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Drusas , in It's Seafair time again, and time for the classic Seattle debate.

Mostly the latter. Also, dog-terrifying. My poor pups are already struggling as they practice right over our neighborhood and house.

poopsmith OP , in Service disruption on Light Rail between Capitol Hill and SODO: Aug. 12-20
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tl;dr version: the ground is settling and risks flooding. They will be closing the tunnel between Capitol Hill & SODO but will have a free shuttle bus between the stops every 10 min

14four ,

Ye, this is why the train has had to slow down just north of stadium station for quite a few months now.

e_t_ Admin , in It's Seafair time again, and time for the classic Seattle debate.

¿Por que no los dos?

pruwybn , in Seattle’s new waterfront is taking shape
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Alaskan Way turns at Pine street and connects to Elliot Way, just north of the Overlook Walk.

PeleSpirit OP ,

Well that’s good news, I’d hate for it to be cut off completely. It’s looking great down there.

Anticorp , in It's Seafair time again, and time for the classic Seattle debate.

The Blue Angels and Breitling teams are amazing. Air shows are great! They’re once a year events. Not having an air show isn’t going to stop the thousands of other sources of pollution that run non-stop, 365 days a year, it’ll just be one less fun thing to do in our lives.

coys25 , in TIL you can soak freshly-picked blackberries to get larvae out

If you think that this is gross, definitely don’t look up anything about salmon parasites…

Maajmaaj , in TIL you can soak freshly-picked blackberries to get larvae out
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And everybody in my family looks at me like I’m crazy when I avoid most fruit and take vitamins to compensate.

Hildegarde ,

To be fair you sound crazy.

Maajmaaj ,
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Ok yeah probably a little, but I just don’t like bugs.

Pink_Champagne , in TIL you can soak freshly-picked blackberries to get larvae out

Omg I wished I had never read this. 😩

dgendreau , in TIL you can soak freshly-picked blackberries to get larvae out
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If you ever bring fresh fruit home and notice a few fruit flies in your house, guess where those came from…

Also, having grown up on an apple farm, I can tell you for sure, washing fruit as soon as you bring it home strips off the fine coating of natural wax and makes the fruit spoil more quickly. Its fine to wash just before you eat it, but washing it out of pure OCD is a good way to spoil fresh fruit.

Neato ,
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When I get my fruit from our CSA home, I only rinse food that's visibly dirty, usually melons. Because they'd make a mess everywhere. Everything gets stored and washed at dinner time.

snooggums ,
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Some things benefit from a quick wash and others suffer depending on whether they have a protective covering that gets washed away.

Blackberries and apples go bad faster after washing because it removes the protective barrier.

Lettuce, celery, and strawberries last a lot longer if you wash them immediately because they don't lose a barrier that causes them to go bad faster.

I know you said fruits, but fruits like strawberries don't fit the pattern.

ridethisbike ,

I’m confused on the lettuce etc… They DON’T lose a barrier when you wash them? This implies that the water is acting as the barrier?

snooggums ,
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I don't think lettuce has a barrier to lose. I don't rinse cucumbers, squash, or melons and their skin is waxy like an apple.

Cutting out the stem/separating all the leaves and rinsing and soaking for 5 or 10 minutes extends the lettuce life in the fridge by a week or more than just leaving it in the bag it came in.

Same with strawberries, rinsing them when you get home (not soaking like lettuce) extends their fridge life.

Maajmaaj , in Man hit, killed by Seattle Monorail while spray-painting graffiti
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He was 14. I hate when media does this fuckin BS. that was a boy, not a man. RIP kiddo.

TauZero , in Man hit, killed by Seattle Monorail while spray-painting graffiti

Wow, you can even see the graffiti in that exact spot in the street view! Right on the rail, you know, where the side wheels go. Never thought I’d need to add “concrete rails create a flat surface attractive nuisance for graffiti” in the monorail “con” list.

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/5225e553-ed8a-495b-916e-5c050af01f50.jpeg

carl_dungeon ,

Guess he went out with one last spray!

theodewere ,
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and a ka-BOINK

gravalicious , in Man hit, killed by Seattle Monorail while spray-painting graffiti
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Police say the man was spray-painting a building with graffiti when he was struck.

Montagge , in TIL you can soak freshly-picked blackberries to get larvae out
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That's free protein!

Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
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Slimy yet satisfying

ChamelAjvalel , in TIL you can soak freshly-picked blackberries to get larvae out

As I always told my kids when it came to eating mulberries, give them a quick once over, then enjoy. Because you don’t want to get a good look at them.

danwardvs , in TIL you can soak freshly-picked blackberries to get larvae out

The article says soaking in salt water can “encourage” them to come out. And even then they admit that this is something they’ve just heard.

Just eat the bugs.

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