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.”

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    That doesn’t make it any less financially irresponsible. “I can afford to be irresponsible at my current income level” suggests that they will have the same way of thinking if they happen to win.

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      Do you spend every single dollar you get responsibly? Do you have zero vices?

      Just because you’re different doesn’t mean you’re better. Get off it with this rhetoric and let people live their lives, especially when it has zero impact on you.

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        If by ‘vices,’ you mean spend money on something on the chance that I might get something good out of it but probably not, no. I do not have such vices. I spend money on things that benefit me. I don’t really see the benefit of buying a lottery ticket since it will almost always lead to disappointment.

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          I’d encourage you to look up what a vice is.

          It’s glaringly obvious your vices are different but I guarantee you have your own that some or many of us would find to be wildly irresponsible.

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            Okay.

            Unless you count using cannabis for medical reasons and not for recreation in a state that isn’t legal a vice, I do not have any vices.

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              I see you skipped the contextual definition immediately below the last one. Let me help you out:

              “A bad habit”

              Yes you do have vices.

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                  Idiotic take. You’re human, you have vices. It’s that simple.

                  Here’s some more help: https://factmyth.com/vices-and-virtues-explained/

                  Do you drink soda or alcohol? Vice.

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

                  Do you binge watch television? Vice.

                  Do you doomscroll? Vice.

                  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.

                  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.

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                    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.

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      Not everyone who plays the lottery plays it consistently. I think I’m reasonably responsible with money, and I’m probably spending something like $20/year playing the lottery. If I won, the very first thing I’d do is get a lawyer. I wouldn’t even tell my friends or family until I got things sorted with a lawyer.

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          That’s because you don’t hear about the majority of people winning the lottery. In some states, you can claim it anonymously (I know in CA you can’t). In those that don’t allow anonymous claims, you can set up an LLC to claim it.

          People tell stories about the lottery winners who go bankrupt, but there are million dollar tickets sold literally every week. You don’t hear much about those because the jackpots are in the hundreds of millions now.

          I am a fiscally responsible person with the amount of money I make. I spend more money on beer in a week than I do lottery tickets in a year, but I still drop a $20 when the jackpots hit a billion. If I would have won, I wouldn’t have told anyone except a trusted financial planner/adviser until all the stuff is all set up, and then I would only tell a few specific people. To everyone else, I would just say I helped a buddy start a new company that was sold to investors. You wouldn’t ever hear about me.

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            Even in California, the only information you’re required to release is your name and the city (maybe even the exact store) the ticket was purchased. You don’t have to get your picture taken and everything, someone with a commonish name living in a populated area could easily stay anonymous.