• BossDj@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    If you’re bored. I’m drunk and will tell you stuff!

    The city of Lake Oswego, where this CEO lives in Oregon, gets it’s name from… A big lake. Called Lake Oswego.

    Now, Oregon has some fun and cool laws that are fun and cool, like every “navigable waterway” in Oregon, since statehood, must have public access. So for example all of the coastline in Oregon is open to the public, even though it’s windy, cold, and miserable 70% of the year. But in the summer, there’s tons of space to find quiet, beautiful peace.

    Lake Oswego, however, is in CONSTANT BATTLE with the state because the city is always trying to find loopholes to privatize the lake to the super wealthy people who live on the lake. Their lawyers, no joke, argues that “the public can see the lake. That’s access”. They even have a fucking stone plaque that says “private lake, stay on the sidewalk” at the adjacent park.

    It’s still in court. Right now, people can swim only in one of the parks. So it counts as access. But the people pursuing the most recent lawsuit are kayakers I think. So ongoing?

    Anyhow, Lake Oswego is pretty much the richville of Portland, Oregon suburbs and wants to kick out the plebs. Their Target is fancy.

    For locals, there’s a bad ass bar there I know the owners that’s fucking great with the best music in the state! Private message for that info. But fuck that city either way. The owners don’t live there.

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      Their lawyers, no joke, argues that “the public can see the lake. That’s access”. They even have a fucking stone plaque that says “private lake, stay on the sidewalk” at the adjacent park.

      Hypothetically, if someone were writing a fictional story about a Luigi type of hero in that situation, what would be the quickest and fastest way to destroy that stone plaque?

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          So. As a Stone Mason …I sorta feel obliged to point out that, sorry, that is a BRASS sign.

          Good news is it’s almost certainly been attached with 2 shortish pegs into the stone and some chemfix, epoxy or the like. Also a good chance there’s no pegs at all and it’s just epoxied straight to the stone…

          Either way, crowbar will, hypothetically, take that right off with no issues.

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            As a metal worker, if I were to remove the message from this sign, I might use an 18-20v e angle grinder and flap disk grinding wheel so the brass doesn’t foul it too quickly.

            Hypothetically, a cold chisel and hammer could work too, though it wouldn’t be as easy to leave a nice polished finish for marking the next message to visitors.

  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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    This was a workman’s comp insurance CEO not a US healthcare CEO. The difference is unlike healthcare insurers, workman’s comp isn’t paid into by the victim and they actually provide some benefit at least in theory.

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      Except if you ask anyone that’s ever had to deal with workers comp its always too little too late and a mountain of bullshit. Workers comp is arguably even worse than normal health insurance companies to deal with.

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        3 days ago

        Again in theiry the difference is workman’s comp still provides a service whereas other than rent seeking I am not sure what us health insurers do.

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    3 days ago

    Didn’t feel bad reading the headline

    Nobody was injured in the shooting

    But how quickly things change these days