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Klystron , in Seattle VA Medical Center earns high marks in new report

New vet so this is the only facility I’ve been to, but I’ve been pretty impressed. Building looks nice, campus is massive, all the facilities you could want. Availability for appointments can be kind of rough but you can’t beat health care for free fifty.

False , in Seattle City Council committee approves resolution to 'Lid I-5'

Does this include funding?

Klystron , in The Interim Computer Museum in SODO

Obviously not to the same scale or anything like that, but re-pc has a nice little computer history exhibit. Plus they have a huge selection of second hand electronics. Fun to sort through if you check it out every couple of months.

duffman , in Seattle City Council’s actions belie empty talk of saving trees | Editorial

There’s no money in protecting trees.

kinther OP ,
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Yup

kinther , in Good to Go?
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I have my account setup to auto-deduct if I get lower then $10, refreshing an extra $100. I don’t have any sticker - just the plate, make, and model in my account. Since setting this up years ago I have not had any issues.

Might have to reach out to their help team to figure out wtf is going on?

poopsmith , in New local troll: Pia the Peacemaker (Bainbridge Island)
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Saw this yesterday! Very cool to see in-person, although I do worry about its longevity.

sebinspace , in Seattle police arrest teen accused of robbing Lake City business

Like… Lake City Quiet Pills Lake City?

kinther OP ,
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I grew up in Lake City and it has gone through several periods of trending down, then back up. Right now it’s on the downswing again…

PeleSpirit , in Hōkūleʻa docked in Seattle on its journey to circumnavigate the Pacific

Looks like they’re giving tours today too, thanks for posting.

neuracnu , in Fremont is going to look very different soon...
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www.seattleinprogress.com/project/3041016June 30, 2023: BUILD A 7-STORY, 90,000 SF MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT WITH GROUND FLOOR RETAIL WITH OFFICE AND RESIDENTIAL USES ABOVE INCLUDING 50 PARKING SPACES ACCESSED FROM THE ALLEY.

Demolition permit: cosaccela.seattle.gov/portal/Cap/CapDetail.aspx?M…

Here’s a photo of the building shortly after construction in 1937:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/af83775c-2597-4a20-9a26-bfa55a4c103b.jpeg

PeleSpirit OP ,

I think that’s the building next door to where I thought, is the whole block going down?

JohnnyH842 , in Seattle strikes down its fee on arcade games, pinball, pool, and more fun

Cool! I mean with the amount of money it was generating it seems like a no brainer to offer even a little assistance for businesses. I wasn’t aware of the soda tax!

SeaJ OP ,

It was a pretty big deal. Most grocery stores bitched about it and protested by giving an explanation of why sugary soda cost more. The beverage companies then got together and made sure a soda tax could not happen in the rest of the state. They framed it as making sure that grandma could afford her groceries. She can afford her soda now but probably not her necessary diabetes medication.

JohnnyH842 ,

I’d love to know how affective those preventative taxes are for reducing consumption. Same thing happened with tobacco products across the country and now people are still using tobacco at high rates but just complaining about the cost.

Lumun ,
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I don’t know if there’s good data on the sugary drinks tax yet, but tobacco taxes have absolutely greatly reduced tobacco use. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228562/From the intro of that article:

Tobacco taxation, passed on to consumers in the form of higher cigarette prices, has been recognized as one of the most effective population-based strategies for decreasing smoking and its adverse health consequences

JohnnyH842 ,

Thanks for linking this! That’s cool to see that it’s an effective deterrent, but also looks like it might not change the behavior of long term users.

However, there is a striking lack of evidence about the impact of increasing cigarette prices on smoking behavior in heavy/long-term smokers, persons with a dual diagnosis and Aboriginals

PeleSpirit , in Why doesn't this community show up on Lemmy Explorer?

I have found that if one of the instances (the source or the one you’re looking for) is down it won’t show up when you search on your instance. Someone else said to keep clicking. Growing pains.

pruwybn OP ,
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Now that you mention it, I don’t see any lemmy.world communities on Lemmy Explorer, at least at the moment.

PeleSpirit ,

It’s a gamble. Now I think I understand why Reddit was always so fucky, they didn’t fix their software. Lemmy has the excuse of not being a huge entity and ran by volunteers on the dev side. I guess Reddit and Lemmy are both ran by volunteers on the social side.

Mediocre_Bard , in No Solutions for Unsheltered Burien Residents After Another Contentious Council Meeting

I mean, Burien doesn’t want ANY homeless people in their city. Maybe they should just come out and say that rather than do all this bullshit.

tallwookie , in Seattle Should Pay People Not to Shoplift
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eh, stealing is illegal. build more prisons.

regular_human , in Shot by Dixin Yan
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That’s an ugly-ass wheedle

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

Love the airshows. Yeah, it’s sometime inconvenient but I can deal with it.

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