The federal government terminating their oversight of the Seattle police the same year all of this happened lets you know how much of a shit they give about the way SPD treats normal people in Seattle.

I guarantee you they are not out of touch with the issue. They are just in touch with the ownership class side of things.

If you're genuinely living paycheck to paycheck I think you know what the answer is here. You have a paid off car and you already spent the money to fix the biggest ticket item on it (the hybrid battery). You need to at least drive that thing until the battery is out of warranty. 

From personal experience being broke and just out of school, that generation of Prius is about the best car you can have. I replaced the battery on my 2006 Prius right after grad school at 204k miles and it's still going strong six years later with just oil and coolant changes. It's like the Sunbeam microwave of cars. It looks cheap, it's a simple appliance, and it just keeps doing the job it was designed for.

Same with hiking trails. I like to play spot-the-midwesterner by saying hi to people I pass. If that person looks alarmed, scowls, or stares at the ground you've probably found a native.

Yes! I emailed my alder complementing the work a city department was doing and she seemed surprised and happy. She passed the message directly along to them.

Yes, Seattle show tonight had an opener that played for an hour. Glass Beams went on two hours after doors.

No, increased resistance means less amperage drawn. Think of it as closing the valve on the hose.

The problem is that placing a new resistance into a circuit means that power starts being dissipated at the location of the resistance.

Previously, your plug was functionally zero resistance (it's not truly zero, but close enough for us). If one of the pins starts losing contact in the plug, it will become a resistance to the flow of electricity where there previously wasn't one. Any time there is a resistance on a circuit and current (amps) are flowing through it, it dissipates energy (watts).

Your plug went from essentially zero resistance (and therefore no power being dissipated; 0 watts) to some higher resistance in one of the pins (and therefore power was being dissipated in that pin). That caused the pin to heat up and the whole thing went sideways, as you found.

but can renters do anything to protect ourselves, or are we just doomed to breathe in polluted indoor air all summer

Order a HEPA rated indoor air filter unit? Do it now before everyone else realizes that they forgot how bad the smoke is and they sell out everywhere.

Bonus is that they help with pollen in the spring too.

Or just do what Leavenworth did on their pedestrianized street and put up a removable bollard with a sign that says "service vehicles please replace after you are done". Seems to work fine for them.

Not everything needs to have six uniformed staff members and a $30,000 robotic gate.

I hope so. It was really funny to see the wildfire smoke finally hit Washington DC last year and suddenly the politicians are concerned about it (after writing it off as a "west coast problem" for years).

More smokey days in DC please.

I mean, pretty hard to be disappointed when I knew he was going to be terrible from the get-go. 

Not surprising to see West Seattle elect him though, I can see my neighbors watching OAN and Newsmax at night so it's not surprising they would vote for a big business dolt.

Man, imagine your neighborhood having the housing stock refreshed, small businesses moving in, more local grocery options, and then complaining about it.

I bought my second house without inspection. YMMV but dealing with the mess in the first house left me with a sharp eye for things that can go wrong.

This is a fluorinated resin so it's probably a bioaccumulant and basically a permanent watershed contaminant, so use at your own risk. I can't find an MSDS for it.

A lot of inspectors do not inspect roofs or even attics now. (claiming safety / liability).

My inspector looked at the roof from the ground and said it was probably fine. Spoiler: it was not fine.

Wish I had saved my self the $400. He didn't find the leaking roof or foundation spalling.

It's a little surprising because CDL drivers are specifically supposed to undergo a medical screening to prevent this kind of thing. 

I've never done it though so I wouldn't be surprised if it's the medical equivalent of a rubber stamp.

This is not a sink hole. It's literally a ditch. People are driving into a drainage ditch.

In case you haven't seen it: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/19/1047302978/noodles-pug-bones-no-bones-day-tiktok-mood-prediction

The 5VZ-FE seems to be a really clean running motor for some reason. Just did head gaskets on mine at 208,000 miles and it looked like this too. I've also noticed that the engine oil doesn't turn black between changes like my other cars. 4000 miles and it's still a light tan color.

Brown bears (grizzly bears) and black bears (ursus americanus) are extremely different creatures and you seem to have them backwards. 

Black bears are generally very timid unless you are endangering their cubs. I have encountered them 10's of times while hiking and biking and have never had one do anything but run away.

Add in the "New driver, please be patient" sticker that has clearly been on the car for a decade and you've got the West Coast trifecta.

This is demented but I wouldn't put it past the SPD considering they were caught on video trying to cite a bus driver for fleeing the scene of a honk.

I've wondered this about the Arbor Heights Swim and Tennis Club. Founded 1962 and still has an incredibly WASPy air around it. 

Coleman pool in Lincoln Park was segregated until 1944.

Man, am I tired of hearing about this guy.

I'm so sick of people acting like it's bad to do small things, like filling potholes, if we haven't fixed big things first.

Exactly, if a city can't be trusted to do small stuff like maintaining roads, why would you ever trust them to manage large projects like building transit or rezoning for housing? A city government full of people who care about the small stuff is something we should strive for.