Dude, who even knows.
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River flow volumes, as visualized by some guys at Pacific Institute, who explain:
Major rivers of the 48 contiguous United States, scaled by average flow where river symbols are proportional to the “gage-adjusted flow.” The symbols drawn here have widths proportional to the square root of the rivers’ estimated average annual discharge. Only rivers with discharge above 1,000 cfs are shown. Data from NHDPlus v2. Background map by ESRI.
idk what the Pacific Northwest river is called. probably either Washington or Vancouver though?
snake - colombia? idk, PNW people are big blood and soil ppl. how come i never hear them talk about these rivers. sounds fake.
Yeah, that’s the Columbia, drains snowmelt from the Rockies.
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I live in Portland, ME and visited Cascadia for the first time recently (October). Stayed in Portland, visited Seattle, Mt. Hood, and some tiny camping places in Oregon.
Seattle feels more similar to Portland, ME then Boston (the only other larger city I have spent much time in) does but I like Portland, OR better. That might be because I'm a cycle commuting enthusiast. I found the public transport to be very good and more middle class people ride it as opposed to Portland, ME which is ridden mostly by students and destitute.
The Pacific ocean smells different.
The woods are familiar but the trees are different (except the good ol' Douglas fir, one of my favorite trees). The mountains are much higher. The average terrain is rougher but the valleys between the mountainous areas are larger and flatter.
The people are friendlier than Boston.
I liked it! A great place. I could see myself living there someday.
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Kitty pick-up test with the local kitties
I was like wait, is that Portland? Architecture looks plausible, street design looks plausible, yellowed grass looks plausible, angle and quality of light in long sleeve weather looks plausible, lots of outdoor cats…
Then at 1:30 there’s a realtor’s sign with a 253 area code, so… Tacoma. Fair. Cascadia!
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When I was first riding Blue Bitch up from LA circa the Occupy movement I took the chance to head on to Seattle and stay with a friend of my dad’s for a while, my impression was “if I hadn’t first encountered Portland I might settle here”, but since then all the Amazon and the Bay Area tech overflow and I was like “that only decreases the appeal”
That and the Portland pinball scene was in communication with the Seattle scene and the sense (especially from people who went up for tournaments) was “they’re cool but my is cocaine a thing there”.
And since then you hear about The Greater Seattle Polycule, but actually that sounds more in my direction – personal investment aside I primally associate poly with my middle school renn faire and college arts dorm scene as signal of good weirdos – and if Portland is changing hope it ends up cycling to that
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Seen at least 2 mutuals marvel at how anyone could vote no on the Oregon resolution to amend the constitution to prohibit slavery. Well, I did, so here goes:
Like, no one’s legally holding chattel, I understood the question as “should we change up systems of prison labor and subject them to general wage labor laws intended for the circumstances of the outside” and had not been convinced that would usefully create a better world.
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Yakima takes?
Had a friend who payed for midwife school by going there to provide rural healthcare service on the reservation for 2 years or something
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Something funny about Oregon is they built out the coast with summer resort towns like the East Coast (or Great Lakes!), hotels and timeshares and boardwalks, but because the clockwise water patterns bring water down from Alaska rather than up from the Caribbean, and because the Appalachians are much older eroded than the Coastal Range, the beach is rocky and the sea is freezing
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How do you watch Republicans getting elected and not get terrified of what they're trying to do to your trans friends and family?
That might be a concern if a straight-line projection of current trends that worry you is realized and comes into being at a flat general level, but from a thorough grounding in American history I don’t expect that! Even without specifics in mind I know I have a sense of how long things take and how long you get between phases of the cycle and how things get traded off against each other
To set aside the fact that we are talking about fucking Oregon, and to even reestablish themselves as a party that sometimes gets power the Republicans have to take this opportunity to prove and accommodate themselves to the state. I honestly don’t even see the state banning youth transition unless we’re in a position the country is already.
They might let school boards in traditionalist-as-in-1986 areas be unaccomodating.
And if any of my trans friends were like, 14 living in Southern Oregon I might be more concerned, but they aren’t! Also I don’t have trans family!
Also since the personality change where COVID wiped out my anxiety I’m physically incapable of getting worried about things! That’s not hyperbole!
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So with the 2022 election putting up the offices that weren’t up in the direct aftermath of the 2020 street unrest, it’s looking like the trend will continue and the result of all those lefties’ efforts to challenge the status quo of local government power might be that not only does Portland City government complete purging itself but that Oregon elects a Republican governor for the first time in decades
Isn’t the Republican gubernatorial candidate only viable because some centrist Dem is running a spoiler campaign as an independent?
Yes, Betsy Johnson is indeed running a “non-Portland Oregon Democrat from the good old days like the ‘90s, with a base of rural extractive industry and workers” campaign, the fact that this represents a real voter and donor base that is defecting from a state Democratic Party increasingly aligned with national issues and trends and becoming a sub/urban professionals’ party with postmaterial interests is in fact a factor but that’s not exactly an “only because” caveat, if anything the 2020 mess was the realignment trigger there
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So with the 2022 election putting up the offices that weren’t up in the direct aftermath of the 2020 street unrest, it’s looking like the trend will continue and the result of all those lefties’ efforts to challenge the status quo of local government power might be that not only does Portland city government complete purging itself but that Oregon elects a Republican governor for the first time in decades
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