Portland
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:
- Don't attack other users.
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
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Yeah, this panic over the imagination of trains exporting cars full of unwashed masses into your social flight suburb is a tension in literally every regional rail rollout in the west, or at least in North America. The facts of the matter is that TriMet does already police Max ridership (I'd know, they've ticketed me), and commuting either by car on a traffic jammed highway over a century-old earthquake-vulnerable bridge or by rail while sitting across a passenger car from a potentially homeless person is a decision that remains securely in the hands of Washingtonian suburbanites, they need not fear that decision being taken from them and they will ultimately get whichever choice they deserve.
But for the time being, Washington is importing thousands of gas belching lifted pickup trucks into my Portland neighborhood every weekday morning, and I don't personally get much of a say in that matter.