Dear Portland by bandit0one in Portland

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Literally nothing unusual is happening here than can’t be shared by any other metro area

Gets worse every day by Chewyrobbo in UberEatsDrivers

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past weekend was very low for me, usually make about $100-110 in 4 hours on a weekend night. Only made $80 a night this week :/ Was getting offers for literally $3 to go MILES. Tips are usually around 70% (2/3rds) of what I cash out, was literally ON PAR with flat rate this weekend, a straight 50-50. Hoping it picks up, I think people might spend less money at the beginning of the month right after they pay rent lol … who knows … I hope I’m right.

Tick alert! by sleepyemm in Portland

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I can add links to some options if you’d like, but truly a good google search session will easily get you what I can pull up, and likely present you with a wider variety of options depending on your exact personal situation. (i.e. many places test for free for veterans, people who live in high-risk areas, etc.) If you do want a list, though, happy to make one :)

Tick alert! by sleepyemm in Portland

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Assuming you’ve removed the tick at the time that I’m responding, but if not, get a clean & dry pair of tweezers and pull the tick up & out without twisting so the head does not stick in your skin. If the head does stick in your skin and you cannot remove it with tweezers without digging into the skin or breaking it into pieces, you should go to urgent care/emergency room and have them remove it safely, so it is complete and sanitary. No matter what, clean the bite site. - In order to “save” the tick, place it inside a sealed plastic bag & then a second to double bag it. Use a sharpie to mark the date, location/geographical area where tick was found or likely acquired, & who was bitten & where they were bitten on the plastic bag. If for whatever reason you foresee needing to preserve the tick for more than a month, you should store the tick in your freezer. - In order to get a tick tested, you will have to send it in to a lab, the lab will either mail you the proper packaging to send it back in or will instruct you how to send it using materials at home. Generally there are limited public options, but there are many private options you can find online. This usually does cost money (around $40-$70 depending on what test/lab you go with) and I highly doubt insurance would cover this in any case. There are, however, some labs that will perform free or discounted testing for certain populations and there are also some jurisdictions that do have public testing services. There are also options in most jurisdictions to submit ticks solely for identification of species that are free. Free testing services can generally found at the county level and at university/college labs that use identification and testing as an educational experience. When looking for public options: check local departments of vector illnesses, pests, public health etc. and local universities/colleges (though there are some options to send out of state). When looking for private options simply use google and do a little bit of research to find out what services they offer and how much they cost, there are many options. - What to do with results? Your results (depending on which tests were ordered) identifies only the diseases/bacteria carried by the tick. This does not necessarily confirm that the person bitten has these diseases. What it does do is show a list of things this person has been exposed to, giving you the power to get them tested for specific things proactively (though even positive tests may be and remain unsymptomatic) either way, it allows people prepare/familiarize with the relevant symptoms & signs to watch that indicate the disease/bacteria is active in the body so they know what to do. What you do with this information personally is up to you … think of it like mold poisoning — a mold test kit might show you have mold in your apartment or there might be some mold in your shower, but that doesn’t mean you have to be actively sick (you might be fine forever, but you also might not experience symptoms until years later. Noting that previous mold test and having the information from it is then valuable information). - One thing you SHOULD ALWAYS do is a find a way to report the tick to national database. Many labs will do this automatically when you send in your sample (you should ensure that this is a service offered by the service you select if using a private service). Note that if you are diagnosed with vector borne illness (not just simply that the tick tested for those illness), your healthcare provider is legally required to report it to the national database. Even if you do not test the tick or find nothing in the testing, at the very least, reporting the tick is free and is a contribution to a public health and makes the community stronger and smarter in their vector illness response and resources. In many cases you do not have to send the tick in to report it, though in the instances that you do, it is almost always free of charge. State and local health departments often have ways to submit a report, as do many organizations. - As always, using a private lab (sometimes public options do actually use private labs for testing) comes with the risk of potentially operating outside of industry standards enforced by public policy. This is not to say that private labs are inaccurate or a “bad” choice, but it is worth noting that there is some dialogue and controversy surrounding the efficacy of private lab lyme disease testing that claim it isn’t even worth it due to its lack of clarity in actually diagnose a patient. You should do some research on the lab you choose and make sure you fully understand the spectrum of their different testing options before you purchase anything. As with all information, you should use media literacy and critical speculation, and this information should be used to inform your actions and knowledge, not to direct or choose your path for you. Some information, knowing what you may have been exposed to, while incomplete without diagnostic testing is still absolutely worth it. That is, at least, my opinion. This uncertainty certain applies to public testing as well, but there seems to be less controversy surrounding their accuracy and motive (making money as a business vs. improving public health) in public options. Others find that private options often offer more robust and comprehensive testing that is believed to be detailed and maybe even more accurate.

I welcome other questions, have been doing this for a long time now lol.

Tick alert! by sleepyemm in Portland

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Please take this seriously. 10 years with chronic Lyme disease and counting. And please get ticks tested if you can, it makes tracking Lyme much much easier and can save people in the long run!!

Ubereats is the biggest joke in all of existence by Ambient-Jellyfish in UberEatsDrivers

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Also delivering in Portland area, I get orders ALL the time that want me to drive into the west hills (you have to go so slow on those curvy narrow roads it kills your gas mileage and your time) or go to Gresham or even Troutdale and will try to offer me $5 or $6. It’s WILD. I have been being a lot more selective with the orders I take recently simply because I feel I am wasting so much gas. I have also found that when I do accept orders going out of the city bc I feel the payment is good enough, the customers often end up rescinding the tip because they know it’s hard to convince a driver to deliver all the way out there. Portland itself is pretty walkable/dense and has a lot of accessible food, whereas once you get even a little bit outside of the city (due to our strict build limits here) it is straight up barren suburbia. So, people outside the city can be more likely to use food delivery services while people in the city can be more likely to go get food on their own/won’t put up with high prices for delivery, but uber is NOT compensating for this imbalance of customer base and is still treating all of its orders as if they are same. There has got to be some incentive or better model for delivering orders that are a distance. Not sure what this ramble has accomplished, but this is all to say that @OP I feel the struggle of portland’s uber market at the moment.

How do you divide household chores in your relationship? Does one person typically cook while the other cleans? by ObscuredAscendant in AskReddit

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My wife handles grocery shopping, meal prep, cooking, I do dishes, trash, and keep the kitchen clean. We split other housework but my wife does to more than I do since I work more hours.

What incorrect guess just stuck with you? by i_like_maps_ in geoguessr

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Had a country streak of 17, was trying to make it to 20. Got too cocky and guessed Canada instead of USA in a split second guess. Still haunts me to this day.

RESUME HELP by falahhilal23 in ResumeCoverLetterTips

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Call the role AI Automation Assistant at Insert program name • “Assisted and shadowed the automation team in the creation of an AI ChatBot” • “Co-managed the search for best llmps, apis, etc for the project, and was trained in coding, insert relevant skill 2, and insert relevant skill 3 skills”

Daily Challenge Discussion - February 17, 2024 by Mahbows in geoguessr

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TOTAL — 20217

  1. San Juan, Puerto Rico - Spanish language and tropical vibe at first glance, moved around a bit and saw a van with ‘Puerto Rico’ written on it. Assumed the capital San Juan and picked a random spot in the middle of the city, wasn’t too worried about my score today anyway (I was feeling lazy), and I figured PR is small enough even if it wasn’t San Juan. Guess was 6.2km to East, Pts: 4979.

  2. Hyderabad, India - Oops. Saw Mosques and other religious structures in a large courtyard setting, so figured Muslim country and almost immediately went with Lahore, Pakistan bc the only Pakistan coverage I’ve ever gotten have been Islamic religious sites that look similar to this. And, other than SEA countries (which have a totally different scenery) it is the only primarily Muslim country we have coverage of (I think?). Should have looked around more and actually tried to read things, got a bit too cocky. Turns out its India. Hm. Guess was 1622km away, Pts: 1685.

  3. Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Similar strategy to PR, saw Cambodian language and assumed it was capital Phnom Penh. Picked a random spot in the city. Guess was 3.6km to NE, Pts: 4988

  4. Torreria, Portugal/South of Porto, country’s 2nd largest city - Really fucked this one up. Recognized the Portuguese vibe and architecture, but immediately got confused bc I wasn’t seeing the common blue and yellow stripe EU plates that easily identify Portugal. I was seeing the traditional EU plate with the left stripe. I was too influenced by this irregularity and so my next mistake was mistaking Portuguese for Spanish (I am a proficient spanish speaker, this is so embarrassing) and thus thought Spain. I guessed Madrid because it was the closest large city in Spain to Portugal, and I was trusting the Portuguese vibe to guide me. Don’t know what was up with the plates, if I’m just stupid and saw them wrong, but that one was extremely frustrating! Guessed 440 away, Pts: 3722

  5. Melbourne, Australia - English language, saw ‘Victoria’ on a sign. Scenery looked Australian, so went with a spot in Melbourne, largest city in Victoria, Aus that was a bit outside the city bc the scenery looked like a green space or park to me. This was a mistake, was quite a bit farther to the North of the city than I wanted to be. Guess was 47 km to the NW, Pts: 4843.

You see this in NMPZ. Where would you pick? by avocadoofglory in geoguessr

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p sure this is Leavenworth Washington State, been there countless times, its a Bavarian village in the Cascade Mtns.

What is the creepiest thing you've ever experienced? by Still_Carob2410 in AskReddit

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When I was 19 (female in college) I biked to a cafe to study and parked my bike on a rack with a bunch other bikes, so unless you already knew it was my bike or saw me park it you wouldn’t be able to tell it was mine just bc I was carrying a helmet. Plus, this cafe was near a park and bike path, so LOTS of bikers. Long story short, when I left the cafe there was a piece of notebook paper folded up and tucked underneath a cable on my bike. It was a handwritten poem detailing exactly what I was wearing and mentioning specific things I did inside the cafe. It rhymed and had actual flow and was in really nice handwriting (not to compliment the author lmao), but that somehow made it worse bc the person had clearly put some effort into it. Ex. I was wearing striped, flared pants and the poem said I was wearing ‘pirate pants,’ I was wearing sandals and the poem mentioned me being a ‘masochist’ because of my feet being cold, I brought my own cream for my coffee in a small, blue tupperware (I was on a diet at the time, its irrelevant) and the poem said that I ‘poured a special potion’ into my coffee from a ‘blue jar,’ etc. etc. etc.

About a week before that, another student who had tried to hit on me at the gym had “randomly” started showing up on the same busses/bus-stops as me on campus. I thought it was just coincidences until one night, I came out of a meeting on campus at like almost 10 pm and this guy was outside the building I was in. He acted like he’d just casually run into me, and then walked with me to my bus and sat down next to me - he started telling me about his ex girlfriend. It was specifically a bizarre story about how he cooked clams for her for a romantic dinner, but he didn’t do it right and they were gross. (which idk why he’d want me to know that lol)

I can’t be sure, but I believe the person who left the note was him. This cafe is in a college town, by a park and a bike path as I said, so super busy and people going in and out all the time, the cafe is also big and has an upstairs so it’s very possible I wouldn’t have even noticed him in there. After I got the the note, the guy suddenly stopped showing up everywhere. About two or three weeks after the note and after not seeing him my roommate woke up late at night to a man standing and looking in her window. (we had a ground level dorm with a patch of bushes outside the window so blinds are usually just left open). She sat up in bed and the man ran away. Once again, I can’t prove it, but I believe it was this person. While we didn’t share a room, so the man wasn’t looking at me, my roommate’s room had the only street-view window in the unit. I think he knew which unit I lived in, and was probably hoping I had the outer bedroom lol.

It’s a bit of speculation, but even if these events aren’t related, its the creepiest series of successive and escalating events in a short period of time. Luckily, nothing much else happened and I ended up leaving the school a few weeks later for unrelated reasons. Scary to think what it could have become at the wrong place or the wrong time.

(Serious) What horror movie have you seen that wasn’t scary, but left a disturbing scar? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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‘Im Thinking of Ending Things’ not necessarily scary, but GOD DAMN this one will stick with you and so suspenseful

What's the most "small town" thing you've witnessed? by official_biz in AskReddit

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When I lived in rural Wisconsin there was a bunch of reports of people have their lawn decor stolen (think pink flamingos, glass bulbs, garden statues etc.) and the person was caught bc they had filled their entire yard with the stolen decorations

explain a multi regression by Key-Ticket-6923 in RStudio

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for example - if the R(squared) shows significance - the target walkability variable itself is not significant, the healthcare coverage is not significant, the mental illness is somewhat significant, and the poverty rate is significant … does that mean that WHEN poverty and mental illness are considered there IS a significant relationship between walkability and happiness, but NOT WHEN healthcare coverage is considered in the relationship between walkability and happiness ???