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Suspect in Minnesota Shooting Linked to Security Company, Evangelical Ministry (www.wired.com)
 

The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry's website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.”

game has multiple factions fighting each other in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

There was still a “Pop” aisle at my QFC until at least 2014.

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With Newfound Sway at City Hall, Portland’s Democratic Socialists Hope to Redefine the City’s Priorities (www.portlandmercury.com)
 

The arrival of four DSA members on Portland City Council lined up with the announcement of a truly dire city budget crisis. As leaders mulled major cuts, DSA saw an opportunity. Katbi said she wanted to use this year’s city budget conversation as a chance to advance the DSA’s goals in Portland, recognizing the group might not get all their policy wins this year. 

“We're using the budget crisis as a vehicle to advance class consciousness,” Katbi told the Mercury. “We have to start putting our vision out there, because there’s going to be nothing left for us.”  

Proposed cuts to Portland Parks & Recreation proved to strike a particular nerve among many residents. Many Portlanders were especially outraged when several community centers were on the chopping block earlier in the budget season. (After substantial public backlash, city leaders have promised to keep the community centers open, but other parks services remain at significant risk.)  

At the District 2 budget listening session in early April, Katbi was met with cheers after she called on the City Council to “tax the rich, fund our families and our futures” during public testimony. 

“Do we want to have a nice city that families with children want to live in? Or do we just want to have a shell of a police state with shitty services and abandoned parks?” Katbi asked. “We need to present an alternative vision.”

Minimum Wage Hike Could Lift People out of Poverty, Business Groups Warn in c/theonion@midwest.social
[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

Well ya see, if they have that dollar, then you don’t have that dollar.

Technology Does Not Solve Political Problems in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

Great piece. Tech unionization is certainly one of the few paths to fighting this situation. Not just for internal developments at tech companies, but also for solidarity outside of work in building local resilience and contributing to FOSS projects.

The US government's web traffic. - Linux is at 6%! Do other Nations also have such a Statistic? thx in c/linux@lemmy.world
[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Ashburn at 4.8% tells me this includes data center traffic, as not many people live there but a shit ton of data centers do.

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New Portland entertainment venue to begin construction in June (www.kgw.com)
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Construction on a new entertainment venue at the Lloyd Center is set to begin this summer.

Portland-based concert promoter Monqui Presents and global live entertainment company AEG Presents will begin construction on a 68,000-square-foot entertainment venue that can hold between 2,000 and 4,250 attendees in June at the site of the former Nordstrom building along Northeast Multnomah Street.

“The light at the end of the Lloyd venue tunnel just got a lot brighter and closer - it’s full speed ahead,” Monqui Presents Founder Mike Quinn said in a statement.

Trees? But cannabis isn't a tree... is it? in c/trees@lemmy.world
[–] jarmitage@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Anything that was once illegal will have nicknames that survive into the future. For example, hooch.