I’d run that dog house through your mortgage calculator again. Or perhaps The Stranger just pays that poorly. Turns out that creating anti-capitalism content doesn’t actually pay the bills??!

“Lawmakers from Alaska, Oregon, and Idaho are pissed that the Washington State Legislature is entertaining the possibility of a 6-cent-per-gallon tax on fuel exported from the state because they don’t want to pay.”

Gosh when they built that Oil Pipeline in Alaska IT was taxed well enough to give EVERY FUCKING RESIDENT IN AK around $1000 or so – even kids. specially Kids! every fucking year for Decades. sweet, eh?

Like the Airwaves, it BELONGS TO WE THE PEEPS.

but
Damn!
If only it
weren’t “Socialism”!

so let's Not:

it'd seem Easy
and soon we too'd
be no good for Nuthin

Could it be that the Stranger is staffing up for a revived print edition? One can only hope. (I know some will scoff, but ink on paper is much easier on the eyes.)

@4,

Agreed. Also get your crossword fix in (actually not sure if The Stranger had a crossword or not. The Mercury had just finally introduced one down here in Portland shortly before shutting down publication. Willamette Week is still publishing and actually has a pretty good crossword, FWIW.) I'll also always cherish those times sitting by myself at an empty bar and reading Savage Love columns in print. Somehow just not the same on the dumb phone.

Alas, the job posting itself doesn't really seem to instill much by way of confidence.

just in (nyt):
RUSSIA ATTACKS UKRAINE

Explosions Heard Across Country; Biden
Says World Will ‘Hold Russia Accountable’

Putin Issues Threat Against ‘Anyone Who Tries to Interfere’

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine
declared martial law after the attack. Explosions
were reported in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa and elsewhere.

President Biden described President Vladimir Putin’s actions as a “chosen premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/24/world/russia-ukraine-putin

and so it Begins

Mind the Nukes
Smokin' Joe

"Capitalism is so fucking cool and totally fucking working: According to KUOW, more than 500 resident physicians at the University of Washington Medical Center planned to walk off the job today. During their break. Which is a whole 15 minutes. What do they want? An 80-hour week limit and more money."

OK, so employees of an institution at a state-owned university planned a strike. Wouldn't that be a strike against a state-run enterprise? How does that relate to "capitalism"? I doubt even Charles Mudede could be that economically illiterate (although not from any lack of trying on his part).

More seriously, abuse of residents and early-career doctors has existed for a long time, at many hospitals. These doctors are absolutely correct that an 80-hour week is excessive, and it needs to be drastically reduced.

Anarchist sweep stoppers? Get ready for the sweep keepers.

@6
Peacetime didn't last long!
Come on kristofarian, time to buy up military contractor stocks! There's money in death!
Or am I confusing them with big pharma?

@11 I know this is rhetorical but the answer bears repeating. No one wants to live near/with an unsupervised, addicted, mentally unstable person. It’s a recipe for harm. A more cynical answer would be any service provider will tell you that you need to have customers to provide a service for to have a business. In this case both are probably true.

@2 - Don't be so hard on yourself. "mansplaining" has a pejorative connotation. I would argue you are "adultsplaining," which is something that certain entitled 25-year-olds could stand to hear.

@14 I don't pretend to know why Hannah believes everyone should be able to purchase a home in the city of their choosing. If it works this way, please sign me up for a 3 bedroom flat in London.

Hannah could most likely afford to own a decent house in the vast majority of the United States, if she's willing to forgo living in one of the larger coastal cities. $100,000 goes a very long way in the Midwest.

@11 Actually, that's a question that would be much more appropriate to ask those who object to "street people" being where they are now.

@17:

True, but we all already know the answer: because it's always someone else's responsibility to deal with these problems - they just don't want to have to be constantly reminded that the problem exists at all.

Just think of all those Congressional interns.

They can't afford rent.

Their parents help them out.

Seattle is like that.

If you're not Upper Class, you can't afford to buy here.

@17, @19: Almost seven years ago, then-Mayor Murray declared a Homelessness Crisis. Since then, Seattle has spent over half a billion dollars in a failed attempt to house approximately ten thousand homeless persons. (That equates to about fifty thousand dollars per homeless person.) That money has bought no improvements; in fact, Seattle's homelessness crisis has worsened. Rather than admit this obvious failure, Seattle's City Council has continued to fund a massive homeless-industrial complex of private bureaucracies. These organizations are very good at paying their leaders six-figure salaries, and at providing crowds of homeless persons to swamp City Council meetings with demands for even more money. These organizations have also proven utterly useless in actually housing persons who need permanent homes. The time for admission of failure has long since passed, yet that admission has yet to arrive. The longer this failure persists without resolution, the easier it becomes for Seattle's citizens to demand that illegal encampments be swept, without any further attempts to house those camps' inhabitants.

Seattle's citizens do not need to pay huge amounts of money to receive your moralizing put-downs; you provide those for free. Likewise, Seattle's citizens do not need to pay a dime to get illegal encampments. Why should they continue to pay anything at all?