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Hi everybody, I know WildWaves is closing down and I love to get in a festive mood and haven't done FrightFest in atleast 10+ years so I am curious how it is for people in their late 20s? It's about 70$ which ain't cheap at all so wondering if this is worth at all or if I should check out other Halloween event. Felt like I should as it's my last opportunity but wasn't sure. Anybody been recently?

Anyone have a recommendation? We hired Evergreen but not sure if they are providing the level of support we need with a stage 4 liver cancer patient.

My grandmothers home on green mountain road has a huge three sectioned pond that has an enormous amount of koi fish. She no longer lives there and we can’t afford to take care of these beautiful fish that are were left with. There’s tons of older ones and younger ones. Can anyone come get them and take care of them? Or know what I should do? Any suggestions would be helpful!

Hi all, looking for the best company near the Bellevue area for bulk t-shirt printing. The company I have worked with the last few years for my middle school ASB has permanently closed, so hoping someone might have a recommendation. Appreciate it! 👕

What are you guys having for dinner tonight? Let me know in the comments down below. Help me help you go viral comment like vote all the good things we share post tell your mom and your uncle about it

I have heard things that have me wondering about the level of criticism and belittling of the kids in front of the class. It sounds like some of the teachers model treating each other poorly for motivation, especially toward the kids that have a hard time. Is this standard for this school? Also is it true that last year the math teacher had the whole class chant every Friday at the kids who have missing assignments that those kids need to "get their lives together"? Help! I am looking for more info and trying to decide how bad it truly is.

Least sketchy it’s felt in years. Curious why. It’s super busy with lots of folks commuting and shopping. Fewer boarded up places too. Time of day?

I just learned they do this Emo night ever so often. Come by tomorrow!

My friend and I can’t go anymore :( I have a weekend pass and also a single Friday and a single Saturday ticket so if you wanted to go but didn’t want to pay full price let me know!

This comment thread from my post from earlier concerning our serial arsonist is pretty revealing. The first comment in the screenshot says: “Oh thank God we pay these cops high salaries. I was getting worried they’d have to work.” The implication is pretty clear: the response problem is being blamed on cops themselves, implying that they're lazy or simply unwilling to do their jobs. I responded by pointing out that SPD has a very real staffing shortage. As of September 8, SPD had only 864 fully deployable patrol officers citywide. Seattle currently has about 823,400 residents, which works out to just 1.05 fully deployable patrol officers per 1,000 residents. And this isn't simply a matter of 864 being an arbitrary number that sounds low. Seattle's own comprehensive plan analysis uses 1.738 officers per 1,000 residents as SPD's historical average level of service from 2010 through 2022. At today's population, that historical rate would correspond to roughly 1,431 officers. The city's planning documents also note that SPD staffing had fallen to historically low levels. That puts today's 864 fully deployable patrol officers roughly 567 below the number that would correspond to Seattle's own historical staffing rate. And the decline didn't happen out of nowhere. In 2019, before the major 2020 drop, SPD had 1,281 deployable officers. By 2020, that number had fallen to 1,094. That's a loss of 187 deployable officers in a single year. By 2022, SPD's chief reported that the department had lost 402 deployable officers/detectives since 2019 and said it would take an estimated five to ten years to return to pre-2020 staffing levels. So we're not talking about a department that has always had 864 officers and suddenly decided not to answer calls. We're talking about a department that lost hundreds of deployable personnel and has been trying to rebuild that workforce ever since. And “864 officers” does not mean 864 officers sitting around waiting for calls. The September staffing data distinguishes the 864 fully deployable SPOG patrol officers from the larger number of sworn personnel on the department's books who aren't currently available for 911 response. My comment pointing out the staffing shortage: -19. Then another commenter said the “popular theory” is that SPD is purposefully neglecting its duties to punish residents for the “defund the police” movement and inflame right-wing news rhetoric against the area. That comment: +20. No evidence was offered for that claim. It's an unsupported theory that SPD officers are deliberately failing to do their jobs for political reasons. That's what stands out to me. An actual, documented staffing problem was presented as a straightforward explanation for poor response times and heavily downvoted. Meanwhile, a much more elaborate claim that officers are deliberately withholding service for political reasons was heavily upvoted without any evidence being provided. Obviously, one Reddit thread can't establish what an entire neighborhood believes. My hope is that this is not representative of Ballardites' reasoning abilities generally, i.e., conspiracy-type thinking that ignores evidence. But it does make me wonder whether people here are generally more inclined to blame SPD and individual officers for response problems than to acknowledge the scale of the staffing shortage. If you think the staffing shortage doesn't explain the response problems, what evidence supports the alternative explanation? And if the problem isn't primarily the shortage of deployable officers, what do you think the solution actually is?