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"At least we can dance. The world may be going up in flames but there’s still some fun to be had"

Shipping powders back and forth
Singing black goes south and white comes north
And the whole world full of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours
While the current fashions set the pace
Lose your step, fall out of grace
The radical, he rant and rage
Singing someone got to turn the page
And the rich man in his summer home
Singing just leave well enough alone
But his pants are down, his cover's blown
And the politicians throwing stones
So the kids, they dance, they shake their bones
'Cause it's all too clear we're on our own
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down

Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones

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Temps in the low to mid 90's certainly isn't awful or horrible. It's summer after all.

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Re: the erupting volcano in Japan is "far away from large population centers".

Although not "large" compared to Tokyo, the city of Kagoshima is about 10 miles away. It has a population of 600,000 which is about the same as Wyoming and it gets to have 2 US Senators.

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"Sultry" means it is humid. It is NOT humid in Seattle when it is hot.
The low 90s is hot, but it is the normal summer temperature everywhere in WA east of the Cascades.
I'm still mad about that kid getting killed in Parkland.

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I love the heat. And I love the tunnel. It's the fastest way to get through downtown, as all the cheapskates are either on I-5 or the surface streets.

But I will say that the waterfront is starting to really shape up nicely.

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@5 - "Thanks Obama" is a fairly established meme these days which blames Obama for random/outlandish things. I don't care to look it up but I believe it started with conservatives sarcastically saying "Thanks, Obama" for things they blamed Obama (like the ACA). Since a LOT of these claims were either inaccurate or overblown, internet culture started being double-sarcastic, saying/typing "Thanks, Obama" for actual helpful stuff and then it later evolved into sarcastically "blaming" random shit on him as a joke. For example, when I scraped my finger this morning I could have said "Thanks Obama" and that would have been current "correct" usage of the term.

@6 - No doubt. I have to actively tamp down my anger about this. People don't take driving seriously enough and they don't understand goddamn physics. Even if there was no fine/jail punishment, I'd say killing someone in this situation should be an automatic 10-year suspension from driving at the very least. Or you have to keep a picture of the dead person on your keychain or some shit like that so that you're forever reminded/haunted that someone died because you're an impatient dipshit.

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LOL “if you happen to know any youths.” Based on the comments section The Stranger is mostly read by old scolds/ holdovers from the paper weeklies of the 1990s

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What is it about "Home Owners Associations"?
I think the Tacoma Farmers need to find a new locale
right away-- that is apparently not a neighborhood that
deserves to have anything as pleasant and fun as a
farmer's market.

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@8: Aren't we all impatient drivers at one point in time or another? Let the saints raise their hands. Not excusing the driver but they are no different than any of us.

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Yeah I definitely don't have a flawless driving record either and perhaps I've just been lucky on the Random Encounter table that my vehicle hasn't collided with another living entity (since I hit that poor owl in Kansas, at least). But if I can get ticketed for sliding on an ice patch in a parking a lot and hitting another car (that had just slid on the same patch), with no injuries and very little damage (roughly 5 mph collision) then how in the fuck is killing a person at a crosswalk not subject to some level of (scaled up) consequence per the system?

Impatient drivers fuck up and get penalized all the time - so why not this?

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@10: i'm mad at multiple factors in the story.

i'm mad that the kid followed the rules and got run over. it means that crosswalks w/ signals are a joke, and people who trust in them are suckers. this is what I do for pedestrians at crosswalks every day; i stop. now it seems like that's setting pedestrians up to die. parkland should remove the crosswalk or put a proper traffic light there.

i didn't say it was a crime. i understand why the driver's not been charged, although they changed lanes and went around a stopped car. it was reckless, if not legally negligent.

anecdotally, my wife knew someone who killed themselves over a similar incident decades ago: they'd been driving the stopped car and felt responsible.

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Speculation in the tacoma subreddit is that the Mexican restaurant in the point Ruston development has a non-compete clause.

So it's an asinine thing, but maybe not a blatantly bigoted asinine thing at least?

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@10:

Aren't our traffic laws predicated on the axiom that "pedestrians legally crossing lanes of traffic have rights of way"? So, if running down someone in a legal, well-marked and signal-lit crosswalk with an automobile ISN'T a crime, then what the fuck IS? We won't even go into how "also ignoring a vehicle stopped to allow a pedestrian to cross and passing it instead" should factor into this.

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@15 We just dropped $11k on getting A/C installed in our house. Too bad the install date isn't until the 5th, but it's absolutely worth the cost. Plus added home value!

21

Speaking of death in SODO, an acquaintance of ours was killing in a road rage shooting down by the 4th Ave S viaduct over the railroad tracks. Apparently somebody cut somebody off at the place where the two northbound lanes are reduced to one because the guardrails are broken. The right hand northbound lane of that viaduct has been shut down for almost a decade now, and there's no sidewalk on that side, or any kind of bike passage on the viaduct.

Our transportation priorities in this town are completely goofy.

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@21 It's completely wild that "road-rage killing" is a term I've recently become acquainted w because of how many incidents have happened down here in South King County recently.

Hardly a day goes by where I don't see a gruesome wreck on the highway either. It's no way to live (or die).

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The anti-transit mentality of this blog is nuts. What is this, the Seattle Times? Buses have been running to West Seattle using the lower bridge for a while now. It is quite fast compared to most parts of the city and a lot faster than driving. It seems like you support every transit project -- even really stupid ones -- but are afraid to actually use transit, even when it is faster than driving.


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