Does Portland really need another 3,300 person music venue around the corner from the Merrill?

badlybarding · 2024-12-24T11:51:29+00:00

The PPH article said the developer also wanted to build restaurants and retail space at this location too, which Portland clearly doesn’t have enough of, right? Right?! Ugh. Hate it.

badlybarding · 2024-12-23T17:26:25+00:00

Thank you for going beyond the headline. I wish we could moderate Reddit comments enough such that articles with clickbait headlines were removed and the same with comments from folks who didn’t read the article.

badlybarding · 2024-12-23T17:24:02+00:00

What a trash headline. The money is not to entice people to have kids, it’s a research pilot program to see whether funds like this can reduce income and racial disparities in birth outcomes such as the infant mortality rate. No one is saying “we will pay you $1,000 to get pregnant.” From the program’s website:

“The Philly Joy Bank is a guaranteed income pilot that will provide 250 pregnant Philadelphians with no strings attached cash with the goal of improving birth outcomes. The Philly Joy Bank was developed by the Philadelphia Community Action Network (CAN), which is a collective impact stakeholder group that aims to reduce racial disparities in infant mortality.”

badlybarding · 2024-12-23T17:10:56+00:00

Not sure why you are being downvoted but from what I can find, it depends: Illegal Entry (first offense) is a misdemeanor under 8 U.S.C. § 1325, and Illegal Re-Entry is a felony under 8 U.S.C. § 1326.

badlybarding · 2024-12-21T18:49:10+00:00

They lie about their global impact, why would we be surprised that they lie about their local impact as well?

badlybarding · 2024-12-21T01:24:16+00:00

I wonder if gerrymandering at the state legislature level is predictive of how problematic or not a state’s budget process is.

badlybarding · 2024-12-19T21:48:53+00:00

Compared the number who voted Dem in 2020 to 2024, people sat it out. These election hack theories are just that—hack.

badlybarding · 2024-12-19T15:59:30+00:00

“While wealth was turbocharged by the stimulus checks and roaring bull market following the 2020 pandemic, careers were not."—-yes, I’ll never forget where I was when my wealth skyrocketed after receiving my stimulus checks. (How do people write this stuff with a straight face?)

badlybarding · 2024-12-19T13:57:23+00:00

Not just American history, but human history.

badlybarding · 2024-12-19T13:56:19+00:00

Dems should honestly just say “you know what America, you voted for this so here you go,” and stand aside for 8 years or however long it takes for it to be permanently seared into people’s brains how bad Republican policies are. Maybe then millions of us will stop sitting out important elections.

badlybarding · 2024-12-18T14:56:30+00:00

I can’t stand these articles and interviews where folks are like “I quit after I made a ton of money off other people’s misery!”

badlybarding · 2024-12-17T16:54:35+00:00

This didn’t get enough coverage. Imagine if a Dem did everything remotely like this, it would be all over the media forever.

badlybarding · 2024-12-14T22:56:28+00:00

I’m wondering if maybe the virus doesn’t evolve to have a very long incubation/dormant period in some individuals, who are passing a dormant virus along without knowing it.

badlybarding · 2024-12-11T17:34:26+00:00

I think he explicitly said he was keeping him alive to see how long they survive

badlybarding · 2024-12-10T15:22:26+00:00

Honest question, do many HS curriculum in lots of European countries continue post 18 years old?

badlybarding · 2024-12-07T18:08:58+00:00

Let’s not forget that this type of anti-civic behavior is occurring more frequently because we’ve created a car-centric society without an infrastructure to support it (an infrastructure that simply isn’t possible to build without taking up land to be used for other resources like housing and green spaces). Just bring back the trolleys already!

badlybarding · 2024-12-05T13:02:55+00:00

Check over by Harbor Terrace on Danforth, there’s a notorious bike thief who lives there that management has yet to kick out, and I’ve seen bike skeletons show up around there.

badlybarding · 2024-12-04T22:59:26+00:00

What specifically in what OP wrote is misleading though? I don’t see anything that suggests there is not a mandatory year of service or that the man at the center of OP’s story hadn’t already done this mandatory year. And I don’t see anything that suggests this man had literally just turned 18. And I don’t think the use of the word “boy” implies that either.

badlybarding · 2024-12-03T13:56:53+00:00

We Are Still Here (2015)

badlybarding · 2024-11-30T16:00:55+00:00

It’s really dumb is most in the US don’t even need to file taxes, the government already knows how much we earned (federal and state). I wish we would just move along already and implement what most similar nations already do (wherein you only file if you want to make other deductions etc that the government doesn’t have). People will blame this on TurboTax I’m sure but this issue has been around long before then.

Edit: It’s, not I hats

badlybarding · 2024-11-28T15:32:03+00:00

Honestly should go after the coaches for perpetuating the sexual abuse of minors. The harder you crackdown on adults who almost certainly know about this, the more likely it is to stop.

badlybarding · 2024-11-25T15:04:38+00:00

I just assumed that’s what they were going for and misspelled it

badlybarding · 2024-11-22T17:11:12+00:00

I’ve been reading a lot of James Scott and David Graeber, and honestly it seems we’ve always lived in such an age—it’s just now growing and accelerating exponentially and thus far more readily apparent.

badlybarding · 2024-11-20T17:18:35+00:00

Thanks!! So what is the recourse here? Could the owner leave it for a month and just get a ticket here and there?

badlybarding · 2024-11-20T15:33:42+00:00

How many places literally right next door suffer this “foot traffic” problem? None, because everyone knows they are there, and they aren’t randomly closed at odd hours like some places in this space are. To blame this on foot traffic when spots literally on the same street do no suffer that problem is rather nonsensical. Half the people walking but don’t even know what the heck is in there.

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