I work at a semiconductor fab in Portland Oregon, we get 5 weeks paid vacation. There''s a fairly large group of my coworkers who never use their vacation or sicktime out of principal.

I think it's exciting witnessing this platform take off almost literally overnight. The past few days I've been trying to figure out how lemmy actually works with little success. Tonight though it's actually clicking, there's actually content and discussion.

Unfortunately I lost my shirt that I paid a fucking whole bitcoin for.

Its just so simple. I see people complaining about getting Nvidia drivers to work on Linux, with Mint it takes like two clicks.

Uber jacks up prices in "airport zones" to an insane degree. For example an Uber from Seattle to Sea-Tac is about $75. I rented a car in Portland, drove up to Seattle for the weekend, and drove myself to the airport for $60. An Amtrak ticket from Portland- Seattle is around $40 usually.

This doesn't work everywhere, but when I'm flying back into PDX (the best airport) I'll take the light rail public transit two stops and get a ride share from the Target parking lot. Ends up being about half the price once you're far enough away.

How do we deal with the areas with no people living in them?

I'm mostly joking, but an extreme proposal like this would probably only take effect in metropolitan areas. 80%+ of Americans live in an urban setting. Electric trains and busses in the city, electric trucks in the country.

I’d hardly call requiring an item be unlocked to purchase being treated like a felon, but I understand that it annoys/upsets people. Just a bit of an overstatement there though seeing how felons are treated much, much worse in reality. Kind of insulting to what felons actually have to deal with tbh.

Its having an armed security guard rifle through all your groceries on the way out to check receipts. The Stadium FM has a gravy seal in body armor stopping everyone at the exit. Its illegal to force anyone to stop though so you can just tell them no and keep walking.,

Pepper-spray festival?

*swan boats

This is why passenger train travel is abysmal in the US. Amtrak owns almost none of the tracks they operate on. When the trains are running there are consistent hour+ delays due to waiting for freight trains to pass. Amtrak built a "shortcut" in the Tacoma area to bypass a lot of the Seattle/Tacoma area rail yards. The first train on it derailed from taking the first corner twice as fast as it was supposed to.

I tried to take a train from Portland to Seattle in April. Amtrak sent me a text the day before the trip saying "All trains are cancelled due to weather, a bus will be provided for you." I got a robocall the next morning saying the same, but to stay on the line to talk to an operator. After about an hour hold the customer service agent said, "Yeah there was a landslide and its blocking the tracks. There won't be a bus, there never was going to be a bus, I don't know why the system sent that message out. Would you like a refund?" It ended up being the same price to just rent a car for the weekend.

LA probably has more laws about fishing from piers than Phoenix does too. Places with higher gun crime rates combat that with gun laws.

Just to add that a lot of times it actually runs some games better than on the actual switch, and has limited mod support. I'm running TOTK @ 1440p 60fps

My coworker just bought a car and was stoaked he only paid $3000 over sticker price.

One "so" is sufficient acknowledgment Captain.

I was hoping for a giant laser tag arena.

Reading the Yelp reviews on the old Oregon Theater is hilarious.

Mike H - 4 Stars -
Had a nice time late this afternoon at the Oregon Theater. It wasn't very crowded but there was a very cool and good looking couple. She was younger than him and she was very attractive. Her and her partner had sex for awhile in the couples section before moving to a massage type table near the big screen and inviting half a dozen men to join in for a gangbang. Enjoyed meeting you Bryan, and your lady whose name I did not learn. Before you left, we spoke about arranging a bukkake scene for your lady. Hope to hear from you whenever she is ready to make it happen. Take care. Mike

They could just ban the manner of data collection that TikTok does, but that would affect all the US social media apps too.

We should be investing in researching longer lasting vaccines. The current mRNA vaccines only give their full protection for about 4 months. Moderna and Pfizer are making insane money by peddling boosters. Here's a great piece from OPB about the topic.

Not sure about that specific model, but manual/standard cars use transmission oil. I have a VW Tdi 5 speed and its similar engine oil but its a wacky oil weight. Automatic transmission fluid is totally different. It has detergent in it which is why new stuff will break down any old gunk that has built up.