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infinitesunrise
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How the hell have we not taken PGE public? What the hell is wrong with us, why do we tolerate this self-harm? Almost all other electric utilities on the west coast are public, what on god's green Earth is our malfunction? I hate on PGE like anyone else but at the end of the day this is our fault as Portlanders and Oregonians for not organizing and taking control of our essential services.
“It is both true that as a society our energy needs have increased and it is also true that Forest Park is a highly valued environmental resource,” Childs wrote. “This land use case however, is about facts, not feelings.”
...Did she really just paraphrase a thought-terminating cliche from Ben Shapiro in her decision...? What a clown. This isn't about facts or feelings, this is about PGE's refusal to just spend the money to route power transmission around protected land. This is truly fucking insane and if Portlanders actually care about their forest they need to keep escalating this up to and including direct action. Our residential power bills have gone up like 200% in the past few years in the name of funding a green energy transition. Hey PGE, why don't you use some of that cash pile we've been forking over to you on some concern for actual greenery??
For those of you who still use mainstream social media, the headline for reposting this should be "Portland hearings officer Marisha Childs paraphrases Ben Shapiro in decision allowing PGE to cut down Forest Park".
I'm not done ranting. It's shit like that you point at when you need glaring proof that we do not live in a democracy. None of us have any real legal say in this matter, despite living here, despite using and caring about the land that will be affected. PGE's desires here are wildly unpopular in the location those desires would affect, and despite the fact that this location is their main customer base, despite the fact that there are viable and obvious alternatives, they can still get their way. When the only way that a community can achieve the rational and desired outcome is to abandoned the institutions established oestensibly for that purpose and work outside of and in direct opposition to them, then those institutions are not democratic.
What the fuck is a "hearings officer"??? Where is the community vote on what happens to their park?
The browser project dedicated to open web standards steered by a compromised non-profit or the browser project dedicated to undermining the traditional web browsing experience steered by the largest advertising company on Earth ... Let me think ...
I don't think they read Lemmy.
Fair I have zero experience owning a boat. However, if I bought a boat for $10K and my annual upkeep was only $1K I'd certainly be thrilled.
NYTimes is the quintessential epitome of the sort of middling liberal apologetics that funnel a society toward fascism. They aren't friends, they're a mouthpiece for money.
"Genius kid"? I really dislike the unnecessary and unqualified exoticization. He's a smart kid, with access to time and resources. The sort of time and resources that any kid - Any person, really - With an interest should have access to. We'd have a lot more "geniuses" in the world if that were the case.
IIRC the rule of thumb for boat costs, is that annual upkeep costs for a boat are roughly the purchase price of the boat.
The elites don't want you to know this but the boats at the marina are free you can take them home I have 458 boats.
Outside of one-in-a-billion shots like Mangione, we're still at the discomfort level of unreliable whackadoos being the only ones to try violent direct action. Which means that instead of picking targets that would actually make an impact, they're picking personally symbolic targets that they have easy, ready access to. And they're not even hitting those targets with real success / possibly creating innocent collateral in the process.
We aren't there yet.
The phrases (And the totally unnecessary racial qualifiers) may be but I'm pretty sure men are conditioned to suppress their emotions anywhere there's patriarchy, which is most places these days.