Comments

1

What a colorful fever dream this post was.

2

Charles - We don't see eye to eye on everything, but 'Christmas Time' is Here is absolutely my favorite Holiday song. Havppy Winter Solstice!

3

Whenever I see these posts about bollards, I think about Ballard. And I'm perfectly good with seeing more bollards in Ballard. In fact, Ballard Bollards would be a better name for a sports team than the cliché, faux-English, "America's not good enough" Ballard FC. Sorry, had to get that one off my chest.

Anyway, just as much as I'm for measures to fight against selfish, shameless, sociopathic drivers of light-duty trucks, I'm also in favor of recognizing that selfish, shameless, sociopathic looters are our enemy as well. Which leads me to what I believe is the most important story of the day, "Thefts, Always an Issue for Retailers, Become More Brazen:"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/business/retailers-robberies-theft.html

If we think that drivers are a threat to the urban paradise we want to have here in Seattle, try violent crime and property crime.

Which brings me to this related story that is both heartbreaking and captures the madness of our times, "Guard fatally shot as TV news crew covers smash-and-grab theft in Oakland:"
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-11-27/guard-for-news-crew-guard-dies-after-being-shot-in-attempted-robbery

5

@4, Florida has been lying about their numbers since the pandemic started and DeSantis even sent armed goons to the house of one of the scientists who revealed this, almost a year ago today.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence he now wants his own brown shirts.

6

@3 - Was that the article using the statistic, $700,000 of stolen merchandise (for every $1B sold)? When I read that, I laughed my ass off. Saying that 0.07% of retail merchandise is stolen does not quite hit home .... so we better go with $700K to really freak people out.

8

I bet those delivery bots come with "tank" treads and they just weren't put on before first snow so that they wouldn't wear-out.
Even hobby robot cars come with optional treads.
Someone get Charles a robot car kit for Christmas, mans could use a hobby.

9

I saw that comment @4 with a tag I'd never seen before, and my first reaction was, "What, has GayPWM been banned?" Sure enough, I took a look and the answer is yes. The next thing I did was to report the trolling @4.

In the meantime, I'd recommend to my fellow serious commenters, don't take the bait. DFTT. Slog has been pretty good lately about cracking down on trolling.

10

Durkan's missing emails are further proof that protesters were correct in marching to her house. Has an elected official in Seattle ever been held less accountable?

12

@4: What's your source for those stats? And it seems you're including many first wave deaths from nearly two years ago in NY/NJ when comparing recent post-vaccine deaths in FL and elsewhere, no?

14

@fax frothingham,

I've always wondered... Does the registration process allow you to use the same email address for each of your newly created profiles when you get banned, or do you need to create a new email for each profile? You must have a comically large # of email addresses if so.

17

According to this website, Florida is 9th in terms of death per capita from COVID: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

What is important to note is that Florida got the virus much later than other states. Treatments have improved considerably. New Jersey got most of its death long before Florida even had a substantial number of cases. Florida had its biggest spike in fatalities just a few months ago, when treatments were much better, and we had a very good idea how to prevent the spread of the disease (wearing masks instead of excessive hand washing). In fact a substantial number of people got it despite the vaccines being available. For a while I assumed that New Jersey would always be at the top, given the fact that they got hit hard very early. But somehow the southern states just keep climbing the list, producing more and more dead people. They also clog up our public health system, and cause enormous damage to the economy.

Which brings me to another point. Even if the vaccine did not reduce overall transmission (which simply isn't true, as we have repeatedly pointed out with ample evidence) not getting vaccinated causes problems for society. It is like not wearing a helmet while driving at 150 MPH on a motorcycle. Sure, it is your right to be stupid, and you will only likely hurt yourself. But if you end up in the hospital, who is going to pay for your medical bills? Who is going to pay for rehab, or pay to keep you alive as you linger through life with severe brain damage? Yep, everyone else. Getting vaccinated is the responsible thing to do -- not just a self serving act.

17

@10: Why her house?

18

@13 -- Ha, you dipshit, you are reading the wrong column. Death rates (listed as number of people dead per million or residents) is right next to the state. It has Florida ninth, as expected.

You are looking at confirmed case/fatality rate. This means the percentage of people who die after being diagnosed as having the disease. This just confirms what we've been saying. Northeast states are really high, because they got hit the hardest early on (when treatment was poor). In contrast, Florida is merely average, which means that of the people who have a confirmed case, not an especially large number die. The only reason so many people in Florida have died from the disease is because so many people in Florida have contracted the disease, and most of those in the last few months.

Fuck, no wonder you keep making false claims about the pandemic. If you can't understand a simple chart, it is asking a lot to comprehend the medical literature. How about you stop pretending you are Dr. Oz, and listen to the experts, OK.

19

And here I'd figured Lisa for the smart one.

21

Statistics; these are all people, loved ones; & do whatever to avoid getting covid.
School shootings , those beautiful young people gone & killed by a fifteen yr old. Fifteen.
Loved the Xmas tree picture. Good sized tree too for a train trip. Nearly time to get out my Bobby Dylan Christmas songs CD.

22

Good point @20. Smokers, drinkers, shit food eaters. Eat less too, try to fast every couple of days. Stop letting these companies put adverts on tv. Etc etc etc. unbridled capitalism has got us here, and our cultures are breaking down because money/ profit under any scheme before people is the capitalist motto. And we all are just another brick in the wall.

23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDbicVxyzBY

Fools die for lack of wisdom.

24

This is why maternity leave/ paternity leave/ whoever leave is important, because if the parents are looked after their kids don’t turn into fifteen year old killers. Or twenty one year old killers.
Feminism , the second wave, pushed for communal parenting in that women met @ community centres , so they wouldn’t be isolated with babies / children. We pushed for loving & easy & accessible child care facilities, so women could work , if they wanted to.
In the fifties, when the nuclear family Ruled, families lived in one wage. Sixties/ Seventies, eruptions , feminism & much social upheaval over many parts of western culture, burst thru & look what’s happened since.
Capitalism appropriates every social movement, to make some pig greedy person/s, more riches. It’s a mug’s game, capitalism with no humanity brakes.

31

Thank you for sharing Vince Guaraldi's "Christmastime is Here" from the classic Charlie Brown Christmas TV special. It's my all-time favorite holiday CD.

@27 Trolling_MAGA-Goof: Gee, I don't have any guns and I feel a shitload saner than you.

So now Ron DeSantis wants his own brownshirts to further spread the manure. It figures. All they have to do by fahtin' fer their Free Dumbs is breathe on each other to drop dead. Or give every 3 year old from Tallahassee to Miami a 12-gauge. Christmas comes to Wal*Mart. Wheeeee!
At this rate of Orange Turd insanity the entire Southeastern U.S. is destined to be a hollowed out wasteland by 2025.

32

Guns are for folks who live in fear

33

@26 Trolling_MAGA_Goof: Oh I see. To properly vaccinate your patients, provided you have any, you shoot them. That explains your gun arsenal.

34

@32 Garb for the WIN!

35

Has anyone heard from kristofarian lately?

39

@37. I would be a lot laxer in my approach to gun control if gun owners would actually secure their guns from children who regularly get hold of their grandfather's arsenal and blow away a school. With great power comes great responsibility and fetishizing a deadly weapon designed to kill as many people as possible in as short a period of time combined with lax security makes crimes of opportunity the norm.

40

@30 - if the morons who refuse to get vaccinated would do the honorable thing and no longer demand to live* among us we could probably dispense with a lot of the restrictions.

*I am agnostic on the mechanism for their removal from circulation. Secession (we could spare a few of the former Confederate states for Covid preserves, although then it really WOULD be time to build that border wall), Jonestown, locking themselves in their homes, etc. are all fine with me.

42

@36, 38, yeah, for the win of the day!


Please wait...

Comments are closed.

Commenting on this item is available only to members of the site. You can sign in here or create an account here.


Add a comment
Preview

By posting this comment, you are agreeing to our Terms of Use.