Here's the municipal code regarding riding bikes on sidewalks:

11.44.120 - Riding on sidewalk or public path.
Every person operating a bicycle upon any sidewalk or public path shall operate the same in a careful and prudent manner and at a rate of speed no greater than is reasonable and proper under the conditions existing at the point of operation, taking into account the amount and character of pedestrian traffic, grade and width of sidewalk or public path, and condition of surface, and shall obey all traffic-control devices. Every person operating a bicycle upon a sidewalk or public path shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian thereon, and shall give an audible signal before overtaking and passing any pedestrian.

https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/p…

RE: Credit scores in China

Basically, your credit score runs your life in China.

Gee, I can't imagine what that would be like...

I'm still amazed* that Americans allow three private companies to tell them how they can and cannot run their lives. This is a capitalist country, why do people put up with private companies dictating the rules to them, with no say whatsoever? What if I don't like how Equifax, Experian, and Transunion do business? Can I use a competing credit score agency? Nope. How is that American???

*I'm not actually amazed at all. Americans are largely oblivious retards.

Still nothing about deregulating banks with the help of 33% of the Democratic Senate (including Tim Kaine and Doug Jones)?

@3 How do you suggest people make due diligence decisions when deciding to enter into a financial contract with another party ?

Oops that was supposed to be @2

@2: Those companies do not tell you that you can or can not own a boat. They tell other people how risky it is to loan you money for a boat.

This Austin bomb story ought to be significantly bigger story. This is actual, no question about it, terrorism! Like, dictionary-definition terrorism. And we're mostly like "huh, that's odd. I guess it will go away eventually".

@1 You missed the part about Boadway stating you can only ride a bike on the sidewalk if you weave and there are clearly marked, safe, bike paths as part of the roadway that you could be using. Because you are oppressed. #hotpizza

We are so glad the Austin bombings turned out not to be racial.
Or guns.
Now The Left can studiously ignore them,
like it does all mayhem that does not fit it's twisted narrative.

@3

I agree that one third of Senate Democrats voting for banking deregulation is a story more people need to hear.
That being said, I also realize that the Stranger's editorial board is full of mainstream Democrats who probably don't want to tell this story.

Right-wing trolls post here all the time saying:
Why isn't the Stranger writing about _____?

The Stranger has a viewpoint, and it's going to report on stories that highlight their viewpoint, and it's going to ignore stories that don't.

That's just how media works.

@10

Would that be the same way that Fox News ignore stories, all the Mayhem, that don't fit their twisted narrative?

Like I said in #11, that's how media works.

If you want to read stories that are sympathetic to your viewpoint, go find yourself a website that sympathetic to your viewpoint.

Wow, I really need to proof read these speech to text posts before I post them.

Seriously though, why is anyone surprised that the Stranger has its own point of view, and the stories that they publish are going to support that point of view.

Every single media outlet from Fox News to Huffpo does the exact same thing.
This is America, that's how things work here.

The wheels are falling off the clown car. It's high time to fire Trumpzilla and Pencezilla, Sessions, Pruitt, and their equally crooked cronies already! Robert Mueller III., do NOT back down with the investigations. Let the final nail in the GOP-NRA-RepubliKKKan coffin get hammered in, and let's END this nightmare of biblical proportions that should never have happened once and for all.
Youth of these Divided States--keep up the protests. You and generations to come are the future of this planet. Once you turn 18, don't forget to register to vote! You can help make a major difference in the midterm elections.

@4,5,6,

The problem is, practically everything in our country, and the world, is fueled by money. The entire outcome of your life can be determined by the whims of what these agencies deem to be important financial information, regardless of its accuracy.

The main issue I have is that they have essentially no competition. Everyone uses FICO. If you don't like FICO, there is nothing you can do about it. You can't switch to a competitor because there are none. Our financial lives (and thus, simply stated: our lives) are entirely dependent on it. We are all required to use it, a private company. That's not capitalism.

@7:

And yet, completely unsurprisingly, even with four separate incidents spread out over 17 days, the total number of casualties has been far fewer than from a single incident where a MGAW was used.

@10: Previous account was banned over the weekend, eh Bub? How long do you suspect the moderators will put up with your obvious troll baiting this time?

Okay, we have sideshow barker POTUS leading a de facto grievance movement, and NOW a grievance bomber in the heartland of ersatz POTUS' "base voters"....
COINCIDENCE??

And by the way, I predicted when I read the blurb that some genius would post comment(s) about how the self-driving cars "kill FEWER people than humans driving" as a good thing.
Er, yeah.
Never occurred to you that a single death alone takes you over the threshold of what is acceptable?
No?

Sessions couldn't fire McCabe for his handling of the Clinton Foundation investigation, after what he swore under oath. But he did. Call him on it or he'll fire Mueller "for lacking candor".

https://www.justsecurity.org/54037/sessi…

GRASSLEY: To be very clear, you intend to recuse yourself from both the Clinton e-mail investigation and any matters involving the Clinton Foundation, if there are any?

SESSIONS: Yes.

@16: You do not use the three credit agencies, and no one is being forced to. Those who give out loans are free to ignore credit scores and give out whatever loans they want. The agencies do not decide who lends you money, and they have no real "whims" when it comes to individuals.

However, those that do lend money seem to have decided it is in their best interest to use those credit scores. No one is forcing them to, they just feel it is in their best interest.

Seattle has been an espionage target since Boeing started building jets. The tech stuff is just gravy.

@16 Well yes, money is a medium of exchange. It's not a problem, either are credit reports. Having bad credit is a problem, it makes it difficult to participate in the monetary system. D o you have any suggestions that would work better, or do you have crappy credit?

@27: Ever thought to ask yourself why you have such an obsession with Slog? What is it that so obviously triggers you?

@13 I would figure that deregulating the banks and setting the economy to crash would be a big enough story even without the 17 Democrats voting for it. It’s a fairly impactful piece of legislation. Its passing can be blamed on the Republicans in control of the senate and House, especially if The Stranger ignores the supporting votes by the conservative Democrats that Dan Savage, Eli Sanders and Rich Smith are sucking off on a regular basis.

Since the bill’s passage, there hasn’t even been a blurb in any of the morning news roundups. It’s like they don’t know how to deal with real news nor do they want to deal with real news. Is it the ostrich syndrome? If they ignore it, the problem will go away? Do they not remember Joe Lieberman’s fucking of the Public Option?

This is why Democratic pundits suck. They’re so chickenshit to criticize their conservative brethren, but god forbid somebody liberal does something wrong.

@19:

Not in the least - murder is murder. But, given the typical 2Aer knee-jerk response to any mass-killing situation involving firearms is always: "if guns are outlawed, killers will simply resort to another weapon", it seems prudent to point out the quite obvious fact that when mass-killers DO in fact resort to another weapon the resulting casualties tend to be far less than they would have been had the killer used a firearm, ergo the "another weapon" argument is weakened in light of real world examples.

@24, 26,

I have neither suggestions nor bad credit, I just like complaining. That's why I fit in so well here on SLOG.

Ok wait I do have a suggestion, instead of giant, nation-wide agencies, there should be local ones. They're taking the averages of the entire country to determine what's good and bad in terms of financial behavior.

30

You are assuming a lot about a case about which you know next to nothing.

And if guns were unavailable criminals intent on amass toll would quickly come up with other, more gruesome, ways.
Arson, poison, vehicles, bombs;
health care workers have uncountable ways to kill (google Dr. David J. Acer; a case the Leftist media never saw fit to look into....);
Bus drivers? Pilots?
In fact the death toll from most shootings is fairly low,
The Left hypes the rare high toll events to push their agenda.

@32:

I'm assuming nothing. My statements are based solely on the information provided to the media by the Austin PD.

Unsurprisingly, all of those means you cite are already available - some quite easily so - and yet mass-killings, or in fact any killings using almost any of them remain https://www.statista.com/statistics/1953…">exceedingly rare when compared to firearms-related homicides. There's a very good reason firearms are the preferred choice of mass-killers instead of all those other things you mention: they're relatively cheap, ridiculously easy to obtain, and highly efficient at killing many, many people in a very short period of time. Sure, a igniting large truck bomb or plowing an airplane into a building might be equally as effective, but when those methods have been used in the past we have taken very sensible, very prudent, and very common-sense actions to severely restrict access to the means and materials needed to render them effective, and so they're no longer used by those intent in inflicting maximum carnage. That's not going to change, even if every single firearm were to suddenly disappear overnight.

And so, once again we are reluctantly forced to conclude that your ass does most of the speaking on your behalf...

Mexico's has strict gun control laws and a rate of gun ownership is 1/6 that in the USA
but has a higher rate of gun related homicides.
How can that be?

@34: You're doing a great job of making COMTE's point, you're just too busy playing the whataboutism game (and fundamentally incapable of taking a point to its conclusion) to see it.

His point that reducing the number of guns does not reduce gun violence?