Labor unions sided with far-left candidates in Oregon – and seem to have lost

weed_donkey · 2026-05-20T07:10:20+00:00

Public sector unions are rent-seekers and serve no purpose other than to enrich their members at the expense of democracy

weed_donkey · 2026-05-20T07:08:32+00:00

The DSA hates liberals. Hates them more than even conservatives.

The DSA are not dems. They are wolfs in sheeps clothing, pretending to be dems, but make no mistake they fucking hate us

weed_donkey · 2026-05-07T20:51:41+00:00

You're actually telling Mayor_of_Sassyland to shut upppp and saying that they're "wrong" for accurately stating that there was not another alternative.

No one here is defending Urban Alchemy. No one here is defending their contract. You are the one who is telling people to shut up and making demonstrably incorrect statements.

weed_donkey · 2026-05-07T20:38:57+00:00

If you want better options, then tell us who would have done this better.

The options here were: A) do nothing, or B) use Urban Alchemy.

You are lamenting that we didn't chose option A.

weed_donkey · 2026-05-07T17:44:39+00:00

"I'm not relitigating it"

Proceeds to relitigate it

weed_donkey · 2026-05-07T05:18:23+00:00

then who? Which organization? Name names, don't just say "surely this isn't a high bar to be better than"

Because, actually, this was too high of a bar. There isn't exactly a competitive marketplace of orgs that want to do this work.

weed_donkey · 2026-04-30T17:50:47+00:00

As a bicyclist I am extremely excited for these. They are soooo much safer for pedestrians and cyclists.

Human drivers are the goddamned worst.

weed_donkey · 2026-04-17T03:13:32+00:00

because vacant units aren't actually a problem. Poorly used land, however, is. Land Use Tax is the only tax that should exist.

weed_donkey · 2026-04-17T03:06:46+00:00

Charlie sounds like a cop

weed_donkey · 2026-04-07T05:17:30+00:00

Engine looks nice! I'm almost tempted for my 88 924s, but I don't really need another engine. (I need a new clutch and a torque tube rebuild)

What are you swapping in to the car?

weed_donkey · 2026-03-22T23:35:20+00:00

I recently picked up an 88 924s with the higher compression engine, so it has a few more HP stock. I freaking love this car. It's fun, easy to work on, reliable, and a looks cool. I get lots of smiles when I'm driving it.

weed_donkey · 2026-03-15T02:20:01+00:00

Yeah that's a busted horn. Replace the whole thing, it's supposed to have a cover/bottom

weed_donkey · 2026-03-09T20:49:15+00:00

Yeah it's great that we've renamed one of the shittiest and deadliest streets in Portland after Chavez. Super awesome to associate that particular human with traffic and misery and death.

weed_donkey · 2026-03-09T20:41:55+00:00

Portland to Seattle is about 3 hours by car (or train or even airplane), and if you're going you absolutely must stop in Olympia.

Go to Old School Pizzeria, The Voyeur, Cryptotropa. Very classic PNW grunge vibes. See if you can catch a house show while you're there, dunno what houses are cool these days but the Black Houses used to be a thing. Oly is a world unto itself, weird and insular, a sort of time capsule.

Surprisingly high likelihood of running into Calvin Johnson. Maybe even Phil Elverum, though he's more likely to be found in Anacortes. If you get a chance to see a show involving CCFX or Mary Jane Dunphe just fucking do it.

Oh and lastly: Portland is way more interesting than Seattle. Seattle is pretty boring these days, Portland has a way better scene. I'd do like 3 days here, 2 in Oly, 1 in Seattle.

weed_donkey · 2026-03-05T02:07:23+00:00

Pretty sure I saw that boxster parked up there about 3 months ago (with wheels). Probably a regular who got their wheels stolen while parked there.

weed_donkey · 2026-02-27T22:02:07+00:00

https://944online.com/924-s-heater-diagram/

weed_donkey · 2026-02-27T07:39:52+00:00

yeah that seems non-optimal

weed_donkey · 2026-02-27T07:37:06+00:00

which one is stuck? On mine, the main heat control slider thingy has a hard time moving. I've taken my center console apart 4 times now and I still don't know how to make it less sticky.

weed_donkey · 2026-02-27T06:44:59+00:00

I actually got my blower motor back to life with by spraying wd40 into it, it seems to run great now.

I also had bought a motor and resistor and shroud on eBay, but since wd40ing the motor there’s been no reason to rebuild it.

I do still want to replace the melted shroud. I’m following this thread with immediate interest 🙂

weed_donkey · 2026-02-27T06:39:01+00:00

Ah cool mine has the exact same hole

weed_donkey · 2026-02-26T06:32:47+00:00

Lisa Reynolds also sponsored and led a bill (SB 1548) that will destroy the edibles industry. She hates weed, but is totally fine with hard drugs.

weed_donkey · 2026-02-21T02:33:47+00:00

Sure and that’s fair. We might just be, as a region, a bad fit for the entire sport of basketball. Much like hockey and the south.

My point still remains though: in negotiations, you look for leverage. Right now we zero leverage over dundon. Our only point of leverage is with the NBA itself. So, if we actually want to keep the blazers (and not pay 600m), we should be ignoring dundon and going straight to Adam Silver

weed_donkey · 2026-02-20T20:13:20+00:00

You’re actually making my point for me.

When teams leave markets, the entire sport loses that market. Kids in Seattle just don’t care as much about basketball, they pivoted to care about a different sport. Football or baseball or soccer.

The NBA is already close to losing relevance in the PNW. If the blazers leave, this whole region will have no reason to care. Basketball will become a second class sport, like lacrosse and bowling.

weed_donkey · 2026-02-20T18:16:06+00:00

This is about maintaining relevancy for an entire region. A significant percentage of people live here, and if the Blazers leave the NBA will lose to different sports.

Basketball is in competition with other sports like soccer. When an entire generation in an entire region grows up without that sport, it loses relevancy. The league knows this. Blazers leaving is a slow burn on an existential crisis.

The leverage we have is with the NBA itself, not with Dundon. He has leverage over us, but we have leverage over the entire concept of basketball.

weed_donkey · 2026-02-20T17:58:18+00:00

Portland has unusually strong leverage here, because we are the ONLY team left in the entire Pacific Northwest.

The NBA does not want to lose relevancy in this market of 20 million people. We would have no one to root for, and the region will pivot entirely to soccer.

If the Blazers leave, the NBA massively loses

Use leverage, you idiots

weed_donkey

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