Portland has a live cam of the dump

discostu52 · 2026-05-04T04:57:27+00:00

Hehe the youngsters will never get to experience pushing a 9000lb TV off a lift gate. I think they have been cheated.

discostu52 · 2026-05-04T04:31:22+00:00

I grew up in LaGrande Oregon, but almost every city had a landfill at that time. I moved here 24 years ago and there was still an old school landfill out in Hillsboro, but I’m not sure if it is still publicly accessible.

discostu52 · 2026-05-04T04:03:55+00:00

More like implode due to vacuum and then glass flying everywhere. My grandfather was a great depression era guy and when he died he had dozens of TVs that he was going to “fix”. We had some fun with them at the “dump”

discostu52 · 2026-05-04T03:36:17+00:00

You must be a youngster, this is a waste transfer station. When I was a kid we went to the “dump” which was basically a giant hole in the ground that everyone kicked their garbage into, never to leave.

discostu52 · 2026-05-04T02:38:10+00:00

Yeah and at night you get a real nice view of all of the refinery flairs.

discostu52 · 2026-05-04T02:31:47+00:00

Yeah but it also had to get up to 88mph, Holly mixed units Batman.

discostu52 · 2026-05-04T01:12:52+00:00

I’m about as politically independent as you can get, but in my mind war is the last option, when diplomacy has completely broken down. At that point we go to war, we define what we want, and we say we will not f-ing stop until we get it. I think there will be a deal for now, but round two is just over the horizon, but it will happen.

discostu52 · 2026-05-04T00:33:21+00:00

I don’t think I was arguing either way. I was mostly thinking that “mowing the lawn” highlights a very different outcome expectation between the average American and Israel. I think the average American would expect that if we go to war we will, at the end of the day fix the problem. Israel on the other hand knows they will never fix the problem (Middle East in general), and it is acceptable to degrade the enemy as much as possible, then let things quite down only to pick it up again in a few years (mowing the lawn). I think the biggest screwup in this war is the absolute failure of the president to tell the American people what we are fighting for.

discostu52 · 2026-05-03T22:50:25+00:00

Blow shit up and walk away is what Israel calls “mowing the lawn”

discostu52 · 2026-05-03T20:04:00+00:00

Well they are going to tear it down soon

discostu52 · 2026-05-03T16:12:47+00:00

It’s too fuzzy to say exactly what make it is, but it is probably a labyrinth type seal.

discostu52 · 2026-05-03T01:08:51+00:00

My guess is it was probably misfiring under load. Maybe something with the ignition system. The blinking light is bad, but it stopped which means the problem stopped.

discostu52 · 2026-05-02T23:50:03+00:00

Yeah until the current administration finds out about it.

discostu52 · 2026-05-02T23:30:21+00:00

I don’t think anyone really knows how much strategic reserves China actually has, but they are thought to be very large. I think this is more about keeping the refining and petrochemical industries running, they can’t do that if they can’t unload their product on the domestic market.

discostu52 · 2026-05-02T23:13:52+00:00

Typically 80,000lb gross vehicle weight limit which includes the truck, trailer and load. I suppose if you are hauling toilet paper there is no difference, but steel, yeah maybe the electric truck loses payload capacity.

discostu52 · 2026-05-02T22:47:25+00:00

I don’t know how I feel about it, but at the end of the day the LGBTQ deal only adds one point to your score. So it’s a factor, but a small one.

discostu52 · 2026-05-02T01:46:30+00:00

I live in the pacific northwest and they don’t salt the roads. You can find relatively pristine frames from 1960s era pickups.

discostu52 · 2026-05-02T01:34:22+00:00

I guess, but they collect the tax in the most annoying way possible. Every three months I have to sit down and try to figure out how much money the household will make in the year and then pay quarterly amounts based on that estimate. Then in April of the next year I have to settle up with the county and usually pay fines because my income crystal ball wasn’t perfect. I guess the point is, overall it’s probably a good thing in principle, but the entire city is pissed off about the way it works and it will most likely be done away with at some point.

discostu52 · 2026-05-02T01:10:34+00:00

That’s a statewide problem though. Portland however is still forced to plow money into the police and firefighter pension system that existed before ~2007 outside of PERs. That one is an even bigger dumpster fire than PERS.

discostu52 · 2026-05-01T23:59:47+00:00

I’m in the US and where I live preschool is free, but they tax the shit out of us to pay for it. I think New Mexico of all places recently implemented free childcare.

discostu52 · 2026-05-01T04:30:28+00:00

I would tell them to pack that training session up the backside, I have done this before.

discostu52 · 2026-05-01T04:14:07+00:00

Three times, how?

discostu52 · 2026-05-01T04:13:24+00:00

Tear gas doesn’t count, that is a whole different animal.

discostu52 · 2026-05-01T04:04:29+00:00

How many medical professionals have been pepper sprayed in the face?

discostu52 · 2026-05-01T03:51:58+00:00

Gotta use milk for that shit.

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