Yeah I could tell it wasn’t what it was, even Atlantas midtown and lil 5 were much more wild than cap hill when I rolled in. I still like it but Fremont is still pretty dope thankfully.
Tech bros and VC ruin everything.
It gets easier to pickup the more you hear it but in your position if you just smile and nod you’ll be good. Just don’t drink any clear liquid offered of go to a second location
Sorry I didn’t have time to completely respond to your whole comment earlier, got pinged and had to wrap it up.
I’ve literally had a conversation with a stranger at a bar in Cap Hill when I first moved here, and my accent makes me stick out like a sore thumb here so I get asked where I’m from all the time, after she asked and I told her where, she said “cool I’m from California and that’s why I’m speaking to you right now”. Which was hyperbolic but it does ring true coming from Atlanta to Seattle in that regard.
You my friend are an anomaly as far as my experience with the PNW if you can hang with a midwesterner in idle chit chat, they give us a run for our money in the south. Congratulations on the social skills lol!
You do gotta be careful with southern folks that ain’t from the big city, once we get comfortable we drop the fake accent and start speaking “proper”
Yeah I agree and wasn’t trying to make the guy a saint or anything, just trying to add some nuance to the discussion from the impact he had on my life specifically. Although that said, I would probably put Ted on the ‘less evil’ end of the bell curve of billionaires.
Yeah and it could easily still be a recent development, I’ve only been out here for 5ish years
Being from the Atlanta area makes my opinion of Ted really complicated, obviously he was a billionaire which is inherently unethical, but he also really helped put Atlanta on the map in the 90s. TBS, the Braves, Captain Planet, TNT, the Cartoon Network, and Adult Swim were all things that directly brought my childhood joy and can trace their origins back to Ted Turner. His contributions to the repopulation of American bison shouldn’t be ignored either.
There are no ethical billionaires but I have a difficult time looking at Turner in the same way I do Zuck, Musk, Gates, etc.
Edit: Jesus I forgot WCW, he surely was a man with faults but Ted was the antithesis of Vince McMahon for a period of time. And standing afainst Vince is almost always the morally correct position
Hate to poke hole in your theory, but I don’t even know anyone Gen Z or alphas, these are all millennials and older
‘Like’ is definitely over used out here but not the same as the Cali one, I can usually pick out Californians in Washington… partially because as a southerner they recognize another person who is aggressively talkative to strangers.
I actually do agree with your take that PNW accent a restrained Midwest accent which actually tracks pretty well. And just to be clear I don’t mean “dontcha know” or “don’t ya know” that is Midwestern as hell, what I mean specifically is y’all tend to add “ya know” to the end a lot of sentences”. When I first pointed out to my best friend, who grew up out here, she sent me a text later that night saying, “Fuck you I hear it everywhere now, ya know”
The other big one that comes to mind is “pre-funk” which is apparently just slang for pre-gaming but I’d never heard it in the south or northeast
Naw it’s something I’ve noticed from many native Washington’s ever since I’ve moved here, there is some bleed from the Midwest in my experience so maybe that’s where it comes from originally
Yall have a lot of verbal ticks, so many PNWers end a large proportion of sentences with “ya know”
He has, but in fairness Russia told everyone that when it invaded Ukraine, who had nukes and gave them up! And also Trump told everyone again last year when he first attacked Tehran last year… and when he did the coup d’état in Venezuela.
I’m starting to think the goal is to destroy the overall control the Middle East has over the oil supply. The US has shit loads of oil and if the rest of the world doesn’t shift to renewables they will eventually have to buy from the US or Russia if they can’t from the Saudis, Iran, etc.
It’s not a smart plan globally but in the minds of energy companies it’s good short term business and creates international leverage the administration can use against the rest of the world
That’s such a surreal moment, its probably more likely that it’s exactly like he said and he’s just old and said “invasion of Iraq” so many times that he fell into muscle memory, but his “Iraq too” sounded like regret.
He doesn’t deserve an ounce of sympathy and I’m not giving him any, it’s just very interesting to see a potential admission of fault from someone as guilty as W.
I remember watching a breakdown of this during Covid lockdowns and then having a full on come apart about it which folks shrugged off
And distrust of one another! Don’t forget that important motivation
Tell me you don’t pay attention to economic news and trends without telling me
The entire US economy has been propped up on the bullshit of AI investing. If AI turns out to not be as profitable as advertised, meaning the bubble pops, literally everything goes to shit. Additionally, the longer war with Iran continues will only exacerbate this shit show, everything that needs to be transported by planes, ships, and trucks especially will get much more expensive, this also has the potential to completely collapse the dollar in value. Components may be relatively cheaper than today when you take inflation into account. But most of us will still not be able to afford them because most of our money will be spent buying essentials.
I do want the bubble to pop but unless a bunch of other shit is fixed extremely quickly it’s not gonna help affordability for a while
Because when the bubble pops the entire economy goes with it, computer parts might see a drop in demand but bread will be a much higher priority for most at that point.
Look up Huey Long, dude ran the state like a dictator, because he effectively was, also see Eugene Talmadge in Georgia
I bet these idiots fed an AI all his emails to get make it sound more like him