A person with a ticket matching all six Powerball numbers in Saturday’s $1.3 billion jackpot came forward Monday to claim the prize, Oregon officials said.

The lottery ticket was purchased at a Plaid Pantry convenience store in the northeast part of the city, Oregon Lottery said in a statement.

Oregon Lottery is working with the person in a process that involves security measures and vetting that will take time before a winner is announced.

“This is an unprecedented jackpot win for Oregon Lottery,” Oregon Lottery Director Mike Wells said in the statement. “We’re taking every precaution to verify the winner before awarding the prize money.”

  • Flying Squid
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    -98 months ago

    Do you drink soda or alcohol? Vice.

    If you drink one glass of wine a month, that is neither bad nor a habit.

    Do you eat comfort foods when you aren’t strictly needing substance? Vice.

    Again, if you do this occasionally, it is neither bad nor a habit.

    Do you binge watch television? Vice.

    How is that a bad habit?

    Do you doomscroll? Vice.

    How is that a bad habit?

    Do you do anything at all that you look back on and say ‘maybe that’s not the thing I should be doing’ and then go on and do it again? Vice.

    I do everything I can to avoid this.

    No one is so virtuous as to be absent of vice and your self-aggrandizing, holier-than-thou sentiment is disgusting and abhorrent and in my estimation, a vice.

    “Saying you don’t have vices is a vice” makes not more sense than “saying you’re not a racist means you’re racist.”

    I never said I was virtuous. I said I don’t have any vices. You certainly haven’t shown that I do, you’ve only shown that you don’t understand what ‘habit’ means and you have a very conservative idea of ‘bad.’

    Habits are something I try to avoid unless they are beneficial.

    • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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      48 months ago

      By definition, once a month is a habit. Alcohol is technically poison. It’s not much of a vice, but since you are going for technicalities, it fits the definition. But no one can prove you have a vice over the internet. But the odds of any given person not having a vice are about as small as winning the powerball.

      • Flying Squid
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        -88 months ago

        I meant on average once a month. Come on.

          • Flying Squid
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            -18 months ago

            I never said I didn’t have habits. I said I don’t have vices.

            • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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              18 months ago

              It’s technically poison. So if you have a habit of drinking poison, that’s a bad habit. Which is a vice.

              • Flying Squid
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                08 months ago

                Once a month on average is not a habit. A habit is a regular thing.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    08 months ago

                    No? Some months I might have one drink, some months I might have three, some months I might have none at all. That’s what ‘on average’ means.

                    In other word, it is not habitual. It is occasional.

                    If you go to the movies five or six times a year, are you a habitual movie-goer?

      • Flying Squid
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        08 months ago

        I know exactly what a vice is, which is why I know I don’t have any.