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JackDark , in Protestors block I-5 in downtown Seattle at Pine St

Saved you a click: anti-Israeli war protesters.

SpaceNoodle ,

I wonder if I can see my buddies in there if I zoom in

weariedfae ,

Thank you

Pistcow , in Thanks Komonews for going with this shitty tactic

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

Fuck Komo.

Catoblepas , in Seattle driver runs over tents on downtown sidewalk

Officers pursued the Seattle driver but abandoned the chase when they learned the tents were empty and no one was injured.

Useless fucks.

originalfrozenbanana ,

Surprised they didn’t care more about the property damage than the attempted murder

holycrap ,

They only care if it's rich peoples property

burrito ,

Seattle used to be pretty great. I don't care for it much these days.

SeaJ ,

Yeah, what the fuck? The person was only looking to run people over but failed so might as well give up going after him? I'm surprised they didn't find him to try and give him a job.

cabron_offsets , in Seattle council president on getting workers back to the office: ‘We have to build those numbers up’

Feck off

state_electrician , in ‘She Had Limited Value’: Cop Caught on Bodycam Joking, Laughing About Woman Killed by Other Officer

What a fucking piece of shit.

VelvetStorm , in Judge orders railway to pay Washington tribe nearly $400 million for trespassing with oil trains

That's a good start. If you want to really teach them a lesson, then they need to pay 200% of the profits they made from the wrongful act, and not just 100%.

neuracnu , in Seattle’s first protected intersection, Dexter Ave N @ Thomas St.
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Am I the only one who thinks that the design decision to eliminate the ability for cars to both cross Dexter or make left turns anywhere is a deliberate choice to create driver frustration and reduce favorable attitudes towards building more of these?

Normal protected intersections are terrific and allow automotive traffic to flow in all directions. What was the thought process here?

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/ef28340f-5a99-492d-a453-e86f38e5f48b.png

pruwybn ,
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I think the idea is to discourage drivers from using Thomas, and try to make it the main east-west bike corridor in the area.

Evotech ,

Stopping people from driving directly to where they want to go reduces traffic apparently.

They use it very deliberately in larger cities to just make driving downtown a hassle.

If it's just a bit more annoying, people are less inclined to do it.

bwrsandman ,

Just a guess (looking at the sharrows at the end of the other street) but it's probably a deliberate design to reduce the flow of car traffic on the street.

Esqplorer ,

Left turns are a fuck you to everyone behind you who knows it would be faster and safer for you to right and U-turn but yet you still hold us back.

pacology ,
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We have found the Michigander.

mlg ,
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Dumb considering Michigan also mandates dedicated left turn lanes on every small intersection.

Like okay left allowed on any road but not if it's a split avenue. Instead of making a cheap and usable roundabout or ring road, let's make you play frogger against 3 lanes of traffic so you can do a massive U turn.

solarvector , in Controversial clean energy law takes effect in Washington

The controversy is that it might reduce profits on the short.

SeaJ OP ,

Inslee should announce a plan to ease PSE’s concerns of higher cost to their customers by offering major discounts on solar panels for those affected. I’m sure PSE would be happy with a plan like that considering how concerned they are for their customers.

zcd , in Seattle council president on getting workers back to the office: ‘We have to build those numbers up’

Fuck off, unnecessary RTO needs to be banned

athos77 , in Seattle council president on getting workers back to the office: ‘We have to build those numbers up’

No. You don't. You just want the world to exist the way it used to so you can coast along "solving" problems in standards ways, instead of having to actually come up with new ideas and methods.

MonsiuerPatEBrown , (edited ) in ‘She Had Limited Value’: Cop Caught on Bodycam Joking, Laughing About Woman Killed by Other Officer

Steroid use is a huge problem with officers throughout the country.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. – dr johnson

Fuck the police and their families because their spouses and sons and daughters are fucking worse.

Falcon ,

Steroid use does not make someone evil. Not even absurd dosages. Drug use does not make someone evil.

It’s unfair to lump a whole cast of perfectly reasonable people into the same lot as this awful person.

There is a US police problem AND they tend to use PEDs, that isn’t causation. Even if correlation can provide evidence of causation, it’s much simpler to conclude that many cops are insecure and seek out PEDS. That’s ok, relatively speaking, I don’t care about drug use, it’s murder that upsets me.

SoylentBlake ,

Facts. No drug had ever made anyone rob their families or suck the 14th 400lb truckers cock today.

Drugs don’t make someone a shitty person, they expose them as the shitty person they are.

someguy3 ,

Whenever I see stuff with US cops they are massive. No way that’s all natural.

But that doesn’t immediately translate to anything else.

teawrecks ,

You really need to see the context of the video here. He was talking sarcastically about how the inhumane, bureaucratic process would handle the situation, the same as anyone here in the comments section would do. Was it a dark joke? Yeah. Was he wrong? No.

Flabbelgnarpf , in Thanks Komonews for going with this shitty tactic

Pretty sure this is actually fraud. Trying to trick someone into abandon their rights by lying ist fraud right?

Agent641 ,

Its not illegal for websites to waste your time. For example, Reddit

poop ,

This is America and KOMO/Sinclair is an American company, serving American users. What “rights” do you think you are being tricked out of? You don’t have a right to not be tracked.

Flabbelgnarpf ,

You found the European.

SARGEx117 , in Report: Amazon tells its employees it is monitoring badge swipes

I feel like if you have to call attendance to make sure they’re present, because you can’t tell by their job performance, maybe you don’t need them in the office?

CaptainPedantic , in Evergreen State staff turned off carbon monoxide alarms before student's death

The alarm(s!) were going off for 14 hours! They were reset at least 4 times. How did no one think, “Oh, there might be a CO leak! I better investigate”?

The only correct thing to do when you hear a CO alarm is to evacuate and get someone with the tools to deal with the problem to help (usually the fire department).

Poor guy. I hope the other victims recover.

SeaJ ,

Maintenance claimed they thought it was a false alarm. If you do not investigate it and just keep turning it off, there is no way you can legitimately claim that you thought it was a false alarm. The only way you can do that is if you actually test and find it was a false alarm.

Juujian , in Pretty disappointed to find out Molly Moons are massive NIMBYs

99% … They pulled that number put of their ass…

olosta ,

No idea where in the world this is, but in Europe, retailers consistently overestimate the number of customers coming by car. For example, this Bristol study where retailers thought 41% of their customers were coming by car but the actual number was 22%.

Ps: oh, this is a Seattle community, that might answer my first question…

…tripod.com/shoppersandhowtheytravel.pdf

WallsToTheBalls ,

If this is in the US, possibly not

PumaStoleMyBluff ,

The US deserves all the car-worshipping memes we get, but even here, downtown areas have a lot of foot and bike traffic.

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