swearwolf

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by swearwolf 3y ago
I live in Portland, and I have some friends who work in homeless services. They follow an equity model, which places those with the highest level of intersectional need first, particularly BIPOC people. White, cisgender men are thought to h
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by swearwolf 3y ago
1.) Though this is becoming an increasingly popular viewpoint in many of the American cities that are experiencing these problems right now, it’s far from universally held. 2.) The U.S. is not a monolith, so looking at the prison population
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by swearwolf 3y ago
Resistance cooktops are fine too, you just have to learn to adjust to them. I’ve had one in all but one home I’ve ever lived in, and it’s second nature at this point. Every time I try to cook on a gas stove I burn whatever I’m making until
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by swearwolf 3y ago
I shuddered a little bit at the mention of on premise vs cloud. I’ve been whiplashed from one extreme to the other over the last two years. First it was all in on the cloud, now it’s a full scale retreat.
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by swearwolf 3y ago
At this point, I’d be happy thrilled if America could at least “get to Canada”, though I’m not optimistic.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
In the greater Seattle area you need to travel quite far out to cut the price by any significant amount. There are some very basic suburban houses in Bellevue, Kirkland and Issaquah selling for upwards of $2 million, and those are a good 15
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Pennsylvania? First day of buck season was always a holiday for us.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
“Real America” tells you everything you need to know.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
That map could almost be an electoral one if you flipped the red and blue. Which should tell you something about why your friends in SoCal don’t want to live in those cheaper places.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Maybe it’s time to admit that more entities besides private ones need to be building and supplying housing then? Maybe some things just aren’t well suited for market driven development.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I believe the other reason this happens is “extend and pretend” [0]. Basically the bank issues a loan to a developer, based in part on how much income the developed property is expected to bring in. If the expected revenue isn’t coming in (
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by swearwolf 4y ago
People are downvoting this, but it’s true. There’s a little more nuance here as well. In addition to fully tolerated public drug possession and consumption, there is also the tolerance of street camping, and the extremely low prices of meth
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Have you ever considered that maybe the reason there’s always a Democrat or two willing to block progressive legislation is that the Democratic Party wants it that way? That way they can have their cake, by promising progressive reform, and
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by swearwolf 4y ago
You need someone who gives a shit with the power to spend money. That's pretty much it. Every single year, a company costs more to operate than it did the year before. Every piece of software you buy costs more over time. Same thing wi
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by swearwolf 4y ago
You play like you practice.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
For the most part, it’s the same way in Portland except that instead of anger and hostility it’s utter apathy.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
“ Taking cover behind a fence down the street, Officer Daniel Sanchez yelled “drop the gun.” He began firing before he finished the sentence, body camera video shows, hitting Mr. Moonesinghe four times, according to a preliminary autopsy or
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by swearwolf 4y ago
When I was younger, I worked in the theater industry. We all knew that the IATSE stage hands were making great wages, but the options we had to join were: 1.) A grueling apprenticeship period in which you would work very long hours for very
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Maybe that’s the point though - maybe we should kill some lifestyles because they aren’t sustainable at scale.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
In many of the places that are the hardest to build in, like California, they are intentional. Those regulations were out there to slow down development as much as possible. The motivation behind doing so varied some; sometimes it was hippi
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by swearwolf 4y ago
This has become a big problem for people in a niche community I participate in - guitar collecting. A lot of people in that community like to buy guitars, use them for a while, then sell them on Reverb or eBay to fund the next purchase. Typ
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Good thing we have this completely legitimate apolitical institution doing the important work of enforcing checks and balances on the other branches of government!
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by swearwolf 4y ago
There’s a well known wreck (SS Kamloops) popular among divers that has a body in the engine room. Divers call it “Whitey” because it has saponified, and thus appears similar to a bar of soap.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Can you imagine the horror of being on the bridge, thinking that the bow has just submerged into a wave, and only realizing it’s not going to come back up when you feel the ship slam into the lake floor?
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by swearwolf 4y ago
No, the author’s hypothesis is that the professional middle class carved out a space for itself between the working class and the rich, using their specialized knowledge as the differentiating factor, and that they use all kinds of gatekeep
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by swearwolf 4y ago
I happened to read about this case while I was in the middle of Barbara Erinreich’s book “Fear of Falling”, which is all about the American professional middle class. Part of one chapter talks about how the professions organized to create c
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by swearwolf 4y ago
There’s a word for what you’re describing: gaslighting.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
As an Oregonian, I think the reason it’s infamous is that Oregon schools are terrible and many people blame the kicker for taking surplus budget that could have been spent on schools and giving it back to the taxpayers instead. It also gets
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by swearwolf 4y ago
Very nicely put.
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by swearwolf 4y ago
It’s very unusual for companies to own the buildings they have offices in, so this strategy would be non-applicable in most cases.

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