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Jews against Zionism 'What Israel has done in Gaza is barbaric - I'll never support it' Jewish diaspora members are so afraid of saying the wrong thing, they often don’t say anything at all. thejournal.ie/readme/gaza-jews…
Elina Bakunova aka "Eli from Russia" visited Iran before the military conflict between Iran, Israel, and the US began. Before she left, her friends were like, "You're going to Iran? It's so dangerous!" But she found once she arrived in Iran, she never felt in any danger. The Iranian people were kind and curious. She feels the reality of Iran is different from how the media portrays it. She explores the city of Shiraz, visits geographic and historical landmarks, tries the local food, and so fourth. Her English-speaking guides (the whole video is conducted in English) are very good. Officially, Iran is an Islamic country with many restrictions, but many people have little interest in the religion and the restrictions, especially young people. People comply more in public but often in private people ignore the restrictions all the time. There is a difference between the government and the politics and the regular people. The video has very good music.
Oregon sweet cherry growers produced a beautiful crop but are calling this year a disaster. Due to the migrant labor shortage and problems with packing plants, their cherries may not reach the market. #oregon #migrantworkers oregonlive.com/business/2025/0…
@Barbara Monaco ...and yet I found abundant cherries in the Mexican market I shopped at days ago, and they were half the price per lb. that Walmart was selling cherries for. Just sayin'. Tariff? What tariff? Trump is doing a great job of taking American markets off the market and Mexico is poised to take a big American market share.
@claralistensprechen5th In my area, sweet cherries come from the San Joaquin Valley. Right now, they are bountiful and cheap, in some stores well under $3/lb. Walmart has them for about $5/lb. Despite ICE raids they are still being picked.🤔 Not sure where Oregon cherries are sold. Markets in those places will have a hard time.
Emmanuel Macron et Keir Starmer appellent à accroître “la pression” sur Vladimir Poutine pour obtenir un cessez-le-feu
Ce direct est maintenant terminé. L’Ukraine au cœur du jeu diplomatique. Le Premier ministre britannique et Emmanuel Macron ont… #Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU europesays.com/2234727/
pulling people in on fake charges are useful to the police because:
1) it gets you out of the street for that night 2) they can try to force you to accept unconstitutional release conditions like not attending protests for some length of time 3) they can collect your info (picture, fingerprints, name, possibly DNA) 4) they can try to frighten new protesters with scary felony charges that would never stick and try to get them to talk (interview) or flip and become an informant.
Something about the TX floods I haven't seen in other reports - the TX Department of State Health Services approved the disaster plans for Camp Mystic. Two days before the flood.
So the plan included evacuations, was posted in every building, trained to the counselors, etc.
Odd - the story says it was dark. No mention of flashlights, I had one when camping.... Even at a big Boy Scout camp.
In these reflections, participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have learned in the course of seventeen years of experimenting with tactics via which workers and tenants can defend each other against bosses and landlords.
Participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have learned in the course of seventeen years of worker and tenant collective self-defense.
Catastrophic floods in Texas on July 4—in North Carolina on July 6—in New Mexico on July 8—and again in North Carolina tonight.
Those who are impacted by these disasters should take action against professional climate change deniers, against the politicians who are gutting disaster response systems, and against the police and ICE, which are seeking to monopolize all public resources so that the only function of the state is to do violence to those it governs while industrially exacerbated disasters wreck our lives.
Here’s why registered office address services are a smart move for new businesses in Singapore and how they can help you stay focused on growth.
Singapore’s streamlined business setup process attracts entrepreneurs from around the world. But one requirement often surprises new founders: the registered office address. It’s not just a line on a form—it’s a vital part of your business’s compliance and public image.
Here’s why registered office address services are a smart move for new businesses in Singapore and how they can help you stay focused on growth.
What Is a Registered Office Address?
Every Singapore company must have a registered office address. This is the official address registered with ACRA (Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority) for receiving government correspondence, legal documents, and official notices.
It’s not enough to use a P.O. box—it must be a physical location in Singapore, open during regular business hours. Since this address is publicly available through ACRA, it’s a visible part of your business’s identity.
Why Startups Choose Professional Addresses
Using your home or personal office as your registered address might seem convenient, but it’s not always the best choice. Many startups lack a permanent office, especially early on. Others prefer to keep their personal address private for security or professionalism.
A residential address can also make your business look less established. Clients or partners might question your credibility if your company is tied to a home address. And if you relocate, updating ACRA adds unnecessary paperwork.
Registered office address services solve these issues. For a modest fee, a provider offers a professional business address. They handle your mail and alert you to important documents, keeping your operations smooth and professional.
How Company Secretaries Play a Role
Singapore law requires private limited companies to appoint a company secretary within six months of incorporation. This role ensures compliance with ACRA’s regulations, managing tasks like filing annual returns, updating records, and monitoring deadlines.
Many providers offer registered office address services alongside secretarial services, creating a comprehensive package. This is ideal for new entrepreneurs who want to minimize administrative tasks and focus on building their business. Outsourcing both ensures compliance without the stress.
Selecting the Right Service
When choosing a registered office address service, reliability is key. You need a provider who notifies you quickly about incoming mail and doesn’t let important documents slip through. A firm offering secretarial services can add value by understanding compliance and helping you avoid penalties for missed deadlines.
Some providers offer extras like digital mail forwarding or acting on your behalf for specific tasks. Evaluate your needs and ask about these features to find a service that suits your business.
Weighing Cost and Value
For startups watching their budget, any extra cost can feel like a stretch. But registered office address services are affordable—often just a few hundred dollars a year. The benefits include a professional image, privacy protection, and reliable mail handling.
When bundled with secretarial services, the value is undeniable. You’re investing in a system that keeps your business compliant and organized, freeing you from administrative burdens and letting you focus on growth.
Getting Started
If you’re starting a company, tackle this early to keep things simple. Many Singapore providers offer packages that include registered office address services and secretarial support, streamlining the incorporation process.
If your business is already established, switching to a professional address is straightforward—just update ACRA. Choose a provider who offers more than just an address, someone who can support your administrative needs as you grow.
Closing Note
Launching a business is a bold step, and administrative details shouldn’t slow you down. A registered office address service helps you meet legal requirements while projecting professionalism. Combined with secretarial services, it’s a practical way to stay compliant and focused.
It’s a small investment that pays off by letting you concentrate on what you do best: building your business.
Corporate secretarial services are an integral part of business management and compliance, particularly in the context of corporate secretarial services in Singapore.
I do carnivore and eat a LOT of steak. I buy cheaper cuts and use a combination of some of the techniques mentioned in this video. It's worth a watch if you want to elevate cheaper steaks for carnivore on a budget. youtube.com/watch?v=OMWrbaOxj3…
From pineapple juice, to buttermilk to soda water, to everything in between... today we figure out how to turn a $1 steak into an ULTRA premium steakhouse $1...
@MrpoopyButhole If you turn the steak into soup in a pressure cooker or slow cooker then I do not see how it would be dry thing is he complained it was dry but did not sorround it by water
Stew is absolutely delicious but I do not know how you could have a stew without plants
If you use plants like fruit juice to enhance your meat then that is a omnivore diet not a carnivore diet
Also I think he said the cheap steak is lean
So if you are actually eating less animal fat by getting cheap steak that is probably better for your health than the steak with a higher percent of calories from fat and thus a lower percent of calories from protein
I remember when you were skeptical of the carnivore diet, tried it, and it helped your arthritis. I'm glad you stuck with it and improved your health by doing so.
@Engineer All the doctors I talked to told me red meat CAUSES inflammation. I guess after COVID I should question medicine more, but now I know. Everything the government says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
Yeah pretty much. I too tend to just do the exact opposite of whatever the government or media says to do. Its worked out well thus far, for whatever its worth. I now question everything from special relativity to oil being "fossil" derived. I even am skeptical of viral pathogens being separate organisms, terrain theory is a possible alternative model. The lesson is learned yet again, its one thing for us to say "question everything" and another to actually follow through!
From Ang Bayan: NPA Paralyzes Destructive Quarry Operation In Himamaylan City
The New People’s Army (NPA)-South Central Negros (Romeo Nanta Command) sanctioned the destructive quarry operation in Sitio Medel, Barangay Carabalan, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental Province on July 4. The Red army paralyzed and burned two dump trucks and one backhoe.
The quarry equipment belongs to Barangay Carabalan captain Mildred Titular’s business. The total damage to the three quarry machines amounts to an estimated ₱11 million.
NPA-South Central Negros spokesperson Ka Dioneso Magbuelas said residents have long complained about the quarry operation because of its impact on the Paniplan River. He explained that the yearly excavation in the area deepened the river depriving the surrounding farmlands of irrigation.
The quarry operation is severely detrimental to the residents’ lives and livelihood. Crossing the excavation-deepened river has also become dangerous for residents.
Recall that the quarry company forced local residents to sign a “Free, Prior and Informed Consent” or FPIC in 2021 to allow its operations. At that time, the 94th IB was used to intimidate residents, distribute bribe money, and employ other divisive tactics to railroad the quarry operation.
“The NPA-South Central Negros’ punitive action serves as a reminder to companies and individuals against violating the human rights and livelihoods of the people in the name of profit,” Ka Dionesio said. He also warned that the people’s army will not hesitate to defend the people and the environment against quarries, mines, and destructive projects.
“The prevailing Red power in the mountains always stands for justice for the victims of abuse and deception,” Ka Dionesio stated.
Meanwhile, 94th IB troopers have reportedly arrived in Barangay Carabalan following the punitive action of the people’s army. The mercenary army clearly defends the interests of the destructive quarry, landlords, comprador bourgeoisie, and bureaucrat capitalists.
No way would I trust anything to come out of this #FDA right now. This is no longer an #agency that values #science-based #facts but an agency run by a bunch of sycophants and industry "elites". Thanks, but no thanks. I'll wait a while to see how many #dogs end up dying as a result of this shit before I'd even consider giving it to my dogs.
Friends, federated friends to be, in case you haven't heard, #RFFF25 Radio Free Fedi Fest 25, an artists' streaming series from your creative digital neighbours is on! and still going all month!
It is always an absolute vibe. You can just be together and soak it in, or be welcome to have fun in chat. Discover and support independent artists.
Less than 24 hours until #RFFF25
Radio Free Fedi Fest 25 is a month long celebration of #community, #artist support, agency, discovery and inclusive fun via a #streaming series.
We have an amazing, diverse lineup spanning genres and vibes.
Oof, the extent to which performative social media VIPs and platforms will go out of their way to not engage community or support independent and marginalised artists is palpable, demoralising and sad.
Even here in the slightly alternative socials.
From the nuts and bolts of development, to the taste making of narrative hijacking "curators", down to your album or show announcement.
There was more hype about the fest coming then now when the artists are right here sharing their voice!
Help us with one last push out there, that there was an organic way. There is a community way. We must improve artistic agency and normalise more direct support, collaboration and mutual motivation.
These cost dearly in human exhaustion against a backdrop of terrible number go up models and infinite hurdles.
Be the ONE awesome person today or this week that drops a dono to an artist, or drops them a kind note of support, or helps them promote an event.
Head a guy on the radio a while ago talking about places.
We think of places as being permanent. Sometimes they seem permanent, like Yellowstone.
But most of the time it was the people and circumstances we remember, and associate with the place. And the "place" we remember is therefore long gone but creates a cognitive dissonance because it is physically there.
So you shouldn't aim to "get back to that place" but rather focuse on cultivating what made it good, in the here and now.
...Elections Great Again Act to order a new census that counts citizens only — not illegals.
It’s time to redraw House districts and fix our broken system.
#minds. Subscribe to @barrybestt on Minds
I'm still pissed that I can't add or remove music from my iPod Touch. It's 17 years old, sure, but it works fine. I didn't imagine, when Apple said they were discontinuing support for iPods, that they'd actually *remove functionality.*
Though I also don't know why I'm surprised.
Do you know of any way to get music from your Mac onto an MP3 player? I don't want to use my phone or subscriptions for music, I just want to be able to add a few songs now & again.
Admittedly it's been a few years but back in the day when I had an iPod and an iPod Video I could plug it into my Mac and it mounted as an HFS+ filesystem and I could add and remove files. Install Fuse and the HFS+ filesystem for Fuse on your system and see if you can't mount your iPod that way.
Trump just posted a letter to Truth Social saying he’s imposing a 35% tariff on goods coming from Canada and if Canada retaliates the number will go up. Starting August 1, of course, leaving plenty of time for tacos.
Dear #Canada, Do what you need to do. Real #Americans have your back. Seriously. Don't worry about us. Please destroy Adolf Shitler any way you can. Signed, #America ---
Trump just posted a letter to Truth Social saying he’s imposing a 35% tariff on goods coming from Canada and if Canada retaliates the number will go up. Starting August 1, of course, leaving plenty of time for tacos.
@🏴☠️🌻TurboKitty🌻🏴☠️🇵🇸 Just think, if the Germans had been a tad more efficient, the people in Gaza wouldn't be in the process of being genocided today and there would peace in the middle east.
Just ended a 10 year friendship because they don't want to get angry about "the news" and "both sides" have screwed things up. Also has become antivax and says she would not vaccinate her children now if she had a choice. And finally, is very very resentful of Covid and the pandemic shutting down her life.
The best part: Her SIL is going through the process of acquiring her citizenship after being here undocumented most of her life. She sees no issues with the ICE raids at immigration court and that protestors are violent. WTF.
To be clear I did not state to her that our friendship is over. We just parted ways (neighbor) on what feels like an impossible to overcome standoff. I cannot see how we can still be friends when she doesn't appear to care about the rest of the world.
I’m still not “over” my lost 20 year friendship as best friends due to him becoming sucked in all the conspiracy theories, anti-vax and he just could not go along with my request to not discuss politics or health/medical issues. We texted each other for a good 8 years almost daily. Doubt I’ll ever really understand how he went that way.
I got a tetanus booster and my employer asked me why. I said tetanus was a horrible way to die, and told him about a local kid that had recently had to be put into a coma and chilled in a dark soundproof place until it had run its course. (He survived) Any sensation could trigger bone breaking spasms. Employer, with newborn, questioned whether it was worth the risk.
oh it’s so hard. But there comes a point where you just have to walk away. Friend of over 50 years during the Covid/Trump times and I parted ways. He was like a brother and once he went full anti vax anti mask Trump was all he talked about. It was like if he couldn’t convert me he’d fight me.
Not talking to what was a good friend bc ahe said “those pple are illegals and they are criminals. They need to go back to their country or incarcerated.” I said “yea, that’s what hitler said. Where is your compassion?” She said - “they shouldnt have come here”!!! What the FFFFFFF!!! She is hispanic!!! And her roots are from mexico!!! 😡
When a cancer forms in our life we don't sit around and let it fester and metastasize. No. We nuke the shit out of it with radiation, or we poison it with chemicals, or we cut the son'bitch out because if we don't, we know damn well that cancer will kill us.
Just ended a 10 year friendship because they don't want to get angry about "the news" and "both sides" have screwed things up. Also has become antivax and says she would not vaccinate her children now if she had a choice. And finally, is very very resentful of Covid and the pandemic shutting down her life.
Power disruptions in Singapore, though uncommon, can disrupt business operations, leading to data loss, equipment damage, and downtime. An uninterruptible power supply system is vital for ensuring continuity, but many businesses select systems that fail to meet their needs, resulting in inefficiencies. This article examines common errors in choosing uninterruptible power supplies and provides practical guidance, incorporating structured cabling for a robust infrastructure.
1. Evaluating Power Capacity Needs
Selecting an uninterruptible power supply in Singapore with incorrect capacity is a frequent mistake. Some businesses opt for smaller units, assuming they suffice, only to face insufficient backup power during outages, risking system failures. Others invest in oversized systems, leading to unnecessary costs for unused capacity, impacting budgets without proportional benefits.
Businesses should calculate the power consumption of critical devices, such as servers, computers, and CCTV systems, to ensure the Singapore uninterruptible power supply provides adequate runtime. Consulting an uninterruptible power supply company in Singapore offers expert assessments, aligning the system with specific operational requirements. This ensures cost-effectiveness and reliability.
For example, a retail chain using IT structured cabling for point-of-sale systems and CCTV cameras can collaborate with professionals to determine precise power loads, avoiding capacity mismatches. This approach supports seamless operations and cost-efficiency, essential for Singapore’s competitive business landscape.
2. Focusing on Battery Maintenance
The performance of uninterruptible power supplies relies on battery reliability, yet many businesses neglect battery lifespan and maintenance. Batteries degrade over time, and without regular upkeep, they may fail during outages, leading to data loss or equipment damage. This oversight often becomes apparent during critical moments, disrupting operations.
Businesses should choose an uninterruptible power supply system with durable batteries suited to their power needs. Regular testing and maintenance schedules are crucial to ensure batteries remain functional. Partnering with an affordable uninterruptible power supply in Singapore by Comnet Systems that provides maintenance services helps avoid failures and maintain continuity.
For instance, a logistics firm integrating a structured cabling system for warehouse operations can schedule routine UPS battery checks to ensure reliability during outages. This proactive approach protects critical systems, such as inventory management, and aligns with Singapore’s emphasis on operational efficiency.
3. Incorporating Surge Protection
Uninterruptible power supplies protect against power surges and voltage fluctuations that can damage equipment like access control systems in Singapore setups, in addition to providing backup power. Many businesses fail to verify if their UPS includes surge protection, leaving systems vulnerable to electrical damage. This can reduce equipment lifespan and disrupt operations.
Choosing a UPS with Automatic Voltage Regulation (AVR) and surge protection is essential for safeguarding devices. These features stabilize power delivery, protecting the IT infrastructure and extending hardware durability. In Singapore, where reliable power is critical, such systems ensure comprehensive protection for operations.
For example, a corporate office using structured cabling for network connectivity and security systems can benefit from a UPS with AVR, ensuring uninterrupted performance of CCTV cameras and access controls. This integrated approach minimizes risks and supports continuity in Singapore’s dynamic market.
4. Prioritizing Quality Over Cost
Many businesses, particularly startups, opt for low-cost uninterruptible power supply Singapore options, compromising on quality. Budget units often offer lower efficiency, shorter battery life, and limited capacity, leading to frequent breakdowns and higher long-term costs. This approach undermines reliability and increases maintenance expenses.
Businesses should prioritize reputable brands with strong warranties and positive customer feedback over price alone. Working with a trusted uninterruptible power supply company in Singapore ensures access to reliable, cost-effective solutions tailored to specific needs. This balances affordability with performance, reducing the risk of failures.
For instance, a small business implementing IT cabling for network expansion can avoid low-quality UPS units by consulting experts who recommend durable systems. This ensures compatibility with structured cabling systems and supports long-term efficiency, vital for Singapore’s competitive market.
5. Supporting Future Growth
Failing to plan for future expansion is a common error when selecting uninterruptible power supplies. Businesses often choose systems that meet current needs but cannot handle increased power demands as operations grow. This leads to premature replacements and additional costs, disrupting continuity.
Opting for a scalable Singapore uninterruptible power supply allows businesses to accommodate growth without replacing entire systems. Consulting an uninterruptible power supply company in Singapore helps identify systems that support additional loads, ensuring flexibility. This is critical for businesses integrating IT structured cabling for expanding networks or security systems.
Projects like Faber Residence demonstrate the value of scalability. By combining structured cabling with scalable UPS solutions, the development supports growing demands for smart home features and CCTV systems. This forward-thinking approach ensures businesses in Singapore can expand efficiently, maintaining reliability as needs evolve.
Navigating the selection of an uninterruptible power supply in Singapore requires evaluating capacity, battery maintenance, surge protection, quality, and scalability. Integrating with a structured cabling system enhances infrastructure reliability. Partnering with a trusted uninterruptible power supply company in Singapore provides tailored solutions, enabling businesses to avoid errors and ensure efficiency in a competitive market.
Discover the best Uninterruptible Power Supply in Singapore. Learn how a top UPS company ensures reliable power supplies for your needs. Stay powered always!
" A significant figure in the American quilting world, Erna O'Shea (1936-2024) was renowned as both a quilt artist and a dedicated fabric collector. Based in Marble Hill, Manhattan, New York, her work, which garnered attention from individuals like YoonSuk Park in 2016, leaves a lasting legacy."
"BREAKING: At least 16 Palestinians, most of them children and their mothers, were killed in an Israeli airstrike as they waited for nutritional aid in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza."
"Horrific scenes as more than ten children lost their legs after an Israeli airstrike hit a residential block in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, killing and injuring many, most of them children."
"In a heart-wrenching scene, more than ten children lost their limbs following an Israeli airstrike on a residential area in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City."
Translation: And when the girl who was buried alive is asked for what sin she was killed… What then of the children of Gaza who are killed morning and evening under the rubble of homes amidst the screams of grieving mothers?!
Translation: Martyrs and injured in the occupation aircraft's targeting of Halima Al-Sadiya School, which shelters displaced people in Jabalia Al-Nazla, northern Gaza
Oregon's Housing Crisis is the fault of "Investors" driving up prices, not a shortage of housing:
From the OR Capital Chronicle:
There is no large crisis in the raw amount or supply of housing. The crisis lies in its price.
In this current decade, Oregon’s population increased only slightly, from about 4.2 million at the decade’s start, to about 4.3 million now, and there’s been no mass destruction of housing. . . .
Legislative Republicans this April complained that in the last three years only about 43,000 building permits for residences had been issued in the state, well below the governor’s plan for 108,000. But the state’s number of households rose by about the same amount during that time. The new construction that happened should, in theory, have been enough to keep up with it.
In 2023 (the most recent year available), Oregon had about 1.75 million “households” with the average household comprising 2.4 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
That same year, the Census counted in the state 1.88 million “housing units” — over 100,000 more housing units than the number of households — including “a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.” It doesn’t include some other residential places, such as trailer and mobile home parks.
The upshot is that Oregon, like most states, has more residential units than households.
And there is no crisis for people of sufficient means. Anyone who can afford to plunk down a half-million or so (which includes many existing homeowners, in or out of state) will not have much trouble finding a house. People below that level, a large part of the population, may find that a house (or in some places apartment rentals, too) are simply out of reach.
The problem with Oregon’s housing crisis is affordability. The median house value in Oregon (which reflects purchase prices) as of May was $540,300, according to online real estate market platform Zillow. One home-buying calculator estimates that if a purchaser puts down 18% for the home — the median downpayment of home buyers in the U.S., according to the National Association of Realtors — they would need to have more than $97,000 saved, and earn more than $120,000 per year to afford their mortgage payments. That means fewer than a fifth of Oregon households could afford a median-priced house based on income. (Sales by owners of currently owned houses could expand that number.)
Despite the limited pool of buyers, prices have climbed and stayed high.
Why?
Oregon’s notably strict laws on land use are often mentioned as a cause of the problem. They may contribute to it, but many other states — such as next-door Idaho — have far fewer building restrictions but still have house pricing problems as bad, or worse, as Oregon’s.
High priced homes can be more profitable for builders and developers, so they build more of them.
But the key explanation for why so many more houses are purchased, compared to the number of local residents who can buy, seems to be that relatively wealthy investors — individuals and especially businesses — are buying large numbers of houses and apartments in Oregon, and around the country.
Many national studies have found as much.
Redfin News, which tracks home sales nationally, said last August that investor home buying has been rising steadily in recent years — about 3% annually — and bought one of every six U.S. homes that sold — purchasing $43 billion worth of properties — and one of every four low-priced homes that sold.
Redfin found that during the 2nd quarter of 2024 in Portland, 13% of homes sold (valued at $511,419,529) were bought by investors, an amount rising in recent years. Many homes are then flipped and resold for still higher prices. All of that activity places upward pressure on sales prices of other homes as well.
A variety of buyers have been among the mass purchasers. Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley has for several years focused on the role of hedge funds in home buys, and with U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington, introduced in 2023 the End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act.
Merkley called hedgefunds, “a contributing factor that has made it more difficult for middle-class Americans to become homeowners and is contributing to America’s twin crises of housing unaffordability and wealth inequality.”
Others have disagreed about how large a role the finance organizations have played. But someone can afford to buy all those houses — in many cases well beyond the asking price — and less-wealthy wage earners cannot compete.
That would be a real and pertinent, albeit sensitive, topic for the new state agency to address. Until someone does, the housing shortage for most Oregonians will go on.
Portland spent $724 million in 2024 on houseless services.
There are about 12,000 houseless people in the Portland Metro area. Round that up to 15,000, and that's over $48,000 per person.
But instead of everyone having a place to live with that ~$50,000 per person, houseless people are being churned through punitive shelters and sweeps and jails and fines, because developers and plutocrats and 'investors' are making money by inflating housing prices and punishing the poor. (Portland has a history of arresting people for the 'crime' of living outside.)
Expensive for whom, is always a question. The politicians and bureaucrats making these decisions are not playing with their own money.
The cruelty is one point; the payoff of getting to feel superior to those who suffer; of getting to exercise power over someone rather than being the victim of someone else's power.
But there are also economic benefits--for the police and their so-called union (budgets keep getting bigger!), for the corporations paid (with public money) to run so-called shelters, or any of the many jail-adjacent 'services' (like those cards people get after any cash they have is confiscated, the companies that charge extra for phone calls, etc.), for the plutocrats who don't want any challenges to their power to keep extracting wealth.
And the social wage of feeling superior helps with that, too, so the shelter worker doesn't make common cause with the shelter occupant against the plutocrat benefiting from the miseries of both.
They are, however, playing with their own quality of life when they cultivate social malaise that poisons their community, affecting the disposition and abilities of everyone who is, say, around them in traffic, or working in the services they depend on, or researching the innovations they'll need in all areas of life-- the ripple effects reach everywhere, especially the shit that's wrecking our climate and so on.
Their short term monetary gains are paltry, compared to how they are shooting themselves in the foot at the end of the day.
Seattle astounded housing advocates around the country in February 2025, when roughly two-thirds of voters approved a ballot initiative proposing a new 5% payroll tax on salaries in excess of US$1 million.
Then, there is the story in #StreetRoots this week how the state has cut funds keeping people in housing and shifted it to building temporary shelters...
Come on people, you've just MADE more homeless people.
Just like we had this gross creep in vehicle sizes in the last 25 years, the rate of building these large to Mcmansion sized houses in lieu of ANY affordable housing also plays a role. If you grew up before the 90s/00s you likely saw normal size houses or grew up in one! My current modest suburban home and lot would have = 'd 3-4 houses pre 80s. And the cost of those homes was proportional to their size and lot size.
the only way local governments are going to be able to afford to keep operating is to raise property taxes like 200-300% (or possibly more depending on the situation) from where they are today, so at this point it doesn't really matter who we blame. The fact is, prices *must* come down sharply or nobody will even be able to afford their property taxes and insurance premiums even if they can afford the house.
Once we do that and the materials costs plummet as well things will start to come back into balance and we can have a sane economy again
And the best part is that when this happens, all those hedge funds are going to have their investments wiped out. They'll have no choice but to sell at a massive loss because they're gonna get margin called elsewhere and they'll need the liquidity ASAP. So this will just delete money from the economy at a rapid pace and help reverse a bunch of this inflation.
Anyone that owns more than one home-including portions of homes through investment vehicles-is a contributor to the housing crisis.
We're still addicted to a medieval notion that some people are meant to be landlords and some are meant to be tenants. People should look up what those words actually mean.
Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Recent photos sent from the Galileo space probe orbiting Jupiter’s moon, Europa, suggest that it meets the conditions necessary to support a primitive life form.
#AI is a tool used by #police to launder accountability.
“According to the EFF, Draft One "seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public." In one video from a roundtable discussion the EFF reviewed, an Axon senior principal product manager for generative AI touted Draft One's disappearing drafts as a feature, explaining, "we don’t store the original draft and that’s by design and that’s really because the last thing we want to do is create more disclosure headaches for our customers and our attorney’s offices."
The EFF interpreted this to mean that "the last thing" that Axon wants "is for cops to have to provide that data to anyone (say, a judge, defense attorney or civil liberties non-profit)."”
i eliminated a family of the bastards recently using cheese and crunchy peanut butter, 4 cheap plastic mice traps in total and it took a month or so to get them all.
I saw Triumph in Laredo, TX back in 1981. Small venue and a great show. Rik Emmett is a very underrated talent. Triumph were always "the other power trio" from Canada in those days.
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