Be quiet!

Thanks, forgot I have “read” posts hidden.

Hopefully as we grow we’ll have enough participation for a comment thread for each game. One of the things I miss a good deal about the media site that must not be mentioned was the quality, speed and variety of content for NBA. They pretty much became the news cycle themselves

Where is the game thread?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie

Disappointed this wasn’t mentioned in the article. Sociologists identified the problems of industrial urbanization and the destruction of “the town square” so to speak, socially, long ago. Emile Durkheim coined the word “anomie” in the 1890s when studying suicide precipitated by its increasing frequency as industrialization and urbanization are underway; both part of destruction of different structures under which humans evolved to succeed in; being part of a tribe and making a difference in ones work.

It’s a funny point to mention as an atheist, but religion–with a massive asterix for pain, suffering, trauma and death–was one of the pieces that continued through urbanization to tie groups of people together in an understanding and worldview(again massive asterix on the consequences of organized religion) which helped give people a “tribe” in recent millenia. The relatively rapid decline of importance and power of religion in western societies in the last 100 years removed one of these key pieces that people used to understand the world around them and identify with it–for better or worse.

There is a reason undeveloped countries like Haiti–despite being the poorest nation in the western hemisphere–has much happier humans than “richer” ones; they still speak to one another, get to see their families and friends, know those in their “village” around them and who does what and where and why and their work’s point and product is generally in their hands, e.g. palpable (manual labor, cooking, etc.). On the whole, these things make people happier than not–obvious exceptions notwithstanding.

Technology is just the latest acceleration of the anomie process, when, nearly complete with the process of ripping up human connection to each other and our work. Technology’s implementation in the US, like most things in this country is implemented how best to serve the wealthy and powerful of capital and it’s lobbyists with no caution or wisdom allowed, so no surprise to see new and horrible inroads into the continuing process of anomie as described by Durkheim almost 150 years ago.

We’re now veering well into “when peaceful change is made impossible, violent change is inevitable” territory for an increasingly large swath of Americans. The only question is when instead of school shootings it will be corporate arson and industrial sabotage, more assassinations, kidnappings…it will get bad.

This isn’t aiop, it’s petty and a waste of energy. Trump is a puppet and a clown, a symptom of concentrated and focused power, entitlement and wealth. If he died, the next fascist up would replace him and be even more extreme as extremists always have to one up each other. Focus on the system, not the clown.

I can’t think of a clever pun for this, the ones I came up with were awful as best.

The corporate and foreign interests will challenge it in court, supreme Court and win. The capture of the SC and lifetime appointments was half of the chess game. Until the public gets better information and education they won’t hear about this. Dems not the solution, has to be more radical.

HOAs are like companies with employee policies; they can write whatever they want–whether it would hold up to legal challenge is another matter.

Portland never had much in the way of HOAs, but since much of the building in the last 25 uears has been in suburbs and condos, HOAs now abound outside the city proper. Air conditioning was never really a thing in Portland–growimg up here I never had it and yeah you had 2 really hot weeks in August and you learned to deal with it; pool, basements, lakes, ocean, etc. the last 10 years have seen significant swings in the weather; drought starting in ~2015 that lasted almost 7 years and of course rising average temperatures that exacerbate seasonal issues. Like BC we have a whole shitload of lumber in OR and it’s been getting ugly and will only get worse.

Those petty preferences work when everyone has internal air, as the average person has increased health impacts with climate change and global warming they will die out–the stupid HOA AC rules(sadly not HOAs).

It’s weird but $10B for the Lakers sounds frankly low? If the Grizzlies are worth 3.5B, the Lakers are 10x easy if you’re taking the super-long-term ownership perspective. When the NBA finally sells internet games direct to the public, when they get to set ad prices instead of legacy TV folks, as internet media and entertainment and sponsorship and athletics continue to evolve, the future seems very bright in an increasingly global world as the #2 or 3 global sport behind soccer and maybe cricket/F1.

I guess it’s one of those things; LeBron is worth way more than he makes relative to other players but due to the structure of income and payments etc. he can’t really be paid what he’s worth. It makes the league overall stronger, and the wealer teams in the league benefit from income resistribution from the big market workhorses like la, Boston, Miami, etc.

Still…$10B? In 2025? Especially given the tax advantages…

Your points on window AC units are accurate, but It’s not your interpretation of the headline meaning that the author meant–and it’s a horrible headline given the adjacent relativity of energy usage and environmental impact and their well documented links.

The author apparently decided “climate resilience” was the best way to put into words “reduce dire heat-related impact of surfing temperatures on the poor” which is the aim of the program. While window AC units are relatively quick and cheap to install compared to alternatives, they do nothing about the causes, only benefit a small portion of the population, and of course line industry pockets in appliances and energy companies with increased bills. Hope these folks are already on free energy plans because AC was expensive before PGE raised prices 70% in the last 4 years.

Hopefully the program is part of a comprehensive legislation like mandating energy efficient construction codes with warm-climate designs. A bunch of windows on apartment buildings is going to go the way of the dodo in the next 10 years. Who knows, we might start seeing adobe and red tile roofs creep up into Oregon in New construction. So much for the craftsman.

We barely maintain what we have, what we have isn’t safe, and what we have is exclusionary to those without means or desire to pay into insurance and petrol companies. “Transportation” was long ago subverted to mean Internal Combustion Engines and it’s time to take our tax money back from big developers looking for a payday.

No tolls until there are effective and safe public transit options that don’t take 3-10 times as long as a car to get somewhere. Until then only maintenance and safety improvements to existing roads and all other funds should go to mass transit and alternative transit promotions. The fact tolling 205 was brought up when there are not reasonable alternatives to those who live there is part of the farce that must end.

This humor inflation is unsustainable.

So grizzlies get worse, except in the distant future and magic don’t get anything that will take them to the next level. Grizz werent going anywhere with this core but appear to have thrown in the towel as they should have, but still looking waaaaay out now. Lose/lose.

Is this a news story from 4 years ago?

Ft. Sumter vibes

Ft. Sumter vibes

“minifauna” is going on my list.

Oregonians headline, after fighting for access to it “misses the mark”. It advocates violence, would suppress free speech by broadly implying the use of force against those preconditioned to ignore the right to assemble peacefully, it’s pure fascist ideology.

Call it out cowards. Downplaying the fascism has ensured it survives and is now taking over governments everywhere. This punk should not be employed by any state agency claiming to operate in public service and especially not one with access to weapons or use of force

And yet when I go to my local watering hole weighing in a 600lbs., no one photographs me with wonder at me being a magnificent old male with a great life story.