jarmitage

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[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

c/vaporents exists and needs more love!

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

I wish we would tax the armies of Vancouver shoppers that pour over the bridges every day. It’s fucking ridiculous that they use those bridges, shop tax free, and vote against funding new interstate infrastructure.

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

196 days. Took a quick two night trip with the wife over the weekend. Dinner the first night was a big trigger, but we managed to pass it.

The next day we spent wandering a tourist area and then finding somewhere for lunch. I’m sure you all can imagine how difficult that was. She is on the same sobriety break and we both kept being honest about wanting to ‘cheat’. But, we played the tape ahead and talked about how we like getting better sleep, less stress, etc, and we managed to pass it again. The mocktail options these days are more enjoyable than I’d expected.

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

And that’s exactly what is coming to the US, since they think workers rights and unions are the problem.

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

They did set up in the mid-latitudes in Red Mars

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Kill Lincoln and We Are The Union are pretty solid.

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago

I can confirm places like Texas and Florida have much worse auto loan rates due to higher delinquencies. Northern states have better rates.

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

One possible reason is we don’t salt our roads in winter. Salt causes tons of rust on vehicles, but here you’ll see 1990 Hondas still looking practically new. People seem to drive their beaters forever.

 

The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry's website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.”

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

There was still a “Pop” aisle at my QFC until at least 2014.

 

The arrival of four DSA members on Portland City Council lined up with the announcement of a truly dire city budget crisis. As leaders mulled major cuts, DSA saw an opportunity. Katbi said she wanted to use this year’s city budget conversation as a chance to advance the DSA’s goals in Portland, recognizing the group might not get all their policy wins this year. 

“We're using the budget crisis as a vehicle to advance class consciousness,” Katbi told the Mercury. “We have to start putting our vision out there, because there’s going to be nothing left for us.”  

Proposed cuts to Portland Parks & Recreation proved to strike a particular nerve among many residents. Many Portlanders were especially outraged when several community centers were on the chopping block earlier in the budget season. (After substantial public backlash, city leaders have promised to keep the community centers open, but other parks services remain at significant risk.)  

At the District 2 budget listening session in early April, Katbi was met with cheers after she called on the City Council to “tax the rich, fund our families and our futures” during public testimony. 

“Do we want to have a nice city that families with children want to live in? Or do we just want to have a shell of a police state with shitty services and abandoned parks?” Katbi asked. “We need to present an alternative vision.”

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

Well ya see, if they have that dollar, then you don’t have that dollar.

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

Great piece. Tech unionization is certainly one of the few paths to fighting this situation. Not just for internal developments at tech companies, but also for solidarity outside of work in building local resilience and contributing to FOSS projects.

[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Ashburn at 4.8% tells me this includes data center traffic, as not many people live there but a shit ton of data centers do.

 

Construction on a new entertainment venue at the Lloyd Center is set to begin this summer.

Portland-based concert promoter Monqui Presents and global live entertainment company AEG Presents will begin construction on a 68,000-square-foot entertainment venue that can hold between 2,000 and 4,250 attendees in June at the site of the former Nordstrom building along Northeast Multnomah Street.

“The light at the end of the Lloyd venue tunnel just got a lot brighter and closer - it’s full speed ahead,” Monqui Presents Founder Mike Quinn said in a statement.

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