We already rent a minivan for most road trips right now, because with kiddo crap & the dog, the car doesn't cut it. Finally realizing that it is time to swap to full ev & keep renting for longer trips because waiting for both range & EV van means waiting too long.
Cheryl Waters and the KEXP midday show is probably my #1 source of joy outside my kids right now.
Todays joy? Remembering, yet again, the froggy song (aka Raconte moi une histoire)
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I will never understand this. Didn’t they know that a large # of their customer base were Target loyalists specifically because our values kept us away from Walmart?
Hat Yai!
Happy "set a calendar reminder to sign your kids up for Portland Parks& Rec activities then get stuck in a meeting and forget and by the time you remember all activities are sold out" Day!!!
Ok but can we please move Pete hegseth up the list. Noem and hegseth are out here killing people.
Don’t think twice + Johanna 1,2; When the ship comes in needs to squeeze in there somewhere. Otherwise pretty spot on.
I, too, think tens of thousands of people should go to prison because sometimes I smell something I don't like
One history professor (German labor movement history), one school administrator. Big education family. Don’t think that makes me rugged??
I dont think people want to get paid to govern, just some people can't afford not to get paid. If we want to elect people who don't come from generational wealth, we have to consider the systemic reasons they aren't running for state house & senate seats.
This is almost always the reason. You basically have to have a $$ making partner, family wealth, or a job that lets you take 6 months off every other year in addition lots of hours all year long for leg development and constituent work??
I’ve started unfollowing activist accounts on social that are using all their energy to try to make you and fellow progressive Councilors ICE permit “inaction” the biggest thing in Portland left politics.
Clearly they’re “eat your own” activists that understand neither process nor power.
Im so sorry, Bita. Thinking of you and my friends and colleagues worrying for their friends and family and seeing their heritage and home land destroyed.
Have been thinking a lot about John since watching Hamnet, since his Shakespeare's tragedies in film class took me from a timid writer afraid of her own opinions to someone with a voice.
What a pleasure to have known him and learned from him.
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The Iranian people deserve self-determination, freedom, dignity, and security for their families. That can only come through a coherent diplomatic strategy, not the haphazard and reckless use of military force.
President bone spurs is sending Americans to war to die w/o congressional authorization, paid for by cuts to Medicaid so he could keep his defense spending while giving billionaires a tax break.
He doesn’t care about the troops who die, their families, or the civilians & children who die in Iran.
If the U.S. standard for acceptable war becomes the fury of a madman with enough military power, the world will be far more unstable. We won’t only be less safe – we’ll be less free, and less flourishing.
Well it’s going great so far so can only go up, right?
“the Department of *War* displayed a deep respect for safety” according to the guy who is being sued eleventy times because his product tells children to kill themselves
War is fundamentally unsafe and so is your piece of shit chatbot but COOL STORY BRO
“It was totally unexpected, but not totally surprising, given the rise of the use of AI and automated systems,” Edwards said. “But it is more surprising to me that nobody checked it.”
When I taught at Reed, one of my students asked me to be a thesis reader for his philosophy thesis on autonomous weapons in the ML/AI future and whew, knowing even a little bit more than nothing about this makes it all even more horrifying
Eric Nisley is a former longtime Wasco County DA who was suspended from practicing law for lying to state investigators while in office. So far, he’s the only candidate running for Jefferson County’s top law enforcement job.
I’ve tried to use Claude to help organize running training; like I develop the training philosophies, workout types & # per week etc; then it structures it. But it could not maintain a consistent pattern of days, spacing between days. It said to me, upon correcting, “Sorry, I forgot how days work”.
As the hearing winds down, it’s just Cassidy alone on the bench intensely questioning Casey Means about hepatitis B vaccination.
(just to be clear, i bet $10 as a joke with my husband who said 2h5 min. i'm not making bets on the length of the SOTU on a betting website and my god society is broken)
Businesses are successful when people want to live and work here. Making it affordable to raise a family is where that starts. Cost of living in Capitol Hill DC was cheaper than Portland as a mom of kids under 5 because universal PreK
I bet $10 on 1h47 min. Gonna need that number confirmed
The only interesting thing that could happen at this event has not.
