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The state of [Washington state]

ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
The old thread was getting a little long in the tooth, and as it's basically been the apocalypse for regions of the state, it seems like a fine time for a thread rebirth. Post here about how your house is underwater and also apparently tornadoes can exist outside of Kansas.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I know @knitdan mentioned he got snow already which god dang.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    We got a tornado in Tacoma the year the movie Twister premiered in theaters. No I am not making this up, why does everyone keep asking me that.

  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    Yeah we ended up with about 6 inches of snow overall up here in the NE mountains. Roads are pretty clear except for some of the corners that don’t get sun.

    Spokane has fog freezing to the road at the moment so the drive home tonight should be a good time.

    At least we’re above water!

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    We got a little dusting out here in the Valley but it only stuck for like an hour before it started raining and freezing fogging.

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    I know it's November and everything has been extra on the rainfall, but it's been warmer rain, and don't forget to prep for the next heat/smoke dome.

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    Haven't seen any snow yet but I don't think Oahu gets much

  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    Oahu? Pretty sure that's another state!

  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Oahu? Never heard of it. Quid clearly means "Omak."

  • MatevMatev Cero Miedo Registered User regular
    Good old Oahu, WA.

    "Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
    Hail Hydra
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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Oahu? Pretty sure that's another state!

    No.

    It's an island in another state, duh.

    Where I, a resident of Washington, currently reside while continuing my "Raise Preacher's taxes" write in campaign.

  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    That, uh, sure does seem like some sort of low level voter fraud situation you've got going on there chief.

  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    I'm disappointed that the antivaxxer state senator got Medivac-ed out of El Salvador, though to be fair the Salvadorans were probably sick of him too.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Quid wrote: »
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Oahu? Pretty sure that's another state!

    No.

    It's an island in another state, duh.

    Where I, a resident of Washington, currently reside while continuing my "Raise Preacher's taxes" write in campaign.

    YOU SON OF A BITCH QUID! You're always who I point to when people say the Navy is a good service.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    That, uh, sure does seem like some sort of low level voter fraud situation you've got going on there chief.

    Service members are allowed to vote in the state of their registered permanent residence. Same kind of thing as to how they don't have to get a new driver license every time you get reposted.

  • HydropoloHydropolo Registered User regular
    Weaver wrote: »
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    That, uh, sure does seem like some sort of low level voter fraud situation you've got going on there chief.

    Service members are allowed to vote in the state of their registered permanent residence. Same kind of thing as to how they don't have to get a new driver license every time you get reposted.

    That's how the GoP knows there is so much voter fraud.

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    That, uh, sure does seem like some sort of low level voter fraud situation you've got going on there chief.

    Nope! Servicemembers remain citizens of the place they enlisted at. Both for the purposes of voting and paying state taxes. Which, given our lack of income tax, kinda makes the second one irrelevant.

  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited November 2021
    Tax dodger!!! This is an affront!!! How dare thee?!?!

    Hacksaw on
  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    'Scuse me as I do all my Xmas shopping in Portland

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    I haven't dodged a single sales tax! Washington has benefited from several weeks, possibly even a plural number of months of taxes!

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Tax dodger!!! This is an affront!!! How dare thee?!?!

    Thank you hacksaw everyone here supporting Ensign Elon over here asking for the working man to get his taxes raised while he benefits from government tax breaks in other states? I mean justice just doesn't mean anything anymore?!

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Tax dodger!!! This is an affront!!! How dare thee?!?!

    Thank you hacksaw everyone here supporting Ensign Elon over here asking for the working man to get his taxes raised while he benefits from government tax breaks in other states? I mean justice just doesn't mean anything anymore?!

    If justice meant anything the only thread left in D&D would be the Star Trek thread

  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    Ignore that this story is from back in October. The Puyallup tribe has purchased land on Tacoma's Ruston Way waterfront. They're looking to expand their existing real estate footprint and diversify their economic portfolio in the county. The snapped up two iconic restaurants down there. One of them will remain in operation. The other will ??????

    It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out over the next few years.

  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Ignore that this story is from back in October. The Puyallup tribe has purchased land on Tacoma's Ruston Way waterfront. They're looking to expand their existing real estate footprint and diversify their economic portfolio in the county. The snapped up two iconic restaurants down there. One of them will remain in operation. The other will ??????

    It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out over the next few years.

    In our current system, this is one of the best ways for a group to push back against the encroachment of corporate interests, as long as they can avoid internal corruption. Honestly even would be a good idea for other groups, but it's really hard to pull off without a cultural identity to center it.

  • nusunusu Registered User regular
    edited November 2021
    Seeing Oahu discussed, we were just there for 2 weeks and I look forward to the rest of Washington state (aside from KC who are already there) joining in the fun of requiring vaccines for restaurants/hotels/etc. Wish they'd add it for travel to the state, too. Sure, it was a lot of hoops to go through to set up travel, but we felt safe the entire time we were there. Aulani even had a wrist band to show your vaccine status, it was great to see almost everyone at the resort with them (it was tied to Hawaii's safe travel program, so native Hawaiians didn't have the wrist bands, though).

    Interestingly enough, Hale Koa (the Navy hotel on Waikiki) was where we saw the most mask dodgers. Shocking /s.

    nusu on
  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    We're flooding again in Bellingham tonight. Guess I'll get to see how much when I wake up

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I am again the victim of property crime, this time to the tune of $400.

    I'm sure people will all dogpile again to explain how the criminal is the real victim in the situation.

  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    I’m sorry you’ve been victimized by a criminal and I have no idea what you’re talking about otherwise.

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    I’m sorry you’ve been victimized by a criminal and I have no idea what you’re talking about otherwise.

    Last time I (correctly btw) said that someone from the encampment down the street stole from my porch people lost their shit.

  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    What'd they get, a bike?

  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    Oh yeah that sucks.

    I live near a national forest and we used to have a problem with ”campers” stealing shit

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
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    Hacksaw wrote: »
    What'd they get, a bike?

    My electric car charger off the side of my house.

  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    In California I lived next to rich people on one side and a literal clan of thieves on the other. They would hide stolen goods on our property, which they had stolen from the neighbors.

    Pity police don't do anything about crime.

  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited November 2021
    How would you even fence an electric car charger? Scrap yard? Pawn shop? Extremely odd thing to steal unless you have a direct buyer in mind.

    Hacksaw on
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    How would you even fence an electric car charger? Scrap yard? Pawn shop? Extremely odd thing to steal unless you have a direct buyer in mind.

    I imagine scrap copper.

    Most of the cost in those is actually the cables.

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    Doc wrote: »
    I am again the victim of property crime, this time to the tune of $400.

    I'm sure people will all dogpile again to explain how the criminal is the real victim in the situation.

    It sucks that your place was vandalized. The lack of sympathy folks were showing you in the last thread was disappointing.

    This time around, it's entirely possible that the vandal wasn't doing it to survive, but saw a Tesla in a driveway and thought he was sticking it to the man / fighting gentrification / scoring a symbolic counting coup by fucking with a Tesla owner. If that's true, it sucks even more, because at least a theft and pawn puts food in somebody's belly or staves off the DTs for a few nights.

    (I drive a BMW so this isn't intended to throw shade on your car.)

    You also said some things in that conversation that I found just as disappointing, like referring to the package theft as "hobo bullshit" and the thief as "dysfunctional."

    I think I'm in a similar position as you. We're both tech professionals in our 40s making comfortable incomes, and we see that the next step to ensure our future (and you, for your child) is property ownership.

    But real estate ownership gives you brain worms. We have to fight the metamorphosis into Nextdoor bourgeoisie, the sort of people who think that we're the good ones because we vote blue and donate to the right causes.

    Let's be honest here. Even if the vandal who fucked up your Tesla charger did it entirely to be an asshole, a homeowner in Seattle passively accumulates enough equity in a week to replace it, just out of the privilege of homeownership. It's an inconvenience.

    But it makes you feel like your neighborhood is unsafe, and that is never a good feeling.

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2021
    Feral wrote: »
    Doc wrote: »
    I am again the victim of property crime, this time to the tune of $400.

    I'm sure people will all dogpile again to explain how the criminal is the real victim in the situation.

    It sucks that your place was vandalized. The lack of sympathy folks were showing you in the last thread was disappointing.

    This time around, it's entirely possible that the vandal wasn't doing it to survive, but saw a Tesla in a driveway and thought he was sticking it to the man / fighting gentrification / scoring a symbolic counting coup by fucking with a Tesla owner. If that's true, it sucks even more, because at least a theft and pawn puts food in somebody's belly or staves off the DTs for a few nights.

    (I drive a BMW so this isn't intended to throw shade on your car.)

    You also said some things in that conversation that I found just as disappointing, like referring to the package theft as "hobo bullshit" and the thief as "dysfunctional."

    I think I'm in a similar position as you. We're both tech professionals in our 40s making comfortable incomes, and we see that the next step to ensure our future (and you, for your child) is property ownership.

    But real estate ownership gives you brain worms. We have to fight the metamorphosis into Nextdoor bourgeoisie, the sort of people who think that we're the good ones because we vote blue and donate to the right causes.

    Let's be honest here. Even if the vandal who fucked up your Tesla charger did it entirely to be an asshole, a homeowner in Seattle passively accumulates enough equity in a week to replace it, just out of the privilege of homeownership. It's an inconvenience.

    But it makes you feel like your neighborhood is unsafe, and that is never a good feeling.

    Heh, I thought someone might do that. It's a Kia.

    Doc on
  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    Doc wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Doc wrote: »
    I am again the victim of property crime, this time to the tune of $400.

    I'm sure people will all dogpile again to explain how the criminal is the real victim in the situation.

    It sucks that your place was vandalized. The lack of sympathy folks were showing you in the last thread was disappointing.

    This time around, it's entirely possible that the vandal wasn't doing it to survive, but saw a Tesla in a driveway and thought he was sticking it to the man / fighting gentrification / scoring a symbolic counting coup by fucking with a Tesla owner. If that's true, it sucks even more, because at least a theft and pawn puts food in somebody's belly or staves off the DTs for a few nights.

    (I drive a BMW so this isn't intended to throw shade on your car.)

    You also said some things in that conversation that I found just as disappointing, like referring to the package theft as "hobo bullshit" and the thief as "dysfunctional."

    I think I'm in a similar position as you. We're both tech professionals in our 40s making comfortable incomes, and we see that the next step to ensure our future (and you, for your child) is property ownership.

    But real estate ownership gives you brain worms. We have to fight the metamorphosis into Nextdoor bourgeoisie, the sort of people who think that we're the good ones because we vote blue and donate to the right causes.

    Let's be honest here. Even if the vandal who fucked up your Tesla charger did it entirely to be an asshole, a homeowner in Seattle passively accumulates enough equity in a week to replace it, just out of the privilege of homeownership. It's an inconvenience.

    But it makes you feel like your neighborhood is unsafe, and that is never a good feeling.

    Heh, I thought someone might do that. It's a Kia.

    Okay? I misremembered and thought you owned a Tesla. Kind of incidental to my points, though.

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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