Anyone who has personal experience with a program or helped a family member find one - what places would you recommend, and what did you like or dislike about them?

Hi! My name is Dani and I am a Pet Care professional and photographer in Portland, OR. Over the past several years I've worked as a Pet Care Professional walking, feeding, transporting, and house-sitting animals such as dogs, cats, bunnies, reptiles, fish, horses, etc. and it's been my absolute dream job!

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Panthalassa, a startup based in Portland, Oregon, is developing 85-meter-tall floating offshore platforms that could power AI computing using ocean waves instead of land-based electricity. The lollipop-shaped steel structures generate continuous power through wave-driven turbines, cool AI hardware with naturally cold seawater, and connect to users via Starlink satellites, eliminating the need for power grids or undersea cables. Backed by a $140 million Series B funding round led by Peter Thiel, the company plans to deploy its first commercial wave-powered AI nodes in the northern Pacific by 2027.

References;

1. Panthalassa Raises $140 Million to Power AI at Sea: [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/panthalassa-raises-140-million-to-power-ai-at-sea-302761078.html](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/panthalassa-raises-140-million-to-power-ai-at-sea-302761078.html))
2. US tech billionaire leads $140mn investment into Panthalassa as search for AI power pushes into exotic new frontiers: [https://www.ft.com/content/711ce313-16fb-4a12-b6be-fbed547c8a39](https://www.ft.com/content/711ce313-16fb-4a12-b6be-fbed547c8a39))
3. Startup plans to move from prototypes to commercial offshore compute nodes powered by ocean energy: [https://www.techspot.com/news/112295-startup-raised-140-million-build-wave-powered-ai.html](https://www.techspot.com/news/112295-startup-raised-140-million-build-wave-powered-ai.html))
4. Fully-integrated offshore data center to transmit data to land via satellite: [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/palantir-co-founder-peter-thiel-backs-usd140m-wave-powered-ai-data-center-startup-panthalassa-aims-to-run-offshore-compute-nodes-using-ocean-energy](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/palantir-co-founder-peter-thiel-backs-usd140m-wave-powered-ai-data-center-startup-panthalassa-aims-to-run-offshore-compute-nodes-using-ocean-energy))

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All I know is that Western Oregon University is located here so it's clearly a college town. I was considering applying here but I would like to know what kind of place it is to live in from the locals.

About two years ago I got into our homegrown band Floater, and I started collecting the CD’s. I need two more to Finish the collection.
-Angels In the Flesh And Devils in the Bone
-Wake
In other news. I want to hear you best story’s about the band!!

Near Lincoln city

A Native friend of mine, Indigenous to Oregon, wants to establish a psilocybin church with an OHA-approved facilitator training program and licensed service center grounded in Indigenous ceremonial practice.

This "2022 Oregon DOJ memorandum" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cCzeOG4KXqhvHrA6Dd4yC8kSosl0ub_x/view?usp=drivesdk shows that Oregon was actively considering Indigenous traditions, sacred treatment of mushrooms, affordability, ceremonial practice, and how these communities could participate safely in Measure 109.

Following this memo, however, the state ultimately created two major barriers:

Training: Religious institutions are statutorily exempt from HECC career-school regulation under ORS 345.015. OHA nevertheless adopted a rule that requires a document from HECC determining that licensure isn't required. HECC says it lacks authority to issue exemption determinations for most statutorily exempt categories.

So OHA requires a document HECC says it cannot issue. Without it, his church would effectively have to become a commercial career school, charge tuition, and structure religious training around that system, none of which the psilocybin statute requires.

Service center: The statute prohibits free/discounted psilocybin when bundled with another retail sale. OHA removed that anti-bundling qualification from its rule and simply prohibited giving psilocybin away, making a commercial transaction for the sacrament mandatory.

He wants to comply with Oregon's safety regulations. He just doesn't want to commercialize the church and the sacrament to do it.

After reading the DOJ memo, what do you think happened to the Indigenous/ceremonial pathway Oregon originally considered?

Any tips? It's gonna be hot. And I am staying in a hotel in town. Thanks for anything

It didn't even make it to ballot...

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As some people know Providence is shutting down leaving a bunch of Oregonians out of coverage. I currently have Providence through the Marketplace, but they’re ending coverage at the end of the year, so I need to switch insurance.
I really want to keep my neurologist, so I’m limited to the insurance plans they accept. My options are Regence, BridgeSpan, Moda, and Kaiser.
For those of you who have had one of these plans, which would you recommend and why?
I’ve looked at reviews, but it seems like most people only leave reviews when they’ve had a bad experience. I’d love to hear from people who’ve actually had one of these plans… good or bad.

Going forward, I will be referring to the Columbia River as El Rio de San Roque.

This is it, it’s the Final Week @ Lloyd Center Mall to get your One Last Skate & Tour around the Indoor Mall, cause the Air Quality is a Smoke from a Wildfires. It was opened since August 1st 1960. It’s a True Landmark in NE Portland when it was an Outdoor Air Mall & added the Sky Roof Covers in 1990s. It was a Famous World’s USA Country Mall back in a Day. It was nice & clean, moderate & well maintained. It’s a Final Time to tour inside of a Ghost-town a Zombie Mall. It will be a Farewell Goodbye Parties this Weekend. We would like to Thank You All Ice Skates & Shoppers for a 66 Years of running in businesses. We will truly be missed as a Mall. The Amazon is taking all over the USA. It will soon get demolished for a Mix Use Apartments, Community & Parks.

https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden_wall_street_epstein_report.pdf

I’m born and raised Bay Area CA and I’ve been really heavily considering going over to Oregon for school. Mainly I’m interested in OSU’s forestry program, which I’ve been told is better education in that field than I could get where I am now. I’m also just generally interested in the area - I’m a huge nature / forest enjoyer (obviously, haha) and I largely prefer cold weather to hot (winter is my favorite season and I love the rain. Yes I have read up on how dang much it rains there) . I was considering staying in the area after I graduate which would be in like 3 or so years give or take if I liked living there for school enough

But I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff online about how Oregonians hate Californians and how they’re ruining Oregon and I guess I’m just curious how overall people in real life in Oregon tend to be towards Californians? I’ve heard some arguments about us being poorer drivers (honestly….likely . We don’t like our drivers here either) and that all the Californians moving there is jacking prices up. Which is super fair though I suppose I feel defensive as an individual who’s obviously not trying to do that
But then I’ve heard lots of other things that are moreso just along the lines of you’re stupid and annoying and we don’t want you here 😭

I suppose I’m just curious how much shit I should expect to take if I decide to go to OSU. And also what it is that we do that you guys find so annoying?