pdxfed

joined 11 months ago
[–] pdxfed 3 points 4 days ago

"Bare the cost"

Fucking KATU

[–] pdxfed 3 points 4 days ago

Phew, it was awkward having to try to stomach the bulls when Caruso was playing, now I can completely ignore them again and add more OKC games to my docket.

[–] pdxfed 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sure, the apps are recording all of that, my question is around my TV

[–] pdxfed 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Inflation is largely not a problem, corporate price gouging accounts for the bulk of increases. Price gouging increases are an enormous fucking problem for people. Calling it inflation is their script, don't adopt their language.

Consolidation or competitors that has been allowed almost unabated the last 25 years exacerbates the effects.

[–] pdxfed 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I Chromecast content from my computer and phone.

If I don't watch/stream stuff otherwise, and my TV isn't connected to anything else I'm aware of, is my data being exfiltrated? It's a Sony from ~2015

[–] pdxfed 3 points 5 days ago

... I've also heard of some brands (that I don't remember atm) that won't even let you go through the initial setup without a connection.

/Microsoft announced new foray into TVs...

[–] pdxfed 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't seem legit, where are all the fair-weather corporate sponsor logos?

[–] pdxfed 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You nailed Ketchup.

Also, mayonnaise is fucking disgusting. I worked at subway in high school and we had to install wide-nozzle tubes on our mayo dispensers because the morbidly obese customers would say things like "I don't want to be able to see the sandwich, just bury it in mayo" and it would hold up the sandwich line.

Let's get down to it: top 3 hot sauces? I go Valentinas, green Tabasco, sriracha. Honorable mention, gochujang, tapatio

[–] pdxfed 10 points 6 days ago (5 children)

The sky, mostly open and noiseless, without drones.

[–] pdxfed 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is just an allowance and a start. If you want to fix safety nets, target increasing unemployment taxes and payout rates and getting single payer health on the ballot.

Social safety nets include having money in the bank, being able to buy groceries, saving a bit more into retirement because you have an extra $750 in your bank account, being able to pay for a prescription, to fix a flat tire to get to work, a baby sitter, childcare, some gas to go hiking or whatever you need to keep your head on straight...some social safety nets don't need administration, just direct payments.

[–] pdxfed 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Homelessness is far from the only social issue of concern Just off the top of my head, I know that the covid stimulus payments in 2020 and 2021 accompanied by unemployment payments with meaningful increases through the fall of 2020 led to a historically massive decrease in child poverty in the US. Any economist, social scientist or educator would agree that the single most valuable thing we can do to improve the state of the world and reduce future problems is to invest in children's physical, social and mental health. In addition to children, people with full-time job(s), yes JOBS who still can't pay rent, or are more aggressively cutting back on groceries as they can't afford items that corporate price gouging "inflation" have rendered unaffordable in the past several years.

I agree an upper income limit would make this a more progressive tax, but considering how progressive the nature of the bill is, if the upper 5-10 % of people get $750 they won't care, but it'll mean a hell of a lot for the other 90% of folks.

[–] pdxfed 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes I mean posting in a few communities at once, sorry if I didn't explain that well. I'm a year in and still figuring this whole business out :)

 

Instead of posting, then having to tediously copy/paste to different instances with similar communities, it would be nice (although potentially crazy spammy) to allow x-posting from one post. This may be less of a Boost idea and more of a Lemmy discussion, but if it can be enabled in Boost I thought that would be a nice addition.

 

Full bill text: https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2024/017text.pdf

TLDR; Oregon corporate tax has a minimum rate of 1%. This ballot measure would raise it to 3% and give $750 to each Oregon resident (including children).

Get ready for an Uber/Lyft level of corporate ads and media spamming to try to sink this common sense bill.

 

Full bill text: https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2024/017text.pdf

TLDR; Oregon corporate tax has a minimum rate of 1%. This ballot measure would raise it to 3% and give $750 to each Oregon resident (including children).

Get ready for an Uber/Lyft level of corporate ads and media spamming to try to sink this common sense bill.

 

Full bill text: https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2024/017text.pdf

TLDR; Oregon corporate tax has a minimum rate of 1%. This ballot measure would raise it to 3% and give $750 to each Oregon resident (including children).

Get ready for an Uber/Lyft level of corporate ads and media spamming to try to sink this common sense bill.

 

Full bill text: https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2024/017text.pdf

TLDR; Oregon corporate tax has a minimum rate of 1%. This ballot measure would raise it to 3% and give $750 to each Oregon resident (including children).

Get ready for an Uber/Lyft level of corporate ads and media spamming to try to sink this common sense bill.

 

Other than "dont' use Godaddy", what do I need to know? I've never owned a domain or had a website of my own before.

  1. Domain registration/host recommendations?
  2. Web hosting recommendations? Should I mix #1 and #2?
  3. Website template creation suggestions? Have fairly simple needs like service offerings and contact forms but want something without rotating construction cones.
  4. What else should I consider? Security? e-mail?
  5. Am open to all-in-one for the above, just would like to understand tradeoffs, what to look for/avoid.

TIA

 

It’s a common misconception, but if you registered "Independent Party" you aren’t “independent” you are a member of your state’s Independent party, who has a platform and agenda you may or may not agree with. What you actually want is called an "unaffiliated" voter status. The good news is, all you have to do is...nothing!

LA Times had a good summary a few years back: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-american-independent-party-california-registration-card-20180405-story.html

You don’t need to register with any party to show you don’t like R or D, do nothing or choose "unaffiliated if you want to be “little i independent”.

Examples:

#USA #politics----

 

Twice in the last week videos I have viewed have been saved in a boost photos folder. I didn't request to save or download them at any point. Is this based on the site, internal vs. external browser choice, caching or something else?

Obviously is prefer videos not be downloaded if I don't try to save/download them.

 

It would be nice, and I don't know if it's because the functionality doesn't already exist in Lemmy, but it would be nice to be able to limit one's search to one's own comments/saved/upvoted/downvoted easily--the profile menu where these are listed would make the most sense. The search functionality to search all of lemmy and limit to local/all, etc. is powerful to find content, a particular community, but if I'm looking historically for an article I commented on or saved, upvoted, etc. it would be convenient if this were easier.

Thank you

 

Price range for retail seems to be $100-250 for IKEA stuff that will fall apart in 3 years, or $1,000+ for something better. Is there nothing in between? Would prefer to buy new with risk of bed bugs or other contaminants but open to other options if I'm missing something.

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submitted 3 months ago by pdxfed to c/portland_oregon
 

Proposing general boycott of Trader Joes. They have joined an unholy trinity of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Starbucks, because they've lost so hard in the past few years against workers forming unions (to push back against awful wages and lack of safety and terrible working conditions pronounced by COVID) that since they can't win fair in union elections under law that has been around for 90 years, want to dismantle the entire apparatus of the NLRB.

If successful, their complaint and other arguments and conclusions that would follow, would lead to loss of labor power that would be strikingly similar to what happened when Trump was allowed to appoint 3 justices and upend the Supreme Court which quickly lead to Roe v. Wade being overturned.

40 hours a week then overtime? Probably deemed unfair to the profit rights of our poor megacorps. Discrimination protections at work? Struck down federally but states allowed to pass their own, for a while, then those would be overturned by SC when challenged. Those would be week 1.

It's sad to see Trader Joes, who espouses lots of human values on its website becoming a mouthpiece for unfettered capitalist abuse of hourly workers.

My boycott, as a 20-year shopper, starts today. I think there are lots of TJs shoppers who think of them as "not Kroger/Walmart/Safeway-Albertsons/etc." but honestly, but throwing in with the billionaires above they might as well be.

I feel like starting a picket at a store or two, then growing would build some shopper awareness, maybe earn some folks who want to get involved and build from there. Want to join?

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