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Saw this on HN and thought I would crosspost it here

https://hokulea.com

“A 43,000 nautical miles, 47-month circumnavigation of the Pacific by traditional Polynesian voyaging canoes Hōkūle‘a and Hikianalia and 400 crew to 36 countries and archipelagoes, nearly 100 indigenous territories, and 345 ports

Moananuiākea is Hōkūle‘a’s 15th major voyage in her first 50 years. At the core of Hōkūle‘a’s creation was exploration – to uncover, recover, and reclaim. Reclaim our culture, traditions, and our relationship to home and our island earth. Moananuiākea is no different, but we are now guided by what the worldwide voyage told us—that we must deepen our values in the voyage and move from exploration and understanding to mālama, or caring, and kuleana, or taking responsibility. With those values, we must move discovery toward choices and actions that we believe will help build a future good enough for our children. This is our most difficult voyage yet because the destination is not ours. It will be the most difficult island yet to find, because it is the future of island earth.”

Danish artist Thomas Dambo installed ‘Pia the Peacemaker’ at Sakai Park on Bainbridge Island. She’s one of several new reclaimed-wood trolls moving into the Seattle area. (Brangien Davis / Crosscut)

So I've been in King and Snohomish county now for basically a decade, and even though I have a G2G account, and have had for years, has this thing ever worked?

I just got another mailed toll bill for crossing 520 from Bellevue to Seattle a couple weeks ago. So I go check my G2G account, and sure as hell, all of my vehicles license plates are registered in the system, I walked outside and looked in my pickup, and their little "tag" is right there on the windshield where it belongs, the balance available on the account is more than sufficient to cover the toll.

I don't mind paying the tolls when I use the services (this post isn't a complaint about the tolls themselves), but what use is this registration system, when it seems like I get mailed a friggin toll bill probably 50% of the time I do something that requires me to pay a toll, and manually have to go pay the bloody thing?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3547739

Three people have died and three others have been hospitalized after drinking milkshakes contaminated with Listeria bacteria from a restaurant in Tacoma, Washington, health officials say.

Investigators found the outbreak was linked to ice cream machines that were not cleaned properly at a Frugals restaurant in Tacoma, according to a release from the Washington State Department of Health. Listeria can affect people up to 70 days after consumption and the machines were used through August 7, the release said.

Komonews now apparently does this crap where it needs to "process" your cookie opt-out, at least on mobile.

Any alternative news sources you'd recommend to follow? Just for stuff like weather or big events.

If you're unfamiliar with this tactic, when you click "opt-out" the webpage basically displays this widget with a loading bar saying it needs to "process" your request. When in reality you're asking them to simply not use cookies, so it's saving the web browser time by not installing any cookies.

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If you know if any others, post in the thread! If there aren't Seawolves or Storm ones, I'll create them.

Relentless heat wave lingers for the South and Southeast and now expands into the Northwest today and most of the upcoming week. Meanwhile, severe thunderstorms and excessive rainfall with flash flooding potential from the center of the nation, mid-Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee Valley's through today; Threat shifts to the Great Lakes, eastern Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic on Monday.

The City Council unanimously voted (8-0) this week to end the fee established decades ago on common forms of entertainment.

Love these little quirky things when walking around neighborhoods in Seattle. Also Reservation Dogs is excellent.