19% YOY usage drop last month, 3.6% bill increase. It's been like this for months. Even if you're trying to limit your usage and save money, you get fucked. Such bullshit. Meanwhile the PUC came out and said they don't want to not approve these large increases PGE has requested every year because "it would set a bad precedent". Talk about in another world. Their "why are my electricity charges higher" are also incorrect on weather, actually the exact opposite--the same page notes the period was 1 degree cooler than last year.
Economy
Texas lawmakers question agency's ability to oversee $5 billion energy loan program after initial glitch
pdxfed 21 hours ago • 100%
Congrats on the job, here is your full department budget. But first, a few quick questions:
- Have you performed basic arithmetic calculations before?
- do you have any familiarity with budgets?
- have you ever managed a department before?
pdxfed 2 days ago • 100%
"We know where the are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." - Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense while being publicly questioned on the validity of claims of WMDs in lead up to invasion of Iraq.
Rumsfeld of the "known knowns".
pdxfed 3 days ago • 100%
Thank you for the syntax, I didn't know that. Wish that stuff was in a help box in text entry field or something so it would be quickly accessible so we could all learn it faster.
pdxfed 3 days ago • 100%
u/logos asked the same thing, I answered in the thread.
Interesting Global News
USA | More bomb threats hit Springfield, Ohio, after Trump elevates false claims about Haitians
pdxfed 4 days ago • 100%
“It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,”
Spoken like every person who finally sees the antifa light when the dam starts to break and the chaos, violence, hate and anger fueling fascist movements finally aren't wrapped up in "patriotism" any longer.
Don't care, lock her up.
pdxfed 4 days ago • 100%
If you're asking in earnest, the last decade has shown for profit corps know no bounds in using technology to extract, poorly protect, and often aggregate and then will make any attempt to monetize possible--often retroactively. While a dishwasher might not have much data in itself to exploit, if your internet connected TV, Car or phone which is constantly scanning for nearby WI-FI items or networks decided to start cataloguing them...well then that would just be a Tuesday for Google, Ford or Sony right?
The more data points, the worse. More breaches, more creepy facts about us floating around in some creepy company or regime's stockpile of data to be used, unilaterally against me. Or maybe the next company to buy the current company I'm happy with. Or the next regime that decides people like me aren't full humans. Between your computer and phone, most people's lives are somewhat laid bare, but add in car tracking which auto companies have stuck their funnel into during the last 5 years, add in appliances, put Wi-Fi if your shower handle...again the people adding Wi-Fi to things like a dishwasher that don't need it have only one thing to gain, monetizing your data and selling it to someone who wants to control you in some way.
pdxfed 4 days ago • 100%
Thank you, the FCC filing is a good idea, if you find something useful that would be great.
Replacing a dishwasher. Most of the mid-range options now come with fucking Wi-Fi. Found a model I liked, no info in manual and support from Samsung was of course, useless since it wasn't already in the manual and wanted to keep talking about their exciting "smart things" app. gag. I saw a youtube video of a guy disconnecting wifi cable on a fridge. I'm fine doing that if I have to open up the board but it'll probably be smaller than the fridge and who knows if it'll be helpfully labled like the one in the video was. Internet searching showed me there may be oven keypress combinations to turn wi-fi radio on/off. Anyone have anything similar/advice for Samsung appliances, specifically dishwashers?
Boston, MA
Massachusetts Is Looking To Improve Air Quality Levels In Cities And Towns
pdxfed 4 days ago • 50%
Probably all to setup some huge corporate tax breaks giveaway for them to do building or environmental upgrades they would/would have to do otherwise but then the sucker taxpayers get to find it.
www.oregonlive.com
Whatever way you take this: - 1. A way to be able to remove anything that is deemed "offensive", "unpopular", or "unpalatable" and a good option - 2. A way to ensure conversations critical of entrenched interests and dominant practices are censored and don't take place It seems hopelessly broad attempt to shape discourse and thought. Even giving administrators the benefit of the doubt and saying this policy was created so if someone puts a swastika on their door they can take it down, it also means that *anything* someone claims is political could be removed. As we've seen in the last 10 years, is there anything that *can't* be politicized with enough money thrown at it? With this policy, if a history or biology teacher put "vaccines save lives" poster on their door, someone could say it's political and offensive. Giving extremists the opening to say something is "political" means that they could say, "Oh your LGBTQ poster is offensive and political to me", and it would be hard to make a case that would stand up under this crap policy that sexuality hasn't been politicized and that is should stay up to support diverse students. Hasn't diversity itself been politicized? The administrator's comment that "LGBTQ flags are ok because they support groups that have been marginalized" is 100% correct, but I don't think they're really working through how "political" and "personal" are so broad anything could be attacked and claimed "offensive", "political", or "personal". What if there was an educational poster about climate change? Economics? History? How, in any universe, could you have those discussions without broaching potentially "political" items? TLDR; policy thought up by 5-year-olds who apparently haven't been watching the attacks on school boards, policies, postings and education elsewhere to understand where it will lead. Support your teacher's unions, the administrators leading them are scared of conflict and open dialogue and we can't educate without them.
pdxfed 4 days ago • 100%
My running pants/spandex material have a stretchy pocket around the center of the back of the waist. I also hate bouncing while running and I never feel the phone when in the pocket. Still easy to grab, maybe a bit more practice to put back in the pocket but just as easy to take out as a regular side pocket.
Technology
United Airlines to Provide Starlink-powered Wi-Fi For Free on all flights
pdxfed 5 days ago • 86%
I want Elon musk ISP like I want him at my dinner table.
Technology
Massive, 400 tonne electric cranes arrive at the Port of San Diego
pdxfed 5 days ago • 100%
What is the impact to dock labor, jobs, etc.? It may be that with increased ability to handle labor hours actually expand as the port handles more, but generally that margin comes from somewhere.
Technology
Meta’s AI is scraping users’ photos and posts. Europeans can opt out, but Australians cannot
pdxfed 5 days ago • 100%
Ready player one about covers it
Technology
Research suggest LLM chatbots may be effective against conspiracy theories
pdxfed 6 days ago • 100%
Or Truth Social LLM is released so you the entire thing is a hallucination.
Asklemmypdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
Raindrops on roses? Whiskers on kittens?
pdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
Just a giant sausage making machine of buzzwords, catchphrases and dog whistles.
pdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
Relax they're all in good taste
pdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
If you people would just make your soup at home instead of having your pastaccinos, you would be able to afford college, housing and retirement.
pdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
- Liar, Liar
- Office Space
- Happy Gilmore
- The Fifth Element
- Ace Ventura 2
- Nat. Lampoons Christmas Vacation
- Planes, Trains & Automobiles
- The Big Lebowski
pdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
I'm in HR and am fascinated by the fact many union workers voted for and will likely again vote for Trump, despite it being so fantastically clear it's against all their economic, legal, medical, safety and employment interests. The UAW is focusing on these voters right now, something like 50%(!) of UAW union members support Trump. Outside of misinformation, racism, xenophobia, or misogyny, I can't see why they would vote for him or how their interests would align. Religion is an answer but of course, Trump is as religious as he is coherent.
pdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
Just puts on a brand new sweater every time she pets her cat. Easy.
Technology
Huawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design
pdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
HTC glory days.
Three are lots of cards that have built in kickstands now, why not just get one of those?
pdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
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Thanks Taibbi
Dallas-Fort Worth
357-Unit Luxury Apartment Opens In Frisco, Texas
pdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
Sorry, free market says there isn't enough profit to be had in that kind of building so none of it gets built. As we know, the free market is infallible.
News
TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials
pdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
Yeah but at least they don't have any water.
B Movie Bonanza
Reminder: people over on Mastodon watch a B-movie every Sunday and live-toot during it. Today's movie: GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (1973)
pdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
Trumpet has a lot more heft, makes toot seem infantile. Should have trumpeted, opportunity lost.
pdxfed 1 week ago • 100%
Grandma and grandpa won't be able to, they're not retiring because pensions effectively no longer exist, we've had 40 years of declining real wages, and they didn't know what a 401k was or save in it for much of their careers.
pdxfed 2 weeks ago • 100%
Small government and personal liberties, they said.
Fuck Cars
[meme] Car brains, citing vague "freedom of movement," often say that it should be OK to run over protesters on highways. In turn, it should be legal to set fire to cars parked in bike lanes.
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Technology
Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing
pdxfed 2 weeks ago • 100%
Add in the facial recognition technology they're also deploying and go to the next level of Dante; what do people's habits who look like "x" who are with people(kids, partners, friends) who buy "y" and don't buy "z"?
LEGO
New September 2024 LEGO sets now available - Advent Calendars, Great Deku Tree, & more [News] - The Brothers Brick
pdxfed 2 weeks ago • 14%
The ultimate capitalist wet dream; the confluence of Christianity and Harry Potter and plastic: acrylonitrile, butadiene, and styrene, all derived from petroleum.
Data Breaches
Planned Parenthood confirms cyberattack as RansomHub claims breach
pdxfed 2 weeks ago • 100%
We're a few years into the medical-specific breaches. I've had my medical record stolen from an ex-employer's health insurer (4 years after I was no longer employed with them but who knows how long they hold it since most cybersecurity practices arent followed let alone data deletion laws) as well as my state DMV.
pdxfed 2 weeks ago • 100%
As long as Musk decides to explore the Titanic on its inaugural run...
Lemmy Be Wholesome
How Amazing Things Are
pdxfed 2 weeks ago • 100%
Reading a book, Frostbite about the truly historically recency of constant, mechanical, cooling. I'm only a few chapters in and it's a classic already, reminds me a bit of fast food nation.
Humans have understood ice but didn't master it until the last 150 years...really only a few generations and it completely changed what we eat, how we live and what we perceived as normal. There is a global food supply chain of cold storage and transportation that starts at a source and ends up in your fridge.
Technology
After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship
pdxfed 2 weeks ago • 100%
First thought I had after read through, how much did that masters cost and you didn't learn that you can turn off the broadcast name so only people who know it's there can connect? Probably not even a real degree, freakonomjcs did an episode maybe 10 years ago that said probably 5% of degrees are fake, bet it's 20% now, lying is culturally through the roof.
Progressive Politics
Xi offers African leaders more aid as China challenges US-led global order
pdxfed 2 weeks ago • 100%
We've bankrupted ourselves, largely to them. They are the largest holder of US debt. While much of their economy is currently aligned around exports and the US being their largest market, they are also maturing in their economy...their middle class is 300 million people. Think about that for a minute.
With time, when china chooses after theyve developed othe large trade relationships so they are not they reliant on the US, they will call in their chips, and the US will collapse. It may be 100 years from now. It doesn't matter. China has always been playing chess while US pawns, only thinking about a current fat bribe or contribution for their party or Corp this year, are playing Pong.
In retrospect, the US was given power unimaginable due to confluence of events, history and geography...of course it squandered it without the historical wisdom to look ahead. It may be dark, but probably best for a harsh reset in the US...it's horrific as a society, culture and has become a monster of a country. We will learn to be strong again and hopefully, like the French, make better lessons of our next revolution.
pdxfed 2 weeks ago • 100%
Yes, but my spaghetti sky God says that vaccines make marinara taste bad so my reptilian brain is scared. What can I dooooo
Technology
Verizon looks to expand Fios with $20 billion purchase of Frontier
pdxfed 2 weeks ago • 100%
The companies announce it, then the FTC can challenge it/sue to block for anticompetitive reasons.
Programmer Humor
Which one are you reaching for today?
pdxfed 2 weeks ago • 100%
Guys who are here hate this one trick!
I've been using ST for ~6 months and sync camera folder on my new phone to an old phone with UL photo uploads, works great. What I need is to import ~10k photos from external drive from a relative, but would like to have them synch in google photos to a specific folder so my relative's photos aren't interspersed with my own photos since imports will read the photo date and sort them accordingly most times in google photos. I'm guessing I need to synch a desktop folder on my computer to my "new" phone's camera folder that is synched to my old phone and that gets me uploaded and free storage, but the photos would be all over the place. Thanks for any ideas!
Kroger wants to buy Albertsons, a major competitor, who also owns Safeway, which Albertsons somehow was approved to buy 3-4 years ago. The attached is a good representation of what “choice” would look like if the merger were approved by the FTC for SE metro area of Portland; 6/10 larger grocers would be run by Kroger (WinCo, Costco, Grocery Outlet and New Seasons the only exception). This is a big deal because: - Kroger has already been price gouging like crazy since the pandemic as we all knew but has been recently confirmed by Kroger themselves (https://www.newsweek.com/kroger-executive-admits-company-gouged-prices-above-inflation-1945742) - This would make bullet #1 above worse with that scale of market dominance - Kroger was among the most appalling for worker and customer safety during the pandemic. They had sneeze guards up in their 172nd location in May of 2021, a full 1.5 years after the pandemic started, never enforced masking and refused to take any returns during the pandemic for any reason, but mainly to pad their bottom line. - Kroger’s local workers are currently on strike for the crap wages and conditions they have endured. A larger corporate entity would only grow the awful employment and labor practices Kroger has. - Pharmacy services are already under-served and with Rite-aid and Walgreens closing hundreds of locations nationwide, it would force more medically dependent customers to Kroger, who demonstrated its absolute indifference to worker and customer safety before, during and after the pandemic. If you want to slow grocery price gouging, support better conditions for customers and employees, be able to choose other companies when one isn’t meeting your needs, I highly recommend sharing your thoughts with the FTC and boycotting Kroger/Safeway/Albertsons as much as you can.
Kroger wants to buy Albertsons, a major competitor, who also owns Safeway, which Albertsons somehow was approved to buy 3-4 years ago. The attached is a good representation of what “choice” would look like if the merger were approved by the FTC for SE metro area of Portland; 6/10 larger grocers would be run by Kroger (WinCo, Costco, Grocery Outlet and New Seasons the only exception). This is a big deal because: - Kroger has already been price gouging like crazy since the pandemic as we all knew but has been recently confirmed by Kroger themselves (https://www.newsweek.com/kroger-executive-admits-company-gouged-prices-above-inflation-1945742) - This would make bullet #1 above worse with that scale of market dominance - Kroger was among the most appalling for worker and customer safety during the pandemic. They had sneeze guards up in their 172nd location in May of 2021, a full 1.5 years after the pandemic started, never enforced masking and refused to take any returns during the pandemic for any reason, but mainly to pad their bottom line. - Kroger’s local workers are currently on strike for the crap wages and conditions they have endured. A larger corporate entity would only grow the awful employment and labor practices Kroger has. - Pharmacy services are already under-served and with Rite-aid and Walgreens closing hundreds of locations nationwide, it would force more medically dependent customers to Kroger, who demonstrated its absolute indifference to worker and customer safety before, during and after the pandemic. If you want to slow grocery price gouging, support better conditions for customers and employees, be able to choose other companies when one isn’t meeting your needs, I highly recommend sharing your thoughts with the FTC and boycotting Kroger/Safeway/Albertsons as much as you can.
Kroger wants to buy Albertsons, a major competitor, who also owns Safeway, which Albertsons somehow was approved to buy 3-4 years ago. The attached is a good representation of what "choice" would look like if the merger were approved by the FTC for SE metro area of Portland; 6/10 larger grocers would be run by Kroger (WinCo, Costco, Grocery Outlet and New Seasons the only exception). This is a big deal because: - Kroger has already been price gouging like crazy since the pandemic as we all knew but has been recently confirmed by Kroger themselves (https://www.newsweek.com/kroger-executive-admits-company-gouged-prices-above-inflation-1945742) - This would make bullet #1 above worse with that scale of market dominance - Kroger was among the most appalling for worker and customer safety during the pandemic. They had sneeze guards up in their 172nd location in May of *2021*, a full 1.5 years after the pandemic started, never enforced masking and refused to take any returns during the pandemic for any reason, but mainly to pad their bottom line. - Kroger's local workers are currently on strike for the crap wages and conditions they have endured. A larger corporate entity would only grow the awful employment and labor practices Kroger has. - Pharmacy services are already under-served and with Rite-aid and Walgreens closing hundreds of locations nationwide, it would force more medically dependent customers to Kroger, who demonstrated its absolute indifference to worker and customer safety before, during and after the pandemic. If you want to slow grocery price gouging, support better conditions for customers and employees, be able to choose other companies when one isn't meeting your needs, I highly recommend sharing your thoughts with the FTC and boycotting Kroger/Safeway/Albertsons as much as you can.
Seems to work on Desktop, but on android mobile, when I edit the search results in brave to not include AI, it doesn't save and pops up when I reopen browser/search in regular or Private window. Don't want to wait for AI or get is crappy results.
Going into quick settings or full settings from search result menu, I disable AI in Search Results. It goes away. Opening Firefox again and searching it turns back on. How can this be disabled in Brave permanently? Not only do I want to not wait for AI, it's trash to begin with. TIA
www.youtube.com
When the music, the creativity, the stars and a story are unforgettable.
Instead of posting, then having to tediously copy/paste to different instances with similar communities, it would be nice (although potentially crazy spammy) to allow x-posting from one post. This may be less of a Boost idea and more of a Lemmy discussion, but if it can be enabled in Boost I thought that would be a nice addition.
Full bill text: https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2024/017text.pdf TLDR; Oregon corporate tax has a minimum rate of 1%. This ballot measure would raise it to 3% and give $750 to *each* Oregon resident (including children). Get ready for an Uber/Lyft level of corporate ads and media spamming to try to sink this common sense bill.
Full bill text: https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2024/017text.pdf TLDR; Oregon corporate tax has a minimum rate of 1%. This ballot measure would raise it to 3% and give $750 to *each* Oregon resident (including children). Get ready for an Uber/Lyft level of corporate ads and media spamming to try to sink this common sense bill.
www.oregonrebate.org
Full bill text: https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2024/017text.pdf TLDR; Oregon corporate tax has a minimum rate of 1%. This ballot measure would raise it to 3% and give $750 to *each* Oregon resident (including children). Get ready for an Uber/Lyft level of corporate ads and media spamming to try to sink this common sense bill.
www.oregonrebate.org
Full bill text: https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2024/017text.pdf TLDR; Oregon corporate tax has a minimum rate of 1%. This ballot measure would raise it to 3% and give $750 to *each* Oregon resident (including children). Get ready for an Uber/Lyft level of corporate ads and media spamming to try to sink this common sense bill.
Other than "dont' use Godaddy", what do I need to know? I've never owned a domain or had a website of my own before. 1. Domain registration/host recommendations? 2. Web hosting recommendations? Should I mix #1 and #2? 3. Website template creation suggestions? Have fairly simple needs like service offerings and contact forms but want something without rotating construction cones. 4. What else should I consider? Security? e-mail? 5. Am open to all-in-one for the above, just would like to understand tradeoffs, what to look for/avoid. TIA
It’s a common misconception, but if you registered "Independent Party" you aren’t “independent” you are a member of your state’s Independent party, who has a platform and agenda you may or may not agree with. What you actually want is called an "unaffiliated" voter status. The good news is, all you have to do is...nothing! LA Times had a good summary a few years back: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-american-independent-party-california-registration-card-20180405-story.html You don’t need to register with any party to show you don’t like R or D, do nothing or choose "unaffiliated if you want to be “little i independent”. Examples: - New York - http://ipny.org/platform.html - Oregon - [https://www.indparty.com/](https://www.indparty.com/platform) - Illinois - [https://www.iviipo.org/our-policies/economic-issues](https://www.iviipo.org/our-policies) - American Independent Party - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Independent_Party #USA #politics----
Twice in the last week videos I have viewed have been saved in a boost photos folder. I didn't request to save or download them at any point. Is this based on the site, internal vs. external browser choice, caching or something else? Obviously is prefer videos not be downloaded if I don't try to save/download them.
www.nbcnews.com
It would be nice, and I don't know if it's because the functionality doesn't already exist in Lemmy, but it would be nice to be able to limit one's search to one's own comments/saved/upvoted/downvoted easily--the profile menu where these are listed would make the most sense. The search functionality to search all of lemmy and limit to local/all, etc. is powerful to find content, a particular community, but if I'm looking historically for an article I commented on or saved, upvoted, etc. it would be convenient if this were easier. Thank you
Price range for retail seems to be $100-250 for IKEA stuff that will fall apart in 3 years, or $1,000+ for something better. Is there nothing in between? Would prefer to buy new with risk of bed bugs or other contaminants but open to other options if I'm missing something.
www.theguardian.com
Proposing general boycott of Trader Joes. They have joined an unholy trinity of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Starbucks, because they've lost so hard in the past few years against workers forming unions (to push back against awful wages and lack of safety and terrible working conditions pronounced by COVID) that since they can't win fair in union elections under law that has been around for 90 years, want to dismantle the entire apparatus of the NLRB. If successful, their complaint and other arguments and conclusions that would follow, would lead to loss of labor power that would be strikingly similar to what happened when Trump was allowed to appoint 3 justices and upend the Supreme Court which quickly lead to Roe v. Wade being overturned. 40 hours a week then overtime? Probably deemed unfair to the profit rights of our poor megacorps. Discrimination protections at work? Struck down federally but states allowed to pass their own, for a while, then those would be overturned by SC when challenged. Those would be week 1. It's sad to see Trader Joes, who espouses lots of human values on its website becoming a mouthpiece for unfettered capitalist abuse of hourly workers. My boycott, as a 20-year shopper, starts today. I think there are lots of TJs shoppers who think of them as "not Kroger/Walmart/Safeway-Albertsons/etc." but honestly, but throwing in with the billionaires above they might as well be. I feel like starting a picket at a store or two, then growing would build some shopper awareness, maybe earn some folks who want to get involved and build from there. Want to join?
www.theguardian.com
Proposing general boycott of Trader Joes. They have joined an unholy trinity of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Starbucks, because they've lost so hard in the past few years against workers forming unions (to push back against awful wages and lack of safety and terrible working conditions pronounced by COVID) that since they can't win fair in union elections under law that has been around for 90 years, want to dismantle the entire apparatus of the NLRB. If successful, their complaint and other arguments and conclusions that would follow, would lead to loss of labor power that would be strikingly similar to what happened when Trump was allowed to appoint 3 justices and upend the Supreme Court which quickly lead to Roe v. Wade being overturned. 40 hours a week then overtime? Probably deemed unfair to the profit rights of our poor megacorps. Discrimination protections at work? Struck down federally but states allowed to pass their own, for a while, then those would be overturned by SC when challenged. Those would be week 1. It's sad to see Trader Joes, who espouses lots of human values on its website becoming a mouthpiece for unfettered capitalist abuse of hourly workers. My boycott, as a 20-year shopper, starts today. I think there are lots of TJs shoppers who think of them as "not Kroger/Walmart/Safeway-Albertsons/etc." but honestly, by throwing in with Musk/Bezos/Starbucks they're no different. I feel like starting a picket at a store or two, then growing would build some shopper awareness, maybe earn some folks who want to get involved and build from there. Want to join?
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Instead of addressing the issues with violence, abuse and lack of accountability in the Portland Police force, let's just abandon the voter-approved mechanisms to fix it.
www.oregonlive.com
Paulson probably got his money to buy the team from Daddy, Hank "helicopter" Paulson who ensured wall street was bailed out to the tune of trillions in the great recession, somehow seems to think he's above the fans and culture of a city who don't want to have an asshole run (or own) their team. BOYCOTT the asshats.
It's strange and unintuitive that my own submitted posts are hidden with this basic feature. Given the slow pace on some communities as Lemmy grows, it gets really repetitive without the ability to filter out read posts. On the other side though, the ability to review my posts and check back on them seems pretty basic as a feature. Is there a deliberate reason Lemmy functions like this?
Ballottrax is a simple service, sign up once and you'll get a text or email every election once your ballot has been sent/received. Your ballot envelope contains instructions and a QR code on how to sign up. Multnomah county had this a decade ago, looks like getting a new elections county clerk paying dividends already. Especially given the horrible record in Clackamas under the past elections clerk(ballots not sent to thousands, duplicate ballots sent, abysmal processing times for the county) this is some much needed basic transparency to allow citizens to 3nsure their vote counts.
X-Post from Uplifting News: There is no law of economics that says natural changes in demand or technology have to be met with brutal, unanticipated layoffs, that MEANINGFUL retraining can't be offered, or that unemployment payments should be poverty wages.This article shows one country's industry doing the first two at least! As an American it's always been hard to believe the absolute sloth and lack of investment shown in helping workers retrain. I'm from Oregon, and we still have communities that never recovered from forestry preservation initiatives in the 80s. In laid the groundwork for bitter, powerless, formerly proud souls to be courted by lying politicians. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising given companies want to minimize investment in worker training here while being surprised they can't hire qualified employees 🤔. If only there were solutions...
Wins: 1. Moving away from fossil fuel dependence 2. Actually giving workers a human chance to develop new skills at a healthy pace and adapt instead of the bludgeoning pace in the US of layoffs, no training and a frantic job search.
www.oregonlive.com
One of the main reasons employers want to keep healthcare private; enormous leverage against labor, organized or not..
I would assume I'm not insane and this is not deliberate? Edit; looks like this is Lemmy functionality as it's done in one's profile and also blocks the display online? Given the slower/lower content, hiding read posts helps keep users engaged on Lemmy, but if I always have to scroll back through posts it's a total turnoff. Understand this is a Lemmy issue and not Boost it would seem, any workarounds for this Reuben? Just want to hide stuff I've already looked at but still seem my own posts in my profile posts. Cheers.
I seem to be having a brain fart, have "clicked on posts mark as read" but posts are still showing up. Where is the "hide read posts" option?