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Dispatch from the Seattle CHOP Shop and War Zone
Of course, it was too good to be true. Mayor Jenny Durkan announced that the occupiers were closing down the miserable CHOP zone, and the Seattle Police would be moving back into their desecrated East Precinct building. The City sent their forces up to start removing the barriers they installed, and, lo and behold, some diehard denizens of the zone refused to leave.
Protesters laid down in front of the bulldozers, and the mayor’s office announced that the Police would not be returning to their building today; those protesters had their list of Demands. In another part of Capitol Hill, the (former?) employees of the Trader Joe’s store, which shut down in the face of the Black Lives Matter protests, issued their List of Demands of Corporate, before they would return to work at the reopened store. They are upset that Trader Joe’s management is not sufficiently yielding to their demands, including supporting BLM, giving everyone their jobs back with no penalty, and redefining “safety.”
Also, today, the announcement came that the Capitol Hill Farmers Market would be reopening this weekend, with restrictions.
The restrictions sound pretty onerous to me and would make me think twice about bothering to go to the market. The public-health powers-that-be seem to be doing everything they can to curtail “society,” making each person view every other person as dangerous.
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You have always been such a showoff.
Concretevol is probably more qualified to do it than I am. He’s out in the field working with this stuff, while I sit in an air conditioned office.
Say what? A bucket loader has a much greater angular range that any possible dozer blade. Has to have it. That is how a bucket loader can dump its contents, after all. And no, the blade on standard dozers cannot be tilted, just lifted. Tilting is costly add-on.
Sorry. I meant side to side, not front to back.
Ah. Angled would be the relevant term, and you’re right: no such thing for bucket loaders.
Now if you turned the backhoe around, backing up to the idiots you could swing the boom from side to side and bat them out of the street with the side of the bucket!