Is the DMV trying to gaslight me, or has the used car market suddenly increased by nearly 2x within the past month? I recently bought a 2015 Lexus ES300H w/ 183k miles for $9,000, but the DMV wanted to tax me on the $13k-15k price found on their website. I checked KBB and the private seller price said $9,000 is only below the market value range by $700 for "good condition." DMV logic is Lexus and Toyota usually don't depreciate by miles, rather it depreciates depending on years. I used to work at a dealer, I remember we always lowballed people's trade-ins due to high mileages, so that's BS.

I do understand inflation is a thing, but that's nearly 2x the inflation rate for the used car market since 2025. I ended up convincing her that $13k for a 10-year-old Lexus w/ 183k miles is outrageous considering the hybrid battery is past its lifespan, so at any moment it can "die." The lady was nice, she just told me they're going based on the websites provided by Washington state.

Personally would you guys pay that $13k-15k tax bracket, or would you fight it and pay the $9,000 tax bracket? The guy who sold me the car was also shocked he gave me a good deal when he heard DMV. I lowkey regretted my purchase until the lady told me I had a great deal, so I feel complex at the moment. I feel happy I got a great deal, but sad knowing inflation has gotten worse lately.

Okay so I was chatting with a coworker at lunch today (yes, we're nerds) and we came up with this very rough map of a Lightrail Loop (something a kin the Yamanote Line in Tokyo).

It would merge tracks with UW station in order to serve as a transfer hub for those that want to go east/West. Of course grade is an issue given Seattle's terrain and the rail crossing at Northgate is a logistical nightmare. Ideally the stations being built in places like Ballard would be able to accommodate future lightrail coming from South of the Ballard cut.

Here are the stations:

1. University of Washington (pre-existing)

2. Fremont/Wallingford

3. Ballard

4. Crown Hill

5. Greenwood-North

6. Northgate (pre-existing)

7. Lake City

8. Magnuson Park

9. U-Village

I'm curious about what some of y'all would think about this?

Seattle, Washington State, and all it's people I've come to know and love, thank you. My life has been all for the better since I escaped Virginia as a closeted kid, to a life where I could finally be myself and free.

This is my favorite photo I took of the city last May, and I'd thought to share.

Is there a good place to watch the overhead action without dealing with all the other stuff? I’d love to take my kids to see the air show but we don’t really care about the hydroplanes or other parts of the festival.

what the fuck is happening it’s 3pm and it’s gridlock

Dropping off in lost and found

Great photographer doing some really neat things in the PNW: https://www.facebook.com/cadbytim/

I'm used to getting my hair dyed as it grows out but I've got two quotes of $400 from different salons! This is way more than I'm used to.

Is this every salon around here now? Does the hue affect the price because I get vivid colors?

Which spot does this make you think of?

Found this last month and completely forgot about it. If it's yours, dm me when/where you lost it and if it matches up with where I found it I'll try to get it back to you

I have a server in Utah. I was getting 10Mbps upload to it. While trying to figure out why, I realized speed tests were also throttled in that region on speedtest.net, although they scored a bit higher (~100Mbps).

I have the 1Gbps internet option.

Called astound. They wanted to send a tech. I declined, and asked that they forward the information to their network engineers. They couldn't do it. So I asked to speak to their supervisor and was hung up on.

So I started to do speed tests on a couple servers I have around the country. Similar issues.

I decided to try solving this myself. Setup a wireguard connection between my server in Utah and my home.

Same issue on wireguard. So I kept changing ports. Finally found one that wasn't throttled and was getting ~900Mbps upload.

So this is just a FYI. If you have Astound 1Gbps internet and you are on a residential connection you're likely being throttled (unless I'm just very unlucky).

Unfortunately speedtest.net is not a good testing option since they removed single threaded testing. I believe it's multithreaded by default now. You want to test single connection speeds to find this issue.

But, you may still notice slower then normal speeds regardless.

sharing few shots I took around the downtown and pike place area illuminated by neon lights taken at night. feedback and thoughts are welcome!

Found decent amount of money on a sidewalk - Seattle/WA

Hi y'all. Yesterday, on a walk around Central District with my bf, we found a decent amount of money on a sidewalk.

We thought of giving it to the police, but first maybe asking around reddit to see if by any chance whoever lost this money is a redditor and is looking for it.

If it's yours, send me a message with the information of how much money it is and how the money is tied together. These are very specific information, so I'll know if you are the real owner of this.

PS: sorry to be so cryptic, but I swear we just want to give it back to the owner without running the risk of giving it to the police and the officers just splitting the money between themselves. I also posted on r/LostandFound and some folks told me to: look for the owner on Facebook, look for the owner on the Neighbor app (? I never heard of it, is it popular here in Seattle?), give it to the police and make a detailed report. We're just afraid that there won't be any kind of accounting in giving it to the police. Any similar experiences with officers? Would we be notified if the owner got their money back?

Thought this was too cool not to share. Go lil' salmon!

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/first-floating-wetland-seattle-saltwater-aims-turn-the-tide-for-salmon/281-b7872ef8-4978-4354-a733-515554c0d38e

A new outdoors column!

The World Cup is over. Make it stop.