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I live in Portland, and I have some friends who work in homeless services. They follow an equity model, which places those with the highest level of intersectional need first, part…

1.) Though this is becoming an increasingly popular viewpoint in many of the American cities that are experiencing these problems right now, it’s far from universally held. 2.) The…

Resistance cooktops are fine too, you just have to learn to adjust to them. I’ve had one in all but one home I’ve ever lived in, and it’s second nature at this point. Every time I …

I shuddered a little bit at the mention of on premise vs cloud. I’ve been whiplashed from one extreme to the other over the last two years. First it was all in on the cloud, now it…

At this point, I’d be happy thrilled if America could at least “get to Canada”, though I’m not optimistic.

In the greater Seattle area you need to travel quite far out to cut the price by any significant amount. There are some very basic suburban houses in Bellevue, Kirkland and Issaqua…

Pennsylvania? First day of buck season was always a holiday for us.

“Real America” tells you everything you need to know.

That map could almost be an electoral one if you flipped the red and blue. Which should tell you something about why your friends in SoCal don’t want to live in those cheaper place…

Maybe it’s time to admit that more entities besides private ones need to be building and supplying housing then? Maybe some things just aren’t well suited for market driven develop…

I believe the other reason this happens is “extend and pretend” [0]. Basically the bank issues a loan to a developer, based in part on how much income the developed property is exp…

People are downvoting this, but it’s true. There’s a little more nuance here as well. In addition to fully tolerated public drug possession and consumption, there is also the toler…

Have you ever considered that maybe the reason there’s always a Democrat or two willing to block progressive legislation is that the Democratic Party wants it that way? That way th…

You need someone who gives a shit with the power to spend money. That's pretty much it. Every single year, a company costs more to operate than it did the year before. Every piece …

You play like you practice.

For the most part, it’s the same way in Portland except that instead of anger and hostility it’s utter apathy.

“ Taking cover behind a fence down the street, Officer Daniel Sanchez yelled “drop the gun.” He began firing before he finished the sentence, body camera video shows, hitting Mr. M…

When I was younger, I worked in the theater industry. We all knew that the IATSE stage hands were making great wages, but the options we had to join were: 1.) A grueling apprentice…

Maybe that’s the point though - maybe we should kill some lifestyles because they aren’t sustainable at scale.

In many of the places that are the hardest to build in, like California, they are intentional. Those regulations were out there to slow down development as much as possible. The mo…

This has become a big problem for people in a niche community I participate in - guitar collecting. A lot of people in that community like to buy guitars, use them for a while, the…

Good thing we have this completely legitimate apolitical institution doing the important work of enforcing checks and balances on the other branches of government!

There’s a well known wreck (SS Kamloops) popular among divers that has a body in the engine room. Divers call it “Whitey” because it has saponified, and thus appears similar to a b…

Can you imagine the horror of being on the bridge, thinking that the bow has just submerged into a wave, and only realizing it’s not going to come back up when you feel the ship sl…

No, the author’s hypothesis is that the professional middle class carved out a space for itself between the working class and the rich, using their specialized knowledge as the dif…