@ajaxStardust it’s the burke-gilman trail, the first rail-to-trail, and the most important bike corridor in the seattle area.

and definitely not for cars.

ahhh. dang.

that's terrible. and it's (obviously) not a forest ranger (municipal/ gvt plates)?

what is "rail to rail"?

People do the "Appalachian Trail" around here (penna). i reckon perhaps similar.

@ajaxStardust Oh yeah even we don't have in-city forest rangers in Seattle. xD This is an urban trail, a commuter route.

If you follow it long enough you can get to some actual wild area trails - Burke Gilman to Sammamish River to... Tolt Pipeline, going east, would let you get into the foothills where you can get some actual forest trails.

"Rail to Trail" is a programme of adapting abandoned rail right-of-ways into bike and walking trails. Originally conceived in part as a way of keeping them available for re-use as railroad trails, walkers and bicyclists became a big constituency.

If you want to look at the bike maps I maintain, you can find a lot of them, and even this location.

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/

GitHub - solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap: This is a bike map covering northwest King County and southwest Snohomish County. It connects the maintained Seattle and 2 Line Eastside bike maps, making them all more useful.

This is a bike map covering northwest King County and southwest Snohomish County. It connects the maintained Seattle and 2 Line Eastside bike maps, making them all more useful. - solarbirdy/Northsh...

^GitHub

Oh yeah! I've heard of that abandoned railway thing. that's cool!

ha! i had to re-read your first paragraph a few times. What... why no forest rangers? Oh. that's right. Urban.
I thought you said rural. i was like...

aahhggghh now i gotta read it all over again!
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@ajaxStardust ah yeah, well, we're a city that's near-rainforest and near to rainforests. people find us ... surprisingly green? even in the winter, when we don't think so.

(see also "the emerald city")

One of the reasons Republicans promote child marriage & teen pregnancy is because it creates lifetime poverty for women.
The overturn of Roe vs Wade was the natural progression on GOP public policies of female immiseration.
https://msmagazine.com/2024/07/12/republican-trump-position-abortion/

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/10/in-2024-the-gop-is-a-big-fan-of-teen-pregnancy/
https://www.masslive.com/politics/2024/05/nh-lawmaker-opposes-new-marriage-bill-says-teens-are-of-ripe-fertile-age.html

None of the GOP's corporate donors want to give up their underpaid & unpaid female labor force.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Women_Counted

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/us/what-is-patriarchy.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/01/what-really-counts-how-the-patriarchy-of-economics-finally-tore-me-apart

What really counts? How the patriarchy of economics finally tore me apart

After 10 years of writing about capitalism I saw that the erasure of women is not only palpable, it’s bound to my own flesh and blood

^{Jane Gleeson-White (The Guardian)}

@carl white supremacy undergirds all of it, but there are plenty of black men, Hispanic men, men of color who are 100% here for the patriarchy

@Npars01 @RickiTarr

@susankayequinn @carl
I look at media reports of the dupes that got conned into Jan 6 by the moneyed folks funding a fascist movement.

There were people there of all kinds, but most were white middle class men. Not starving. Not unemployed. Just needlessly frightened of the future by disinformation.

The post-WW2 era established democracy, with high taxation on the rich & a social safety net, for a reason.

To thwart the rise of another populist fascist

America forgot that lesson

@susankayequinn @carl
The funders behind Jan 6:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2021/02/19/here-are-the-billionaires-who-donated-to-donald-trumps-2020-presidential-campaign/

Disinformation campaigns like Bannon's are funded by:

Musk
Uihlein
Fancelli
Hendricks
Koch
Dunn
Hamm
Ruffin
Adelson
Schwarzman
Griffin

These ideologues & corporations don't care if their "win" burns down American constitutional democracy, or the planet.

Or triggers a final world war.

Here Are The Billionaires Who Donated To Donald Trump’s 2020 Presidential Campaign

Stephen Schwarzman, Diane Hendricks, Steve Wynn: About 14% of America’s billionaires donated to Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, according to an analysis of records filed with the Federal Election Commission.

^{Michela Tindera (Forbes)}

@Npars01 and now with Musk's chats with Putin coming to light and his election interference/law breaking in PA right now... a friend said he's a naturalized citizen and we can revoke that for crimes, and we really really should

@carl @RickiTarr

@susankayequinn @carl
Musk will be accorded rights like investigation, trial, and conviction, according to civil rights he wants others not to have.

His wealth is a mirage in some respects. Built on stock valuation estimates.

Those estimates can plummet catastrophically whenever it strikes Wall Street to do so.

@Npars01 @susankayequinn @carl I kinda think we should liquidate the holdings of any white collar criminal like this when they're found to have abused the public.

Put them in a holding account and apply them as tax credits across the whole population. Give every citizen a bounty/incentive for finding the rich people cheating.

@gooba42 @susankayequinn @carl
It's an idea that's been tried.

Vigilante justice with bounties is what is hunting women in Texas who need reproductive care. Offloading justice to partisans isn't prudent.

Nationalizing SpaceX might be a possibility in a fire sale like TikTok.

@Npars01 @susankayequinn @carl We wait for the regulators to find an interest or we as citizens force the issue.

Currently neither is happening and so the rampant wage theft and such is just left to become entrenched.

Taxation and government regulation is the civil alternative to pulling out the guillotines but it doesn't work as long as bribery is the most impactful incentive at work.

@gooba42 @susankayequinn @carl
Currently US employees have to file lawsuits if they aren't paid their wages.

Many other countries rely on Labor Boards to fight against wage theft.

The NLRB is under attack by Republican megadonors to thwart the implementation of unions and local Labor Boards with enforcement powers.

The GOP & a corrupt Supreme Court don't want workers to have federal recourse, plus lawsuits.
https://www.404media.co/amazon-says-it-has-a-first-amendment-right-to-union-bust/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-rnc-economy-workers-wealthy-donors-1235061192/

As the Ultra-Wealthy Rally Behind Trump, the GOP Pitches Fake Populism

Trump’s allies courted the working class with hollow, populist rhetoric at the RNC on Monday, as billionaires pledged their support.

^{Andrew Perez (Rolling Stone)}

In the UK, it was illegal until April 6, 2022.

@garland @RickiTarr

@realtegan @feld When I was in college (a Christian university), a Bible department prof told us a story of a client who confessed to him that she had murdered her abusive, alcoholic father, and she and her mom buried him under the chicken coop. He was often gone for months on drinking sprees, and nobody in the community liked him, so nobody was surprised that he "left town and never came back."

That story was formative for me. "Do not tolerate abuse. EVER. Do whatever you must."

@courtcan @feld
I was a little surprised when, as a college student doing some research on a completely different subject, I found a collection of first-hand accounts written by doctors describing how certain men died from "mystery ailments" along with notes about the abuse the family suffered at the hands of the men. The commentary indicated that those deaths were poisonings, covered up by sympathetic doctors.

I was born in '72. I never knew that world, when we were property.