Jeff

Holy shit this makes me want to live in N/NE Seattle.

I've considered it but wouldn't it be window-smasher bait to steal?

Or does it click in and out easily?

My dad tried to tell me once that that move is never necessary. I didn't believe him but now it crosses my mind whenever I do it. (Why would tractor trailers do it then, huh??)

Until he couldn't resist installing his brothers on the thrones of his client/vassal kingdoms, which was one of his big mistakes.

Am I reading these right? DC is expected to be 30+ degrees warmer than average next Wednesday, and then to get blanketed with snow next Friday?

The results from this Google search are insane. There are gnarly crashes there like once a month. It's a curving steep hill, where the road surface is banked the wrong way, ending with traffic lights at top and bottom, with recurring surface water.

www.google.com/search?q=hig...

Lol in the bridge closure every approach to the 1st Ave bridge was at max capacity just queueing up and interweaving according to random logic of where the lanes met.

Adding more lanes converging on the same bridge bottleneck does nothing.

Screenshot of said post.
As for Matt Yglesias QTed above, I'm not even sure he's defending Platner so much as saying something similar, like "sure he's got crypto-nazi red flags but these rural white yokels we need to win in Maine don't mind, or might even like that, so we need to shut up about it."

"Ok, Jim, just calm down. All our gracious hosts here have KNOWN the mayor for a LONG time. In fact I'm sure they know EVERYthing there is to know about him. And if they had a problem any of it, they wouldn't have elected him, now would they? We certainly don't have a problem with him, now do we?!!"

Yeah Favreau's post about him almost had the air of a guy in a horror movie winking at his friend who just ran into the town square trying to warn everyone the mayor is a crypto-nazi who murders out of towners if they threaten to reveal his secret:

Also Fauntleroy Way being one sided and intermittent from Alaska to Lincoln Park; Alki Trail kinda half-assing around Alki Point and then having no safe way to follow Beach Drive to Lincoln Park...

In other words, every major bike route in West Seattle does this.

See also, in West Seattle alone: Delridge Way (missing key chunks further south), Admiral Way (no bike lanes from Olga to 44th), Avalon (requiring uphill riders to... Teleport? From the Fauntleroy triangle to the bike lanes on SW Alaska Street... Which also disappear near QFC).

Bike infrastructure that's big enough to piss off drivers by removing large swaths of lanes they're used to, but forces bicyclists to merge with dangerous traffic at choke points, failing to complete a continuous bike network so almost no cyclists start using it? That's the SDOT special!

Whoa, that is weird to think about. My grandpa is almost exactly half the age of Chicago.

Yes (laudatory)

It is satisfying to see WA beat CA on this, but then Oregon takes the mainland west coast win out of nowhere!

(Actually nah it's just about the Columbia plateau setting Washington back).

Wow Georgia and NC really teamed up to block SC from any Appalachian mountains. I hadn't thought of that till now.

Anyway now we need a population-weighted version of this 😬

I wonder if ski resorts will shift their operating hours (maintain their current operating window with respect to the sun)? Whistler opens weirdly late relative to sunrise; keeping the current nominal hours would give skiers an extra cold hour early, in exchange for losing a late slushy hour.

Whoa. Huh. I wish Washington were going along.

This will kind of suck for winter weekend trips to Vancouver, Whistler, etc, because I'll arrive an hour "later" at night, and I'll just get that hour back as an extra hour at home in Seattle at the end of the trip.

You Will Own Nothing, Except The Libs They voted for Trump to fix the economy. Now they're cheering for him to destroy it.

I just remembered where I heard this. It was @cartoonshateher.bsky.social ! Credit to CHH for coining this phrase.

And I see now that that post was in the midst of Liberation Day tariff sky-is-falling news last April.

open.substack.com/pub/cartoons...

I guess the DoD read "If anyone builds it, everyone dies" and took it deadly seriously. Ben Thompson basically days the same thing.

(And I think that's bad).

(which is probably why he polls so much better than her in the hypothetical general polls now! Like all the leftists promising they'd let Newsom lose to Vance, they are telling us ahead of time they'd be happy to let Rs keep the Senate to teach normie libs a lesson.)

IDK maybe that's just wishcasting though: wishing that general election voters are pretty rational.

The counterargument is leftists would be much more likely to sit out voting Mills to protest the "establishment", while normie resistlib Dems will reliably do the right thing if Platner is the nom.

(I'm picturing a Mills campaign persuading lots of normie people that Collins is an instrument of fascism, while a Platner campaign would have to spend a lot of time on defense about his fascist tattoo and anti-Semitic podcaster fandom, which would undermine his appeals to fighting Trumpism.)

On the other hand... He's such a basket case that I think there's a 10% chance he just like... Blows up his own general election campaign. A 20% chance he's got more skeletons in his closet. And a 60% chance that the different general campaigns would move these margins a few points toward Mills.

I hadn't seen the polling till this inspired me to look it up. The last few head to heads had Platner's margin beating Mills' by +10 (!), 0 (!), +4, +1, +8.

So on average about +5.

That's pretty good. Eyeballing it on those polls alone maybe he'd have a 70% chance to win vs 45% for Mills.

Tbf he was like 35 when he started it.

Who?

Wait what did he do today

I guess it's the inability to distinguish the idea "there is one good aspect of what happened today" (Iran can't kill many American troops) from the idea "therefore this attack is good, yay!".

The funniest reply literally accused her of saying "high fives all around!".