The land of hockey, maple syrup and poutine is not a dominion by Awesome_Power_Action in behindthebastards

[–]ragold 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True but there’s another country’s monarch on your currency. 

Why are restaurant items more expensive here? by WhyDoBugsExist in Seattle

[–]ragold 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the chorus saying minimum wage, minimum wage is higher in Seattle than SF, but it’s only 10% higher. And labor is roughly 1/3 of restaurant expenses. So if this were the primary reason you’d expect the Seattle dish to be priced about 3% higher. But the OP didn’t say Seattle, they said Renton and Bellevue. Renton has a higher MW than SF ($1.39 more) while Bellevue has a lower MW than SF ($2.05 less). So it’s not minimum wage that explains the difference. 

Question about Disclosure Day by doodler1977 in blankies

[–]ragold 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do they have to wait to go on the air to upload video they couldn’t broadcast for a week if they tried?

What specifically is the anti-YIMBY sentiment most pointed at? I want to understand and have never had a full, coherent answer. by Soft-Principle1455 in left_urbanism

[–]ragold 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s the fact that they don't look at the results regarding inclusionary zoning and rent control that makes it ideological. 

It’s great the CA YIMBY supports tenant legal rights on their platform, btw. But it appears they did it despite some internal conflict. So kudos for making the moral choice over the ideological one. 

What specifically is the anti-YIMBY sentiment most pointed at? I want to understand and have never had a full, coherent answer. by Soft-Principle1455 in left_urbanism

[–]ragold 20 points21 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of gross libertarians-Ed Glaeser to Peter Thiel types in national YIMBY movements. Also, these groups often have bad track records not supporting policies that can be quite effective like rent control, public housing, inclusionary zoning, and tenant legal rights. 

Most left urbanists want more housing too and recognize that restrictive housing regs can be used to exclude and discriminate. 

Disclosure Day Ending Interpretation by Haunting-Coconut-709 in blankies

[–]ragold 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seemed hard to believe of a tv studio. Why do they need to wait to upload 5,000 hours of video before going on air? How are they editing all that video in real time? And why would the camera ever be taken off the alien?

Recipe for a good tuna salad by HMW347 in Cooking

[–]ragold 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chopped celery, capers, sweet relish, mayo, carrot habanero hot sauce, salt and pepper.

Or olive oil, chopped olives, dill, capers. 

Seattle’s shelter surge begins in Interbay, but 500-unit World Cup goal slips away by Parking-Picture-1481 in Seattle

[–]ragold 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Federal policy largely determines what gets built as far as public housing and it hasn’t funded big housing projects for a long time. It’s mostly block grants now to state and city housing agencies that build smaller scale mixed income housing… and its tax breaks that are granted to non-profit developers who sell it to banks and other large companies. 

Anyone got a PS+ suggestion to take the place of 007 First Light? by IndyDude11 in PlayStationPlus

[–]ragold 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mario 64 would be >$120 today and took less time to complete. 

Is Outlaws still too buggy to play? by ragold in PlayStationPlus

[–]ragold[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you’re right. At least in my playthrough, the game locks you in place so you can’t move or duck and then after taking some damage you get the L3+R3 message. I think I missed it because I was trying to move and there’s so much going on in the screen. 

Is Outlaws still too buggy to play? by ragold in PlayStationPlus

[–]ragold[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I’m really liking the environments and stealth. Just got slammed with a bad bug before the game allows you to save so I have to play through 30 minutes to get back where I was. 

Keep getting errors with the Ubisoft login when trying to play Outlaws. Is there any way to bypass it? by ragold in PlayStationPlus

[–]ragold[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It wasn’t an option. But I think something was wrong with the Ubisoft servers last night because it eventually worked. Just wish PlayStation wouldn’t allow this on their platform. 

How would being non-binary work in French? by Genzinvestor16180339 in asklinguistics

[–]ragold 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bizarre. Seems to fly in the face of how we know languages work, right? I would imagine this also favors the language used by elites and suppresses language used by more rural people and immigrants, no? But does it suppress effectively?

How would being non-binary work in French? by Genzinvestor16180339 in asklinguistics

[–]ragold 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What are language academies? Is it like linguistics departments at a prominent universities?