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.
There are a number of options. One for example is to have a weekly mega thread for news, and require it all gets posted there. Maybe with exceptions for major events, elections, etc.
This is great. I hope they add more harm reduction mechanisms for drug users. I would also like to see safe injection sites, safety testing, and even sanctioned sale of doses if it mean less deaths.
All of that depends on the state actually sending out funding as outlined in measure 110 though. Instead they seem to believe that treating people with a disease as criminals is more important than actually getting them the help they need. I hope this program helps counteract that.
Just because a deterrent isn't the "number one reason" doesn't mean that it's a bad deterrent. If this is helping some people that's great. It's not like someone is going to go pick this stuff up having never done the drug before, and even if that did happen then I'm pretty sure the clinic would be working to dissuade them from trying it.
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.
Process question: As I am a mod and active on /c/Portland and was not checked in with, what process is being used to evaluate things like this? I would have been fine chatting with BarterClub, but we have been trying to have community discussions on how the place should be ran and what sort of content fits. Now suddenly there is a new mod and we weren't consulted!?