El juego parece muy divertido. Estoy feliz de ver que regresan más actividades al aire libre a las calles de Portland.

Awesome, I was hoping you would want to as you are a regular poster. :)

This whole thing feels like those work meetings where there was a huge effort to put together a piece of communication, but then at the final hour a group of bosses endlessly start wordsmithing every single sentence.

I wish our city councilors would do … anything else.

I don’t think housing can “solve” drug addiction. However, there are factors that have been shown to contribute to addiction from homelessness. Less stability, regular trauma, mental health, etc causes all of these things to interact and exasperate each other.

The frustrating part is that voters keep telling the city, county, and state to invest in all of these areas. Measure 110 was supposed to create more space to have drug addiction treated, and there was no follow through. Now, further existing infrastructure is closing with no replacement. Similarly with housing, voters overwhelmingly keep calling for housing solutions, but any progress turns into new vendor procurement, deals with developers that don’t follow through, and half baked plans that don’t materialize.

Also, I think it’s important to remember that a lot of drug addiction happens amongst the housed. We just don’t see it. But as our coworker who is struggling falls apart, loses their job, and times get tough the more likely they will be the one moving from pain pills at home to fentanyl in the streets.

I’m glad some of the electeds are at least acting like they are as frustrated as I am. I hope they actually do something about it. (thought the need for national reform on both housing and drug addiction also can’t be ignored).

The admins finally responded after a few days, but by then I had already removed the other user as a mod (the method to do so is a bit hidden).

Currently there are two mods, myself and @[email protected] who created this community, but has since deleted all their posts and hasn’t posted again in years. In order to remove a mod though you need to click into a post they made. With no posts, I can’t remove absolutebeginner even if I wanted to.

I’m not a part of the demographic who would experience racism around this. So, I can’t comment there.

I am a white hipster though. So, I usually call my window manager customizations “artisanally hand crafted”.

There’s a fediverse ride on July 30th: https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-17449

There are a number of options. One for example is to have a weekly mega thread for news, and require it all gets posted there. Maybe with exceptions for major events, elections, etc.

This is great. I hope they add more harm reduction mechanisms for drug users. I would also like to see safe injection sites, safety testing, and even sanctioned sale of doses if it mean less deaths.

All of that depends on the state actually sending out funding as outlined in measure 110 though. Instead they seem to believe that treating people with a disease as criminals is more important than actually getting them the help they need. I hope this program helps counteract that.

Just because a deterrent isn’t the “number one reason” doesn’t mean that it’s a bad deterrent. If this is helping some people that’s great. It’s not like someone is going to go pick this stuff up having never done the drug before, and even if that did happen then I’m pretty sure the clinic would be working to dissuade them from trying it.

I never understood this logic.

I’ve been on Mastodon since 2016 and never really got into Twitter. I just don’t understand why the “algorithm” matters. Who cares if people who don’t follow you see your post? I want my followers to see my posts, and then favorites allow me to know that my followers liked what I posted. It’s a nice dopamine boost and helps me feel closer to my community.

A lot of posts I make unboostable as well (followers only). “Promotion” doesn’t really factor much into my use of Mastodon so much as being “social”.

It’s “arch based”. How are the repos setup? What packages are pinned? What bloatware is added?

Sure I can write a script to migrate everything to how I want it, but at a point it becomes easier (and cleaner) to do a custom install script that will build it up how I want it.