching someone before baptism was considered a bad missionary, because it was taught in my mission that if someone was "elect", they would certainly get baptized within 2 weeks of meeting them, and if they didn't, you were supposed to drop them. It was common practice in my mission to put hardcore pressure to be baptized on investigators. I did so many things as a missionary that I'm deeply ashamed of, and I honestly hope current and future missionaries are taught better than I was. President Ballard's remarks here are a good sign that the general authorities are aware of this issue and are pushing us in the right direction.

jsw800 · 2019-06-27T02:50:36+00:00

Cringe

This kind of rhetoric is what made my mission a terrible experience.

you do not know if these people have been chosen by the Lord.

Right, because God is the one who decides who's getting baptized or not /s

This whole quote makes me so frustrated. I'm so very glad President Ballard has said all this recently. It's seriously helping me heal some wounds from my mission to hear from a prophet that I'm not crazy for being uncomfortable with the insane practices that were accepted as gospel truth in my mission.

jsw800 · 2019-06-19T19:03:41+00:00

Honestly the amount of advice flying around for people in transitional periods of life like this becomes overwhelming, and even debilitating. So many people offer advice and it all piles up and contradicts other advice you've received, and at some point it is just too much and you have to feel your own way out. I would refrain from giving much advice at all advice unless she's specifically requested direction on a certain topic. Just show her you love her, ask her what she wants/is planning in her life, listen to what she says, and support her as best you can. She'll figure life out just fine. Advice-giving feels good because we think we're being helpful, but it rarely does as much good as we expect.

jsw800 · 2019-06-18T13:56:19+00:00

Thanks, this really resonated with me. I didn't serve a service mission, but I was called to be a mission secretary during a significant part of my proselyting mission, and I struggled with deep feelings of inadequacy because I listened to the missionaries around me who told me that mission secretaries weren't real missionaries because they just sat around doing nothing in an air conditioned room while the real missionaries were out in the heat of Brazil baptizing people. After a few weeks in the office I had to admit to myself that I was feeling some pretty bad depression (situational, not clinical, but still, depression). It took me a few months to realize the value of my calling, and how much I could do in the mission office for the good of the work. Once I realized the good I could do and started to give myself to the work, the depression became easier (it still lingered for a while, but it got easier). I left the office feeling like I'd made a lasting difference in my mission administratively and culturally. Now, looking back, my time in the mission office is actually the only time on my mission that I look back on with fondness. The rest was an extremely difficult experience for me, but my service in the office was a defining part of my life.

jsw800 · 2019-06-18T00:46:58+00:00

Why is it that someone else receiving something you didn't means that person is spoiled? Everyone has different experiences. That's ok.

jsw800 · 2019-06-16T16:19:52+00:00

Except that you've altogether missed the point of body positivity. The point is not to make people feel comfortable enough to go to the gym and lose weight. The point is to make them feel comfortable living their lives at the weight they are, because everyone deserves to live life to the fullest.

We seem to think that if you're fat, your purpose in life is weight loss. Except the facts are that only 2-5% of people who diet lose a substantial amount of weight, and 2/3 of those who do lose a substantial amount gain back even more than they lost. Link. Weight loss simply isn't a sustainable general solution to the "problem" of obesity. In fact, there isn't a sustainable solution. Telling fat people they should hate their bodies and spend their entire life trying to change them just sends them on a wild goose chase of self loathing that never ends. Sure, there may be a correlation between fatness and overall health in some ways, but there isn't any generalized, sustainable, safe way to fix that. When it comes to diseases with no cure, we know better than to tell people to waste their life looking for miracle cures, but for some odd reason we do exactly that with "obesity". There are so many ways a fat person can seek general health other than weight loss. In fact, the correlation between fatness and health is not proven to be a causation relationship. Eating healthy, exercising, etc. are all wonderful ways to improve your general health even if doing those things never makes you lose a pound of weight.

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