Awesome, I was hoping you would want to as you are a regular poster. :)
Hi, I’m B.
Awesome, I was hoping you would want to as you are a regular poster. :)
This whole thing feels like those work meetings where there was a huge effort to put together a piece of communication, but then at the final hour a group of bosses endlessly start wordsmithing every single sentence.
I wish our city councilors would do … anything else.
I don’t think housing can “solve” drug addiction. However, there are factors that have been shown to contribute to addiction from homelessness. Less stability, regular trauma, mental health, etc causes all of these things to interact and exasperate each other.
The frustrating part is that voters keep telling the city, county, and state to invest in all of these areas. Measure 110 was supposed to create more space to have drug addiction treated, and there was no follow through. Now, further existing infrastructure is closing with no replacement. Similarly with housing, voters overwhelmingly keep calling for housing solutions, but any progress turns into new vendor procurement, deals with developers that don’t follow through, and half baked plans that don’t materialize.
Also, I think it’s important to remember that a lot of drug addiction happens amongst the housed. We just don’t see it. But as our coworker who is struggling falls apart, loses their job, and times get tough the more likely they will be the one moving from pain pills at home to fentanyl in the streets.
I’m glad some of the electeds are at least acting like they are as frustrated as I am. I hope they actually do something about it. (thought the need for national reform on both housing and drug addiction also can’t be ignored).
The admins finally responded after a few days, but by then I had already removed the other user as a mod (the method to do so is a bit hidden).
Currently there are two mods, myself and @[email protected] who created this community, but has since deleted all their posts and hasn’t posted again in years. In order to remove a mod though you need to click into a post they made. With no posts, I can’t remove absolutebeginner even if I wanted to.
I’m not a part of the demographic who would experience racism around this. So, I can’t comment there.
I am a white hipster though. So, I usually call my window manager customizations “artisanally hand crafted”.
There’s a fediverse ride on July 30th: https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-17449
Apparently mods can remove other mods. It’s just hidden and only accessible if you click into a post the mod made.
I encourage you to make a post in the community asking if everyone would be alright with adding you as a mod. If there are no major objections then we can add you.
What are you talking about? I suggested you should talk to the community and if everyone is cool with it then we can make you a mod. The issue is that our autonomy was undermined due to the mistake, and it can be corrected by you demoding yourself and making a post asking the community if they are OK adding you as a mod.
Mods on Lemmy don’t have permissions to remove other mods. You need to demod yourself, or an admin needs to remove you.
I think it would be totally reasonable to make a post and ask the active members there what they think about you becoming a mod. We’ve been having conversations there on what we want the community to be, and I’ve been trying to empower everyone to give input. So, suddenly seeing a new mod with no community input runs counter to that.
Also, regardless of the federation issue, it is concerning that the admins did not verify that the community was abandoned, when simply clicking on my account would have quickly shown it was not.
For example, I posted this (as a mod) in c/Portland 5 days ago (3 days before BarterClub claimed it had “no mods”): https://lemmy.ml/post/1841804
It would have been cool to be included in this. I am a mod over there, and I’ve been active including posting on the community in the past couple days.
To be clear: c/Portland was certainly not dead or abandoned and had many active posts and participation in posts and comments from myself as a mod.
I never understood this logic.
I’ve been on Mastodon since 2016 and never really got into Twitter. I just don’t understand why the “algorithm” matters. Who cares if people who don’t follow you see your post? I want my followers to see my posts, and then favorites allow me to know that my followers liked what I posted. It’s a nice dopamine boost and helps me feel closer to my community.
A lot of posts I make unboostable as well (followers only). “Promotion” doesn’t really factor much into my use of Mastodon so much as being “social”.
Weird, it always works for me. Here is an archive someone made of the full article: https://archive.ph/bpXJ9
pro tip: add “?outputType=amp” (without the quotes) to the end of any paywalled Oregonian article to get the goods.
What’s happening with PSR is so frustrating. I had a coworker ask me the other day what he should do to get help for an unhoused guy who seemed to be in distress but not need an ambulance. The police weren’t really the right answer (the unhoused guy wasn’t doing anything), but my coworker wanted someone to go talk to him. PSR was the only answer we could find for him to call.
Regardless of people’s positions on funding the police, regardless on their complaints on addressing the symptoms of poverty, I can’t understand why anyone would not want a group of people to be on call to help with these types of situations. Let the police tend to other priorities.
PSR is a really popular program in Portland. Most people want it expanded. A single city councilor leading it to failure makes me angry.
I wonder how the requirement for having half the pumps be attended still will affect overnight self-service? One of the big benefits of self service is you can just get gas pretty much any time.
If you don’t plan to take out any new lines of credit in the near future, then it is probably a wise choice to freeze your credit with all three credit agencies. It will take about 30 minutes, but there are no downsides other than being a minor inconvenience to unfreeze later when you want a new line of credit.
My politics don’t really fit in a tidy box, and I’m not really interested in wielding my personal ideology to craft this space (beyond rejecting hate). As we figure out what this place will be I hope we can work together to make it a space for those that use it. As we need more mods and new perspectives we should add those as well.
For transparency though, I am of course biased (like everyone). I was born and raised in Portland. I’m a union member. I’m middle aged. I’m socially and fiscally far-left, but I’m also a bit of an individualist who loves freedom and guns. So, if I start wielding power to enforce those ideas (again beyond rejecting hate) then call me out on it.
In Funkwhale, you can make different libraries and set permissions on them. I have a public library that has copyleft music in it, and then a personal library that is only shared with user’s on my instance (who are just friends and family). So, no one outside of about three people can see my collection of copyrighted music.
El juego parece muy divertido. Estoy feliz de ver que regresan más actividades al aire libre a las calles de Portland.