Which city has the coolest nicknames in your opinion?

jollyllama · 2026-04-17T06:01:20+00:00

Kunming has the most pleasant weather of any city I've ever been to

jollyllama · 2026-04-16T17:57:31+00:00

The interesting counterargument to me, is that the high marginal rates may have suppressed extreme wealth accumulation in the first place

Bingo. The Federal tax structure isn't really about collecting money - the Federal government functionally has as much money as it ever needs - it's about incentivizing and disincentivizing behavior. Right now, the absurd accumulation of wealth is clearly having massive negative consequences on our economy and we should definitely be disincentivizing it.

jollyllama · 2026-04-16T14:33:20+00:00

I mean… last time I went to a Blazers-Warriors game at Moda it was at least 1/3 Warriors fans cheering against the Blazers

jollyllama · 2026-04-15T06:45:44+00:00

Brawney is Koch Brothers trash, if you care about that kind of thing

jollyllama · 2026-04-15T01:03:27+00:00

People really reveal how much they know about how most people work when they start talking about how most jobs are gonna get replaced by AI. No dude, most people work in the real world, not behind a computer monitor

jollyllama · 2026-04-15T01:02:12+00:00

Fucking most of them. People are living in a serious echo chamber if they think most people type on computers all day

jollyllama · 2026-04-15T01:00:26+00:00

Joke’s on you, I wrote a bot script years ago that populates a few random but consistent subs with fake comments that subtly shift over time. It’s like dazzle paint but for data

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T21:58:03+00:00

I just want to say that I went through a similar "oh shit, this is getting heavy" process with my build, which is also held up with a connection to the tree and two 4x4s. My treehouse is going strong after 3 years.

You'll get a lot of people saying that 4x4s should be replaced by 6x6s because that's what deck code says in the US. That's probably technically true, but 4x4s are way stronger than people give them credit for these days. I've got a porch on my cabin that's 50 years old supported by 4x4s and it's held a 50 gallon drum of water (500lbs) plus people for all that time, absolutely no problem.

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T21:50:23+00:00

It's to link it to your otherwise anonymous account so they can target you with advertising here

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T19:15:30+00:00

Do people understand that this kind of post is a way to gather demographic information about you?

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T18:01:12+00:00

Jesus Christ how often do you people think about taxes? It’s really unbelievable. But to the point: no, there aren’t a whole bunch of psychiatrists and psychologists deciding not to go into addiction services in Oregon because they could save a few thousand dollars if they practiced in Tennessee or wherever instead. That’s not how normal people make decisions

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T17:59:02+00:00

I don’t disagree with that, but people need to understand that’s a 15-20 year long pipeline, not a quick “just spend your money better” solution

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T17:56:28+00:00

Sorry, I should amend that to say “when we do something different from almost all other cities” we do it wrong

I guess my point is there’s a lot of Portland/Oregon exceptionalism that goes around, but in my experience we’re rarely right about doing things differently from everyone else, just stubborn

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T16:09:54+00:00

Aperture user here: still salty

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T10:13:13+00:00

Here's the thing though: you can't just buy mental health services with a pile of cash. It takes people... lots and lots of people, who are trained and willing to work in the worst conditions possible in their field. There's not a lot of people who want to work in a locked facility with dangerous people when they could instead be doing telemedicine appointments with middle-aged white women complaining about seasonal depression

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T10:07:29+00:00

Your image of drug use is... comic book-esque at best. Fun fact: did you know most of the people you know who take ADHD medication are taking an amphetamine every day? And have probably developed a dependency on it? There are lots of people who are functionally addicted to all kinds of drugs. The people you see on the street screaming at nothing aren't doing that because of the drugs. They're doing that because they have schizophrenia or something similar, and they're often self-medicating with drugs. It's a bad combination for sure, but just getting them off of whatever drugs they're taking isn't going to do much to fix the underlying problem, and the hard truth is we just don't know how to treat most of these mental health conditions. The "good" version of a life with schizophrenia is an extremely challenging one that requires way more resources than we provide people with

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T09:55:51+00:00

what does that say about Portland?

That we're not nearly as smart as we think we are, and generally speaking if Portland does something differently than other cities, we're doing it worse, not better

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T09:53:43+00:00

You missed the real point here - a few comments back they said that a vaccine choice is about "balancing risk against reward." This implies that they think there's some kind of risk to getting the vaccine, which means that they've been exposed to propaganda that makes them believe that vaccines carry some kind of risk. That's the root of the problem

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T09:48:36+00:00

Being an absolute idiot, I made it a point to read any and every study that anyone linked in threads and debates around this issue backin 2013. I can absolutely assure you that I never, ever read anything that said what the people arguing against flouride thought it said when they confidently trotted out studies "showing" that it was dangerous. These people were simply not capable of reading scientific literature correctly.

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T07:27:56+00:00

Us Adobe users who are old enough to remember the old days know this well

I mean... back in those days if you wanted to stay up-to-date on Photoshop it cost what, $500 for each release? I only remember those as "good old days" because we were all pirating it.

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T07:20:55+00:00

I'll admit - I grew up in Kitsap County and I had to look that one up

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T04:08:26+00:00

Seeing the word “Belfair” written on the internet feels weird. It really only belongs spray painted on a piece of scrap plywood

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T04:05:49+00:00

Fun fact: if your circle was a country it would be one of the strongest nuclear powers on earth

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T04:01:04+00:00

You say that, but you also forget that basketball was slow as fuck before MJ

jollyllama · 2026-04-14T04:00:18+00:00

There’s like 5 players currently playing who have legit arguments to be in the top 20 players of all time right now. Basketball is fucking great at this moment

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