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@E38435157E @amuse @Bbmorg No thanks. They’re a bunch of freeloaders.

Once again, I think Scotland should vote to become the 51st state. The US gets access to North sea bases, priority tee times for golf, open market for Scotch. Scotland in return gets the power to reopen their North sea oil fields for energy independence, a sensible immigration policy, access to US markets and I'm pretty sure Trump could convince Disney world to comp a week's family holiday to Orlando. And the ultimate kicker would be the split from England to join the US!

Misleading because a lot of wealth in poorer US states is hoarded by top 10%. The people below are poorer than UK folks.

@RedG620620 @mmcdonaldlewis This is a joke. The leaders in Portland hate Israel. They’re all Hamas lovers.

@mmcdonaldlewis Its run by satanic clowns who take training and orders from Israel. I say we wipe it clean.

A multi-part series on the imminent fall of Portland, due to crumbling real estate, Byzantine laws, usurious penalties and a government hiding the darkest secret Portland holds. Series continues in the comments. Posted on the Corrupted Governor Tina Kotek FB page by Mark Rogers. 1/ "THIS IS THE MAP THAT WILL DESTROY PORTLAND. -By SEP Asset Stabilization LLC EDIT: BELOW IS THE LIVE LINK google.com/maps/d/edit... This is our first part expose concerning the antitrust of Portland City and Multnomah county. This represents 8 billion of POTENTIAL AND IMMINENT LOSS to the city and county. Every blue dot is a brick building that can't be insured(without paying 3 to 10 time premium). Can't be financed or refinanced. Can't be sold at fair market value(10 cents on the dollar seems to be the going rate). And in many cases — can't even be auctioned. There are 1,369 of them. They are scattered across every neighborhood you care about — Parkrose, Old Town, Sandy Boulevard, Division, Alberta, Mississippi, St. Johns, Central Eastside, Montavilla, Lents. The restaurants you eat at. The apartments your neighbors live in. The small businesses that anchor your block. All unreinforced masonry. All under a mandatory seismic retrofit order from the City of Portland. Almost none of them have a funded path to compliance. Retrofit costs run $800,000 to $8,000,000 per building. The buildings are often worth less than the cost of fixing them. No conventional lender will finance a loan where construction cost exceeds collateral value. So the owners are trapped. They can't fix the building. They can't sell the building. They can't insure the building. And when they fall behind on property taxes — because of course they do — Multnomah County forecloses. And here's where it gets ugly. THE COUNTY ISN'T AUCTIONING THESE BUILDINGS. Oregon law requires it. ORS Chapter 275 lays out the foreclosure auction process. The county is supposed to auction tax-foreclosed properties and recover what it can. But what happens when you auction a building that nobody can insure, nobody can finance, and nobody knows how to retrofit? Nobody bids. And if nobody bids, the county is stuck holding a building it can't maintain, can't sell, and can't put back on the tax rolls. The assessed value collapses. The tax revenue disappears. The building rots. The county spent more administering the foreclosure than it will ever recover. So they stopped auctioning them. The county's own budget documents show foreclosure auction revenue collapsing year over year. Their Tax Title program page confirms the last public sale was May 2024. The next one? "Anticipated Spring 2026." We're in Spring 2026 right now. No properties have been posted. No auction has been announced. And the last time they did sell, it was bare land — strips and small parcels sold to adjacent property owners. Not buildings. Not the 1,369 buildings on this map. They are hiding the problem. Instead of auctioning buildings that nobody will buy, the county quietly absorbs the loss. Your tax dollars subsidize the gap between what these buildings owe and what the county can't recover. The county just settled a $3.5 million class action lawsuit for keeping surplus proceeds from the foreclosure sales it DID conduct — money that legally belonged to the original property owners. They were foreclosing on people, selling their buildings, and pocketing the difference."

@analognightmare @mmcdonaldlewis Oregon is completely obsessed with the mass earthquake. It’s fine to prepare, but they block all options to make it easier to accommodate.

@mmcdonaldlewis Most of these masonry buildings are building structures. Why can’t they get deviations from the seismic retrofit. When was the last time Portland had a major earthquake

@BrentBarker2022 @mmcdonaldlewis But they aren’t making a dime off it. Losing money instead.

@mmcdonaldlewis Making historical buildings obsolete through zoning impossible remediations. They sold the fear of a natural disaster to take private property - "foreclosing on people, selling their buildings, and pocketing the difference." ~ the founders of our Republic warned of this.

@6thgenwar @mmcdonaldlewis I really don’t think they’re that clever.

@mmcdonaldlewis The point of this is to drive commercial reel estate down so their donors can come in and buy property at a low rate. Then to accommodate the new infrastructure the state has to upgrade giving these contracts to those companies. Everything is bullshit

Based on comments I see in many posts in various places, I have to think most Portlanders want this. It will make housing more affordable because the economy tanks and finally justice for the poor will be possible because rents are lower since so many abandoned the county. I have no other explanation. To fix it would require evil rich people to succeed and they can’t have that. I don’t know how so many voters feel confident that their livelihoods will continue when the bottom drops out.

"HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. Portland's commercial real estate market has already experienced the worst collapse of any major American city in modern history. The US Bancorp Tower — Big Pink — sold in July 2025 for $45 million. It was worth $373 million in 2015. That's an 88% decline. One building. The property tax revenue from that single building dropped from $2.7 million per year to $860,000 — a $1.9 million annual loss from one address. That sale triggered over 700 commercial property tax appeals in a single year. Every owner in Portland pointed at Big Pink and said "my building isn't worth what you say it is either." Multnomah County lost approximately $130 million in tax compression losses in 2024 alone. The Urban Land Institute ranked Portland 3rd out of 78 metros for real estate investment in 2017. By 2024: 80th out of 81. Dead last minus one. A Portland State University economist said publicly that no American city has fallen as fast as Portland. Downtown office vacancy hit 35% — the highest in the nation. Now layer the URM crisis on top of that. 1,369 buildings that can't be insured. Insurance carriers are non-renewing policies on unreinforced masonry across the board. When insurance goes, lenders freeze. When lenders freeze, owners can't refinance. When owners can't refinance, they fall behind on taxes. When they fall behind on taxes, the county forecloses. When the county forecloses, the building disappears from the BDS compliance tracking system entirely. It enters a shadow inventory — no compliance pathway, no stabilization plan, no public visibility. An estimated 55 to 95 URM buildings are already in this shadow inventory right now. The county's own economist projected the budget deficit will grow to as much as $33.8 million by FY 2029-30. He previously forecast the commercial property value decline would bottom out in FY 2025-26. He's now pushed that to FY 2026-27 "at least." Property owners are triggering permanent reassessments downward — which means the tax base doesn't recover even when the market does. Those reductions are locked in forever under Oregon's Measure 50. JANUARY 2029 IS THE CLIFF. The convergence point is coming. Commercial values still falling. Tax compression accelerating. Insurance carriers still exiting. Lenders still frozen. URM compliance deadlines still running. Foreclosures accumulating in a shadow inventory nobody is tracking publicly. Municipal bond obligations still due. And the revenue base that services those bonds is shrinking every single quarter. If these buildings can't be insured, they can't be financed. If they can't be financed, they can't be sold. If they can't be sold, they can't be auctioned. If they can't be auctioned, the county eats the loss. If the county eats the loss on 55 to 95 buildings — and the number is growing — while simultaneously losing $130 million per year in tax compression from the commercial collapse, while simultaneously watching its property tax revenue growth slow to a crawl, while simultaneously facing a structural deficit that doubles every two years — The municipal bonds break. And when Portland's municipal bonds break, Oregon follows. Portland is 30% of the state's economy. Multnomah County is the most populous county in Oregon. The state cannot absorb a fiscal collapse of its largest city. This is not a prediction. This is math. Every data point in this post is from public records. The county's own budget documents. The county's own Tax Title program page. The county's own economist. The ULI. CoStar. The Multnomah County Assessor. NAIOP. Portland State University. The $3.5 million class action settlement that the county already paid." 2/

@dave_alive @Devon_Eriksen_ He shouldn’t have been on the streets at all before the murder. Jesus Christ, what a fool.

@Devon_Eriksen_ He's still in federal custody. His charges haven't been dropped. They are proceeding with federal charges, separate from the murder trial, which is temporarily on hold pending an evaluation. This guy isn't going back to the streets.

Most people think of philosophy as an abstraction that doesn't touch the real world, but they're wrong. Most real world problems are philosophy problems, and most philosophy problems are "giving things the wrong names". For example, if you call feral drug addicts "homeless people", then you can't solve the problem. You can only buy more houses for feral drug addicts to destroy. In this case, we called the police and courts the "justice system". But they're not. They can't be the justice system. The function of a justice system would be to give everyone what they deserve. Now, I deserve a hundred million dollars, a private Caribbean island, and a foot massage from Lauren Bacall in her prime, but I don't see the "justice" system lifting a finger to correct any of this, do you? No, what we are supposed to have is a public safety system. The function of a public safety system is to keep the public and their property safe. If we understood that, we wouldn't care about what criminals deserve. We would care how likely they are to do it again. Or something worse. In a public safety system, retardation and mental illness are not migrating factors. They are the opposite. Because they mean that the criminal is more likely to pose a future threat. We all understand this. We all understand that the feral retard who stabs strangers on the train for being White and beautiful is a worse person than the man who murders his wife and her lover when he catches them in the act. Not because of some abstract calculus of moral agency, of who is disadvantaged and who isn't, but because one is certainly going to murder more people if he can, while the other is a lot less likely to. We've known for centuries, if not millennia, that it's the same small percentage of people doing all the robbing, raping, and murdering, over and over and over again. And we've known for centuries that if you physically remove them from society, that's 100% effective in stopping them from doing it again. The only hurdle is philosophical. Call it a "justice" system, and you have to argue endlessly about morality and redemption, and then some leftie thug-hugger weaponizes your own Christianity against you. Call it public safety, and you confine the argument to likelihood of reoffense. Then you are in the realm of statistics. Which you can compute. It all starts with naming things correctly, according to their actual nature.

@summitbreez @Beachook @nobodyknows2322 They’ll get old again. Don’t worry.

@Beachook @nobodyknows2322 Old growth forests buddy

Someone posted this on Reddit in the Phoenix sub about water use and they literally refuse to believe it

@nomad8damon @Heykazitarek @grok Grok blueprint

@Heykazitarek @grok Can you do this too?

2026,Claude is my full operating system After 300+ hours, I’ve built the ultimate AI blueprint Claude Projects + Code + Cowork n8n MCP + SEO MCPs Opus 4.6 + Skills Blueprint Agencies charge $5K–$10K for this I’m giving it FREE to you Want the blueprint? Like & comment “Claude

@troyaitken_ Setup

I run a $110K/month agency with 6 AI employees. They have names. Personalities. Jobs. One writes content. One monitors infrastructure. One runs campaigns. Here's the full setup: Most people use AI like a search engine. I use it like a staff. The difference: context files that make each AI know its job, its boundaries, and me. USER.md — Who You Are Teaches AI everything about you: → Name, location, timezone → Your business and goals → Working patterns and communication style The AI can't serve you if it doesn't know you. SOUL.md — Personality & Principles The AI's operating system: → Core truths ("Be resourceful before asking") → Communication style and banned phrases → Boundaries and business context This turns a generic assistant into YOUR assistant. IDENTITY.md — Who the AI Is Give it an identity: → Name (mine is Jarvis) → Role (chief of staff, content writer, etc.) → Vibe and operating principle An AI with identity has consistency. AGENTS.md — The Operating Manual The longest and most important file: → Startup routine (what to read first) → Memory system (where to log, what to remember) → Safety rules and learned mistakes MEMORY.md — Long-Term Memory Persists across sessions: → Discovered preferences → Business learnings → Key decisions made Without this, you restart from zero every conversation. TOOLS.md — Integration Notes Your AI's reference manual: → API endpoints and workflows → Team contacts → What works and what breaks Skills — Specialized Instructions Auto-trigger based on keywords: → Content generation → Sales follow-ups → Lead enrichment → Customer onboarding The Agent Squad I don't have one AI. I have six: → Jarvis — Chief of Staff → Loki — Content (8am + 3pm daily) → Ivan — Infrastructure (20K email accounts) → Hades — GTM campaigns → Scrapy — Data extraction → Trigify — LinkedIn scraping Each has its own context, memory, and job. How They Work 8am — Loki writes 5 tweet drafts 9am — Posts to Slack 10am — I approve 2. Done. No prompting. It runs on a schedule. Safety My AI once bought 164 domains without asking. $1,640 gone. Now I have: → Trusted user verification → Financial action gates → Prompt injection defense → Regressions (mistakes become rules) Proactive Behaviors The AI doesn't wait: → Cron jobs for scheduled tasks → Heartbeats for check-ins This is the difference between a tool and an employee. The Stack: → OpenClaw (open source orchestration) → Context files → Skills → Agent squad → Tool integrations → Cron + heartbeats Everyone's sharing AI setup guides. That's a good start. This is what happens when you go 10x further. Not a chatbot. A system that runs while you sleep. Like + comment "setup" and I'll DM you the full template.

@UrbanCourtyard @chicagotechmom @hornsbykid @CohenSite The diversity you discuss is what causes the school problems. She’s not talking about young professionals or retirees with low incomes. You lack understanding of cause and effect.

@chicagotechmom @hornsbykid @CohenSite Right. No one wants that. I’m not talking about that.

Why aren't American developers building high density "country clubs"? 15-30 acres, 3000+ homes. Large park, sports fields, wellness activities. Grocery store & restaurants. On-site elementary & middle school. Safe enough that parents can let their kids walk around unsupervised

@Ojo_Kritico It happens in the Philippines. Fortunately, they are getting richer as time goes on so fewer people need to live in slums. Still a long way to go, though. Also, those forced out go crazy, of course. It’s depressing but you can’t keep going in that way.

ESTO HAY QUE HACER CON LAS VILLAS. Hay que recuperar territorio usurpado e innovar. Banco a full este proyecto

@TifoG96561 @realMarkAlias @FischerKing64 I think we are talking past each other. Not what I meant. Have a good day.

@davemo5150 @realMarkAlias @FischerKing64 There is virtually no immigration to the US from Rome or Milan.

Every few years you read about another sting on the Italian mafia in NYC. You have to respect their dedication to loansharking, unions and all that. Crime as life. But we wouldn’t have this absent mass immigration from Italy. They brought it and gave it to us. The Dutch who founded NYC weren’t interested in shakedowns at scale like the Italians. This is what mass immigration does. It’s not a free lunch. It’s not just pizza. This never shows up in a Cato graph or chart. The reality of human beings and their culture.

@BigOrangePunch My uncle had a roommate back in the 60’s who would spray his dirty underwear with deodorant instead of washing them.

I was thinking to myself, I never see or hear my roommate take a shower. At first I thought maybe he takes one very early or late at night. So I angled his soap at a specific angle and they’ve stayed the exact same for days. Will be monitoring the situation closely.

@TifoG96561 @realMarkAlias @FischerKing64 That was in Italy. The topic is discussing what has happened in the US.

@realMarkAlias @FischerKing64 Are you retarded? The Roman organized crime is the one which did all the terrorism during years of lead

@digibruce @james406 I live along a major river with no bridges in a practical distance from me. Google always suggests places across the river instead of the very large suburbs on my side that would take far less time to drive to.

This is a funny joke, but the reality is Google Maps could benefit a lot from using Google's own Gemini to update and sanity check its data. Take the route in the image below. There's a direct, public route between the start and end point. However, Google Maps thinks all of UT-35 is closed, because part of 35 typically has a partial, seasonal closure on a high pass far to the west of this route. Nominally the winter closure starts November 1, but this year there hasn't been any snow, so all of UT-35 has been open all winter. But even in a normal year, the 35 closure shouldn't affect this route. Gemini can find and understand all of this info from the Utah DOT website and come to the correct conclusions about road closure status and location. Then there's the northern loop through Talmage. This is trying to avoid 35, which isn't closed, but it also ignores a permanent closure on Rock Creek road NW of the destination. Gemini can figure this out from online resources, but only with insistent prompting from someone familiar with the situation. That's because there's also a seasonal closure of Rock Creek Rd north of this route, and it finds this and just stops. Not sure how using AI to sanity check routes would be implemented in a cost effective way. But AI isn't the only system architecture that "hallucinates".

AI just saved me ~4 hours of driving on my vacation i was planning a trip to the Grand Canyon and noticed the driving route was incredibly inefficient i spun up a few claude code agents and used agentic ai to find this faster route it will take me just a few minutes to drive, compared to 4 hours if anyone has contacts at the US government lmk - happy to relay this to them

@akantjas @itsolelehmann This is me.

@itsolelehmann It does anything I ask with little to no edits needed

question for non-coding people: what was a mind-blowing moment you had with claude code? what sold you on it?

@EricMarkowitz @RecusantRockin To us Portlanders, it was indeed confusing. Totally forgot about the Arboretum Redwoods.

@RecusantRockin hoytarboretum.org/majestic-redwo…

This had nothing to do with picking on the weak for us. Everyone took turns with the ball and everyone got bashed equally. Nobody knew what queer meant either in today’s terms. It just meant the sap who had the ball was going to get crushed by his friends and it rhymed with smear. Great times.

Gen X had a game called ‘smear the queer’. We would throw the ball to the smallest/weakest person and then go beat the shit out of them until they threw it to someone else. That was recess

@MashTunTimmy Sorry, meant to”would not”

@MashTunTimmy My cousin would allow my kid to go to his wedding. I declined. I find this trend to be depressing.

My daughter is 17, every wedding from extended family she's been excluded from (adults only). My last cousin is getting married. Asked if I could take her rather than my wife and was denied. She'll never have been to a wedding before her own. I don't get the kids these days.