Portland
Welcome to the lemmy.world community for Portland, Oregon!
This community has kind of been empty since it was created, I'm hoping to change that!
Unlike "other" Portland communities you may have seen "elsewhere", I believe in a "warts and all" approach. You are free to take off your Rose tinted glasses and talk about topics that are dragging our city down.
At the same time, sunset pics, snowmageddon, traffic monster, cones, that's all welcome as well. Let's collectively keep Portland weird!
2024 is going to be an interesting year politically with all the changes to city government, I will attempt to tag political threads with a [Politics] tag and encourage users to do so as well.
Other than the lemmy.world restrictions on spam, copyrighted material, and adult material (USE that NSFW tag!), there's only one real way to get in trouble here:
- Don't attack other users.
It's OK to go after Teargas Ted, it's OK to say Rene Gonzales is a fascist, ACAB, BLM, whatever floats your boat (WEFYB).
It's NOT OK to attack or diminish another user. Feel free to disagree, you can point out the many ways you think they're wrong, just don't start throwing perjoratives AT OTHER USERS.
Links to know!
Portland Trailblazers Schedule!
https://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule
Portland Winterhawks Home Game Schedule!
https://www.rosequarter.com/events/winterhawks
Portland Timbers Pre-Season Starts in February!
https://www.timbers.com/schedule/matches#competition=all&date=2024-02-10
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Pretty cool!
Do you avoid bars? I tell this to a lot of folks. Bartenders do appreciate non-alcoholics. If you're the designated driver (DD) or not drinking because of health reasons, hopefully you don't feel like a pariah.
I work behind the bar and i love the non-drinkers. May it be a glass of water, a soda, or a mocktail, doesn't matter to me!
I also finally convinced my restaurant to make mocktails on the menu. A lot of bartenders may know how to as well. Ask!
Now if you avoid bars because of the loud TVs, absolutely understandable. Sorry about that.
Mocktails have become a bigger and bigger thing in the past few years, that's actually a huge improvement.
But, yeah, for years and years I never bothered with bars because it was just stuff I couldn't drink + loud music I hate. "Why am I here?" LOL.
Biochemistry of it for anyone interested. tl;dr - one beer makes me puke for 3 days.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17659-alcohol-intolerance