Welcome to the lemmy.world community for Portland, Oregon!
This community has kind of been empty since it was created, I'm hoping to change that!
Unlike "other" Portland communities you may have seen "elsewhere", I believe in a "warts and all" approach. You are free to take off your Rose tinted glasses and talk about topics that are dragging our city down.
At the same time, sunset pics, snowmageddon, traffic monster, cones, that's all welcome as well. Let's collectively keep Portland weird!
2024 is going to be an interesting year politically with all the changes to city government, I will attempt to tag political threads with a [Politics] tag and encourage users to do so as well.
Other than the lemmy.world restrictions on spam, copyrighted material, and adult material (USE that NSFW tag!), there's only one real way to get in trouble here:
It's OK to go after Teargas Ted, it's OK to say Rene Gonzales is a fascist, ACAB, BLM, whatever floats your boat (WEFYB).
It's NOT OK to attack or diminish another user. Feel free to disagree, you can point out the many ways you think they're wrong, just don't start throwing perjoratives AT OTHER USERS.
Links to know!
Portland Trailblazers Schedule!
https://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule
Portland Winterhawks Home Game Schedule!
https://www.rosequarter.com/events/winterhawks
Portland Timbers Pre-Season Starts in February!
https://www.timbers.com/schedule/matches#competition=all&%3Bdate=2024-02-10
I'm not often on the side of the cops, but here, yeah. I used to live in an apartment next to an intersection which was popular for this. You can't believe how inconsiderate it is if you haven't experienced it. Sleeping is important.
This is the sort of thing that happens here. I hear people with cars reving way too loud in the middle of the night. Police in turn try to fast track removing traffic calming devices because they prevent their officers from chasing people on foot with their patrol vehicles through neighborhoods.
Same deal with fireworks. Complete ban, police ignore the issue because they like harassing homeless people trying to sleep instead.
You know what dissuades street racing? Giant fuck off concrete planters in the middle of the street.
Didn't help that around the same time a dude with a gun was having a crisis:
Seams like the guy was a plant.
Distraction was discussed in their social media about Saturday night.