jordanlund

@jordanlund@lemmy.one

Hey, he’s like, just this guy, you know?

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jordanlund,

Oregon’s problems can be fixed, but by my estimate it’s going to take funding an institution more or less the size of OHSU which means $4.9 billion.

Here’s what needs to happen:

  1. Repeal measure 110.
  2. Pass a law or constitutional amendment making it easier to commit people against their will.
  3. Build and staff an institution that does the following:
    a) Diagnose and treat long and short term drug addiction issues.
    b) Diagnose and treat long and short term mental health issues.
    c) Provide assistance for job seekers, resumes, addresses, phone numbers, email, clothing, laundry, and shower facilities.
    d) Provide assistance for housing, applications, fees, etc.
    e) Within c and d there needs to be specialists who work exclusively with people who have criminal records but have served their time.
  4. Once the facility is in place and the laws are in place, you sweep the streets. Take everyone into custody and get them the appropriate help they need.
  5. People who have active warrants or are committing crimes in their campsites get arrested and sent to jail.
  6. People who are otherwise sound of mind and body but are homeless because “I ain’t part of your system, maaaann…” get housing in return for cleaning up homeless camps.
jordanlund,

She likes to sit there and watch everything in the kitchen.

jordanlund,

Ehhh… I’m not so sure. If it’s publicly funded, what incentive is there to investigate government corruption?

Would Watergate still have happened if Nixon had the ability to cut the WaPo purse strings?

jordanlund,

That’s the problem, when it comes to government funding, nothing is guaranteed. :)

Witness:

youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA

jordanlund,

They did, because Mr. Rogers defended it. If he hadn’t been there to step up it likely would have been cut.

That’s the problem. You get one party in power who doesn’t like it for some reason, it’s gone.

jordanlund,

Kinda like how Reagan removed the fairness doctrine… Oh, sure, any ol’ President could have it restored… 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Obama, 2+ years of Biden… Hey, it’s only been since 1987… 36 years… I’m sure it will be back any day now…

jordanlund,

Kinda like how Reagan removed the fairness doctrine… Oh, sure, any ol’ President could have it restored… 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Obama, 2+ years of Biden… Hey, it’s only been since 1987… 36 years… I’m sure it will be back any day now…

jordanlund,

My argument is that anything the government grants you can also be taken away… and if the counter is “But it can be restored too…”

Yeah, still waiting on the Fairness Doctrine, which, yeah, also has a direct impact on journalism.

jordanlund,

Not a book, but a film. “Robinson Crusoe on Mars”:

youtu.be/Twa8jKrIWE0

Loosely (and I mean LOOSELY) based on the original Daniel Defoe novel Robinson Crusoe.

jordanlund,

That would actually be hilarous… “We are now re-using questions from season 1: For $100… ‘this popular TV comedian recently appeared in such films as Operation Mad Ball, Wake Me When It’s Over and Our Man in Havana.’”

Oh, I’m sorry, the answer is “Who is Ernie Kovacks. Ernie… Kovacks.”

[News] Trump vows to keep talking about criminal cases despite prosecutors pushing for protective order (apnews.com)

WINDHAM, N.H. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday kept up his attacks on special counsel Jack Smith and vowed to continue talking about his criminal cases even as prosecutors sought a protective order to limit the evidence that Trump and his team could share....

jordanlund,

I mean, if he WANTS to violate a protective order I guess there’s nothing actually stopping him…

jordanlund,

The difference between this and Hawaii, 1960 is that back then they hit the deadline to submit the slate of electors and they legit did not know who won the election.

So the state legislature sent TWO official slates of electors with the caveat that the winner should be determined by the time they were to be counted and only the winning slate should be counted, which was Kennedy, and Nixon was the one who counted them.

In this case, there was no doubt who the winner was (Biden) and the false electors weren’t selected or submitted by the state, they self selected and self submitted. It was a complete and utter fraud.

There really is no comparison.

jordanlund,

I tried one years ago and it was a miserable experience.

First, you can’t just put it where you want it, it has to be within reach of an electrical outlet.

Second, the noise scared the cats, they hated it.

Third, there wasn’t enough time between the cat leaving the box and the motor running, so the scooper would trail through wet clumping litter that hadn’t had enough time to clump, clogging the scooper and making it so you had to clean it all the time, completely defeating the purpose.

jordanlund,

Right wing blow hard.

In Tuesday's special election, Ohioans overwhelmingly vote against requiring a supermajority to change their state constitution (www.cbsnews.com)

Voters in Ohio went to the polls to decide whether to approve a measure known as Issue 1​ that would raise the bar for constitutional amendments on the ballot. In the ultimate irony, the votes against changing the amendment process exceeded the 60% supermajority that the measure was seeking in the first place

jordanlund,

I love that it’s failing by the >60% margin it would have required.

jordanlund,

Generally, yeah, and the margin grew since then.

Portland Police Bureau officer admits traffic enforcement messaging was politically motivated (bikeportland.org)

“We needed to create a stir to get some change, to get them [city council] to fund us back up. And I mean, that’s the honest truth. I know, that could make things more dangerous. I don’t know. But at the same time, we needed some change.”

jordanlund,

The Portland police budget, consistently, has been around 1/4 of a billion dollars a year. Even Hardesty’s “cut” wasn’t a reduction in the budget, it was a reduction in the increase for the NEXT budget.

So the question we ALL need to ask is if they aren’t doing traffic enforcement, they aren’t doing gang or gun enforcement, they definitely aren’t doing drug enforcement, the bike theft taskforce is disbanded, and they aren’t responding to 911 calls, what exactly ARE they doing with 1/4 billion a year?

jordanlund,

Really no different from youth culture for, well, forever I guess. It just moved from in person social cues and “turf battles” to online.

It’s the same stuff that made the kids throw down in West Side Story 66 years ago, and that was based on the same stuff that made the kids throw down in Romeo and Juliet 426 years ago.

youtu.be/SEzskNtFnIY

jordanlund,

I caught the original while I was in bed recovering from open heart surgery gooned up on a variety of painkillers. It was a delightful experience.

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