“don’t take the bait” because our city and state will lose 100/100 times to the federal government. If the US federal government is going to keep up with oppressing our city, I wonder what our local leaders are doing to organize an actual resistance to this shit.

“Vote in Democrats” is not an answer. Portland already does that ~100% of the time and this is what we get.

I think we need a city leadership with some real “vision” which is now a possibility for the first time in a long time with the new charter allowing better representation at the top level. Near the end of the article, they briefly mention the idea of the City purchasing the Fred Meyer building, which could be the start of a way out, but it would take drive, patience, and vision to actually come to a solution. I’m picturing some sort of redevelopment that takes advantage of the proximity to public transit.

I think the bad news is that there’s no simple solution to restoring Gateway, and the neighborhood is suffering from so many of the same problems we see elsewhere in the city. It’s going to take a lot more than shuffling tax dollars around and trying to “gentrify” the area to bring the city to a high standard of living.

I’m so disappointed with the state of tech and the way the “FOSS movement” as flawed as it can be at times is so weak.

Not surprised though, it was just a matter of time (about a decade) after the capital started really flowing that everything was required to go to shit.

Is that in reference to the 1930s etc?

I’ll take the “mutual agree” on all that. In the back of my mind I was thinking how “the location is really the core problem here”.

I do think that what I said is relevant to other commercial vacancies around town, so I had to soapbox a bit to blow off some steam.

I think downloading one today is fine as well. It’s possible that it’s going byo get worse in the future, but it’s not like Wikipedia was perfectly “clean” and without its flaws/bias before January 2025. Wikimedia looks like they’re going to offer so e nominal resistance to whatever tf this is, but we will see how it plays out.

Question (that I’m not going to look up), but does wiki have a way to download everything with the change history? Cause in that case you could have an offline copy that you could roll back as far as you’d like.

Sure but the rent is the base value of "your business must be this successful to survive. We allow landlords to autonomously decide for our community what that value should be, with no value add besides a piece of paper backed by our supposedly democratic government(s).

(Property management is a fine job that is rarely actually done by landlords themselves, people managing the maintenance and occupancy of properties can and usually do make a wage like the rest of us workers).

It makes the city more interesting when “crappy” businesses can get by. It makes it easy for people to jump in to the market economy and offer something innovative, instead of just closing everything down and opening chipotle locations, or landlords letting occupants leave so they can make money on speculation which offers no value to our community.

This could work if you live in Venice or something, but i meant *taking* damnit

It’s good to have a critical understanding of RT’s viewpoints. In this case, like the other user said, it’s Trump driving his own wedge (per usual), so ofc RT will run an article on it.

I think they meant it in a friendly way, in this case. They should clarify though.

Under capitalism, kayaking the time to get to know your neighbors is revolutionary behavior. When things go sideways, the people in direct geographic proximity to you are going to be the ones in best position to support you (and one another). It’s best to start laying that groundwork asap.

Being involved in wider activism is also a grounding and fulfilling. You don’t need to join a revolutionary socialist party like PSL (but you can if you want to go hard), even joining a park cleanup day or something like that is a good place to be.

It helps to put in some extra shifts at the posting mines

I didn’t want a mod tag next to all of my posts, and Lemmy doesn’t let you disable it.

Yeah this isn’t my main account

Hey, haven’t used this account in a while, figured I got demodded, but if there’s a need I can fire it back up. I think the instance admins have things under control in general.

What do you mean by this?

It’s not that you’re an idiot, but it’s wise to avoid using a chromium/blink based browser since they are building a dangerous monopoly. Firefox is the best known alternative, but there are a couple other options.

Yeah that tracks, do Google next haha

If I’m making a mistake, I don’t think that would be it. I’ve been observing Bitcoin and its community since 2011.

Right, many Europeans have basic consumer protections lol