[–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Just passed 7 months. It’s a roller coaster. I was someone that had 3+ drinks every other day or so (drink one day, recover the next, excited to drink again the next day).

It has always been easy to convince myself to make exceptions, but after many sobriety attempts I know better now. Each drinking session, no matter how small, instantly resets my brain and body back to my drinking phase. So, I will not drink with you today!!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I banged my head on this four many hours and couldn’t get it to work directly in Linux. The key issue seemed to be that ADE and Kobo had to be installed on the same device, so I’ve resorted to using a Windows VM (VirtualBox). It works fine enough.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Most iPhone purchasers at that time were high income, as it was an expensive new technology and the general consumer was happy getting ‘free’ phones from carriers. It was also costly and difficult to switch carriers. And further, I know from having worked in banking that it is very difficult to get accurate income data.

    Taken together, my guess is this is just detecting the effect of higher income on lower birth rates.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    All of which I learned how to do step by step, reading the manual and asking questions. These are not special talents or hidden secrets. I'm not unique.

    I’ve been saying some variation of this at work for years. Yet still, somehow I’m the only person that can read and understand the data and the documents.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago

    I work in this field. It’s really about uncertainty. Banks rely on certainty to make choices about lending. When political leadership is unsteady (and corrupt) and times are uncertain, the prudent move for lenders is caution. No one wants to be caught holding the bag in the crash.

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    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.”

     

    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.

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