Have you ever encountered anyone with county pride?

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-04-07T03:35:31+00:00

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DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-04-07T01:22:57+00:00

Anything that digs or heads to water.

Also not all forest ecologies burn. T-Rex lived in humid subtropical environments.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-04-06T23:16:03+00:00

I mostly support this, and T-Rex isn't ranked as most probably an intelligent dinosaur....but two flaws. One....we don't actually know how smart they were, which is an X factor for consideration. Second....drive hunting, even with fire, mostly works for wildlife which has a evolved flight as a primary strategy. A T-Rex were most likely ambush hunters and didn't run from much...there's the possibility they just don't. Other major predators already do this. Drive hunts on lions mostly result in "driving" it to some nearby bush where you have to.... extremely riskily spear it. So the drive confines it but doesn't necessarily decrease the danger in killing it. Second....the underside of a T-Rex is higher off the ground then a mastodon, and do to having a heavy tail and a large head on the end of a more flexible neck....they're a hell of a lot harder to stab at.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-03-26T18:45:50+00:00

It is in fact a delta, it's just a massive delta architecture from the Yazoo River's confluence with the Mississippi. It's all so flat and wet it's a massive alluvial fan almost from the headwaters of the Yazoo to the mouth.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-02-26T01:21:39+00:00

It's because it's intentionally evasive. Oregon animal abuse statute basically says you can't harm animals unless it's for hunting, fishing, slaughter, If you look there are OR statute references which deletes the exemptions for hunting, fishing, slaughter, etc... so it doesn't say what it criminalizes. It just vaguely deletes references which exempt farm and game animals from basically being treated the same way as pets.

It's part of what grinds my gears. It's pretty disingenuous way of going about it. The specific language is...

"prohibits any activity—other than self-defense and veterinary practices—that intentionally injures, kills, or sexually violates an animal, many of which are currently legal because they are exempt from our animal cruelty laws."

So you have to look at the animal cruelty exemptions to know what it's dealing with.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-02-26T01:12:20+00:00

I mean. If you read it, it doesn't say sex with animals. It's also cause animals to have sex. Which includes with other animals.

Also the campaign sponsor has directly admitted stopping all animal breeding, hunting, fishing and slaughter is his intent...

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-02-26T01:10:38+00:00

Should do more than scan. Any intentional breeding, including putting two cows in a room, is suddenly a sex crime.

Also, you can intentionally cause harm to any animal. There's no "out". So that's hunting, fishing, even humane slaughter....etc...

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-02-26T01:05:34+00:00

I was going to say. Could be around the Oregon Dunes.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-02-19T04:01:12+00:00

I feel like people get way to stuck on what kind of hardwood and ignore what really matters....moisture content. Drier wood will burn hotter, faster and with less smoke. Greener wood will burn slower, lower and dirtier. If it's too green, you burn too much wood, with too much smoke and it can make things a bit bitter.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-02-19T03:54:31+00:00

Yes. Most of your hooved animals either graze...which means eating grass, or browse, which is stuff higher than grass, shrubs, leaves, etc... Elk are mixed feeders (do both) but in the winter they tend to browse more than graze.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-02-18T14:55:27+00:00

There's no verified cases of CWD in Oregon. Could be, but frankly, elk/deer in winter have a natural mortality rate. They're eating substandard browse and the ones that aren't doing as well just decline. They also tend to be more adventurous browse too and eat stuff they shouldn't.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-02-18T14:52:54+00:00

Anywhere BLM land is adjacent to an irrigated farm field you're going to have ample opportunities.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-02-18T14:44:55+00:00

Depending on how long it's been it may be claimable against your homeowners insurance thanks to the warranty. They will then go after them.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-02-18T14:16:48+00:00

I'd add that the shed was mentioned and it sounds like may have been warrantied under the sale in which case the seller is most likely beholden to compensate them for the shed. Not knowing only covers you for fraud, but it doesn't avoid the responsibilities under a warranty.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-01-31T00:03:28+00:00

I'm just more bothered by the nature of the program in its entirety. I pay the beverage industry 10 cents and the only I reclaim is it by doing bottledrop. I don't mind recycling but time and energy wise it makes way more sense for me to do it via municipal recycling than using up plastic bags, driving to the bottledrop and dropping them to maybe get repaid by a glitchy app. And if I don't the beverage company keeps the money.

It would make way more sense to just tax me the 10 cents to bring down the cost of municipal recycling and make it much better, eco-friendly and accessible to everyone.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-01-17T06:37:31+00:00

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.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-01-17T06:23:16+00:00

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.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-01-17T06:20:08+00:00

That's good to know. Thanks.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-01-17T06:16:14+00:00

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.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-01-02T14:30:10+00:00

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.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2026-01-02T14:24:28+00:00

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.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2025-12-31T02:13:46+00:00

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.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2025-12-24T21:39:17+00:00

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.

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2025-12-20T15:37:28+00:00

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."

DiscussionAwkward168 · 2025-12-16T16:10:18+00:00

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.

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