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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    18 months ago

    That is not what habit means.

    Going to the movies 5 or 6 times a year is neither settled nor regular.

    • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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      18 months ago

      Now look up tendency. Any number range per year is a regular tendency. Per year is regular, and any nonzero number is tendency. The English language is shit. I before e except after c and several hundred other exceptions.

      • Flying Squid
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        18 months ago

        Nonsense. It’s entirely relative.

        Per year is regular for a medical checkup.

        Per year is not regular for eating an egg salad sandwich. Especially when it is an average of once per year and not definitely once per year.

        Is getting a medical checkup a habit? If so, is it a vice? Because, again, I don’t deny I have habits. I’m denying I have vices.

        • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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          18 months ago

          Nothing in the definition says anything about relative. You are applying your interpretation to the definition. But everyone can have a different interpretation. So you can’t do that and still be “technically” correct.

          • Flying Squid
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            18 months ago

            Are you seriously claiming that having, on average, one egg salad sandwich a year is both a habit and a vice?

            • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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              18 months ago

              Pretty sure I never said anything specific about egg salad. But yeah, English sucks. Technically it is a habit.

              • Flying Squid
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                18 months ago

                No, I said something specific about egg salad, on average, once per year and you said it is a habit.

                Me:

                Per year is not regular for eating an egg salad sandwich. Especially when it is an average of once per year and not definitely once per year.

                You:

                Nothing in the definition says anything about relative. You are applying your interpretation to the definition. But everyone can have a different interpretation. So you can’t do that and still be “technically” correct.

                So basically everything anyone could possibly do from swallowing a thumbtack to dying of listeria is a habit.

                • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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                  18 months ago

                  I keep trying to tell you that english is a shifty language. I believe you can exclude one time events if you dig into the definitions of the words used in the definition of habit. But that is probably the technical limit of things truely excluded.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    18 months ago

                    I see… So if you eat a plum when you’re 6 years old and then never eat another plum again until you’re 90, it’s not a one-time event, and therefore is a habit and a vice.