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Pics in a hair net? :)
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It's easier to understand when you have a ballot in hand.
Portland is doing it for the first time for our new city government setup:
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Blog posts, including Substack, Medium, and others, are not allowed.
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Depends on your income before you were unemployed... My wife is drawing it right now and it's something like $450 a week for her.
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That's what unemployment is for. :) It's not on the business to pay applicants.
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Korea. ;)
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Tuvok is so memeable, he jumped out of Star Trek memes into other memes:
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You're volunteering to apply though...
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6h ago
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I mean, isn't that the whole point of "roads"? 🤔
32° here, but it's a 1 way going downhill.
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Looks like the super spreader event was a rock concert at the Guggenheim. People are now blaming The Art of Noise.
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Looks pretty generic, like King of Fighters...
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Sooo... "Monday"?
Checks calendar... Yup. Monday.
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I had neighbors who were deaf but their kids could hear perfectly fine. I kept having to tell them to turn down the damn music.
"Look, I'm not going to rat you out to your parents or anything, just turn it down a little, OK?"
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The one that chaps my ass is the whole "abortion stops a beating heart".
Yeah, and with the appropriate chemicals and electricity, you can make a heart beat in a petrie dish, that doesn't make it "life".
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/02/stem-cell-research-heart-disease-long-qt
On the flip side, I personally had an incident back in January where my heart stopped for 8 seconds. There have been a few other smaller pauses since then, 4 seconds here, 5 seconds there.
So clearly a heartbeat isn't entirely what makes you, you.
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I don't doubt this has happened, but we need a better primary source than Fox News.
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We have ways of measuring brainwaves, it's not a mystery.
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I feel really bad for Rise of Skywalker, it was really in an impossible position.
First, Last Jedi painted them into a fucking corner. It was like nobody told Johnson he was making the middle part of a trilogy.
Second, what little structure the trilogy had was 7 was about Solo, 8 was about Luke, and 9 would have been about Leia, but then Carrie Fisher up and died. :(
They had to really scramble on the 3rd one and losing the original writer/director didn't help. Abrams had to come in after 8 shit the bed and Fisher died and tried to make the best of it...
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I got to bottle feed a 13 week old cub, very odd experience. They are not soft.
To duplicate the experience, pet this:
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Trump wants to:
Imprison opponents:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/us/politics/trump-prison-threats-opponents.html
Disband media he disagrees with:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/politics/donald-trump-media-tweet/index.html
Revoke the citizenship of US citizens:
https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/trump-administration-seeks-to-strip-more-people-of-citizenship/
Build internment camps:
Invade Mexico:
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Good move... There's room for both lines:
Black Label - Adult comics with DC mainstream characters.
Vertigo - Adult comics outside the DC universe.
www.oregonlive.com
“It feels very active,” said Flood, 34. “Compared to a year or two ago it’s a lot cleaner, all of the plywood has come down, less trash on the streets. It’s just felt like a more vibrant and interesting and engaging place to spend time.” . . . There are a few signs that people may be starting to feel better about downtown. Horvick notes that just 38% of Portland area voters polled from Oct. 9 to Oct. 13 had a “very negative” impression of the city center. In April’s poll, 51% had a “very negative” impression.
www.oregonlive.com
I'm sure it will make more sense once ballots are in peoples hands. **Edit** Ballots started arriving today, not difficult to understand, but man, it's going to take RESEARCH to pick 6/19 and 6/16 and rank them!  
Looks like we're in for a freeze! Be aware! Bring in your brass monkeys! Also, if you rely on MAX for mass transit, it's always delayed in the cold. Frozen switches, ice on the lines, etc. etc. 
www.oregonlive.com
Theory is a paper mill. For those old enough to remember trips down I-5, that's what Albany used to smell like(!)
Now before you get all riled up... yes, superficially this LOOKS bad: "The city of Portland sends the county roughly $30 million per year to fund about 10% of the Joint Office of Homeless Services budget." But the Joint Office is the same agency leaving budgeted money UNSPENT. $113 million in 2024 alone. https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/09/multnomah-county-homeless-services-office-reports-it-housed-21-more-people-in-past-year.html For some reason this article left that part out. If they failed to spend $113 million, do they REALLY need Portland's $30 million? Would we be better off if Portland spent that money itself?
www.oregonlive.com
So if you're not up on the scandal... Oregon offers public matching donations for candidates who get a certain, specific number of campaign contributions. In order to reach that threshhold, a number of candidates got caught swapping contributions. "Hey, I'll donate to you if you donate to me..." kind of thing. "The city council candidates under investigation are District 1 candidate Thomas Shervey; District 2 candidates William Mespelt and Sam Sachs; District 3 candidate Luke Zak; and District 4 candidates Chad Lykins, Michael Trimble, Mike DiNapoli, Eric Zimmerman, Bob Weinstein, Sarah Silkie and Ben Hufford, according to Kerns. Mayoral candidate Liv Osthus is also under investigation, Kerns said."
www.wweek.com
Ranked: 1) Wilson 2) Rubio 3) Gonzalez 4) Mapps 5) Osthus "After speaking with the rest of the candidates, we don’t see a viable sixth option."
The headline here hides the epic smackdown of the Secretary of State and Attorney General who thought they had the right to decide what laws were constitutional and which were not. FTA: “Patty and Selma at the Department of Motor Vehicles may not be constitutional scholars, but they know that they are expected to follow the law,” Justice Lindsey Miller-Lerman wrote in the high court’s ruling, criticizing Evnen and Attorney General Mike Hilgers for taking it upon themselves to declare the law unconstitutional. “Do we want to live in a world where every state employee who has a hunch a statute is flawed gets to ignore it?”
TBH, I'm not sure how many other Portlanders are "here", here. :) But just in case, here's the link to watch the debate live! Edit: This link has the full recording as well! https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/elections/portland-mayor-candidate-debate-kgw-oregonian-how-to-watch/283-d69dc5a1-7611-4cd7-b1c2-65f6bc385d65 Also on terrestrial television, channel 8. This is really the first time I've seen the candidates speak for themselves. City Council Members: Rene Gonzalez Carmen Rubio Mingus Mapps Trucking executive: Keith Wilson Stripper and Arts Advocate: Liv Osthus Gonzalez has drawn fire for more law and order, right wing style policing policies along with a financing scandal for altering his Wikipedia pages. Rubio has had issues with LOTS AND LOTS of parking and traffic tickets. More than can be rationally explained. Keith Wilson, I'm sure, is a lovely guy, but he looks like someone voted most likely to be cast as a Nazi in an Indiana Jones movie. ;) I know, I know, totally unfair... but LOOK at him...
www.oregonlive.com
The hourlong debate begins at 6:30 p.m. and will feature Portland Commissioners Rene Gonzalez, Carmen Rubio and Mingus Mapps, trucking executive Keith Wilson and stripper and arts advocate Liv Osthus. Watch the debate live Tuesday on OregonLive.com or The Oregonian/OregonLive’s YouTube page. The news outlet will also stream the debate on Facebook. KGW will broadcast the debate live and also stream the debate on the KGW website, the KGW News YouTube channel and the KGW News app.
"True Value, which sells hardware, tools, lumber, plumbing and heating supplies, and other home improvement goods, said its retail stores are independently owned and not part of the bankruptcy process. The Chicago, Illinois-based company, has between $500 million and $1 billion in total liabilities, according to its Chapter 11 petition in Delaware bankruptcy court."
www.newsweek.com
"FEMA also been accused by former president Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, and other Republicans of not being able to respond well enough to Helene because it had diverted disaster relief funds to help migrants. That is not true, because while FEMA administers the Shelter and Services Program, funding for it comes from a separate pot of money funded by Congress for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Other false claims that have circulated include that people taking federal relief money could see their land seized or that that $750 is the most they will ever get to rebuild. FEMA has pushed back against the false claims and conspiracy theories, setting up a page on its website to combat misinformation and rumors."
Recipe from America's Test Kitchen: 2 cups (8 oz) whole wheat flour 1 cup (4.25 oz.) unbleached all purpose flour 1 cup of wheat bran 1/4 cup wheat germ 2 teaspoons of sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon table salt 2 cups of buttermilk 375° middle rack, 40-45 minutes, rotate 1/2 way through. 185° internal temp. Cool for 1 hr. I found, on initial mix, the dough was far, far, too dry. It kept crumbling apart and WOULD NOT hold together. I kept adding splashes of buttermilk until I could get a loaf that would hang together. Baking time had to go a little longer too, after 45 minutes it was only 145°. Maybe because of the added buttermilk. Running another 15 minutes brought it up to temp.
Greetings my fellow obsessive compulsives! Let's say, hypothetically speaking, you're building a retro gaming corner around this:  Two six-shelf units are inbound. Do you organize by generation? 1) Genesis/CD/32X 2) TurboDUO 3) Saturn 4) PS1 5) Dreamcast 6) PS2 7) Xbox 8) GameCube 9) Xbox 360 10) PS3 11) Wii 12) Xbox One Or by company? 1) Genesis/CD/32X 2) Saturn 3) Dreamcast 4) Xbox 5) Xbox 360 6) Xbox One 7) Turbo Duo 8) GameCube 9) Wii 10) PS1 11) PS2 12) PS3 Alternately: 1) Genesis/CD/32X 2) Saturn 3) Dreamcast 4) Turbo Duo 5) GameCube 6) Wii 7) PS1 8) PS2 9) PS3 10) Xbox 11) Xbox 360 12) Xbox One
We've had some trouble recently with posts from aggregator links like Google Amp, MSN, and Yahoo. We're now requiring links go to the OG source, and not a conduit.  In an example like this, it can give the wrong attribution to the MBFC bot, and can give a more or less reliable rating than the original source, but it also makes it harder to run down duplicates. So anything not linked to the original source, but is stuck on Google Amp, MSN, Yahoo, etc. will be removed.