specialseaweed

Yea having to do paperwork and keep registration docs is way better than just slapping $20 on my property taxes. Great idea fellas.

Hey siri what month is it

Jesus Christ fellas

I would feel much better about this if it was tied to a bigger housing zoning package, but it wasn’t and that makes it feel dirty.

All these kids are the exact same kids with the exact same problems as the ones I knew growing up, but the parents have more money and therefore more tools to help support their kids. The only real difference is the trauma of being broke as fuck isn't there but it's replaced with the pressure of expectations. When I was a kid if I had gotten a job as a mail delivery person, that would have been seen as a total success on my part. Life long stable job with a retirement at the end. I fucking won the game of life. For rich kids, that would be seen as an abject failure.

It's not that they don't have empathy. It's that their entire community is economically high performers. Everyone they meet in their lives fucking won the game of capitalism. The only "not wealthy' humans they run into wait on them or teach them. In their minds, how hard can it be? They know all these normal looking people and they're all rich as fuck so how hard can it be?

Because that's the mind fuck. Rich people aren't better than you. Some shit went their way and that's the difference. Elite earners don't work harder than janitors. And so rich kids grow up in that world and it's just normalized. It's not a lack of empathy, it's that they internalize it as "normal".

Then a middle class kid runs into them and sees them as lacking in empathy.

You're right though. It is more luxurious. They live in a world where they know the money ain't going away, but my trauma finds a way of breaking thru sometimes. My kids both know how to make beans and rice and can shop and cook for themselves for a week for under $20.

That album is killer.

I don’t know the name but I have some growing on my dead rhoadie stump here in Seattle. I haven’t cut it down because I love them so much.

Thanks for writing this. Amazing post.

Federal taxes are going to zero for the top end that have an accountant with any kind of a functioning brain. Now is the time for states to suck up that money and start building a durable, self sustaining system.

For fuck's sake guys, think big.

I’m from the south. He would be center left there. You’re totally right.

I realize I have gotten more liberal over the years but gawd damn center left can you stop dropping to your knees in worship every chance you get around these tech losers?

Yea, Joey between the pipes ain’t the problem.

Joyless is a great way to describe this team. A negative vibe just permeates the ice when these guys are going. Maybe the new signings aren’t the kind to get the team up. Maybe the coaches aren’t the kind to get the team up. But damn, somebody needs to do it.

Gru was their big miss that first year. It was a good shot, worth the risk. Misses happen and you hope that someone like Joey can magically appear and fix it.

It just feels like regression from last year, which felt like regression from the year before. Nobody stays the same (except the LA Kings), you’re either going up or you’re going down. I don’t think there’s any mistaking which way the Kraken are going.

This season is burnt. The offseason needs to see either a rebuild or a serious move to improve across the entire organization.

I upvoted your comment but man I wouldn’t even take a freebie from Oracle. Just an absolutely rotten company and Larry Ellison is one of the worst humans on the planet.