because they will not allow further density, or policies that could help homeless, or bills to put in low income housing because they fear it will harm their property value. The low income housing bills that have passed in Seattle involve building “mixed income” buildings where the “low income” units are $1200…

god SDOT. so true.

nearby cities bus their homeless over here because our services are better. It’s amazing when you work in homeless shelters and talk to the people there, how many of them were given free bus/plane tickets from other cities in the US and shipped over here to be our problem.

it’s in the constitution. We can’t have an income tax. Courts have struct it down. The city did implement one only for it to get instantly smacked down.

I live here and pretty much hate what the city council does overall..generally. That said, they HAVE tried to fix the state’s tax structure. It ends up going to court and getting struck down, so while I’m pretty unhappy with the city council, I would say they ARE trying things and they ARE keeping to their campaign…

I have a toyota. It lets out a LOUD shriek if the car is running but the proximity key isn’t in the drivers seat. Even if I sit in the back of the car with the key while someone else drives it starts going off. This sounds like the real issue is that we have an aging population and cars that kill the engine when…

But like, with the number of racists in the country, maybe it’s tough NOT to hire them. When they do something super obvious like this it’s easy to root the individual out, but most people don’t advertise that loudly at the interview. Especially not in the PNW. Racism here seems more hidden and insidious than when I…

I’ve been curious whether it’s a ruse, and whether she really is 9 years old. I mean she does look super young, but there have been adults that looked like children before.

Is this the way for them to co-opt the harm reduction movement???

Sorry but Arlo does allow local recording for free. The base station has USB ports where you can plug in a stick or hard drive and record to your hearts content.

Sorry but Arlo does allow local recording for free. The base station has USB ports where you can plug in a stick or…

I have no idea how well she knows her nephew. What I will say is that if she was marrying a non-royal then news outlets wouldn’t be tracking down every single relative of hers and doing sensationalist media. Look at it this way... the guy is running a challenging business with precarious legal status. He keeps getting…

That’s bullshit though. “Qualifications” are subjective not objective. The whole “hire the most qualified for the job” is a smokescreen to use things like “Culture fit” and “Drive” as supposed tie breakers between minority and female candidates.

Why is this a mess? Guy has a real job that pays and is legal. Guy is an entrepreneur. Using the name “Markle” is ballsy for sure, but he didn’t say anything bad or inflammatory about the couple at all. He said he’d be happy to show them around oregon if they’d like, and that he thinks Megan has an American view on…

I mean TBH democracy has been destroyed. Coffee-salute happened and then democracy fell. I’m just pointing out the facts

There’s always some asshole at work who goes off about diversity of thought when we’re talking about hiring. The claim he (and it’s always a he...) will make is that it’s racist to assume that a black man would have a different perspective than a white man, and that we should really pursue a poor white farmer for the…

While I think this is very important and they definitely should hire more teachers of color, would that help with the problem above? Genuinely curious on the data as to whether this is still true in predominantly black schools or not. Like is it really the teachers or is it top down super racist to the point where the…

My grade school was hella racist and DEFINITELY punished black kids way more often than anyone else. I remember we had mandatory quiet time where we had to put our heads under a jacket with the lights off for 20 minutes. Without fail when the teacher softly asked us to all raise our heads, she would immediately yell…

well the point that gets made is that reverse racism is a way for minorities to systematically oppress and hold down white people. Which...Maybe there are people out there doing that, but whenever reverse racism is invoked it’s NEVER that thing. In my experience it’s just been a white person getting told that they…

are we allowed to respond? I’m never sure on this site so I usually just lurk...

I went to the hospital fairly recently as well. My left arm went numb and I had telltale symptoms of a heart attack. I was 30 years old. The doctor told me I was fine and having a panic attack, plus I had pretty bad acid reflux as well. I am somewhat better but seriously considering therapy these days. Stay strong…