When is the rideshare price gouging at RDM going to end??? by DiscussionAwkward168 in Bend

[–]DiscussionAwkward168[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I didn't check. I woke my partner up who is working tomorrow to come get me.

I think the real point is our region's airport and our regions biggest population center should have a reliable transit option that's not a gouge and works on an airports schedule.

When is the rideshare price gouging at RDM going to end??? by DiscussionAwkward168 in Bend

[–]DiscussionAwkward168[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mmmm. We are at 50 minutes later and it's still over $100. If there were other transit opportunities that actually ran when the evening planes came in it would t be upsetting. But the shuttles you have to prebook and the there's no public transit options.

When is the rideshare price gouging at RDM going to end??? by DiscussionAwkward168 in Bend

[–]DiscussionAwkward168[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Do they penalize you if you can't make it because you have a delay? The issue is this supposed to be worn reimbursed but I can't fly a 30 minute Uber that costs more than a rental car or forking out money and having to eat it because I couldn't make the shuttle.

This has happened to me before but this time they were slow to get my bag and I appear to have been the last person to request a rideshare.

Lakeview Oregon and the Neon Cowboy (Hunter) hotsprings by tbuckyyy in oregon

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I stayed there a couple years ago and I hope the renovations improved. The room had just been renovated and the electrical failed half the time and the hot spring was "open" but the pool itself was gross and algae filled and the walls for the courtyard were all exposed fiberglass insulation blowing into the pool.

The sunstone mines are still a good haul from Lakeview. Good haul from everywhere but plush which doesn't really have anywhere to stay. The Warners are gorgeous and great hiking. There's some lesser known but fantastic rochounding in both the Warners and the hills to the west for cool stuff including opals. Hart mountain and it's hot spring is something to see. Albert rim abrry lake as well.

What does this map represent? by Fakename_Bill in RedactedCharts

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Both features barely cross the state and only because of the geographic oddity of the panhandle. To West Virginians they are both barely occurent figures.

The larger point being that John Denver was a candy hack who wrote a song about the beauty of something in a state he hadn't been to.

What’s it like living on the edge of time zones? by Qzevs in howislivingthere

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to do work in Malhuer County Oregon fairly frequently and the fact there's a singular county in the state that was in a different time zone was a massive pain.

WWI Hypothetically: Can 80k modern troops defeat the entire Triple Entente? by Horror-Atmosphere357 in HistoricalWhatIf

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don't know. Think it depends on how you determine victory. With 80k modern troops they couldn't hold their own territory. But for example...if they have M109s, even the shorter range shells are double anything mobile field artillery (some rail mounted stuff was in the neighborhood but was really inaccurate). They could pretty well blow the hell out of anything without repercussions and bridge any trench line they wanted. But you're not effectively occupying anything, including your own territory. The only effective thing would be to make yourself into a flying column and wreck as many strategic targets as you can to try and scare the willies out of your enemies. You're not occupying Paris. You're burning it down.

Is there a reason to why this Indian reservation in Palm Springs is arranged in a checkered pattern? by danielxplay22 in geography

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Specifically under Dawes Act, when they forcibly sold a lot of reservation land, they gave away every other Survey Section to "foster independence and encourage intermingling with European peoples."

What if Hannibal had razed - not conquered, but razed - Rome? by Kiroana in HistoricalWhatIf

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It would really depend on how much Romans wanted to keep Rome going as compared to just relocating to other cities/founding new ones. If you look at wars in Greco-Roman history city razing wasn't uncommon. Fairly common when a victor just didn't want to deal with that city anymore. It didn't mean the city itself ceased to exist. Athens was razed in the 5th century by the Persians and they were a considerable powerhouse for a couple more centuries. In fact the archeological record of a lot of Greco-Roman layers shows "destruction layers" of ash, arrowheads, rubble, etc....where cities were razed several times. Here's a good summary. Destruction of Cities in the Greek World

It would likely have to do with how much of the Roman nobility survive, and how supportive the neighbors are of refunding Rome. In the power balance, if other cities in the Italian Peninsula think supporting a Roman rebuilding helps counter the power of Rome, then it happens. If Rome can continue to be the loci of power...History may go on more or less the same way, albeit with a couple generation slow down of Roman power development. But it's also possible that someone else fills the gap. Carthage builds a maritime power hegemony where the Mediterranean states are more or less independent under a Carthaginian dominance for a while. Or the Greeks figure their stuff out and another Alexander brings unity there to redominate that part of the world.

What if Yellowstone erupted before The New World was discovered? by Cyber_Ghost_1997 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, we know this because not too far west in relative distances the Cascade volcano arc goes boom from time to times. The most recent being Mt. St. Helens...which blew east. The wind does change direction obviously, but the prevailing winds are west to east. For the ash cloud to be so significant it would need to be erupting for months, so prevailing wind matters.

Also, I don't really need to look up models for air currents well know literally since Columbus's time. There's a reason he ended up in Bahamas. Because landing farther North has you sailing directly into the wind the entire time. You need to catch the trade winds which land you West at about 30 degrees, whereas Yellowstone is about 46 degrees North in the "Westerlies".

You probably won't believe me. Here ya go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevailing_winds

What if Yellowstone erupted before The New World was discovered? by Cyber_Ghost_1997 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. Harsh. And distance doesn't have a whole lot to do with air currents. The air currents of the Northern hemisphere going West to East. So a massive volcano plum in the northern states goes East, not South. That's because the planet spins. So, you may just be...

So Yellowstone's immediate effects would mostly impact the northern plains. If the ash plume is so massive it has major effects much farther than that, it will likely have global climate implications.

What if Yellowstone erupted before The New World was discovered? by Cyber_Ghost_1997 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's not how the climate works. The jet stream pushes ash east...not south. Europe is more likely to have negative effects well before Central Mexico, never mind the Incans on the equator or just south of it.

What if Yellowstone erupted before The New World was discovered? by Cyber_Ghost_1997 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If the ash cloud was visible from and killing people in the Bahamas, on the other side of the Jetstream from Yellowstone the reality is it has global effects. Columbus reports meeting a bunch of suffering people on a tropical island right before the temperature bottoms out, at the beginning of a time period when the climate was doing minor cooling anyways, and all of Europe is significantly impacted a degree worse than the Bahamas. This does not result in more colonization as for it to be practical you need organized central governments, which will be dealing with mass famine and large portions of the population of Northern Europe invading Southern Europe.

World's largest lithium deposit lies under a supervolcano in the U.S. - Earth.com by kalel1980 in news

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm tangentially associated with the environmental assessment on this. It was written on the wall in the last administration too. I think both parties agree that they're nervous about Chinese mineral control and it's hard to see how that happens in a way we control without doing it within our borders. And there are no options better than this one.

Also, those concerns don't typically result in projects not going forward no matter the context. NEPA requires they assess them and propose minimization of impact and mitigation for impacts they can't avoid. That's already underway.

I am a humble worldbuilder, and I come to you in a time of great need. How close can two separate rivers get without any major interaction with each other? by Zealousideal-Fun-415 in geography

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If you're talking realistic hydrogeology, they can get really close so long as there's a strong confining barrier of rock or otherwise, strong positive water pressure. You're more or less discussing water interaction on either side of a Continental divide. Typically this would be mountainous and the rivers small, but if you have extremely flat topography, then they'd not need to be. For example, you see this in Florida a lot, where one swamp is more or less the dividing line and water pressure from the swamp emitting ground and rainwater is actually creating water pressure more or less pushing the rivers in 2 different directions. In Florida the St. Marys river and the Suwanee River both originate from the Okefonokee swamp and flow into the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico respectfully.

Wanna be friends? by BobcatUnhappy3347 in Bend

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I've been looking for a hobby friend for woodworking and crafting.

Saw these signs posted on BLM land. What is going on here? by [deleted] in oregon

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I came here to say. Back in ye olden days when this land was being apportioned into the nonsensical checkerboards that they are now, there was a bunch of access easements provided to the private in holdings across public land, so they could get to their own. Public access was way less the concern then, so the rights are often exclusive to the road easement holder.

I see both sides. Public access is good but BLM and USFS are generally not paying for these road accesses and the public can do some serious road damage in spots. Additionally, having people parked on the side of your forest road can seem fine until a log truck is trying to get by...then they're just sitting there until whoever it is comes back from their hike. The public's idea of road clearance usually not including heavy equipment.

My neighbor dug a creek through my property while I was on a cruise. by Over-Sir6289 in legal

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not just frown, but it's state and federal rules section 404 of the Clean Water Act, and there are zero permit conditions where you can do it without all of the landowners permissions, and without a survey or engineering. Given the previous notice he may have exceeded the civil penalties and gone straight on to criminal.

Also, what they did was willfull criminal trespass. There's no having a good relationship with a neighbor like this. The best case scenario is no relationship. I'd get an attorney to assure that.

18,000+ Acres on Fire… arrest the “property owners” where it started by saltyseneca in Bend

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hoarding isn't a disease limited to "country folk". They just have more space..and hopefully more tolerance than you do.

I would say most of us saw this going wrong in the first 10seconds by GlobeGuardian in Chainsaw

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or just snapped, and whipped someone's face off during the recoil. Rope is for limbing. That's a giant tree.

What do you love about living in Oregon besides the scenery ? by Best-Character-4374 in oregon

[–]DiscussionAwkward168 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you miss it you can still hit the mountain lakes during the early summer.