For the un-initiated, how to build your own https://corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/

Sad to see this measure lose. IMO the Star Voting people didn’t do nearly enough outreach or public education on this, and the people they did have doing it we’re not doing a great job. STAR is clearly superior to our current system regardless of your political leanings. I saw many common and easy to clear up misconceptions from people.

Principle. It’s not what recalls should be used for.

ACLU has a decent overview of it. The tldr is that it’s re-criminalizing posession. https://www.aclu-or.org/en/take-action-now-tell-lawmakers-we-need-real-solutions-not-more-jails

It’s linked on the sub sidebar, it’s been the top post a number of times. A lot of users just will never migrate until reddit is literally un-useable.

Interesting data thank you for posting!

It’s not that they’re nazi-adjacent right wingers, it’s that people in Eugene are getting serious compassion fatigue over some categories of crime or quality of life impacts which they blame generally on “the homeless”, which, to be fair, is a group of people who cause many of these problems. For understandable reasons? Yes, many times. Is it more the government’s fault than theirs? Yes, often. But it doesn’t change that people have very real reasons for being upset and pointing the finger in the direction they point it, and the tactic of just shouting down these people as being anti-homeless or compassionless or bootlickers really isn’t working any more.

I’m a person who says “fuck the police” at pretty much every opportunity. I also understand people’s very real concerns about randomized violence in the streets caused by people in the homeless population and the city’s total lack of initiative in solving anything of these problems.

It used to be only nazis and far-right people complained about “the homeless”, it was a boogeyman they essentially created and vastly over-stated the impact of to further right wing agendas. That’s no longer the case, mainly due to changes in the economy and drug markets. I personally have had several very uncomfortable interactions with homeless folks in this town, in two unrelated instances in a single year I have had my life threatened out of nowhere by a homeless person. There are whole parts of town I don’t go to because of that, and I’m a white dude, I’m sure my experiences pale in comparison to people from other parts of our community.

Leaving lemmy.world if it doesn’t defederate from threads. Fuck Meta.

In favor of defederation. If I start seeing garbage from threads in my feed, I’m switching instances. I don’t want Meta pushing their divisive, hateful, misinformation all up in my feeds. Meta will kill fedi. We don’t need them.

Reminder that even if you get a negative test, it does not mean it’s not covid. Many people don’t test positive into well into their symptoms. I counted 1 in 5 people sick at my workplace. Whatever you get, whenever you get it, please consider limiting your contact with others to the extent you can. You never know when your cold might be somebody else’s flu or worse.

Every time I have attended a public comment session at Eugene City Council relating to the budget or EPD, I have consistently heard from citizens that they want more of EPDs budget directed to cahoots. Every time, City Council just raises EPDs budget while cutting basically every other service the city provides. It’s absolutely maddening.

Welcome!

“An employee ran after the suspect”

And that’s how you turn a $200 theft into a $20,000 lawsuit. Idiots. What are you gonna do if you catch them? Tackle them? Put them in cuffs? Every major retailer has a no-chase policy.

Going for a hike hopefully see some cool birds

The amazing thing is that the cops actually responded

Thank you!

If he is your representative, you are personally effected by his decisions and his ability to remain a legislator. If you elected him the first time, this recall is essentially an effort by a special interest group to over-ride your vote.

tldr he killed a bill which included provisions about protecting the right of cannabis workers to organize, he referred the bill to state attorneys who rightly concluded the law wouldn’t stand up in court after very similar laws were struck down elsewhere. Every other union still supports holvey, but one of them pushed for a recall over it. If recalls like this are successful, it encourages other special-interest groups to recall reps over small spats like this in the future.

Voting no on this. This is an abuse of the recall process, which should be reserved for cases of serious malfeasance, fraud, etc, not just because a rep didn’t vote your way on a single bill. Every other union supports Holvey, he was justly elected by his constituents. This whole thing seems petty, annoying, and a waste of taxpayer money (and union dues!). If I were in this union I would be furious at them for spending my money this way.

Same. Many business owners donate individually instead of as a business, so it could be they donated that way. I didn’t do through the trouble of matching up individual donors to business names.