For the most part, defending free speech. It's been watered down to be interpreted as "speech I agree with".
Polarization fed by poor education fed by poverty in the US over the last few decades has left people believing in false dichotomies; if you're not with me you're against me. See it on Lemmy a lot actually, people being nervous when you don't clearly support or agree with them and then get defensive as they assume you must be "the other" group.
We live in a world now where money and scale supporting shitty and /or dangerous ideas hardly make it the traditional town square of ideas though. I have my own internal struggles with it.
Seriously man, it's a good price, and I have a plan setup with Affirm for payments, you can spread it out over at least a year.
"You better hope I can't get no bullets on layaway..."
Brave you can turn off the AI bullshit but not on mobile if you search private by default and wipe cookies because it doesn't remember your preference. At least for desktop it doesn't have that shit
Building rail transit and high speed rail transit corridors. Development along them, much like with the highway system in the US started in the 50s would take decades to come to fruition, but would allow much more efficient, affordable living for those who don't want to spend their lives in metro traffic hells.
The enormous investment of the US highway act, and incredibly large ongoing cost to maintain the absurd amount of roads is never even brought up but is apparent to anyone not living in the insanity it doesn't have to be this way. Maintenance costs for oems major highway vs. rail is no contest long term.
Oregon is in the lower 3rd for KWH rates, so definitely better off than many but Portland has one of the worst housing affordability rates in the nation so we get crushed by that.
The last 4 years the Jan 1 approved rate increases have been 22%, 14%, 12% and now 10% on the docket this year. You're talking 70% compounded increases in 4 years. Whatever your baseline of advantages for an area that is innnnsane.
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