Oregon officials say a person with a ticket matching all six Powerball numbers in Saturday’s $1.3 billion jackpot has come forward to claim the prize.

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
    1•3 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@lemmy.world
      1•3 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
        1•3 months ago

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

          • Flying Squid
            1•3 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@lemmy.world
              1•3 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
                1•3 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.

                • @Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
                  1•3 months ago

                  Yes on the habit technically. Thats a once every 45 year habit. But a vice? Well I don’t think eating a plum is bad for you unless you are allergic or something. So not a vice I think.

                  • Flying Squid
                    1•3 months ago

                    I don’t think you will find a single other person on this planet that would agree with you that doing something two times over the course of your entire life is a habit. Not one.

                • @Emmie@lemm.ee
                  1•3 months ago

                  Holy shit the colors of lines aligning with replies are so pretty. It’s 4 full rainbows.🌈

                  You guys truly have some serious vices of online pointless arguments. How humane of you.

                  I congratulate you on being just like the rest of us.