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• South Lake Union: The bustle and boom of Seattle's 'Amazonland'

  23-08-2017 23:42
  Combined with the other businesses that have come along with its growth, Amazon has turned South Lake Union into a shiny, buzzing, neighborhood that is eternally clogged with both foot and auto traffic and full of people bearing blue badges.
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Two Doms, One Sub

  23-08-2017 23:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Originally posted on December 30, 2015.
  What are your thoughts on two Doms sharing one sub? The scene I envision includes the domination of the other Dom. Do some Doms enjoy the submission to another Dom while also enjoying dominating the sub? It's probably best to put it into the context of my fantasy. I tie my sub to a chair or tie her down and then send a Snapchat to her other Dom. I invite the other Dom to come over and have his way with her. I would then leave, but they must s
  
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• Drawbridge Operator Takes Issue with The Stranger's Coverage of a Drawbridge Incident

  23-08-2017 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Don't climb drawbridges, people!by Christopher FrizzelleDrawbridges are the best. Alas, this is not the drawbridge in question. This is. FairytaleDesign/Getty Images
  A Stranger reader is not happy with Katie Herzog's post about the mystery cyclist who climbed the Ballard Drawbridge the other day while it was up. She's not happy with the climber, but she's especially not happy with Herzog's enthusiasm for the prank.Herzog wrote, "Kudos mystery climber! Way to make the morning commute a little mor
  
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• Connelly: State Dept. science envoy quits, trolls Trump in epic way

  23-08-2017 23:17
  A U.S. State Department science envoy quits, in a broadside to President Trump in which the first letter in each paragraph spells out the word "IMPEACH."
  
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• Blabbermouth Podcast: Trump's Weird Phoenix Rally. Plus, Are Millennials Destroying the Media—and Everything Else?

  23-08-2017 22:56 via thestranger.com
  by The Stranger
  Subscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!Dan Savage and Eli Sanders are on vacation—whatever that is—so Rich Smith has orchestrated a Millennial takeover of the show. First, Heidi Groover and Kim Selling stop by to talk about what everybody learned from Trump’s rambling, racist rally in Phoenix Tuesday night. The President’s speech appeared to appease the Nazis who marched on Charlottesville last week, and who now include a group enterprisi
  
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• Seattle police comb filthy home of 3 elderly brothers charged in child-porn case

  23-08-2017 22:40
  Police are also asking the public to contact detectives with any information that may aid the investigation.
  
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• Seattle police again search home of 3 brothers charged with possessing child porn

  23-08-2017 22:40
  Police are also asking the public to contact detectives with any information that may aid the investigation.
  
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• Seattle Council Member Says Jeff Bezos Should Improve Working Conditions for “Gig Economy” Contractors

  23-08-2017 22:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufTech workers gathered on the Amazon campus yesterday in solidarity with the tech giant's contract security workers. HG
  Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today, calling on the former richest man in the world to advocate for improved working conditions in the tech-driven gig economy. Couldn't giant companies like Amazon, which just this morning spent $13.7 billion acquiring hundreds of Whole Foods markets, afford to ensure their contra
  
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• Seattle Council Member Say Jeff Bezos Should Improve Working Conditions for “Gig Economy” Contractors

  23-08-2017 22:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufTech workers gathered on the Amazon campus yesterday in solidarity with the tech giant's contract security workers. HG
  Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today, calling on the former richest man in the world to advocate for improved working conditions in the tech-driven gig economy. Couldn't giant companies like Amazon, which just this morning spent $13.7 billion acquiring hundreds of Whole Foods markets, afford to ensure their contra
  
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• Connelly: House Speaker Paul Ryan, in a hot seat, to visit Boeing Everett workers Thursday

  23-08-2017 21:41
  U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan holds a town meeting with Boeing workers in Everett early on Thursday morning.  The Speaker is in a rough spot, having to toss cold water on President Trump's threat to shut down the federal government, and explaining his refusal in 2015 to go to bat for renewing the U.S. Export Import Bank. Boeing has been the biggest user of the bank, which offers loan guarantees to foreign purchasers of U.S. products.
  
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• What's Up With These Bubbles We Saw at Cal Anderson Park?

  23-08-2017 21:39 via thestranger.com
  
  "It's just fun."by Chetanya RobinsonPretty much exactly what they look like CHETANYA ROBINSON
  It turns out they’re people celebrating a birthday party with huge bubble balls from a company called, well, BubbleBall.
  Bryan Zippro is owner of the Redmond-based company, which provides the balls, a field and nets for people to play soccer. People rent them for birthday parties and other events, he said. “Really there’s no rules - it’s just fun.”
  Why play soccer in a bubb
  
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• Watching Trump's Phoenix Speech Is Like Watching a Baboon Groom Itself

  23-08-2017 21:39 via thestranger.com
  
  What exactly is broken when the grooming behavior among a large number of white Americans is so perverted?by Charles Mudede Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Dunbar
  Baboons and other non-human primates spend a lot of time grooming each other. And this grooming is not just about picking fleas, nits, and bits, but making friends, strengthening bonds, and forming alliances. The groomed receives pleasure from the groomer. The sociobiologist Robin Dunbar believes humans used to
  
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• Duke grad student researches how Confederate sub crew died

  23-08-2017 21:28
  DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A former Duke University student believes she has solved the mystery of how the eight Confederate crew members on board the world’s first submarine to sink an enemy warship were killed. Rather than having drowned or suffocated, the men were actually killed by the same weapon they wielded, according to Rachel […]
  
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• The Great Jazz Guitarist John Abercrombie Has Died

  23-08-2017 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Jazz guitarist John Abercrombie, one of the most gifted artists on the renowned ECM label, has passed away.by Dave SegalECM all-star John Abercrombie: 1944-2017. ECM Records
  The great American jazz guitarist John Abercrombie died of heart failure yesterday at age 72. After a stint with the deliriously distinctive jazz-rock group Stark Reality (whose tracks have been sampled by Common, Cut Chemist, Main Source, Saul Williams, and others), Abercrombie played on sessions with Gato Barbieri, Gil Eva
  
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• Someone Sent Us This Letter For Seattle Times Editorial Writers

  23-08-2017 20:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase BurnsThis came in the mail.The letter reads:
  Editor, The Seattle Times:
  Judging from my experience, having a vehicle to live in is much better than not having one and is often preferable to living in a homeless shelter. Seattle City Council Member Mike O'Brien seems to accept the reality that vehicles are shelter, but the Seattle Times does not, according to the editorial, "Shelter, not parking amnesty, for homeless."
  I encourage editorial writers at the Times to live in vehicles for a
  
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• ‘Sci-fi to real life’: US invests $17 million in laser tech

  23-08-2017 20:33
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Defense Department is investing $17 million in high-powered laser technology that has the potential for practical uses on the battlefield, from destroying enemy drones to disrupting communication systems. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich announced the funding during a news conference Wednesday at a Boeing lab in Albuquerque, where many of […]
  
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• Savage Love: Don't Fuck Nazis

  23-08-2017 20:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Woman estranged from her dad because he was busted for soliciting escorts.by Dan Savage
  A few years ago, my dad was busted by the cops for using an online forum to solicit escorts. The arrest and infidelity destroyed his marriage to my mom. My brother and I were in our mid-teens at the time and were angry enough with him that we asked him to not seek custody. He obliged, and neither of us has seen him since. I miss my dad—or the man I thought he was. I know part of my anger comes from how
  
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• Appeals court refuses to reinstate Bremerton coach who prayed after games

  23-08-2017 19:34
  The court found Joseph Kennedy “took advantage of his position to press his particular views upon impressionable and captive minds before him.”
  
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• Check out these smashing outfits worn at Oregon’s biggest solar-eclipse gatherings

  23-08-2017 18:49
  The creative outfits were worn in Central Oregon for Monday's solar eclipse.
  
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• Oregon’s homeless population jumps 6 percent

  23-08-2017 18:36
  Multnomah County, which includes Portland, had the most homeless people, 4,177, with nearly half reporting having a serious mental illness.
  
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• Cliff Mass's Responses to Women Scientists Make Seattle's Climate Change Discussions Toxic

  23-08-2017 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  We are sorely in need of such honesty and integrity within the climate conversation here in Seattle.by Sarah MyhreDr. Sarah Myhre and her son look at sun with plebeian eclipse glasses.Who influences the public discussion about climate change? In the wake Trump’s disbanding of the federal advisory panel on climate change, this question sits like a stone at the bottom of my stomach. Who are we listening to? Who is driving this imperiled planetary spaceship–obviously not Trump, a man wi
  
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• Cliff Mass' Responces to Women Scientists Make Seattle's Climate Change Discussions Toxic

  23-08-2017 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  We are sorely in need of such honesty and integrity within the climate conversation here in Seattle.by Sarah MyhreDr. Sarah Myhre and her son look at sun with plebeian eclipse glasses.Who influences the public discussion about climate change? In the wake Trump’s disbanding of the federal advisory panel on climate change, this question sits like a stone at the bottom of my stomach. Who are we listening to? Who is driving this imperiled planetary spaceship–obviously not Trump, a man wi
  
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• Cliff Mass Belittles Women Scientists And Makes Seattle's Climate Change Discussions Toxic

  23-08-2017 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  We are sorely in need of such honesty and integrity within the climate conversation here in Seattle.by Sarah MyhreDr. Sarah Myhre and her son look at sun with plebeian eclipse glasses.Who influences the public discussion about climate change? In the wake Trump’s disbanding of the federal advisory panel on climate change, this question sits like a stone at the bottom of my stomach. Who are we listening to? Who is driving this imperiled planetary spaceship–obviously not Trump, a man wi
  
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• Cliff Mass Belittles Woman Scientist And Makes Seattle's Climate Change Discussions Toxic

  23-08-2017 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  We are sorely in need of such honesty and integrity within the climate conversation here in Seattle.by Sarah MyhreDr. Sarah Myhre and her son look at sun with plebeian eclipse glasses.Who influences the public discussion about climate change? In the wake Trump’s disbanding of the federal advisory panel on climate change, this question sits like a stone at the bottom of my stomach. Who are we listening to? Who is driving this imperiled planetary spaceship–obviously not Trump, a man wi
  
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• Judge: Bears near U.S.-Canada border merit endangered status

  23-08-2017 17:58
  HELENA, Mont. — A judge has ruled a small population of grizzly bears in Montana and Idaho near the Canadian border can be considered endangered even if they are not on the brink of extinction. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen’s order Monday reversed the 2014 re-classification by U.S. wildlife officials for the 40-50 bears of […]
  
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• Don Lemon on Trump's Phoenix Speech: Total Eclipse of the Facts

  23-08-2017 17:23 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  Don Lemon gets a lot of grief for his occasional gaffes. But Lemon nailed it last night—he spoke for us all. And even more impressive: Lemon was speaking off-the-cuff immediately after Trump's deranged, divisive, baldly racist speech ended. Lemon's remarks were followed by the rarest of things: a talking head panel worth watching.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• South African rhino breeder starts online auction of horns

  23-08-2017 17:16
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A rhino breeder in South Africa has opened an online auction of 264 rhino horns that has raised alarm among leading conservation groups that fear a legal domestic trade could encourage more poaching. The auction website indicates that bidding began Wednesday and will end on Friday. Breeder John Hume says a legal […]
  
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• The Morning News: Another Defamation Case Against Kshama Sawant, Even Trump's Supporters Got Bored of that Speech

  23-08-2017 16:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi Groover"ANTIFA" Ralph Freso / getty
  "But as the Night Dragged on, Many in the Crowd Lost Interest in What the President Was Saying." From the Washington Post's dispatch from Donald Trump's rambling and defensive 75-minute campaign speech last night: "Hundreds left early, while others plopped down on the ground, scrolled through their social media feeds or started up a conversation with their neighbors." In the speech, Trump attacked the media, repeated his comments on Charlottesville le
  
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• Family of 9 rescued after raft sinks in Yakima River

  23-08-2017 15:50
  Some of the family members, ranging in age from 2 to 80, swam to an island, while others clung to brush after the raft began to sink.
  
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• What back-to-school news could you use?

  23-08-2017 15:00
  We’ll consult with education experts on your questions about college admissions, classroom misunderstandings and teacher-student relationships.
  
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• ‘Sick to my stomach’: New information leads to child-exploitation charges against 3 elderly brothers

  23-08-2017 15:00
  Three elderly brothers were interviewed by Seattle police in 2013 after “child erotica” was found on a computer one of them took in for repair. No charges were filed then, but the brothers were charged Monday with possessing images of child-sex abuse in a new investigation.
  
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• New information leads to child-exploitation charges against 3 elderly brothers

  23-08-2017 15:00
  Three elderly brothers were interviewed by Seattle police in 2013 after “child erotica” was found on a computer one of them took in for repair. No charges were filed then, but the brothers were charged Monday with possessing images of child-sex abuse in a new investigation.
  
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• Lakewood police seek to overturn a $15M verdict in fatal shooting of unarmed black man

  23-08-2017 15:00
  Defense attorneys say the $15.1 million jurors awarded to the family of Leonard Thomas is excessive and was based on “the unsubstantiated narrative that police are allegedly targeting African Americans for excessive force.”
  
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• ‘Greatest generation’ is fading, but it’s still got choice words for our own

  23-08-2017 15:00
  The equivocating about Nazis didn’t go over so well with the people who defeated them.
  
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• Colorectal cancers are killing more young people; experts want to know why

  23-08-2017 14:59
  No one knows what underlying lifestyle, environmental or genetic factors may be driving the rise in cases.
  
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• Thanks to Amazon, Seattle is now America’s biggest company town

  23-08-2017 14:00
  Amazon so dominates Seattle that it has as much office space as the city’s next 40 biggest employers combined. And that’s only the beginning: Amazon’s Seattle footprint of 8.1 million square feet is expected to soar to more than 12 million square feet within five years.
  
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• Whose Streets? Documents the Uprising That Birthed the Black Lives Matter Movement

  23-08-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Connecting Ferguson to Charlottesvilleby Steven Hsiehspan class="dropcap"> In August 2014, a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer fired six shots into Michael Brown, killing him. Locals swarmed the residential street where the 18-year-old's body lay for more than four hours. Brown's mother wailed at an officer who told her to settle down. A vigil became a protest, which became a battleground, which became history.In Whose Streets?, filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis offer a definitive ti
  
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• Where Is the Outrage Over "Take the Skinheads Bowling"?

  23-08-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Know this, Camper Van Beethoven: We're watching you.by Gardner BainesSo I just heard a song on Spotify, and I have questions. A lot of questions.Right away, the singer dives into cultural appropriation by saying how "every day, I get up and pray to Jah." Not a good look, obviously white dude, but like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I'm sure the Rastafarian people don't need me to fight their battles.My ears perked up when I heard this singer mention the presence of "skinheads on my lawn." I don't k
  
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• The Only Living Boy in New York Will Make You Hate New York

  23-08-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The Big Apple? More like the Big Crapple.by Ned LannamannNamed after a Simon and Garfunkel song, The Only Living Boy in New York isn’t shy about being a movie that leeches from other, better pieces of art. This is confirmed during Jeff Bridges’s opening voice-over, which name-drops Yeats and Lou Reed; the movie goes on to reference The Graduate, Bob Dylan’s “Visions of Johanna,” J.D. Salinger, and every Woody Allen film set in Manhattan—all in service of a dip
  
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• The Lamebrained Heist of Good Time

  23-08-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  It's like a knucklehead fractal!by Vince ManciniGood Time has the keen eye for anthropology you find in a lot of Sundance movies—the casting feels both unconventional and authentic, and there’s an interest in subcultures that you don’t normally see on screen—but the beauty is that it packs this sensibility into a taut genre thriller.Robert Pattinson, previously of the Twilight series and clearly thrilled to be in a role that doesn’t require him to brood, smolder, or
  
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• Small Pot Farms Are Getting Screwed

  23-08-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The state made rules to help boutique weed growers, but they're not working. At all. Here's why.by Lester BlackIt would be easy to mistake the Vashon Velvet pot farm for just another attractive Vashon Island estate: a picturesque farmhouse and a two-story horse barn sit in a grassy field surrounded by woods. A single deer lazily prances across the property. A long gravel driveway wraps far enough away from the road to give the home's occupants plenty of privacy.The twist comes when you open the
  
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• Person of Interest: Lacey Leavitt Is a Virtual Reality Producer and Former Rollergirl

  23-08-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  This Former Rat City Rollergirl Makes Virtual Reality Dreams Come Trueby Amber CortesYou've been a film producer for years, but lately you've been working in a new medium—virtual reality. What's fun about telling stories over VR as opposed to traditional film?It's a really exciting time to be a storyteller. VR is truly the birth of a new medium—not quite traditional film and not quite video games, it's a whole new thing. Our traditional film tools don't work in this space—contr
  
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• Meet Manka Dhingra, the Eastside Democrat Who Could End Republican Control of the State Senate

  23-08-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Flip the Washington State Senate!by Ana Sofia KnaufAs an Indian Sikh immigrant, Manka Dhingra saw people in her community fearing for their safety after Donald Trump was elected president. Dhingra heard Indian mothers recount how their children's classmates teased them, telling them that they'd be deported under the new president."I never expected an election to hit me as hard as it did," she said. "[People in the community] didn't know if they would be in the country the following year. I remem
  
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• Krist Novoselic Seeks Musical Nirvana with His New Band, Giants in the Trees

  23-08-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Is it forest grunge?by Jake UittiKrist Novoselic has begun the grind again. The 52-year-old former Nirvana bassist, who has since formed a couple of short-lived groups between joining the Foo Fighters and Paul McCartney on national stages, has launched a new Northwest-based band, Giants in the Trees, a mix of rock, pop, and folk music. The video for their first single, "Sasquatch," released July 26, has garnered more than 100,000 YouTube views despite it "costing nothing," and, Novoselic states,
  
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• In the Gig Economy, Coworking Spaces Are Everywhere—What Is It Like to Work in One?

  23-08-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Freelancing from home in your pajamas is so 10 years ago.by Amber CortesSeattle has the fourth-fastest-growing freelance economy in the country, which explains why there are almost as many coworking spaces opening up as luxury apartment buildings. Since I'll never be able to afford a luxury apartment, I thought maybe I can at least work at a place where the sink actually drains and the coffee is always fresh. So I checked out some coworking spaces and brought my laptop with me. I didn't tell the
  
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• Ikina's Sushi Chef Jason Velasquez Is Willing to Try Something New

  23-08-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  I went to the excellent Ikina Sushi and had a mysterious dish.by Charles MudedeI enter Ikina Sushi at 4:30 p.m. A young man watering leafy plants looks up and informs me that the place isn't open for business yet and I should come back in half an hour. I explain that I have an appointment with Jason Velasquez, the joint's head sushi chef. He calls for Velasquez, and almost immediately the chef emerges from a gap between two black curtains that separate the sushi counter from the kitchen. Velasqu
  
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• I Anonymous: Seattle is becoming a big city. But please don't be an asshole

  23-08-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  We're not New York yet—have a heartby AnonymousSeattle is getting a "big" city feel, but we don't have to adopt all the trappings that usually entails. Remember all the stories out of NYC in the 1980s and '90s of folks strolling past muggings and rapes without even pausing to look, let alone trying to help? We were walking down the street today and saw a man lying on the ground hardly breathing and obviously in distress. We stopped to check on him and he wasn't able to reply, so we called
  
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