u/bigblackcloud

Of all the reasons people don't tip, I've never heard the one that the author makes the main point of the article:

I understand that many of you think that if you don’t tip, the owner will raise our (the workers) wages.

Tasty Corner near PSU. I think the lunch special is 12.99 and it's a bunch of food plus soup and a spring roll.

Play around with it before committing. I wanted to do GIS because I love maps, but ended up not really liking the actual interface/work - messing around with file types, troubleshooting unintuitive GUIs, etc.

Not to say it's not a good career, just wasn't my cup of tea.

But yeah it is very much computer work. Maybe you could look into more remote sensing/LIDAR/drone experience if you want to do field work. Or a GIS cert in combination with that.

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It's difficult to make robust associations. It's more like slightly weighting the dice than "el nino causes x to happen". The connection between ENSO and PNW weather is weaker than California, and since it's a multi year cycle and we only have good records of ENSO going back to the 50s, the data is sparse (e.g. maybe only 10 good El Ninos to even draw data from).

NOAA has a cool tool where you can look at all ENSO periods and the associated weather, you can play around with looking at our region and temp and precip and see there's a ton of variability https://psl.noaa.gov/enso/difference/

Clearly not what I said.

When we get east wind in winter it tends to be cold and dry. The wind direction is from the south and west when we get rain.

Not in the last heat dome, the one in 2021. Nothing we've had since has come close to those temps.

The latest line I've seen pop up online is "there was no war. It was a limited precision military operation."

Seattle tends to be exactly 10 degrees cooler than Portland on these heatwave days so that tracks. I know someone in Vancouver and they act like it's the heat dome again whenever it's close to 80.

Is this subreddits yearly freakout over any weather above 85 because of SF transplants or something? Other than Alaska or parts of WA there aren't many places with a more mild summer than us, especially if you factor in humidity. And even before the recent decades warming, Pdx averaged something like 20 days above 90 in a summer, and a handful of 100 degree days.

People have sort of noted it, but not explicitly: the heat here peaks later in the day than in the east and southeast. The hottest time of day is 5-6pm. So even on the hot days, you have a lot of the day to be around outside when it isn't too hot.

The flip side to that is of course that it can still be hot later into the evening.

Some questions that would make this more informative: Are the points long term averages, or just recordings that year? What kind of data is used to estimate the future?

This is also simply because the wind generally blows from west to east. For smoke to affect Portland or Seattle there has to be a reversal or stagnation (e.g. the 2020 fires in Oregon were made much worse by a strong wind from the east). It's much more common for us to get onshore flow from the Pacific in the summer though, so we tend to be upwind of most fires.

It's not uncommon to get residual rain from the SW monsoon in Oregon late summer.

Not sure what vibe you're looking for, but if you want a commercial area with bars and shops and restaurants and such to wander around, the east side of the river is more stereotypical Portland. There's a bike share program that has e-bikes and scooters, I'd get that and choose some commercial areas on the east side and bike between them on the neighborhood streets, get some food, drinks, etc. Hawthorne, Belmont, Burnside, that vague area roughly between the river and 39th. Fun way to spend a couple hours.

Yeah for sure, I know we can't expect anything to be totally analog. I just remember a New Yorker (?) article a month or so ago where a parent found out her kindergartener had a bunch of unrestricted tablet time in school and it freaked me out.

The main thing I worry about is the screens. I think a child's educational attainment is really influenced by the parents and I feel invested in the idea of public education. But, the if first graders are being given chromebooks to talk to an AI or whatever because some ed-tech company is swindling the taxpayers and selling this shit to the district, that's the one thing that makes me think of sending them to somewhere private that wouldn't do that. I hope the pendulum swings away from that in the coming years before my kid is older.

After arguing 20 comments deep - "anyway I'm off to get some brews and watch the game and shoot the shit with my buds, have fun being online"

Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Just had a baby in Portland, people are not like this I promise you. The way people here talk about Portland is so disconnected from reality.

YOUR TURN SIGNAL SHOULD BE ON BEFORE YOU START BRAKING FOR THE TURN, NOT AFTER.

"students can now use AI to write novels without all the laborious writing! They produce so much text! Novels are cool, what are you talking about??"

This makes it sound like the excitement is about what product the student produces more easily, but not whether they learn anything about the underlying mechanics. Treating students like little engines where the goal is just more more more output with little thought. Truly the most tech-oriented viewpoint, for sure.