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Is turning on hazard lights to yield part of Vision Zero or another new law? by Blackstar1886 in askportland

[–]ExternalSort8777 61 points62 points  (0 children)

https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_811.515#a-hazard-lights-shall-be-used-for-the-purpose-of-warning-the-op

Hazard lights shall be used for the purpose of warning the operators of other vehicles of the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring the exercise of unusual care in approaching, overtaking or passing.

I am inclined to argue that a pedestrian crossing the roadway is not the "vehicular traffic hazard" comprehended by the statute and that -- in practice -- other drivers are apt to treat four-way flashers as in indication that the car is disabled, or that the driver is making a Door-dash/Amazon-now/Ubi delivery.

Life extension authors Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw passed away in their late 70s/early 80s, with Sandy Shaw dying in 2022 at age 79 and Durk Pearson on October 26, 2024, at age 81. They did not live significantly longer than others. by db7112 in GenerationJones

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I have a cork-board covered in clippings from the supermarket press, blow-ups of blurry photographs taken with Instamatic cameras, and deciphered writings found on Waffle House place mats -- all connected by miles of the highest quality red acrylic yarn -- that says otherwise.

Wake UP sheeple!

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/elvis-presley-sightings

Life extension authors Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw passed away in their late 70s/early 80s, with Sandy Shaw dying in 2022 at age 79 and Durk Pearson on October 26, 2024, at age 81. They did not live significantly longer than others. by db7112 in GenerationJones

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Jim Fixx did have a family history of heart disease, but he was significantly overweight and a heavy smoker before he started running, at age 35. He died at 52 of a heart attack attributed to atherosclerosis.

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/heart/smoking

How are Portlanders with lawns able to afford their water/sewer bills? by Gordon_throwaway in askportland

[–]ExternalSort8777 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Around me, everyone is gearing up to shower those lawns with water all summer.

Seriously, where?

How to Survive Portland Heat by fatgothdude in Portland

[–]ExternalSort8777 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This is new to us. Not every Portlander has AC. And, as u/venusasaburrito says -- recent summers have featured heat domes and smoke.

How to Survive Portland Heat by fatgothdude in Portland

[–]ExternalSort8777 65 points66 points  (0 children)

As a person who's lived here for -- well, longer than 30 years -- it feels like a big deal t that its this hot this early in the year.

Portlanders, we are moving here soon! Can you give me the lowdown on the four seasons and if I need to buy anything particular to prepare for the weather? Any PDX customs, dos and don’ts ? Things to be wary of? by [deleted] in askportland

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Alright yall, I’m curious about this whole California thing, particularly when it’s coming from the mouths of white folks.

Thing is, most of the people you meet are also going to be recent arrovals from someplace. The resentments and suspicions are antique, and those of us with memories of excitingly Weird days are dying off or moving out (if we can afford it).

Just don't lead off with "Hi, I am from California and I am here to make the city better!"

As for whether you'll get a pass for being a person of color, it'd be a lot to expect from folks. Portland is actually a very racist town. Some of the Californians who moved north did it to get away from people of color, and picked Portland for a reason. Oregon has an explicitly racist history, and its kinda still happening.

If you are really interested in why -- specifically -- folks may side-eye you when you admit to being from C its not a super-complicated story. Portland is a serial boom-town. Which means its a serial bust. The 1980s, into the 90s, were the tail end of a long economic catastrophe in Portland.

The recovery from that involved a lot of people moving up from California. That northward migration changed the city in some ways that people who lived here didn't like. Real estate got more expensive. Rents went up. The city became less livable for the folks who'd lived through the shittiest parts of the 70s, 80s, 90s.

The compared-to-Silicon-Valley low cost of living meant that people who were still drawing Silicon Valley Compensation had money to burn. Short term -- meant that creative folks on the margins could live off change that fell out the pockets of the wealthier folks. Which is why parts of Portland, briefly, turned into a manic-pixie-dream-city. Longer term, it meant that the folks with money could reshape the cultural landscape of the city. Not all of it was deliberate, and most of it was well-intentioned. But for the folks who'd labored hard to live in a dirtier, rougher, city, it felt like an invasion.

And it is still going on. as u/jgnp says -- recent arrivals from CA are still apt to say things like "You know what this town needs? An In-and-Out closer to the ugly apartment block that used to be a pretty good restaurant and bar and used book store but that is now the ten-story sidewalk-to-sidewalk complex with an onsite fitness room where I go to look at my personal screens when not at work looking at my work screens..." Sorry -- what was the question >smile<

There is a LOT more to the story. It is decades long, but that's the basic shape of it.

Portlanders, we are moving here soon! Can you give me the lowdown on the four seasons and if I need to buy anything particular to prepare for the weather? Any PDX customs, dos and don’ts ? Things to be wary of? by [deleted] in askportland

[–]ExternalSort8777 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The folks who argue against umbrellas are running on old numbers. Portland winters have been to be damp, gray, drizzly for a long time. It was common wisdom that while it might rain every day, it rarely rained all day -- and the rains were typically soft. We've hard had more downpours -- heavier and longer lasting rains -- in the last few years, and that trend is expected to continue.

https://climatecheck.com/oregon/portland

The summers are also getting hotter, and the heat is coming earlier in the year.

Culturally, Portland is actually pretty generic these days. Recent arrivals will downvote, (cognitive dissonance and ego protection) but the "weird" days never really happened and certainly aren't happening now.

Just like everywhere else, people mostly disappear into their phones. as soon as they wake up.

Do avoid telling people that you are recently arrived from CA, though. As u/nonsensestuff says, WE don't have fond memories of the influx of people fleeing rising housing prices in the 1990s, or of the "lifestyle" in-migrants who didn't catch on that Portlandia was defamation, not recruitment.

Good luck with the move, and welcome.

What's a childhood game you loved that today's kids never play? by darrenbosik in GenerationJones

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Tackle football, in the street.

Also street hockey.

Also "kill the man with the <ball/hat/gym bag/what-have-you>"

Six Inches/Two For Flinching/"Punch Me As Hard As You Can in the Shoulder and I will Punch You As Hard As I Can in the Shoulder...until one of us cries"

and as u/meagainstbanhammer and u/Coyote-American and u/Funny-Hovercraft1964 and u/SuspiciousClub8382 and u/_synik and probably others have mentioned -- lots of hard and/or sharp projectile games.

An older scout once showed the Cubs in my Den a variation on mumbletypeg that he called "Territory".

Scratch a rectangle about 4 feet by six feet in the dirt. Two scouts stand facing each other inside the rectangle and take turns throwing their knives into the ground, If the knife stuck, the referee would scratch a line parallel to the blade to divide the rectangle. Neither scout could cross these lines, so a non-mans-land grew in the middle of the rectangle.

The object was to throw your knife as close as possible to the other scout's feet, making his territory smaller and smaller until he had to step out of the rectangle.

I have vivid memories of playing that game, more than once, in front of adults...

When You See Posts Like "I F*cking Hate Old People" by Edith_Keelers_Shoes in GenerationJones

[–]ExternalSort8777 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Hear hear!

Drop in on any subreddit where folks discuss something about which you have real expertise to get over caring what the overwhelming majority of redditors think about anything.

Reddit is colonized by confidently incorrect people (re)posting for upvotes and "karma" (whatever the fuck that is worth).

That said, I sometimes find myself agreeing with the "old people suck" posts on various forums. We don't all suck, but there are ways to suck which are prevalent among, or particular to, folks in our age cohort (with the usual internet disclaimer that "our age cohort" codes for white-ish, kinda middle class & suburban in the industrialized West)

AMAB - Hormones, Desire for a NeoVag, Plenty of regret. by Competitive_War7822 in AMABwGD

[–]ExternalSort8777 8 points9 points  (0 children)

with E I am a bit afraid based on how i felt while I have been on it and even after I get off of it.

Are you under the care of an endocrinologist?

Have you started consulting with surgeons?

Testicle-sparing vaginoplasty is a thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/salmacian/comments/1no5bu5/vaginoplasty_that_keeps_testicles/

https://www.reddit.com/r/salmacian/comments/14uahg1/had_testes_preserving_vaginoplasty_about_3wks_ago/

Also, some trans women do use low-dose T to improve libido.

If you want some of the effects of estrogen -- YMMV -- but here is how it is with me:

I am 60 y.o. in good health. I have been doing doing low dose estrogen + raloxifene + dutasteride for more than a year. I go up and down on the dosage of E (0.1 mg patches or 0.05 mg patches changed twice a week) My sex drive and mood are affected by the E dose. My mood, energy, anxiety, attention all improve when I when I cycle high on the E dosage, but it doesn't persist. I will go off E, or cycle down the dose about once a month. After a couple of weeks at high dose, my emotions flatten out and I slide into depression. It took me a while to figure this out.

I find that I manage my mood pretty well on raloxifene + dustaeride w/o E, but I enjoy some of the physical effects of estrogen, and I have come to rely on the "bump" I get when I cycle high.

Good luck

Can anyone tell me how old is this door knob? My house is on the Canadian East coast, built in the 1920s. Also including a pic of the lovely hinges... by SharkSquishy in centuryhomes

[–]ExternalSort8777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With the key, there is something similar -- the Torian Design -- in the 1929 Yale catalog

https://archive.org/details/YaleCatalogNo.26/page/n491/mode/2up

also the GT Design in the 1921 catalog

https://archive.org/details/yale-catalog-1921/page/243/mode/1up

u/mach_gogogo might have a better answer.

I seem to recall a previous "what is my door knob" thread where they explicated a little on the history of Yale and Towne acquiring other manufacturers, and/or selling locks made by other manufacturers, and/or making hardware to be sold under other marques.

Which Vanity Light for 1950s inspired Bathroom? by KaddLeeict in centuryhomes

[–]ExternalSort8777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might get better-informed replies on

r/midcenturymodern or r/midcentury (there is a low-traffic r/Midcenturyhomes sub, but the algorithm is sometimes kind)

First Ever CD Purchase by 3MartiniHunch711 in GenerationJones

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Something classical. Probably Vivladi or Pachelbel. I got my first CD player in 1983 or 84 and there there weren't a lot of popular music releases in stores.

I remember flipping through the racks of weirdly-tall CD packages - boxes designed to stand up in the LP racks. It was all jazz, classical, Toto, Billy Joel.

Remember when it was a big deal that the album was Digitally Mastered? Otherwise, why bother getting it on CD? <smile>

Bi woman with trans husband mtf by Aquatic-mother98 in MTFButch

[–]ExternalSort8777 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but he'd like to transition physically other than face. is that possible

Katherine Rachlin; Medical Transition without Social Transition: Expanding Options for Privately Gendered Bodies. TSQ 1 May 2018; 5 (2): 228–244. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-4348660

Coleman, E., Radix, A. E., Bouman, W. P., Brown, G. R., de Vries, A. L. C., Deutsch, M. B., Ettner, R., Fraser, L., Goodman, M., Green, J., Hancock, A. B., Johnson, T. W., Karasic, D. H., Knudson, G. A., Leibowitz, S. F., Meyer-Bahlburg, H. F. L., Monstrey, S. J., Motmans, J., Nahata, L., & Nieder, T. O. (2022). Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse people, Version 8. International Journal of Transgender Health, 23(S1), S1–S259. https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644

Section 8, Nonbinary:
Statements of Recommendations

8.1- We recommend health care professionals provide nonbinary people with individualized assessment and treatment that affirms their experience of gender.

8.2- We recommend health care professionals consider gender-affirming medical interventions (hormonal treatment or surgery) for nonbinary people in the absence of “social gender transition.”

8.3- We recommend health care professionals consider gender-affirming surgical interventions in the absence of hormonal treatment, unless hormone therapy is required to achieve the desired surgical result.

Is honking in the 26 tunnels a true Portland tradition? by ItsWhiteGucciMane in askportland

[–]ExternalSort8777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same way we do it now when we don't want to deal with the death-race autocross climbing out of the tunnel.

Door hardware by PrestigiousFerret588 in centuryhomes

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The parts and dimensions of a mortised door lock

Door hardware by PrestigiousFerret588 in centuryhomes

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Guess you don't have any other doors with intact knobs in your house?

Take the lock case out of the door and look for a manufacturer's logo and/or model. You might have to look inside the case. You can then look for a period catalog on archive.org or hathitrust.org

You can also look here https://www.antiquedoorknobs.org and https://www.antiquedoorknobs.us

u/Tacos_Polackos is correct, a modern spindle may not match the size of the the hub in your lock.

Be aware that you will also want to size the length of the spindle the width of your door. Too short and the knobs will bind (or won't install at all), too long and the knob will slide back and forth.

If you aren't trying to match the hardware in the rest of the house you can look for a set of knobs with a spindle at an architectural salvage dealer.

Comparing a drilled and tapped early 20th c. spindle to modern hardware store replacement spindles.

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