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Long shot I know, but I thought I’d give it a whirl. It’s a set of two keys (silver and blue) attached to a holographic pill container depicting a cowboy. Maybe the universe will be on my side? TIA.

Yesterday while on my way to the Roosevelt Safeway, two kids in what seemed to be a Honda SUV drove past me and absolutely lit my back up with im assuming either an airsoft gun or liquid gel gun. I wasn't able to get a picture of the car or the license plate, and I'm pretty positive one of the kids was wearing meta glasses. Theres no point in calling the police, so what should i do? Just accept that it happened and move on? It genuinely scared the life out of me

What's the plan for ensuring our right to vote in WA is not diminished in the midterms and beyond if SCOTUS approves this idiocy?

So far I’ve gotten Godzilla, Ghidorah, Mothra, Gigan, and Rodan. Has anyone found Destroyah, Mechagodzilla, or Spacegodzilla at any of the McDs nearby?

I just want to say "Thank you" to the two cars that stopped in the middle of I-5 this afternoon to help push my car out of one of the middle lanes to the right shoulder so I was not blocking traffic (mostly) for the 90 minutes while waiting for a tow truck. I really appreciate that more than I can say. 15 of the 90 minutes was trying to reach a real person to get a tow truck because the app chatbot and the phone chatbot could not dispatch a tow truck without an address and "Southbound I-5 near XXX exit" is not an address. Also "Thank you" to the WSDOT truck that stopped around the 45 minute mark and pushed me to a safer spot while I waited. And "Fuck you" to the cars who were honking at me. If I could've moved the car, I would have. Do you think I parked in the middle of I-5 for fun? Anyway, first time breaking down in the middle of I-5 in over 30 years of driving here. I don't wish that stress on anybody.

Seattle Public Schools says students should develop “skills of critical thinking,” be free to “respectfully challenge ideas,” distinguish fact from opinion, examine differing viewpoints, analyze problems, and draw their own conclusions. Its instructional-materials guidance similarly calls for “critical thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving.” Excellent standards. Now apply them to Seattle Public Schools’ own gender curriculum. One stated objective of its seventh-grade lesson is: “Recognize that everyone has a sexual orientation and gender identity.” The district separately defines gender identity as a person’s “internal and deeply felt sense of being female, male, both female and male, nonbinary, gender-expansive, or other.” So let’s do the logical-thinking exercise the curriculum apparently skipped. What exactly is an “internal and deeply felt sense of being female”? If female refers to biological sex, then feeling female does not determine whether somebody is female. Biological sex is a reproductive classification. Medical interventions can alter appearance and some sex-linked characteristics, but an internal conviction does not change that classification. If female means something different when used as an identity, then define that meaning without using female again. What does it mean to feel female? To feel that you are female. We have gone in a perfect circle and somehow called it a definition. Suppose I told you I had an “internal and deeply felt sense of being six feet tall.” My conviction might be utterly sincere. It still would not change what the measuring tape shows. Height and sex are obviously different characteristics; the logical point is the same: a sincere internal feeling about belonging to an externally defined category does not, by itself, establish membership in that category. There is an additional evidentiary problem. Seattle Public Schools does not merely tell students that some people describe themselves as having a gender identity. It explicitly asks seventh graders to “recognize that everyone has” one. How was that universal proposition established? What evidence would count against it? If someone says, “I have no internal sense of being male, female, both, neither, or anything else; I simply know my sex,” is that person a counterexample? Or is another label simply supplied so the proposition remains true regardless of the answer? A proposition that can accommodate every possible response is remarkably good at protecting itself from falsification. That is not a virtue in empirical reasoning. This is also why the comparison with a soul matters. Gender identity and souls are not identical concepts; the similarity is epistemological. Someone may sincerely report possessing an immaterial soul. Their sincerity establishes that the belief or subjective experience exists. It does not independently establish the existence of the invisible thing the belief describes. If a public school told seventh graders to “recognize that everyone has a soul,” most of us would immediately understand that a contested metaphysical proposition was being presented as fact. Describing an alleged inner essence as an “internal and deeply felt sense” does not somehow remove the need for coherent definitions, evidence, and the possibility of being wrong. And this is not merely an abstract vocabulary exercise. Seattle Public Schools makes gender identity consequential in policies involving restrooms, locker rooms, athletics, physical education, overnight accommodations, names, pronouns, and records. That is why I am not convinced gender identity belongs in a public-school health curriculum in the form Seattle currently teaches it. Schools may reasonably explain that some people understand themselves through the concept of gender identity, just as students can learn about religious, philosophical, and political beliefs that exist in society. But describing a belief is very different from instructing children that its foundational proposition is universally true. If gender identity is being presented as an empirical fact about human beings, then treat it like an empirical claim. Define it without circularity. Produce the evidence. Explain how we know everyone possesses it. Say what observation would falsify the proposition. Consider competing explanations for the same experiences. If it cannot meet those standards, then present it honestly as a contested philosophical or psychological framework rather than something seventh graders are expected to “recognize” as fact. Those are not hateful questions. They are not even particularly advanced questions. They are the first things children should learn to ask whenever somebody makes a claim about reality: What exactly does that mean? What is the evidence? Does the conclusion follow? What would show that the claim is wrong? A public school should be teaching children how to distinguish a feeling from a fact, a belief from evidence, a definition from a circular definition, and an assertion from a conclusion actually supported by its premises. Critical thinking does not mean teaching students to interrogate every idea except the institution’s preferred ones. Seattle Public Schools itself says students should “respectfully challenge ideas.” Great. Start with the curriculum. If gender identity is coherent and supported by good evidence, it should survive elementary scrutiny. If asking “What does it mean?” “How do you know?” and “What would prove it wrong?” sends the argument running in circles around an invisible “internal and deeply felt sense,” perhaps the seventh graders are not the ones who need another lesson in logic and critical thinking. Perhaps the curriculum does.

Hey, anyone attending the fear and show tonight? Looking to make some friends or meet up with anyone who’s going alone as well, would love to connect!

I’m looking for places that are actually worth trying, not necessarily fancy or expensive, just really good food. I’m open to pretty much anything: burgers, seafood, chicken, pizza, Mexican, Asian food, soul food, breakfast/brunch, and desserts I’d especially love to hear about those little spots that locals swear by but tourists might not know about. If you have a specific dish you always order somewhere, please mention that too Also, what’s one Seattle food I absolutely shouldn’t leave the city without trying? I’m trying to make a list of places to check out, so give me your best recommendations 😂

Where in Seattle can I find good quality clothes and sneakers without spending a crazy amount?

My question is everywhere so is crazy expensive nothing for $1200 I need help guys please I'm not picky I just need a nice Ebike