Scenic Consumption

The passenger rail connections Oregon should be studying over the next few years should be Portland to Astoria via St. Helens, Portland to Ontario, Beaverton to Salem, Tigard to McMinville/Corvallis, and Eugene to Medford along with commuter rail on the OC-Portland-Vancouver corridor.

I don't know what we do with these guys

Things will continue to get worse but half the country just doesn't give a fuck

Can we turn the American green party into New Greens? Their publicized platform pretty much is that but they have so little motion outside of a pathetic presidential candidates every four years.

Give Ms Rachel with the elegant laser sword Gundam, ilhan gets the giant fucking laser one

Thinking about where we'd be if the US didn't fight a war after WW2!

He's a war criminal!

Barack Obama jump scare in the Netflix documentary section is new. I keep forgetting and accidentally putting it on then immediately running for safety with David Attenborough

There's going to be a mini "forgotten generation" of Gen alpha kids raised on tablets who's social ability was stunted by old millennial young Gen x bad parenting during COVID and will distinguish themselves from a Gen beta post COVID crop of kids who will rule either a dying or saved planet

Someone posted a 24 miles-24 beers-24 burgers in NYC and they drank like 10 beers over 6 miles before the first burger and passed out for a couple hours which was compelling content

I was really good at it too but pay was ass and there's a level of stress and unhealthyness about driving a lot that's really not great for you

If you told me I could make 80k a year with a high salary ceiling, a mostly not shitty shift schedule, and good or even equivalent benefits to what I get right now I think I'd be back out there.

I miss driving a big ass bus

This was basically my dream dad car and I'm dying internally for something just a little bit new and interesting in the space

10 years in and and all they did was go back to old split grill that's actually still being produced by the Voyager?

The fuck is this?

It gets better!

Is jambalaya a biryani

My toddler has started/learned how to declare when she's having fun and it's so precious i can't take it

There's a joke in that statement somewhere. How does the Willamette Shore Trolley tie it all together

Is this an "any press is good press" moment for the Willamette Shore Trolley? I'm not sure

I live in Oregon so not that close lol. Been trying to mentally do the logistics of how to host a winter Olympics in Portland and I think the crux of it really is space for stuff like biathlon, ski jumping, bobsled etc.
We'd need a Beijing 2022 level effort to build up the infrastructure in govy

It's so cool, multiple skill and athleticism sport. One of the top women competitors Simon made headlines because she committed identity theft and stole a teammates credit card which honestly go off of your that good you can be a little crazy too as a treat

I've watched I think every Olympic biathlon event this year. Want to go skiing with a gun

China when Japan decides to be imperialist again

got that west pennsylvania build. get that boy in a steel mill pulling on chains

Gwen Stefani must have endured some heroic levels of Gen X lead poisoning. I cannot believe what she's become

"I should be able to kill these people who have caused me some small distress"

Hell yeah

As cringe as it is to mention I'm pretty sure these guys also have some sort of social media activism and organization on the local Reddits which can be linked to pro Eli Arnold media there, pdxreal, etc. It's made the spaces pretty much unusable

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