There will be bus service to all the Red Line stops from the airport, they usually have customer service staff nearby during these types of closures to help people find their way. Something to be aware of, but your friend shouldn't have too much of an issue besides the general inconvenience.
My hope is that this comm can grow to represent a "united left" faction of online Portland communities, now that people are trickling in.
It sucks that on r/Portland I almost always see left-of-liberal viewpoints in response to center-right comments that are so prominent there. It would be nice to have a place where constructive discussion can be had and opinions can be refined, since I know in real life such views are fairly well represented among our neighbors.
I hope that our mod @polymerwitch@lemmy.ml is sympathetic to cultivating this sort of space. At minimum they recognize here in this post the crimeblogging happening on the subreddit which is a significant issue.
Yeah that sucks tbh
r/Portland liberals: "We need to deal with the 'homeless problem'. The city government should 'crack down' on them. Solutions that don't involve harassing them are complicated and expensive, but someone should do something..."
r/PortlandOR chuds: "Let's go out there ourselves and grind homeless people into a pulp ourselves instead of waiting for PPB to do it for us"
There is one dipshit who keeps taking a "pro-Russia" line in the shittiest most obnoxious way IMO. I have my own analysis of the conflict that doesn't involve unilaterally backing Ukraine, but that person really mucks it up so I can't really share anything about it. Not sure if they are "leftist" but whatever.
Not to mention that most Taiwanese do not support "Taiwanese Independence". To bring it up is just begging for WW3 for no real reason.
Definitely not like r/PortlandOR, yikes!
Tbh it sounds like you really don't like Lemmy and would rather use something else instead
I have a feeling that given a couple of years, things will settle out a bit and be more like Mastodon.
Could you imagine if your ISP/Gmail was so particular about what servers you could send email to?
There will always be valid reasons to defederate, although I think the bar for that is going to end up pretty high and well-defined in the future, but it's sort of an organic process to get there.
It was a mistake (though natural) to trust Reddit with all that knowledge in the first place.
I typically hope that any property, anywhere would be used from something, anything other than parking, however in this case it seems like it's appropriate, since it will directly service the park.
I do think the ideal would be to build them out into public plazas like Director Park, with a water feature and many trees.
True, but isn't it a great opportunity to rename the women's interest comm as something that's not trans-exclusive?
It's also very healthy for the community at large, IMO.