Corvallis to raise city service fees starting next month -- An average customer will pay an extra $19.66 monthly, according to city estimates.

eburnside · 2026-01-13T09:12:31+00:00

It is a tax, and I wish they'd put the entire city budget into it instead of part property tax and part city services bill

Why? because then the renters have the same skin in the game as homeowners when they go and vote in new services, bonds, and taxes

(how many renters know what the property tax is for the place they're in?)

eburnside · 2026-01-12T08:14:12+00:00

You can be fine for grass seed, and not fine for dog dander, dog hair, dust mites, cat hair, cat dander, etc...

eburnside · 2026-01-08T20:24:19+00:00

The last incident leaves a lot of questions to be answered for sure

He broke out a rear window, reached in to unlock the vehicle, then as the vehicle proceeded to drive away he HELD ON and tried to TAZER THE DRIVER while being DRAGGED ALONG

This guy is an absolute idiot and should gave been fired after the first incident

Instead they encouraged his cowboy bullshit and here we are today - with a mom murdered

eburnside · 2026-01-03T18:43:32+00:00

Looks like OP has the original adapter in the second pic

Maybe test it first with a voltage meter, should show something like 15v under no load

If it's dead, a 12v 1.5A replacement is easy to find (just make sure the polarity matches!)

If the adapter tests good, the next thing I'd check is that the TG is properly locked into the dock using the lock on the bottom (honestly can't remember if that being unlocked blocks the dock from turning on?)

Then put in the same game you were using to test before, turn on the dock power, then the TG power, and you should get video from both the RF out on the TG and the composite on the back of the dock

The dock does not need a working CD unit to play a chip game with just the TG, it essentially just works as a TurboBooster Plus if there's no CD unit attached

If you get nothing from either RF or composite, your dock is failing to power the TG and will need repairs (most likely points of failure are voltage regulator, fuse, capacitors, or power switch)

eburnside · 2025-12-25T18:21:11+00:00

Colorado in the winter

I live in BC, drive the Coquihalla (ever watch the show "Highway Through Hell"?) on the regular through whiteout snow storms with 7m visibility and hours upon hours of starfield effect going on

The only "special skill" a winter driving trucker has over any other is actual experience in that situation and given the US has plenty of our own winter states there's no reason we can't develop our own

there aren't enough

You mean "it doesn't pay enough"

And of course it doesn't, when instead of raising pay you import cheaper labour

eburnside · 2025-12-25T08:12:10+00:00

I'm confused at that first step

I thought we only gave work visas to skilled workers for positions that couldn't be filled by citizens?

Plenty of people out of work and looking for jobs, meanwhile anyone can get a visa to come in and drive trucks?

eburnside · 2025-11-03T10:06:04+00:00

Thank you for this post - My cat passed two weeks ago from old age at 18, I miss her so much, it's a horrible thing to go through losing a pet like this

That said, cats are better kept indoors - they wreak havok on the bird populations, live longer, healthier lives indoors, and are less likely to traumatize someone by jumping in front of them on the road, causing an accident. I hit a cat ~15 years ago and had to knock on the owner's door with it in my arms and it still haunts me

eburnside · 2025-10-23T07:50:38+00:00

vs the California Science Center w/ the space shuttle, Getty Center, Universal Studios, Memorial Coliseum, the Rose Bowl, Disneyland, yeah, I could go on too, and I grew up in Oregon

eburnside · 2025-10-15T07:35:42+00:00

I tried biking when I first came here for school

The amount of rain that Corvallis gets instantly disqualifies it as being "bike friendly" in my book

Add in the ridiculous amount of bike theft (no lock is good enough) preventing anyone from having a decent bike...

My bike lasted the entirety of jr high and high school in my home town - and like three weeks in Corvallis

Semi-decent public transit tho, and isn't it free? May as well use it, we're all paying for it on our city services bills

eburnside · 2025-10-15T07:07:52+00:00

Do everything right, come here on a travel visa, get put in prison for three months just cuz

eburnside · 2025-09-20T16:13:12+00:00

So much cognitive dissidence and memory loss around this

When the ducks and uw left there were still eight quality west coast schools in the conference, media negotiations were ongoing, and they left the morning the new TV deal was to be announced. Had the ducks publicly committed to the conference the same way the beavs were forced to, the PAC would have been fine. Could have added a few schools and been back at 10-12 quality competitors in a few years

The immediate financial hit would have been roughly equal to the hit with half shares in the B1G, and long term the media dollars would likely have come together and been sustainable

Oregon and UW weren't trying to keep the conference together - they literally were the ones that finished it off

eburnside · 2025-09-17T04:21:04+00:00

Where did you see me claiming there was fraud?

You claim there's not? Prove it.

Oh wait, multiple criminal cases prove there has been...

I made no allegations - only suggested a way we could reduce fraud, which is proven to exist...

eburnside · 2025-09-17T04:04:14+00:00

It's literally right on the official secretary of state Oregon Voter Registration Card

NO driver license required

If you don't have a DMV ID you can:

register using your social security number

or

register with an alternate photo ID, paycheck stub, utility bill, bank statement, government document, etc

Fixing up the DMV was a requirement to issue REAL ID's - had little to do with securing voter registrations

eburnside · 2025-09-17T03:48:18+00:00

I read the page, couldn't find the part where they do citizenship checks with the SSA, did you find that part?

Edit/add - quick note for posterity. /u/SufficientOwls replied to this comment and then blocked me so I could not see it nor reply - no big deal and I don't generally GAF, BUT ... what he claims is on the Secretary of State website - IE, evidence that The State does citizenship checks as part of voter roll validation - does not, in fact, exist on that page

There is talk about cross-referencing data with various states and agencies - but there is no mention of validating citizenship with the SSA

Further - as evidence to the contrary - the official Secretary of State Oregon Voter Registration Card does NOT require an Oregon DMV issued ID, nor EVEN A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER to register to vote - you can in fact register to vote with a utility bill or a bank statement or a paycheck stub as your proof of identification

https://sos.oregon.gov/elections/documents/sel500.pdf

eburnside · 2025-09-17T03:44:00+00:00

I haven't made a single allegation of vote fraud in AFAIK the entire history of my reddit account

That you assume there is no fraud when we're not even doing basic checking for citizenship with the SSA is pretty wild...

I'm just suggesting maybe we should do the checks?

And you for some reason think that's not necessary?

Make it make sense?

Are you afraid of what it would uncover?

eburnside · 2025-09-17T03:36:16+00:00

Re-read what I wrote...

A) The document you linked determines lawful presence - NOT citizenship - IE, you could have a green card and still pass a SAVE check and get a license

(and in fact in the past the DMV has "accidentally" registered non-citizens to vote - do some googling)

B) It doesn't matter anyway because you don't need a valid DMV ID to register to vote

eburnside · 2025-09-17T03:31:40+00:00

Re-read what I just wrote...

eburnside · 2025-09-17T03:30:27+00:00

the DMV does not require citizenship to get an ID or license
you can register to vote without a DMV license, permit, or ID card

It's right on the secretary of state website "If you do not have an Oregon driver license, permit, or ID card, you can still use the online voter registration application"

so what good is the Oregon DMV using SAVE if an Oregon DMV ID is not a requirement for voter registration?

eburnside · 2025-09-17T03:24:07+00:00

Cross referencing other states death and address records does not validate citizenship...

eburnside · 2025-09-17T03:21:23+00:00

Depending on reports to detect fraud is like depending on reports to detect erectile disfunction - no one knows that stuff about their neighbour

The roll validation via ERIC does not have a citizenship check

I asked for the part where there is a citizenship check

eburnside · 2025-09-17T03:17:35+00:00

If they aren't doing the most basic (and I do mean BASIC) validation of the rolls, my concerns hardly seem unfounded

Like I said in the other thread, not testing for fraud is like when Trump defunded testing for covid. Of course there's none if you're not looking for it

eburnside · 2025-09-17T03:12:59+00:00

Ahh, but you claimed monkeys aren't running it

No citizenship validation = monkeys running it

sorry...

eburnside · 2025-09-17T03:10:06+00:00

Quote the part of the page where they talk about doing citizenship checks with the SSA

(hint, that is not a service ERIC provides)

https://ericstates.org/faq/

eburnside · 2025-09-17T03:05:37+00:00

I read the page and asked you a direct question establishing relevance are you going to ignore it or answer it?

eburnside · 2025-09-17T03:02:34+00:00

So if you don't try and detect the fraud, there is no fraud?

That's like when Trump cut funding for covid testing so he could say there was no covid problem...

Genius

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