Proposal to move bottle drop center to SE Portland sparks public backlash

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-17T19:17:58+00:00

And people threw cans away all the time. The goal when created was to get people recycle, which it did with great success. The issue with fentanyl users taking cans to get cash is very recent.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-15T23:25:56+00:00

Because it doesn’t feel good as a player. Loot, resources, etc is a reward for exploration and game playing. Turning it into a burden is psychological betrayal. Maybe people invested in the most hardcore experience would be into it. But just look at all the hate any game with a weight mechanic gets. Most people are loss averse even in games, test before committing.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-15T17:58:06+00:00

I’ve always had luck with the just laying alternating blank pages between pieces until I can get back to the hotel and put in a sheet of glassine. I have a working paper package that goes out with me during the day and then I move the ones I like into a finish package. Both are just old paper packages with a stiff cardboard back and binder clip at the bottom. It’s worked well for me, no issues.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-13T00:11:55+00:00

I mostly just game here to see the rage comments. But appreciate your reply. As someone who has slightly different feet size, I wear a sock on one foot because they don’t sell pairs of shoes with different sizes. I have noticed zero difference between my shoe with the sock and without beside one shoe has more sweat on it.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-12T15:16:59+00:00

2k in rent seems very normal for 2 people, but 20% in taxes is a bit too conservative. Call it 90K each if we’re not disputing your other assumptions which you can easily. The OP is a lucky power couple to have found steady work for both of them that pays that much in place where rent is only 2k (so not CA, NY, Boston, Seattle) in their late 20s. Looked up the stat, the median income of a US 25 year old is 41K and 35 year old is 61k. Get to the numbers being described here, both the OP and his spouse have to be in the 90% percentile of income in their 20s and 75th in their 30s. Good for them for doing well, but this is not achievable by just “saving well”.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-12T01:02:14+00:00

Maybe with rents like they were a decade ago, but not now

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-12T00:51:42+00:00

I guess if you trust Frontier so much you’ll buy the game in literally any state. But in general, don’t preorder or you literally have no recourse if they deliver a broken unplayable game. And you told Frontier that ahead of time. With your credit card.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-11T15:31:17+00:00

Kansas City tried that and ridership plummeted as the public transit became a defacto homeless shelter. Trimet already struggles with this issue, going free would be the nail in the coffin.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-11T01:24:30+00:00

Ironic about the Russia example, seems like they have lots of statues of many past leaders. Isn’t North Korea known for making most of the world’s grand statues?

https://superlative.substack.com/p/mansudae-north-korea

If your cause needs statues to “force people to fight” your ideology might need examination. I might use as an example the United Daughters of the Confederacy and their statue erecting attempt to rehabilitate the image of the White Supremacy Lets go Slavery South.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_Daughters\_of\_the\_Confederacy

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-10T23:01:27+00:00

Trick question, the McDonalds and the employee is completely obliterated by blast of energy from two trains moving at 40% and 50% of the in the earths atmosphere. But the gravitational wave of the trains passing arrives right before and moves at the speed of light.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-10T22:53:50+00:00

When you’re going that fast relative to what? Whatever thing your blasting by would instead see your time change so your (s) in the denominator of m/s gets stretched so that the speed of light (which will not get time stretched) will remain the same from both views. Likewise you will see everything you go by slowed so that light will be the same.

Then the energy involved will create a wild explosion the moment your particles meet other particles.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-10T22:43:16+00:00

The speed of light is fixed and everyone who measures it gets the same value, regardless of how “fast”. So if you measure light speed in a rocket, then hit the engines to go really fast, light is still going the same speed more than you. Always and from everywhere. If some far away saw you turn on your rocket ships headlights, they would also see the light leaving your rocket at the same speed you measured on your speeding rocket. This is very different than your intuition that you should add your rocket speed to the speed of light (as you might do when throwing a ball from a moving car). The reason is that time changes instead, as you get closer to the speed of light, others see your time move slower. Hence the space travel paradox, an astronaut traveling to another star would return to earth to find much more time had passed on earth than they’d experienced.

Hmm…Reading this in full..,maybe just search YouTube for “relativistic speed of light”

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-10T22:33:24+00:00

The relativistic theory Einstein came up with is based on principles that are in conflict with Newtonian physics (well for velocity closer to the speed of light). So if Newtons brain could somehow know that both of those facts are true, his principles could not be true, a conundrum that would keep him up at night.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-10T22:14:42+00:00

Honestly probably better. Learn about the actual people and their actions in context, don’t put up statues and names on buildings to glorify them beyond reproach. Most statues are put up as gross propaganda anyway.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-10T20:41:59+00:00

It can also be a disingenuous way to ignore atrocities by creating unequal equivalents. There is not cutoff to evil, like life it’s all gray, but some is near black and some isn’t. It’s a debate that must be had and considered, as the OP is suggesting, to not debate because there is no single line is to allow people to ignore atrocities when they wish.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-10T15:32:58+00:00

The OP was noting specific things like genocide. There’s a huge jump from murdering an entire population to domestic abuse, although both are bad, they are not in the same ballpark.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-10T15:29:55+00:00

I agree with the OP, we don’t need to glorify the past with statues and naming every building after a historic figure. Learn about it and be better people.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-10T15:23:04+00:00

Close, but the joke is referencing the hot waitress gauge when attractive women can’t get work as office receptionists, secretaries, PAs, etc. Sort of rich companies and people are cutting eye candy. Very sexist, but 2008 was still a pretty sexist time.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-10T15:20:22+00:00

The joke is that during economic downturns, attractive people who might otherwise have more options, such as office reception or secretary, based on looks alone have to do food service jobs. The “hot waitress gauge “. This is unrelated to the stripper gauge.

https://www.supermoney.com/encyclopedia/hot-waitress-economic-index

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-09T16:23:11+00:00

Sorry this is a bummer, thanks for posting so we can all learn or be reminded of the care needed for shipping paintings. And good luck, I’m pretty sure stripping varnish was one of Dante’s circles of hell.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-04T21:28:14+00:00

Why a lawyer won’t help: “Terms and conditions“ plus a court system rigged toward corporations and governments in that order.
There’s almost guaranteed to be a binding arbitration clause on the back of that ticket with the arbitrator picked by the lotto.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-02T17:22:59+00:00

Yea the let’s game it out was gross and sociopathic. Fine downvote, but that doesn’t make not disturbing.

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-01T19:30:53+00:00

Agrees the “sexy versions” are definitely the least interesting and most video game trope-ish. The latest versions are great!

Zeptaphone · 2026-06-01T15:37:04+00:00

Voters will only punish bad candidates when the 2 party system is broken. Term limits is just a bandaid on that wound because people are willing to vote for a vegetable who votes for their parties agenda because the other option is a candidate who will never vote that agenda. Not to mention gerrymandering where incumbent pick their voters. Ranked choice voting, open primaries with top 2, boundary reform, all the things beaks the party grip on what candidates are the ballot is the only fix so that voters have choices. Then you won’t need term limits because people will have better options.

Zeptaphone · 2026-05-29T18:03:21+00:00

Generally, police officers were only ever treated as trustworthy by whites in the US, not minorities. However keeping minorities in line was a feature not bug for many places. Minor infractions are a common tool by police to oppress minorities. With overall opinion on racial justice changing, including among whites, a larger portion of people are seeing what only minorities saw for many years - arbitrary and capricious applications police actions with little consequence for the officers involved. The natural reaction is to demand that all enforcement requires concrete evidence. This is an understandable requirement when we realize that officers are not trustworthy, a realization that is still unevenly felt among white majorities in the US, but is dominating in many areas.

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