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  1. 9 hours ago, nbmishoid said:

    Seattle downtown has had a setback, but not the regional metro area, which is 90% of the place.

    And Seattle’s issues have much to do with the pandemic.  Something like 2700 small shops and restaurants closed due to no customers.  Shopping patterns change.  And there are the homeless.

    Still best place I’ve ever lived.  

    I live downtown, work downtown, walk between the two. It's a 15-25 minute walk to every sporting event (except for the UW, which is 6 minutes by train) and most concerts in town. There are still tons of great restaurants and bars; new ones are still opening all the time. Yeah, there are blocks here, blocks there you avoid, but not whole neighborhoods. It's good to see things slowly getting better as more people come back to the office (Amazon coming back 3 days/week in May will help a lot there).

    The winter weather sucks (and I'm from here). Summers? Best. Place. On. Earth.

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  2. On 3/29/2023 at 8:49 PM, Trojan Man said:

    It's not much longer to go to the B1G West schools from LA than it is to go to the Washington schools or Colorado. 

    This is a stretch. The closest B1G school to the West Coast - Nebraska - is a third again farther from both LA and Seattle than they are from each other. (LA and Seattle are basically equidistant to most of the B1G schools; Seattle is actually closer to several). Most of the B1G West is 150%+ the distance between LA and Seattle; the B1G East is 2 to 2.5 times farther away.

    I know we were told there would be no math, but....

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  3. On 3/16/2023 at 9:28 AM, Patricio Swayze said:

    I forgot some friends from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil gave me this. I still need to try it on food. It has some kick because it’s habanero. However, I am curious what it would taste like if they subbed the vinegar for cachaça…I have never heard of such black magic.

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    That looks interesting, with the oil and vinegar. I have a bottle of condimento de malagueta from Minas Gerais that's just malagueta peppers (mashed), vinegar and salt. It's got a little bit of a kick but is good for perking up feijoada a bit.

  4. Was on the bus this am, idly looking at one of the service notices; here they're in English, Spanish, Amharic, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, Hindi and maybe a couple of others. For the first time I noticed it was also in Ukrainian - hadn't seen that before. I knew we had a decent sized Ukrainian population here but didn't realize Seattle has the 4th highest Ukrainian population by metro and WA 4th per capita. Apropos of nothing, of course, but it made me happy to see it there, up above the Russian. Then I went back to reading this thread, thankful for all the info you Surly bastards keep me informed with daily.

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  5. 11 hours ago, Gaffords said:

    The numbers I've seen floating around on sports talk is games that break the 4 million viewer mark, and UNC football and basketball combined don't scratch that. If this is true, it explains why Oregon and Washington are still sitting where they are.  They hardly ever get those numbers.  Not even when they play each other.  

    Looked back the last few years (to 2016, not counting 2020), and Oregon had 9 4+ million viewer games, USC 8 and UW 7. Most weeks during the CFB season there are 3 or 4 of those, generally the usual suspects. Not great, but not as if the LA schools were far and away better. 

    11 hours ago, Laxtonto said:

    If I was Cal or OSU or WSU I am doing everything I can to keep my spot at the big boy table.

     

    Two WSU grad legislators tried this in the last WA state legislative session with a bill that tied the two schools together athletically. It did not make it out of committee. It did not even get a reading in committee. 

  6. Come on, Trojan Man - nobody at UW thinks of USC as an equal. Part of the Pac's problem is that USC is, and has always been, the conference's only blueblood. When you suck, there's nothing else to fill the gap in national relevance. UW is a strong "next tier" program, but there's no delusion of bluebloodery at Montlake. It's a place where you can be in the conversation. It's not a place where you will be the conversation every single season. USC most definitely is.

    Much as I hate what's happening with CFB in general, if it's a $40 MM vs $25 MM offer until the next contract, UW and UO would be fools not to jump - and if that's what Fox wants, they're going to get it regardless of some punitive desire for a perceived slight.

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  7. Ohio State backing out of the UW series is for two reasons - their stated one that now with the LA schools on board, having to go aaaalllll the way west twice in one of those seasons just isn't faaaaaiiirrr, and their unstated one that UW is probably better than they had expected.

    Any B1G schools bitching about having to make a 2nd trip west for an OOC game while the LA schools must travel east at least 4 times a season - exclusive of any OOC games such as SC-ND - are a pathetic joke.

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  8. 4 hours ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

    Same as any other strong-arm dictator,  Erdogan will not lose an election.  His exit from power can only come by his death, a coup, or fleeing to exile.  

    Much like Orbán in Hungary, there's a veneer of democracy in Türkiye that Erdoğan still needs to deal with. It's why he's making stupid promises about re-housing everyone within a year. These soft dictatorships win elections by controlling the message via state media, jailing the opposition (if they appear to be too much of a threat) and handing out goodies left and right. Fragmenting the opposition is more important than imprisoning them. Neither country is a single party dictatorship; it's just that AK and Fidesz have all the ingrained advantages. 

    Pinochet in Chile and the military dictatorship in Brazil both lost power via the ballot box - in Brazil to the "Diretas Já" (direct elections now) movement, and in Chile via a plebiscite that Pinochet lost by 11 points. Both occurred because the opposition coalesced against leaders that thought their systematic advantages would hold as they had in other elections. While Erdoğan still has those advantages, enraging his own supporters may well cost him. Perhaps not, but it is still possible (it is also possible, as you say, that it will take a coup - but this tragedy makes that more likely as well). 

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  9. 2 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

     

    Fuck Erdoğan. One of the only good things that could come from this disaster (apart from better enforcement of building codes) is him getting destroyed in May's elections. This part of Türkiye is a stronghold of his and - needless to say - they are not pleased with him or his government. 

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  10. On 2/6/2023 at 5:56 PM, Reese Bennett said:

    Indiana has more major sports national championships over the last 70 years than aggy.

    I have more major sports national championships over the last 70 years than aggy.

    Well, maybe not. But it's close.

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  11. Dammit, I'm going to be in the Algarve in late April (was hoping for Portimão to replace China). Oh well.

    Would love to do Baku sometime but probably not this year. The 4 week gap between races will kind of suck.

  12. 1 hour ago, po elvis said:

    We spent November in Italy, December in Spain and now in Portugal for January. You don't know how much I miss food in Texas. After pizza and pasta everyday I was so excited to get to Spain. Then you get so sick of tapas. The variety in the US is just so great. Now the breakfasts over here sitting at a cafe eating a pastry or toast with coffee I will take any day over the big American breakfasts.

    Looking to do two months in Mexico when we get back and I am fully going to test my theory that I can eat tacos every day, maybe every meal. We will see.

    The food in Europe is amazing - for whatever region you happen to be in. The quality tends to be better, they've been making it for a couple of thousand years, and there's nearly always a local wine or booze that goes perfectly with it. It's the diversity that's lacking compared to the US, even in the larger cities.

    Portugal, for an example - insanely good breads and pastries, even at the supermarkets like Pingo Doce, great seafood, wine - and piri-piri chicken is hard to beat. (Can't wait to get back to Tavira for all of the above.) But good luck finding much from anywhere else of the level of variety and quality you can find in most American cities.

    (Definitely agree with you as well re the breakfasts in Europe.)

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