Sean Klein

Nothing like a respiratory illness to make you miss breathing normally

Do you know why - if this is to maintain current quality - it's a 75% increase compared to the prior levy?

I've heard an argument of inflation, but the tax is pegged to a valuation of dollar-per-$1000 of property value, which should also be increasing with inflation.

I think the part which confuses me the most is that maintenance seems critical, but it's only a drop in the bucket of the new levy?

The auditors report claimed that our SDC-incentivized funding opened parks faster than we could repair old ones, but it's not clear fixing that is the priority

I wish there was a levy more specifically dedicated to maintenance of parks that already exist. Feeling a bit frustrated that there is no option for this, as far as I can tell?

(Maybe I'm reading this all wrong, but I'm really only using the audit/OPB as sources)

$2 million != $550 million

Seems like a "yes" vote raises taxes and rent, but the parks will not be able to receive maintenance, while a "no" vote will prevent new parks from opening and lay off a massive portion of the parks department.

Both options seem bad 😞

Levy:

- "The new measure would also make a dent in the maintenance backlog by ensuring that roughly 2% of levy revenue goes to maintenance costs. That would raise about $2 million annually."

www.opb.org/article/2025...

Cost:

- "Parks estimates it would cost between $550 million and $800 million to restore assets to a reasonable level of wear-and-tear."

Does anyone in Portland know why the parks levy doesn't actually address the much-needed maintenance costs of running parks?

I've read the following, and the situation seems dire: www.portland.gov/auditor/audi...

Here is an example that's much closer to the actual bug we saw:

play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...

Note that in this case:

- There are no mutexes.
- The whole issue arises from 'send_fut' being a future that we start (and then stop!) polling.

Just to be clear, this futurelock issue can happen without the involvement of any async mutexes.

The issue here isn't primarily that an async mutex is held across an await point (though that is an anti-pattern!) but, it's mainly that an unpolled, uncancelled future has a way to block a task.

a guy named "chance-y bill-ups" getting arrested for an illegal poker ring is incredibly kojima-coded

Funny how thousands upon thousands of people can march through war torn Portland with absolutely no violence but some how anyone getting near a federal agent gets shot in the face.

If you think the military should be deployed into American cities because there’s the slightest tension at a protest, congratulations!

You are a fascist!

Lots of people want to hold fascist ideologies without realizing what they’ve become, but we have words to describe things and that’s what u are

There is day-of registration available for tomorrow's Lastest Not Fastest #justsayin
gobeyondracing.com/races/lastes...

I count... five separate articles about this topic, from Sophie Peel?

Quotes include:

"Councilors ... stand by the chat and its contents."

"They exchanged the messages on the dais in council chambers as the budget hearings occurred... There’s no indication that this was against the rules."

You can't make this shit up it's the top story of the city on their site right now

Just in case this isn't clear to anyone:

- the president declared war on Portland, and wants the national guard to use full force against the "hellfire" of citizens here
- our city council used to have a group chat

And Willamette Week is more concerned about that second bullet point

it feels extremely jarring to try to focus on anything else while the federal government declares war on the city I live in, using rhetoric showing they're clearly hungry to murder civilians

this moment feels like a calm before a (preventable, unnecessary, trump-instigated, amoral) shitstorm

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

Unfortunately, I think you're right. If Portland shows up and protests, they'll clip farm. If Portland doesn't protest, they'll generate fake footage (or use 2020 footage, or plant agitators).

they stated "there's an enemy within" and now need to post-facto assert that they were correct

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And honestly I feel weird posting this. People would be very justified protesting the crimes ICE has committed. But in this instance, it REALLY feels like pulling out and shutting down a protest with a disproportionately violent response is what they want.

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Go to the East side. Meet your neighbors. Go to Forest Park. Support your local community.

I hope we can quietly avoid the fight the feds are looking for, while city council pulls the permits on the ICE building and shuts it down.

I run by south waterfront in PDX at least once a week. People have been peacefully, persistently protesting in front of the ICE building for many months now. Nothing "new" justified any federal action - they're clearly looking for a fight.

Hoping Portland can go where agents are not.

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Out of curiosity, do you also oppose the term "native speaker" referring to first-learned language?

(Truly gauging feeling here; I'm kinda trying to suss out why it implies indigenous to me on some contexts and not in others)

Yeah, definitely would be weird! Also I think it's possible that "native American" may have an overloaded meaning (actually implies indigenous) in the way that e.g., "native new Yorker" doesn't really imply

I know this is just semantics but I figured that "native" implies birth (e.g. nativity) whereas "indigenous" has more pre-colonialization implications

I def agree it would be weird to hold that with any sense of privilege but doesn't "native" genuinely mean "where you were born"?

Devastating news: I simply cannot delete my subscription to Disney+.

Granted, it's because I never had a subscription.

Also running on the northernmost section of wildwood - north of Germantown - after dark is, IMO, the spookiest most "deep growth" forest part of Forest Park. Last time I did that with a buddy, he was attacked by an owl. 10/10 experience