Hey @Delta_V@lemmy.world I tried to reply to your PM but apparently you blocked me. LOL.
My GUESS is this post got removed for not technically being politics.
There’s definitely a political REASON Kenvue got purchased, but the story itself is probably more fit for !news@lemmy.world or !business@lemmy.world
Set a minimum account age for posts and comments.
Oh, they will DEFINITELY come back in 5 years… IIRC these bonds only last 5 years, the last one passed in 2020 with expiration this year.
But here’s the thing, if you read the messure, this bond is 1/2 the parks budget. So if it doesn’t pass, there will be a dramatic reduction in service.
https://www.portland.gov/parks/parks-levy-2025
“If a new levy is not approved, the Parks operating budget would be reduced by approximately half, resulting in fewer programs and services.”
Appears to be the same on the 2025:
https://owners.kia.com/content/dam/kia/us/owners/pdf/2025/2025-Kia-Seltos-Vehicle-Feature-Tips.pdf
According to the manual, there are 2 USB ports, a USB A port for power and a USB C port for media.
https://owners.kia.com/content/dam/kia/us/owners/pdf/2023/2023-Kia-Seltos-Vehicle-Feature-Tips.pdf
Have you tried the other port?
“I don’t want to distract from the importance of this decision” read as “I was told they don’t allow cameras.”
Hope it goes better for you guys than our ranked choice election did. A lot of people saw the ranked grid and just noped out!
The trick with parks funding is we took a one-two punch.
https://cmicglobal.com/resources/article/The-Full-Impact-of-Tariffs-on-Construction-in-2025
So, going with the old parks tax, less money was coming in because of devalued property, and that money doesn’t go as far because of inflation and tarriffs. 😟
I don’t know they are necessarily lying, I think that what they want to do comes from an honest place, it’s just that once elected, they realize they either don’t have that power or they’re actively blocked from doing it.
Looking at Mamdani specifically, he wants city run grocery stores. LOL. I feel safe in saying that’s a child-like pipe dream, but I still want to see him try. There’s like a 4% chance it could work, but hey, I’m saying there’s a chance! 😉
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/mamdani-city-run-grocery-store-plan-criticized-as-unrealistic.html
Like most political promises, I don’t see how he could do 1/2 of what he wants to do. I’d still like to see him try!
Ours was super boring. A 2020 property tax measure to fund local parks is expiring. It was $0.80 per $1,000 of assessed property value.
The new one to replace it is $1.40 per $1,000 and locals are losing their goddamn minds over it!
“ZOMG! MY PROPERTY TAXES ARE GOING UP 75%!!!”
No, the portion that funds parks is going up 75%, your property tax is likely going up $9 to $12 bucks a month.
“Cleveland, Alabama”
World is a US News free zone, that’s why !news@lemmy.world exists.
I get it, I’m the introvert too, but it helps to understand where they are coming from…
For them, these inane conversations are likely their pressure/stress release. Medical gigs can be pretty high pressure and everyone reacts to that differently.
I’ve only witnessed it from the patient side, but I get where it’s coming from.
When I had my first heart attack, it was just after Thanksgiving and the cardiac ward was decorated for Thanksgiving. They had these “Guess the heart rythm” charts made out of tinsel, and I got to see them all as I walked the ward after surgery.
(Bonus, immediately after open heart surgery they make you get up and walk around multiple times a day.)
The chart right by the nurses station? I wish I had taken a photo of it… tinsel flatline ending in an angel. LOL.
First, no self posts.
Second, Politics is US Politics only.
Oh, it absolutely is, AND they have many times the population of lemmy, AND they vote, AND they are largely misinformed.
We have an election here on Tuesday, there is only one thing to vote on, a property tax measure to support the local parks.
OMG the amount of bad information floating around on this!
You can deprogram some people, but getting people to understand that they are being lied to when they spout nonsense like “ZOMG! Property taxes going up 75%!!!” is a tall hill to climb.
If the goal is “reviving democracy”, you need to go where the people are and that’s not the Fediverse.
That means sticking your toe in the local Facebook/Next Door and that can be problematic for a whole host of other reasons.
You’ve been warned before, this is not the place for self/image posts or fundraising.
Image / Self posts are not allowed, articles only.
Self posts and image posts aren’t allowed.
FTA:
“Can you imagine the reaction if Joe Biden said he pardoned someone because Hunter told him to? If Biden blindly freed a scammer based solely on his son’s recommendation — no due diligence, no second thought — conservative media would be frothing at the mouth.”
We don’t have to wonder:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/politics/presidential-pardons-trump-biden-gop
“I would say that they’re null and void, because I’m sure Biden didn’t have any idea that it was taking place,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One in March.
Trump added in a social media post the next day: “In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!”