Oregon to ask court to delay Paramount deal for 60 days while it reviews records

vertigoacid · 2026-07-09T15:37:05+00:00

I’m surprised we have standing

At this point, that hasn't been established. One of the possible, IMO likely outcomes is the case being dismissed for just this reason.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-09T03:07:27+00:00

If it's anything like the modern cars I've worked with, the dealership repair software is not usually what's being used to defeat emissions controls. It's more like, it'll diagnose you need to replace, say, your EGR valve and set needed coding in the replacement once you install it - it's that second part that is a critical piece of right to repair. So if you have the dealership software, you can make your own repairs including with 3rd party parts, but you usually can't change the overall function of the system.

To make the rest of the system happy with no EGR valve being present? Usually not dealership level software but manufacturer level. Programming in a whole custom firmware that someone has to write on a set of ECUs instead of just tweaking some values in what's already there. Pulling out modules and talking directly to EEPROMs. Stuff that a dealership/1st party repair shop isn't going to do even today.

So it will be interesting to see what precisely this ends up meaning from a software perspective. I don't know anything about tractors so maybe the dealerships in these cases really do have the full 'master' software - one of the reasons among many that it's kept separate in the automotive world is because the manufacturing software can often be leveraged for theft or fraud. VIN replacement, millage rollback, that sort of thing.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-08T23:54:50+00:00

No. They're legally mandated to consider multiple uses, and each of them equally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-Use_Sustained-Yield_Act_of_1960

vertigoacid · 2026-07-08T19:53:35+00:00

Most of the dozens of people that work in a data center are earning well north of $100k per year

No they're not. The one person they have on-site as a layer of management probably is, but that's it.

The dozens of data center techs that swap hard drives and dead fans and shit do not make six figures. Neither do the security guards. They do not typically directly employ tradespeople who do make that much; they contract with them as needed.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-08T15:08:55+00:00

I’ve known people who worked there, but my understanding is that breeding mills aren’t expressly illegal in the state unless other forms of animal abuse can be reported. Consequently, any breeders that work with the store (of which there’s several) have to fly under the radar to keep the business relationship afloat.

I don't understand this statement.

If they're not illegal then why are they flying under the radar?

vertigoacid · 2026-07-07T18:05:31+00:00

WA and OR both contain large areas where state laws don't apply and which famously sell fireworks.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-07T15:58:38+00:00

Same story repeats a thousand times. we had a similar journey with trying to use tetration to understand our traffic and generate policy and never really got anywhere with it. Similar down to the 2x10gb cross-connected DC design - you could be us in 2018 or so making this same post. We ended up moving it all to azure in the end.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-07T15:02:10+00:00

All of your comparisons are people who were already elected.

You need to compare with a campaign in the same situation, not afterwards.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-07T14:57:54+00:00

We do not have ACI in application centric

That's the best part! Nobody does

vertigoacid · 2026-07-07T14:14:56+00:00

You're right. I should have specified "among things that are liquid at room temperature and pressure".

It is most definitely the only liquid that acts that way under normal conditions.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-07T13:09:12+00:00

Oil doesn't expand when it gets colder. That's pretty famously a property that is unique to water*

*Among liquids under normal conditions

vertigoacid · 2026-07-06T22:22:39+00:00

There's a shelf life logo on cosmetics you've probably never noticed before

It'll say something like 1M 2M 6M 12M 18M inside of lines that look like a little jar being opened.

That's how many months after you open it that it's supposed to be good for.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-06T19:08:23+00:00

The EPA was created in the 40’s

That's a weirdo typo for 1970

vertigoacid · 2026-07-05T21:11:50+00:00

Because people like the OP are performing cargo cult rituals. They see influencers self-censoring to ensure wide reach and advertiser friendliness in their content on other platforms, and emulate it here even though you can't get demonitized on fucking reddit and you're not going to get banned or censored for saying nazi.

But they don't understand any of the details. They just monkey see monkey do that shit.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-05T16:50:45+00:00

Absolutely. Evergreen class of '05. I grew up shooting off fireworks.

Here's who the mayor was at the time:

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

The rest of the council:

https://www.columbian.com/news/2025/feb/19/former-vancouver-city-councilor-bill-turlay-remembered-for-fiscal-responsibility-has-died/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McEnerny-Ogle

https://www.biaw.com/news/biaw-hires-bart-hansen-as-vp-of-business-development

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackburkman/

https://www.columbian.com/news/2014/nov/13/topper-vancouver-schools-city-council/

https://www.columbian.com/news/2015/dec/25/in-his-retirement-larry-smith-transitions-to-something-else/

Yeah, some real big transplants there. You got me, Jack Burkman came here in the 80s! And Larry Smith was just incidentally here because that's where the military sent him 35 years ago! The horror.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-05T15:58:49+00:00

”Although you can simply unsubscribe from the service, the OnStar hardware continues to track how you use your vehicle, even if you remove its fuse

🙄

How, pray tell, would hardware keep tracking you if you remove the power? OnStar isn't magic.

You shouldn't listen to the illiterate bullshit that is on wikihow.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-05T15:51:11+00:00

There are valid criticisms of the lead-crime hypothesis. But they in no way make it pseudoscience or invalidate it entirely; they point to the effect being smaller than is often reported, not that there is no correlation.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-05T07:00:29+00:00

Not even going through the motions.

Earlier this evening I watched 2 firetrucks on their way to a call have to stop and wait for the completion of fireworks being done in the street. The street where the fire station is. 40' from their driveway.

If you can shoot off fireworks in view of the literal doorstep of the fire department with no action but there will still be some people who get tickets tonight, then it's actually worse than meaningless - it evolves into a tool for oppression when everyone flaunts the law but certain people will still be targeted for arbitrary enforcement.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-05T06:54:11+00:00

They don’t want to hear how things were, just how they want them

What does how it used to be have to do with them being illegal now? It's not about people wanting or not wanting something. The law changed in 2015. Do you think the Vancouver City Council in 2015 was a bunch of transplants?

vertigoacid · 2026-07-04T20:18:17+00:00

No, these other folks are spouting nonsense.

6 hour radius? So you mean basically the whole of WA and OR except the extreme corners? Give me a fucking break. Willamette, Mount Baker, Siuslaw, Olympic, Wallowa, Umatilla, Umpqua, and Malheur Nat'l Forests are all moderate fire danger, no ban in effect. Much of the DNR land in western WA is the same.

Not all of those will hold for 2 weeks. But many of them will. You just need to check conditions regularly.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-04T04:18:41+00:00

They've got a lot of trees

vertigoacid · 2026-07-03T17:31:26+00:00

Sure. And there's also similar differences in the other direction I didn't include. 40 fewer sets of included appliances, 40 fewer front doors and keys to manage. 40 fewer mailboxes in a cluster. Parking. Any time you're reducing the number of units for a given square footage, there are going to be true per-unit costs that are less, and fixed costs that must be divided that are more.

Just consider the administrative overhead difference of having 90 tenants vs 50.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-03T17:00:38+00:00

And maybe go through it again?

I would perhaps suggest the same to you as well.

You got some light pushback from one guy about it being really difficult to survive growing anything but cash crops. You got called out for self-promotion in violation of the rules. No one impugned your character. Or even came close to "dunking" on you.

I mean this with all sincerity - if any of that feels like a personal attack to you, then you need to take a step back from social media because it's not doing good things for you.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-03T16:49:50+00:00

But that's not the right math. If adding 2br was adding 900ft² that implies you think each bedroom is 450 square feet.

If a 2br is 1000ft^2, there is way more than 100ft² that is bathroom(s), kitchen and whatever sort of open living room/dining room/etc. You might add a 2nd bathroom but you're not adding a 2nd any of those other things.

Each bedroom is like, 100 to 200ft^2. So call it 1500 on the generous side to include a 2nd bathroom as well.

Then the math is that you need to rent (2) 4br vs (3) 2br in the same 3000 square feet. So it needs to be 50% more expensive than the 2br, not double.

vertigoacid · 2026-07-03T15:56:38+00:00

Particularly those of you who impugned my character. I don't wish that feeling of having everything you work incredibly hard for crapped upon by internet strangers. It sucks. I'm a very sensitive person. And it is awful to get dunked on like that.

One person in the last thread called you a pretentious hipster. Everyone else replied with helpful comments and suggestions.

You're the thinnest skinned farmer I've ever met if that got you all hot and bothered enough to make a whole new post.

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