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  • I was a poll watcher in Texas. Electioneering was never a big deal before because you didn’t have people whose entire personality was being Donald Trump cult members. Electioneering violations were almost always small candidates trying to get name recognition at the last second. They’d have someone post up with a car with signs on it.

    But the rules were good for reducing tension because the line to keep out was clear and it kept politicking out of the voting area.

    Obviously the entire concept of reducing tension is foreign to the Trump nutters.



  • For sure. I know you’re not the author. I’m stating that again in case there’s confusion for anyone else.

    Man it used to piss me off when people would throw stones from outside. Like be involved, sure. That’s great.

    But we’re in here with budgets and stakeholders tryna find a path forward that works that isn’t kicking the can and instead makes real decisions about the future of the city and when the fuckin answer is the same old tired ass conservative shit, man it’ll drive you crazy. You start dismissing them out of hand but that sucks because they’re your citizens too.

    At least the libs had interesting positions. It was questions of fairness and justice and stuff like that.

    It was always either No from conservatives because of money or kicking the can cause they want to say no but can’t for some reason.

    My brothers and sisters in Christ when we get fuckin consent decreed and the feds break their whole foot off in our ass I promise the cost will be worse

    Sorry. Trauma dumping.


  • What is it with posting haters of the West Seattle rail project?

    I would encourage readers, as I would for anyone reading anything, to do a quick background check on the author. He will show you who he is very quickly.

    I worked in government and I think voices from across the spectrum is only a good thing when we sit down to figure out how to proceed. However, I don’t have to take that shit seriously once they retire and roll over to their think tank and shit all over process because they checked responsibility for outcomes at the door. I worked at public works and I rarely comment on the actual deliberations happening today cause it’s really hard to do when you’re there but really easy to shit on from the outside, like the author is.

    But hey, conservative think tanks always paid the best for trashing the process. I wish I could have just sat my integrity aside to cash their checks. Libs don’t pay shit for it.

    As for the author, my question is what in your piece went unexamined that would support a rail link and why did you choose to leave that part out? What is the strongest argument for the rail? What’s the second strongest? There have been many big rail projects that were called out for expense but ended up defining regions and positively transforming them. Would you have argued against those too?









  • My brother is a plumber. The guy knows his shit. He’s been doing it a long time and he works hard as hell and he can talk you to death about piping a 40 story building. He also works for all his friends and family for free on the weekends. I act as his helper sometimes and his focus and attention to detail is amazing.

    And he still has imposter syndrome sometimes.

    He asked me how the fuck guys like Elon Musk can talk about stuff like they know what they’re talking about because it’s impossible to know everything about everything in a lifetime.

    My brother, Elon is a dishonorable piece of shit that is too stupid to know he’s stupid.






  • Nextcloud borked my Unraid server. Took me forever to find the source of constant lockups. Apart from that, the Nextcloud container took up more of my time than any other part of my server, including the OS.

    This was a couple years ago. Maybe things have changed.

    My Unraid server is a dream otherwise. Rock solid and 30 containers running smoothly for years and years.

    Just another data point.

    I used Proxmox for a long time before Unraid, but that’s when getting deep into it was a hobby. Now I just want it to work.