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I just met with a couple organizers for the Portland branch of Socialist Alternative last night to get involved. Apparently it's a small chapter currently, less than a dozen members, but that just motivates me more to be involved  And for you PDX'ers, Kshama Sawant is going to be speaking here next Thursday. Also, Portland's (hopefully) own SA success story, Nick Caleb, will be speaking there as well.
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Just a reminder for PDX people! This is tonight.
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Apr 24, 2014 21:42
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Yeah traffic is often pretty hosed in Portland, often times inexplicably. The plus side is a very robust public transit system. I used to hate living here and believed that Seattle was better, until a couple years in I had an epiphany that Portland is everything I love about Seattle but condensed.
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May 4, 2014 01:29
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este posted:Traffic in Portland isn't bad if you don't use I-5 or I-84, but it requires more knowledge of the city than an out of towner can be expected to have. But if you live in the city proper you'll get pretty much anywhere you want to go in 20-25 minutes (driving). 217 is almost an all-day clusterfuck, but if you don't live or venture into the Beaverton area it won't affect you.
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May 4, 2014 05:03
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Thanatosian posted:They are pretty lovely, but they are so much better than they could be. I was expecting "total compensation" to be a permanent thing. Did you ever post on the Penny Arcade forums as "thanatos"? Uranium Phoenix posted:Just to add to this and plug these awesome organizations, 15 Now is trying to start up pushes for a higher minimum wage everywhere they can, not just in Seattle. If you're interested in starting a local 15 Now branch or joining one in your area, check them out. Or, if you're in Seattle, the petition drive to get the stronger $15/hour without all the lovely loopholes and phase-in is starting in a few weeks. They could use all the help they can get. Also, if you don't have time to spare, even small donations help because they don't have a ton of resources. Are you SEA or PDX SA?
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May 5, 2014 04:11
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Pope Fabulous XXIV posted:What are SA's monthly dues? I'm on their mailing/calling lists now, anyway. If anyone's a member of the Portland chapter (which exists?) then I may just see you around. I am just as soon as I set up my dues.
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May 5, 2014 06:14
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Thanatosian posted:Maaaaayyyyybeeeeee. If that was you, I remember your masterful trolls of the gamer libertarians. I was one of them then and would get so angry when you'd make some factually accurate statements that I couldn't refute. I reevaluated my political beliefs since then and like I said, I'm joining SA. SyHopeful fucked around with this message at 00:38 on May 6, 2014 |
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May 5, 2014 22:14
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Here in Oregon the minimum wage is the minimum wage, regardless of whether you get tips or not. To my understanding, tips count towards your pay in Oregon: if you make the minimum wage or greater off of tips alone in a pay period, you can end up without a paycheck. Unless the restaurants I'm familiar with are screwing their staff.
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May 7, 2014 00:27
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Thanatosian posted:Oregon is one of the seven states without a tipped minimum wage, meaning tips don't count towards their wage at all; they should be getting the state minimum wage ($9.10 per hour, as of Jan. 1) plus tips. No poo poo? Time to do some BLI research. E: So I found this, which agrees with you, but on page 2 it says: quote:Following the Cumbie decision, the U.S. Department of Labor amended its regulations to Emphasis mine. How would you interpret that? SyHopeful fucked around with this message at 00:46 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 00:37
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Thanatosian posted:Those don't look anything like Portland street signs; they're not at all obscured by a tree, and nobody has turned them 90 degrees so they're facing the wrong direction. Also, they're present.
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May 9, 2014 04:37
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Senor P. posted:The east side, of the state. The dark lands. It is rather unfortunate Central/Eastern Washington and Oregon don't count as part of the Pacific Northwest... It's unfortunate that they're a sea of red, because WA/OR are really drat pretty east of the Cascades.
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May 13, 2014 01:49
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Republicans posted:Yeah, he could have stopped the shooter and proven Wayne LaPierre right. That did happen in the recent Vegas shootings
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Jun 11, 2014 02:33
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SedanChair posted:They'd rather barbecue in Covington and commute for two hours every day. Well of course, taxpayers pay for their commute if they get to take the cruiser home.
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Jun 13, 2014 01:15
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Pikestaff posted:Montanan here; I'm in Oak Harbor currently visiting family. All of Whidbey Island feels like such a weird contrast to most of the rest of Western Washington. Every time I visit it boggles my mind just how many churches they've packed onto this island. If you aren't Navy, you're an octogenerian. I loved my time on Whidbey (go check out Fort Casey if you have the time) but man was I glad to move to a place with more people my age.
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Jun 29, 2014 01:50
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oxbrain posted:It's not a new law, but they've started enforcing it pretty heavily in the past months. Guess they got tired of being mowed down by idiots who can't stay in their lane. Just a general warning that this is a mixed bag. I have been thanked by Juneau Police officers for waiting for a safe area to pull over, but have also been told by police in Oregon to pull over immediately. Know your local regs on that.
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Jun 30, 2014 17:38
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Solkanar512 posted:Yeah, some cops are happy, others play the "I flashed my lights exactly where I wanted you to stop, how dare you question my judgement". Probably smartest to pull over to the right ASAP. That way it's on the officer, not you.
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Jun 30, 2014 18:17
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Mrit posted:I have only been pulled over once(and that was a horrible speed trap on the Peninsula and my wife was sick so I wasn't paying attention), and I drive ~70 normally. However, I also know where all of the speed traps are. Usually it's at their discretion. When I drove my DSM from Seattle to San Jose in 13hrs back in 2002, I blasted past an OSP Camaro speed trapping while I was doing about 85mph, but he didn't come after me 
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Jun 30, 2014 19:01
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FRINGE posted:OTOH police in the NW are very nice compared to the SW. OTOH, SPD
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Jul 1, 2014 02:06
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FRINGE posted:"Compared to" is an important qualifier. No matter how hard theyve tried the SPD is not the LAPD. You're the only person I know who puts California in the SW, even though it's technically correct.
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Jul 3, 2014 15:15
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FRINGE posted:Until they separate the LA to SF strip as the Night City Metroplex theyre stuck claiming the inland desert that you cant tell apart geographically or culturally from NV or AZ The honorable state of Jefferson may make it's case for joining Cascadia.
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Jul 6, 2014 04:42
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Ardennes posted:I will, so have you had the OPA? I like Astoria, but admittedly it might be due to the fact that it is less depressed than the rest of coastal Oregon. Their Cavatica stout is also good stuff.
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Jul 6, 2014 20:54
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warderenator posted:I remember walking around in Queen Anne one day, a while after the minimum wage law was enacted, and some people were collecting signatures saying that they were against the law because it didn't come into effect fast enough. I wonder if these were the same guys you're talking about. I didn't sign it because I don't care much about the issue either way. The problem is that Sawant and her supporters have these exact misgivings about the law, so you have a big opportunity for confusion if some people are trying to eliminate it by misleading people via a pro-15 Now point.
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Jul 9, 2014 02:11
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mod sassinator posted:Did anyone else run by Cannabis City yesterday? I went by with a friend around 7pm and it was a pretty good scene. About an hour wait but everyone was super friendly including the security folks and employees. They were letting about 5 people into the store at a time and it was loaded with news cameras. Jeez. Back in Alaska in ~2000 a gram was $25. Guess we were getting ripped off instead of just ripped.
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Jul 9, 2014 21:00
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wheez the roux posted:you, specifically, were getting ripped off because that was not and by no means has ever in the bast 2 decades been a reasonable price for even the dankest of fire in AK. unless you were way out in the Bush, in which case, yeah it was around that. This was Juneau and we were high school dumbasses with no real understanding of what we should be paying, haha.
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Jul 9, 2014 21:10
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RuanGacho posted:The law leans on the side of the worker. Yeah if you're a LEO
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Jul 21, 2014 01:35
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xrunner posted:Thanks. My only real experience with Chicago is visiting family in the summer so they seemed fine to me. As you and CZ mentioned, I would think the fact that they don't have to worry about crossing traffic and they don't require eminent domain/demolition would make them more desirable. And they must be cheaper than subways. Mass transit can't be the only solution, because I-5 is THE major West Coast commercial trade and cargo corridor. Decreasing the number of commuters on the road would certainly help, but our interchanges, onramps, and offramps are not very big-truck friendly. As anybody who's gotten stuck behind one on one of our many short, uphill onramps can attest.
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Aug 10, 2014 03:04
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:But I guess that all gets back to the housing situation in Portland. But I don't think they can really solve that, because these commuters likely won't settle for less than a detached home with a generous yard for as little money as possible. I don't think that's true. As the cost of living in Portland proper increases, it pushes the poorer people out to cheaper living, which are places like Beaverton, Hillsboro, and Gresham. And having public transportation options for them rocks.
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Aug 10, 2014 05:28
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Thanatosian posted:It sounds fair on its face, but a huge percentage of the traffic on that bridge is Vancouver assholes commuting to work or shop in Portland, without dropping any tax money over there (or over here, for that matter) to pay for the bridge. Regardless of residence, if you work in Oregon you pay Oregon income tax, so OR is getting something out of Vancouverites. I lived in Vantucky for 6 years before I came to my senses and moved to the other side of the river. gently caress that strip mall hell hole. Hope you enjoy stoplights, because you'll spend most of your time in Vancouver in front of a red one.
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Aug 12, 2014 02:39
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anthonypants posted:Don't you get it refunded at the end of the year though? I only ever got maybe 75 bucks back.
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Aug 12, 2014 03:01
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Kaal posted:Like I said, for some of the lighter vehicles it'll be preferable. But generally speaking it's faster and cheaper to go a few hundred miles out of your way to stay on flat roads than to try slow-poking it up and down hills at 25 miles per hour, hoping that your brakes don't burn up. Or so sayeth my owner-operator cousin at least, who incidentally crossed the Columbia at Umatilla the other day rather than crossing the Interstate Bridge (though of course he was on his way to North Carolina out of Portland so it makes sense regardless). Hopefully it won't come to all that though. Why would anybody going from Portland to NC need to go into WA at all? That's what I-84 is for. size1one posted:Clark county residents who work in Oregon on average earn much more than the local average. Meaning they pay more in taxes than the average resident. Income taxes are by far the largest portion of taxes that Oregon collects from it's residents. Welfare queens. 
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Aug 14, 2014 17:40
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size1one posted:Clark county residents who work in Oregon on average earn much more than the local average. Meaning they pay more in taxes than the average resident. Income taxes are by far the largest portion of taxes that Oregon collects from it's residents. Welfare queens. Maybe if Vancouver stopped reveling in its mundanity and figured out how to make a city that isn't dull and boring as dirt (hint: the answer to new development isn't always strip malls, cookie cutter housing developments, and stoplights) it might attract the kind of people that makes Portland so neat. Added bonus of increase tax revenue from increased density. SyHopeful fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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Aug 14, 2014 17:59
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Those Great Washington Schoolsquote:"We currently rank 45th in the nation in spending per student,” says WEA President Mary Lindquist. “The legislature has let the current crisis become an excuse to continue underfunding our schools.”
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Aug 14, 2014 19:24
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Thanatosian posted:More accurate to say the Senate. A couple of turncoat Democrats put the Senate into Republican hands so that they could be the Majority Leader and President Pro Tempore. At least one of them isn't running again, thank god. I'm glad this lawsuit is an actual thing, hopefully it'll force the legislature to take some action. Also, really impressed by Spears' 20% pickup in the primaries.
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Aug 14, 2014 19:37
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LGD posted:Brazilian food is around in both food-cart and regular form, but all of the African places I can think of are Ethiopian/Eritrean. Oh and Chez Dodo, but I have no idea how representative of Mauritian cuisine it is. Doesn't matter to me though, as it's a tasty lunch option regardless. Where'd Chez Dodo move to? That place is awesome.
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Aug 19, 2014 16:31
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LGD posted:It's in the food cart pod on Stark between 4th and 5th downtown. Unless it's moved in the past few days anyhow. Thanks, it's been awhile since I've been there. It used to be over in NE, iirc.
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Aug 20, 2014 17:14
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I remember back in 2002? I drove from Seattle to San Jose and back with a friend, and on our return trip somewhere in Oregon (I vaguely remember Salem-ish area) we came across a billboard that loudly proclaimed THE POPE IS THE ANTICHRIST. Anybody else remember that one? Also, booooo at all the Scientology poo poo all over Trimet.
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Sep 12, 2014 04:34
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Thanatosian posted:I wish Sawant would start pushing harder for municipal broadband. It's something relatively radical, that could potentially get the tech community in her corner, as well as help out poor people. It seems win-win-win for her. From what I understand, SA has kept Sawant's schedule pretty full flying her around the country (and also London) to help build chapters and give support to local campaigns. She's pretty drat busy.
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Sep 18, 2014 23:46
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anthonypants posted:Lowtax really ought to focus on fixing the forums instead of pandering to politicians like this. 
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Sep 19, 2014 02:03
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http://youtu.be/8S881grl-ig
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Quantum Finger posted:
Also this rain isn't some kind of constant downpour as portrayed in the media. It's basically one level up from mist and sticks around for months.
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Sep 27, 2014 23:54
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if you say so...