Instead of addressing the issues with violence, abuse and lack of accountability in the Portland Police force, let's just abandon the voter-approved mechanisms to fix it.

Paulson probably got his money to buy the team from Daddy, Hank "helicopter" Paulson who ensured wall street was bailed out to the tune of trillions in the great recession, somehow seems to think he's above the fans and culture of a city who don't want to have an asshole run (or own) their team.

BOYCOTT the asshats.

It's strange and unintuitive that my own submitted posts are hidden with this basic feature. Given the slow pace on some communities as Lemmy grows, it gets really repetitive without the ability to filter out read posts. On the other side though, the ability to review my posts and check back on them seems pretty basic as a feature.

Is there a deliberate reason Lemmy functions like this?

Ballottrax is a simple service, sign up once and you'll get a text or email every election once your ballot has been sent/received. Your ballot envelope contains instructions and a QR code on how to sign up.

Multnomah county had this a decade ago, looks like getting a new elections county clerk paying dividends already. Especially given the horrible record in Clackamas under the past elections clerk(ballots not sent to thousands, duplicate ballots sent, abysmal processing times for the county) this is some much needed basic transparency to allow citizens to 3nsure their vote counts.

X-Post from Uplifting News:

There is no law of economics that says natural changes in demand or technology have to be met with brutal, unanticipated layoffs, that MEANINGFUL retraining can't be offered, or that unemployment payments should be poverty wages.This article shows one country's industry doing the first two at least!

As an American it's always been hard to believe the absolute sloth and lack of investment shown in helping workers retrain. I'm from Oregon, and we still have communities that never recovered from forestry preservation initiatives in the 80s. In laid the groundwork for bitter, powerless, formerly proud souls to be courted by lying politicians. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising given companies want to minimize investment in worker training here while being surprised they can't hire qualified employees 🤔. If only there were solutions...