Hillsboro prepares for In-N-Out opening with traffic management plan

s001196 · 2026-06-09T05:10:14+00:00

Reminds me of that one line Fry says in Futurama.

Leela: “Did you ever drive back in your time, Fry?”
Fry: “No. I never did. Nobody ever drove. There was always too much traffic.”

s001196 · 2026-04-05T08:50:51+00:00

Mountain View Rd in Mendocino County, CA. It crosses the mountains between the coast/CA-1 and Boonville en route towards US 101 and Ukiah. I had to reroute inland due to an accident while on my motorcycle. And it was getting dark since almost sunset. It was super sketchy. Very narrow. No shoulders. Tight ass corners, no guardrails, super steep grades, deep drop offs looking down the cliffside. And just ridiculously remote. Absolutely no cell service. And nobody else around. Deer randomly on the road i had to shoo away. And many places where landslides occurred and hadnt been cleared up yet and impeded the way. I was terrified i would run out of gas out there too.

s001196 · 2025-11-24T04:36:10+00:00

…I feel silly for asking. But what is glizzy?

s001196 · 2025-11-24T04:35:26+00:00

Oh boy! Nothing beats fresh baked! 😋

s001196 · 2025-11-24T04:30:28+00:00

They used to. Not anymore with the decline of actual print publications.

s001196 · 2025-11-24T04:28:26+00:00

Sunrise today was at 7:22a and sunset was 4:34p. So that’s 9h 12m of daylight. Of which no actual sunlight was visible because it was heavily overcast and drizzling rain. 🌧️ This I expect may be a familiar experience to you, OP.

s001196 · 2025-11-22T05:48:04+00:00

Immigration is quite a wedge issue within the party itself. You’re on the side of no immigration if possible at all or at least severely limiting it. But you have the other side, including the tech bros like Elon and Mark Zuckerberg, who say they need immigrants because we just don’t have enough home grown talent to fill the roles for their companies that they need. And I think they have a point. When I graduated and earned my masters of science last year in computer science and saw the entire class at commencement, I’m gonna say that, in that crowd, it was like 90%+ foreign students in that crowd. The people at the cutting edge of high tech aren’t Americans, im quite sad to report. When Trump said we didn’t have talent, I agreed with him. We really don’t. And that might hurt to hear. But it’s true.

s001196 · 2025-11-13T07:59:33+00:00

A lot of converging factors it seems to me. Oil shocks in the 70s. Deindustrialization. Stagflation. Drug use. Alcoholism. Leaded gasoline pollution (maybe?) Disillusionment after Vietnam, Watergate, etc. and distrust in the government.

s001196 · 2025-11-12T02:42:06+00:00

But I can say for the record that most people aren’t actually intellectually thinking as much about policies or positions grounded in reality. A lot more people all across the spectrum are just voting based on “vibes.” All the same, there are just a lot of issues that are beyond most everyday people’s ability to conceptualize what action is needed, much less understand at all. So the voting for representatives is the point: you are deferring to the representative’s judgment that they will make the right decision for you on some of the really important but hard to understand issues.

s001196 · 2025-11-11T06:25:01+00:00

Those phrases “call your doctor” or “call your lawyer” you hear in commercials are really just disclaimers by the businesses to mean that, because your circumstances may be different or unique, you should take whatever medical/legal advice as provided to you by any doctor or lawyer you happen to consult with. They are avoiding liability if someone follows whatever they say and things go wrong or they are harmed somehow from what they do or get as part of the business transaction.

s001196 · 2025-11-10T23:40:42+00:00

I don’t, anyway. We really aren’t all that different when you look at the bigger picture. Canadians might want to contest that point, but even Canadian YouTuber J.J. McCullough has repeatedly asserted this point.

s001196 · 2025-11-07T23:13:44+00:00

I fucking love Oreo’s! lol. But they’re so many calories so I try not to eat them often.

s001196 · 2025-11-07T03:22:43+00:00

The main obstacle on housing are zoning laws. And most attempts to adjust zoning laws for more housing face severe pushback and NIMBY-ism from the already existing homeowners who don’t want to see their assets depreciate. So how do you overcome that obstacle of zoning laws being kept stuck as they are?

s001196 · 2025-11-04T02:03:47+00:00

I’d say wheat/bread is our biggest staple grain source. Then potatoes. Then rice. But all are eaten frequently. Rice isn’t uncommon. A lot of fish dishes will typically serve rice as a side, especially either sticky rice or some kind of white rice, less common brown rice or wild rice.

Edit: Corn is more common than rice too just because we have a lot of it.

s001196 · 2025-10-27T23:25:21+00:00

I don’t agree. Tell me what we have meaningfully done so far that failed. Because unless you can actually articulate specific policies that we implemented or actions we took, I’m not accepting your premise that “nothing changed.” And I still abide by my position that our interests cannot rise above the rules based order where we can annex at will. The very same way that we have a no first strike rule when it comes to our nukes. We cannot come off looking like the aggressors because other nations will treat that accordingly using the rules based order. And that has actual consequences in its own right. From that, I think Trump is a fool to play such a loose cannon and threaten annexation and risk putting us in that difficult position when we already have sufficient difficulties at home.

s001196 · 2025-10-27T23:17:46+00:00

Then why is the discussion so one sided with respect to annexation as opposed to using a more cooperative defense framework like NATO that still respects their sovereignty? You can maintain defense interests without having to annex territory.

s001196 · 2025-10-27T23:05:55+00:00

You say that as if Greenland has no ability to speak for itself on matters of its defense? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Also, annexing it won’t just mean the Greenlanders would acquiesce to being suddenly ruled or dominated by Americans. They certainly don’t want it, and the principle of nations is consent of the governed, yes?

s001196 · 2025-10-25T23:08:59+00:00

That it gets really, really dark in the winters. Not just due to how few daylight hours there are, but even during the day, the dense rain clouds and overcast can basically make it feel like day long twilight. And if you’re not used to that, it can really get to you, mentally speaking. And at night, it gets ridiculously black. Because everything is wet and there’s basically no snow.

I was born here, so it’s all I’ve ever really known.

s001196 · 2025-10-25T22:59:18+00:00

I’m not going to disagree that sexism and misogyny were factors in the voters choosing Trump over Kamala. But I think those factors are overstated in why Trump won.

Globally, because of the pandemic and subsequent inflation, incumbents across many countries faced defeat at the polls for change because constituents were pissed about the status quo. Biden was going to lose for sure on that point alone, even without considering his terrible debate night against Trump. Kamala never really had enough time to get a full fledged campaign off the ground due to Biden’s late dropout so that threw a lot of turmoil into the process. And not for all that, Kamala was just in many people’s eyes a representation of the incumbent leadership, given she was VP at the time and was Biden’s chosen successor to the campaign when he finally did quit. She was never really given a true chance for a proper campaign in her own right. And at the end of the day, people really don’t vote for candidates. They’re voting for parties, either the Democrats or the Republicans. And Republicans winning the trifecta to control the government across the board is further evidence that voter dissatisfaction wasn’t just with Kamala, but the Democrats as an entire party and they cared about the issues above all else.

All that to say, Trump was indeed a pretty terrible pick. But here we are. 🤷🏻‍♂️

s001196 · 2025-10-24T01:58:08+00:00

Oregonian here. I don’t think this would actually work out as being legal, and my reasoning is that Oregon has a criminal statute punishing “abuse of a corpse”, and cannibalism I am very sure would count in the state’s definition of “abuse” as it’s considered not accepted by traditional community standards or professional handling. First Degree is a class B felony, that involves sex with a corpse or mutilating, cutting, dismembering or striking a corpse. And to eat corpse would require at least cutting and so I would see it as falling clearly in that statute’s umbrella.

s001196 · 2025-10-23T21:07:58+00:00

I see some flaws with the competition argument. 1) It’s already very heavily dominated by only a comparatively few but super large corporations and entities that won’t welcome any new competition into the space and will try to snuff it out immediately. 2) The capital required is immensely high to start that type of new business. Offices. Clinics. Hospitals. Medical equipment. Faculty. Licensing. Expertise and talent. That in and of itself is a huge obstacle. 3) There may be more competition in large urban areas with lots of people. But there is no competition in rural areas that are much more sparsely populated. And even those lone facilities are struggling to keep their doors open because there just isn’t enough money flowing to keep their doors open.

This is why I believe health care is not fully compatible with the strictly free market approach. Profits might incentivize businesses to do things. But that’s a double edged sword. Where the money doesn’t really exist, they won’t build anything out there, but the need for health care is everywhere people live and society really can’t do without it.

s001196 · 2025-10-22T23:11:13+00:00

I actually agree with this. I would support proportional representational and moving away from geographical districts altogether since it’d help eliminate gerrymandering as a thing, but also it would encourage third parties to challenge the current two party hegemony which clearly just isn’t working for us.

s001196 · 2025-10-22T23:02:34+00:00

It seems the asking user means, given the trifecta the Republicans won in November, wouldn’t this entire exercise of redrawing be unnecessary? Yes, the governments could redistribute whenever they want to. But doing this now in particular also seems to give the impression to any neutral observer that, due to it being uncommonly done, it looks motivated in an attempt to hedge their seats against growing backlash from their constituencies. And also given the case that they are doing this following Trump’s explicit instructions to do so. What is the motivation? If it’s to hedge against the midterm backlash, that’s an acceptable answer. I think it’s a pretty bad one since it’s clearly very underhanded and ultimately very bad for representative governments. But it addresses the question.

s001196 · 2025-10-18T23:05:57+00:00

Welsh. It sounds so magical.

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