lilypad [pup/pup's, it/its]

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: October 26th, 2023
  • lilypad [pup/pup's, it/its]@hexbear.nettoaskchapo@hexbear.net•Why shouldn't I move to Portland, Oregon?English
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    2 days ago

    You’ve gotten a ton of comments and info, but here’s one more.

    What’s bad about the city that makes people move away?

    One of my online friends lives in Portland, and I asked them “hey rant about pdx for moment, tell me why you hate it”. This is gonna be filled with their personal opinions so I can’t say how accurate it is. They’re… Pretty jaded, to my eyes, and very opinionated. Sometimes their opinions are on point, but sometimes they’re heavily generalized from their direct experiences. So take all this with a grain (or several grains) of salt.

    Here's some things they said about why the city is bad, arranged in a bullet list from their long paragraph of run on sentences.

    I put my notes/questions in parens, I dont feel like asking them about stuff rn. And tried to edit it with brackets to make it make more sense.

    • Portland sucks, its just really close to tons of cool stuff (I’m assuming they’re referring to the mountain nearby, the coast, the high desert in eastern Oregon, etc., cause they’re pretty outdoorsy)
    • Portland isn’t a city, its an association of neighborhoods masquerading as a city
    • Portland is super fucking white, whiter than anywhere [they’ve] lived. It comes from a history where black people were not allowed to live [there], and there’s still tons of casual liberal racism and gentrification and driving out poor people and people of color
    • Oregon in general has a fascism problem
    • tons of people [there] who are like “I’m a white liberal queer so I know what oppression is and can’t oppress others”, with some people being chillers and accepting they can oppress others, and even fewer actually doing the work to unlearn and address it
    • drivers [there] fucking suck. There’s the Portland drivers, who stop at an intersection to let another car go when they have the right of way, and dont know how to zipper, and can’t make a decisive move to save their life, and endanger tons of people. Then there’s the out of towners who learned how to drive somewhere that people actually drive normally and are competent. Then there’s the calidrivers who cut you off run stop signs break suddenly tailgate and fucking suck and endanger people. Also no one knows how to drive on slick roads after rain, and if [they] get ice then good fucking luck and drive super defensively, people [there] treat ice like it doesn’t exist and speed 10+mph over the limit with summer tires, or slow to a 5mph crawl regardless of whether there’s even ice on the road
    • there’s no gayborhood, just dispersed [f-slur used here in a reclamatory sense]
    • big homelessness problem and the city refuses to deal with it. Right now there’s a program to “relocate people to their families outside portland” instead of actually give people care and social services to get them off the street
    • PPB sucks. They’re incompetent until it’s time to beat on helpless people
    • lefties [there] are either liberals with a coat of paint, anarchists who want to burn everything and dont care about building, or batshit wackos trying to start a sex cult
    • there’s tons of old hippies (they listed this here so I’m assuming that’s a negative?)
    • the job market is shit right now
    • its in the valley of sickness. There’s mold everywhere
    • trimet (their public transit in Portland) sucks. The fact that its some of the best in the nation is a disgrace
    • the city builds bike infrastructure that makes [them] feel unsafe when biking, and neglects bike boulevards (idk what a bike boulevard is, but I’m assuming its a dedicated bike path separate from the road (Portland locals care to chime in?))
    • I fucking hate the [cishets] [there]. They think they’re queer cause they dress like [queers] and then speak like they know [queer] problems, all while perpetuating casual liberal homophobia and transphobia
    • the city shuts down after 9pm. Its gotten better about it over the years, but its still not great
    • good luck affording your $900/mo room plus utilities while making $20/hr and can’t get more than 15-20 hours/week. At least [they] qualify for fucking OHP (looked it up, its the states health plan? Looks decent at a glance)
    • you’ll need heating in the winter and ac in the summer. Hello giant utilities bill
    • everything is fucking expensive
    • the cities gonna be broke in 5 years (no idea why, they didn’t elaborate)

    Again, take this with salt. I’m sure some criticisms are on point, but dont know enough to differentiate between those ones and the more, uh, personal opinions.

    edit one more thing they said that I realized is maybe worth including, even if its a possibly jaded/hyperbolic view

    Dont stop on [interstate 5] north of Vancouver at night if your black or visibly trans, and be careful in hood river if your not white, people get disappeared.

  • lilypad [pup/pup's, it/its]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15sEnglish
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    22 days ago

    EdtechOS doesnt have a GUI

    No problem, I think to myself, typing pkg --search --remote --regex='.*emacs.*' | pkg --install -. Gnus has me taken care of.

    4 hours of config hacking later i can finally read my email. I see a message, “please fix the revisionism in your term paper, if you do not fix it by 11:00 there will be consequences”. I check the clock, its 13:00. My emacs timer i just configured to fetch mail regularly dings, and a new message appears. “Please see me after class” it says.

  • lilypad [pup/pup's, it/its]@hexbear.nettoGames@hexbear.net•realistic gamesEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I wasnt optimistic about stalker 2, given all the bullshit stalker2 announcements over the past what, decade? But then a friend said it was really good! Aaaaaand it wasnt bad, but it didnt scratch the stalker itch. It didnt have the delicious eurojank feeling, it was too glossy, and the enemies were… Idk just didnt have the same feel as in og stalker. Mutants were just another enemy, and the danger wasnt something to be overcome with tactics, but with bruteforce it felt like. I was never scared playing stalker 2. In ShoC, i was terrified on multiple occassions (agoroprom underground being the first “oh fuck oh no i wanna go home” experience. I went in without enough ammo, didnt have a good savepoint to go back to to try and get ammo, and had to deal with bandits first. Then the bloodsucker came and i was so scared. It was great).

    Stalker2 isnt a bad game, it just doesnt scratch the stalker itch for me. Why would i play it when i could play CoC/M, or Anomaly, or Narodnaya Solyanka OP-2?

  • lilypad [pup/pup's, it/its]@hexbear.netOPtoneurodiverse@hexbear.net•How to organize when audhd+anxiety makes it hard?English
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    27 days ago

    This was really helpful, thank you.

    In my experience, orgs struggle the most with back-end volunteers - the people who write up minutes and send out reminder messages and provide intake info and organize their documents and all of that other stuff.

    This was heartening, i cant do suuuuper fast steno typing to get everything people say, but i can do minutes and the like (im at maybe 60-75 WPM and proud of it). I can organize shit, i can do administrative work and all of this stuff. This makes me feel like theres (potentially) a place here for me.

    Are you going to that meeting? No. Not gonna happen. Don’t even bother asking. Are you going to clear a backlog of 6 months of administrative logjam? Yes. And if that isn’t seen as a crucial contribution to organizing then whoever feels that way can fuck right off.

    Me. This is me. Fuck meetings. Give me the sweet sweet admin backlog!