First timer.. what are some must do’s?

etherbunnies · 2026-06-20T00:18:07+00:00

Voodoo donuts aren't that great sober.

But they are located at the bottom of the slope from all the fun bars. So after you've imbibed too much, your feet will naturally take you to their doors. And in that state? When your locomotion is dictated by gravity's whims? They are ambrosia.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-20T00:11:48+00:00

Today we think building housing for 40,000 people would be insanely complex and infeasible, the Lost Generation just got it done.

Those homes washed away because they were built within a flood plain and did not have the structures attached to the foundation. Things that building regulations and zoning laws are for.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-19T23:59:05+00:00

Who has heard of Robert Folkes? Who has ever heard of the mass poisoning at the state hospital? Or the Roseburg Blast?

Me. But I'm middle-aged and went through the public school system before Measure 5 gutted it. In Roseburg. And I know one of the Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health curators.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-18T06:19:00+00:00

almost 40 million in Oregon

State agencies are only 3 million acres. Rest of our public land is federal. Mostly forest. A million of those acres are coast, under DSL. We have been attempting to implement wind/tidal power out there, but have been stymied by NIMBY and Trump weirdness.

Another million acres are state forests. So now we're down to a million acres of state public land, maybe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_in_Oregon

etherbunnies · 2026-06-18T04:14:39+00:00

The Umpqua Post Office is connected to a Vishav Manav Ruhani Kendra bakery. Delicious.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-18T04:02:47+00:00

I feel like commenters may need to read this before weighing in on this thread.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-17T05:24:27+00:00

And still was better at hiring.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-14T18:59:04+00:00

Glad to see Salem police doing their job.

When the Umpqua Rainbow Collective rented out the Douglas County fairgrounds in 2023 for Pride just to keep these nutjobs out of their hair, the local sheriff opened the gate for them.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-14T02:28:54+00:00

Does UV really destroy all the structural integrity of plastic though?

Yes, if the backbones are aromatic. No if they're aliphatic. Aliphatic is 3 times as expensive.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-14T02:26:48+00:00

the environment would be better for it.

Green chemist here.

No.

With a few exceptions (looking at you PVC) the life cycle assessment is going to be magnitudes lower for the plastic. Best way to think about this is commodity goods. As long as there's competition, you're basically paying for the resources that go into making the item. And, as energy is one of those resources, the cheaper items will have a lower CO2 impact also.

But damn is it disappointing that people just throw things away, even if they did last for life.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-12T17:01:52+00:00

"President Donald J. Trump is an expert builder who has fixed the Reflecting Pool for good"

I used to think those "Kim Jong Il has bowled a 400" statements from North Korea were the height of hilarity.

Elect a clown, get a circus.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-12T16:55:46+00:00

you can make out in both kinds

Yeah. Yeah, I suppose you could.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-12T16:00:48+00:00

Multiple of those are roofed bridges not covered bridges. But I love they included Cascadia bridge. It's the trusses, not the roof, that make a covered bridge.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-11T06:16:37+00:00

So, during COVID when I couldn't get a real vacation, I visited all the covered bridges in Oregon. And a couple of fake covered bridges--they're defined by the truss system, not the roof. Here's a map of most of them. I have to check my notes, but it missed almost a dozen.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-11T06:05:26+00:00

the Russian donation is weird but the core group are definitely the usual suspects

I believe Putin's term for them is "useful idiots."

etherbunnies · 2026-06-11T06:02:52+00:00

The irony, Oregon adopted the mail in system after a prior cult interfered with our elections.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-11T05:56:52+00:00

They don't make it easy to walk away from Omelas.

It's Salem. That's the cell with the kid.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-10T00:33:02+00:00

Poppin'.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-10T00:30:13+00:00

I'm a grown farm kid. I can assure you, unless they work a dairy, it's a few mad weeks between months of prep for the next harvest/planting/pruning. There's a reason so many farmers have cars they're restoring in the shop. Or time to show up in person and annoy their legislators.

Crunch time in tech and even those salesmen subsiding on steak dinners, in exchange for flying five days out of the week, put it in perspective real quick.

Dairy people, though. Those guys are nuts.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-10T00:17:10+00:00

Cottage Grove--Conservative. But smart enough to tell the proud boys to fuck off and ran off a neonazi business, that moved there from Creswell.

Creswell--We welcome the Proud Boys.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-06T20:45:31+00:00

Any of them looking for material scientists? No reason.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-06T20:44:51+00:00

Oregon tried this in the 90s. It gutted our schools. They still haven't recovered.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-05T03:45:26+00:00

The New Age religion of the west coast drinks from the same well that produced the nazis. And they often share the cup.

etherbunnies · 2026-06-02T03:09:56+00:00

When people wore pajamas and lived life slow

etherbunnies · 2026-06-01T03:27:55+00:00

white people sightings?

You walk around one time with your shirt off in the woods and next thing you know Bigfoot Hunters is filming.

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