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It blows my mind that Washington is the second worst state to drive in. Last summer I drove from Baltimore to New York and encountered so many tolls it made me yearn for our roads.
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Computer generated experiences that can not be differentiated from what is real is essentially the end goal of an entire industry. It being used for sex was always a foregone conclusion.
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"My alley" "my neighbor" "my roommate" "my family". Good lord you need to get your own blog. This isn't the Nathalie Graham News.
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The Tulum Mayan ruins near Cancun have a Starbucks. It seemed pretty ridiculous on the way in but on the way out is a different story. I've never been so grateful for mediocre-but-predictable coffee and functioning AC. At least with Starbucks you know what you are getting.
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"Our research shows global warming is accelerating,"
"Global surface temperatures surged by a record amount from 2014 to 2016, boosting the total amount of warming since the start of the last century by more than 25 percent [0.43 degrees F] in just three years" according to new University of Arizona-led research.

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@5 dude you are tiresome. There is no valid argument against mass transit. I'd suggest that you move to the boonies rather than shit in our collective bed, here.
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It's hard to tell with the misplaced comma, but I believe the commenter @5 was trying to say that Snohomish and Pierce counties voted against ST3. In fact, Snohomish County voted in favor of ST3, 51.00% to 49.00%.
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Can someone get an editor on the Morning News? The list of news items needs to be cut in half.
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I wonder if The Stranger / Slog is going the way of LA Weekly, and this drek is just a smokescreen behind which everything else will quietly disappear.
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Jesus effinging christ. The very first headline has an error in it: "Are Democrats going gut funding for ST3" You're missing a very important preposition: "to"

Review your work before submitting it. I'd get fired if I made so many mistakes when all it takes is re-reading what you wrote. Are you on a deadline or something and you procrastinate and leave yourself with no time to review?
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@5 math and electioneering is hard, dipshit.

King county has 2.117 million people.
More than methed-out shit holes like Pierce and Snohomish combined. King pays into state and federal coffers at almost 2.5x the rate of your precious decaying aging goobervilles- which suck more welfare than they pay in.

And combine the “yes” votes from all the counties and guess what? Golly gee the ST3 measure passed by a majority.

That’s how it works, dumbfuck.
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Hey editors:
The same stupid multiplying rightwing sock puppets and trolls saying the same stupid shit day in and day out.

Jesus. Either moderate and curate these sock puppets or put SLOG commenting out of it’s misery already. There is nobody left that says anything remotely worthwhile anymore. Just kill comments. Maybe these loser shut-ins will finally leave their moms basements.
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@11/12

Dude you are the only one behaving like a troll here seeing as you're throwing around insults that would get you banned on a curated forum.
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if you haven't watched it, President Asshole's "surprise" news conference yesterday was a thing of beauty. Asshole tried push his bullshit counternarratives and Hillary distractions. he tried to bully a female reporter and she got right in his face (who said that? I DID), and he wound up saying he'd testify under oath.

precisely the opposite of what he planned to accomplish. hubris will be his undoing.
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@11/12: No one is acting like an immature troll here but you. Maybe you need to take a break and calm down a bit, maybe look in a mirror.
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what @12 said.
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@13 & 15 only trolls come to publications like the Stranger day after day to spew conservative rhetoric.. If the shoe fits ...
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It's funny that the definition of "troll" on here is just someone critical of the poorly edited content, or someone with a slightly center of far-left opinion.
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"hubris will be his undoing."

My bet is still on a severely clogged artery or perhaps something cardiac. But whatever it takes.
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@18 sorry pal, but being anti-mass transit for a major city of the 21st century is nowhere close to being slightly center of far left, it's more like being slightly left of Attila the Hun
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@11 (1st one),

https://www.theonion.com/factual-error-f…

Jesus dude, I've worked as a proofreader and am as pedantic as anyone I know, but you're reading a morning news roundup posted to a blog by a goddamn intern. Was the meaning obscured? No? Did it make the print edition? No? Then get a freaking grip. The increasingly irate, self appointed editorial staff of the world wide web grow more and more insufferable with each passing minute.
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Hey, lighten up everybody! This is NOT the place to find actual news - this is where whomever has taken over the morning slot can put their own (occasionally opinionated and snarky) spin on things in the headlines and the more obscure. Go elsewhere if you want to critique journalism. I like it - keep it up, SLOG.
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P.S. I've been enjoying the news roundups of late, in particular the ruminations on your alley. And Edgar will make the HOF next year. Thanks, Nathalie!
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@22 beat me to it. Was planning on posting something quite similar, then had an inbound call come in at work.
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@21 I love reading the SLOG and enjoy the varied content. And I get your point that a grammatical error/omission doesn't change the meaning of the article. Clearly that is the case. But I guess asking for professionalism from someone at any level in their career just doesn't cut it in this country anymore. But cutting corners and laughing off errors doesn't cut it over time. Constructive criticism is meant to help people.
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@17: Yes, the nerve of people posting opinions in the comments section of a news site. How dare anyone but you or people just like you do such a thing!

What is the world coming to when other people are allowed to speak other than anon1256, and that anon1256 may have to be exposed to opinions that are not theirs?

Won't someone think of the children? Won't someone think of anon1256?
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Is the Starbucks at Yosemite that big a deal? My understanding is that it's replacing the crappy coffee stand that's currently in the concession area of the lodge. If you're going to charge $70 to enter a national park, you may as well provide some decent food and beverage options.

Also the personal alley saga should have been its own post; why the hell was that in the Morning News?
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Wait, are you saying driving here is bad because so many people drive over the speed limit (and if so I agree that does make it worse) or because nobody drives over the speed limit? (and if the latter when did the Stranger become pro-driving and pro-speeding - odd choices for an otherwise urbanist publication)
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@26 only trolls come to a publication like the Stranger, day after day, to spew conservative rhetoric.
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Kind of funny how if anyone criticizes the content here the same characters all show up to extol how they love "SLOG" weirdly using all caps from multiple accounts and showing up all at once.

As to to the anti-troll trolls above, I hope you guys someday realize you're acting like parodies of how Trump supporters see liberals.
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There’s an awful lot of vitriol in this thread over a couple of minor grammatical errors. I must not be the only one having a bad week.
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@29: Just close your eyes and go to your happy place if the mean opinions are hurting you. Remember: anyone who is different than you is just a mean old doo-doo head.
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@27,

I would kind of agree that the Starbucks could conceivably be a not real big deal (full disclosure: I actually rather like their coffee, but am also put off by their omnipresence.) Though I also recall reading where they maybe have a clause that prevents any other coffee from being sold within a certain radius of this location, like not even in the cafeteria or whatever. If true, I could see this as being a fairly obnoxious clause and may be what's putting some folks off.
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@27 and @33

For additional context, all the major national parks and forests have concessions. The parks and forests take a cut of your grizzly bear magnet or t-shirt, which is actually a good thing for them because the even though there are federal laws that require funding of the parks - the government is forever trying to slash that funding.

The concessions are all done through third party contractors who go through the federal bids process. It's not like Starbucks is any better or worse than those other contractors, they're just way more conspicuous but many of these concessions contractors are part of global corporations - people just don't know these corporations by name by and large.

Trash is already a big problem in all the parks but it will still be a problem with or without Starbucks.
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@32 as if your opinions or that of anti-mass transit regressives were the "mean opinions" here or elsewhere. Go away, troll.
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Commenters that conflate differences of opinion as trolling are themselves trolls.
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can it get any dumber?

You are certainly and collectively making a good case for @12 comments.
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@39 "everyone is a troll here"

I doubt very much this is true. However, @37 for example, for years posted opinions linked to FOX "News", for which being called a troll must be considered an act of kindness, because the alternatives are none too pleasing.
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@40: Fine with me, I'm a troll but you are not.

Feel better now?
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What are we all doing here except trolling each other? For fucks sake, they’re opinions. We all have them, we all believe in them to some degree, and thankfully no one here is forming public policy or passing legislation based on them.

@40. You should dissuade yourself of the notion that your opinions (comments) mean anything to anyone besides yourself. Once you’ve firmly grasped that concept feel free to apply it to others’ opinions (comments) as well. It will help lower your blood pressure.
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@42 As seen from their continual comments, there is very little content they approve of here. I can only conclude they are here to provoke and in some cases disrupt and derail comments sections, i.e. trolling. Nobody needs to invade the opponent's' comments section to know what they stand for. I have other purpose in life than explain to dimwits why a major modern metropolis needs mass transit or why voting for douchebags who slash the safety net and more NAFTA like treaties make them accomplices to many of the problems they continually bitch about like undocumented immigration and homelessness (often in degrading terms and with hateful rhetoric). I am not necessarily against some diversity of opinions but this is getting a little too much.
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@43 what drivel! Remember when conservatives uniformly repeatedly shouted loud and clear that global warming was a matter of opinion? well, I do and I also know for sure that you assholes have no intellectual integrity whatsoever because your side has done it countless times, lying at every turn. Why should anyone expect a genuine productive exchange with horrible people? I don't know.
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@44

Do you derive actual pleasure from being this self-important?
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@45. If someone’s opinions go against factual, provable, empirical evidence that you have access to...cite said facts, link to proof, disprove their assertion, and move on.

I do it to you far left dumbfucks here all the time.
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@46 You are confusing a) valuing diversity with b) having conversations with conservatives without coherence or honesty. The later is of no use to progressives.
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@49 It seems to be getting a lot worse and it's probably driving even more people away. I don't mind the occasional giggle but I also don't need that garbage in my life on a regular basis. I suspect that as long as it generates clicks, which flame wars usually do, the boss doesn't mind.
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Years ago, Slog was pretty active with sniping and arguing, troll accusers, and the like. Remember TrollSpotter?

So the more things change the more they stay the same. Those that do the most complaining about trolls obviously don't mind taking the time out of their busy days to dial up Slog and waste their time (and their employer's time) to make known their simmering discontent.

They deem themselves as purveyors of proper discussion, while giving only the slightest deference to the diversity of ideas and to challenge their own thinking. Tragically uncurious, they pride themselves as "seen it all". They almost seem to enjoy their annoyance, as it seems be the only source of validation in their unmotivated and myopic lives.
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@53.

That’s dark.

Please wait...

and remember to be decent to everyone
all of the time.

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