I don’t travel much past Freeport these days. More so to Mass and back, quite often so our grandson can visit his mother. I’m doing 70 in the middle lane and I’ve got crazies blowing by me in the left and right lanes. Swerving! No blinker! There is literally no common sense and no respect ! I was told I was in the wrong lane and going too slow one time.

Right. As I said, a lot of Maine doesn't though. I didn't say none of maine.

BAYONETS!!!!!!!!!

"last desperate push" my ass. It was a bayonet charge, downhill, into a bunch of guys exhausted from running uphill. It was the correct tactical decision, and the one most likely to succeed even if they weren't almost out of ammunition.

How many guys from Maine does it take to win the civil war?

Southern Maine has three lanes.

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Lol nice comeback? A little weed that I use for a severe medical condition, has nothing to do with the fact that I can’t dish out almost $1k or more for snow tires. Even if I did manage to come up with that kind of money, I live in an apartment building and have absolutely nowhere to store them. Get a fucking clue buddy, not everyone has some comfy ass life like you clearly do. Kindly eat shit. EDIT: Oh, and did I mention I’m from Massachusetts? Just wanted to give you an extra reason to hate me😉😘

We call sneakers designed for playing tennis “tennis shoes”. It would be weird to call, like, basketball sneakers “tennis shoes” though.

It’s been illegal in the US forever to my knowledge. I was playing Full Tilt Poker for money at age 13 in 2004. I wonder why they shut it down

If you fucking tell me to buy snow tires I swear it I'm gonna shove em up your ass. Unless you're willing to offer your garage for storage for the ten months I don't need them, I'll just stick to driving smart during snow.

And often times it ends up being a 2-pack by the time they get home.....

all seasons are fine for snow for the most part. I've never had anything but and I've only gone off the road in snow once or twice, both times because I was young, going too fast and learnt my lesson after the second time.

No, it's the people who tell others to get snow tires or get off the road. They think because they've 4 wheel drive and/or snow tires that means they'll never go off the road and can go thirty over the limit.

I say "people don't know how to drive in the snow" frequently. I also drive slowly in icy and snowy conditions. Usually slow enough that people back up behind me and are quite obviously very angry because they can't go 20 over like they want.

It’s common in cars and trucks with rear wheel drive, gravity means the tires are working harder to stay in contact with the road, hills tend to ice up from the water running down them and all your power pushing instead of pulling means that if the tires lose control your basically a pendulum. It’s why you will sometimes see the DOT plow trucks reverse up hills, but that’s more common in very rural areas.

You know what stops people from getting to the hospital? Causing an accident.

That isn’t our reality. Our reality is that there hasn’t been any new tenants in many of these structures and many current tenants are renting shithole end-lifecycle properties.

Easiest example is the Airport Mall in Bangor. Every drop panel is brown from water damage at the dollar store, and 90% of it is vacant. The Bangor mall has like 4 out of possible 40 tenants. The landowner will keep running it into the ground and shorting the value of neighboring structures.

These landowners waiting for “someone to bite” are creating blight and butterfly effects the surrounding community. Blaming blightingly buildings on the lack of tenants is like a vacuum salesman blaming the customer on not wanting to buy a vacuum.

All of these pseudo-commercial shopping districts are heavily subsidized by the taxpayer, from the wasted land use within the city limits, to the extra road/sewer/power maintenance. Rather than incentivizing the repairing of these structures, it’s incentivized to just build more 30-year big boxes and let the old ones rot.

How about the people who live in Maine but have never even thought to prepare for bad weather? I know people who have lived here for their whole life and have never bought a generator. Yeah its rare but you still need to prepare for it.

I remember emailing the Maine Turnpike Authority in 2020 about why variable regulatory speed limits are limited to ORT plazas and got the following response at the time:

We do not have any plans at this time install variable speed limits signs at locations besides the ORT plazas. Our flashing 45 MPH signs are technically advisory signs, however motorists can still be issued a ticket for imprudent speed. ORT plazas are different than the rest of interstate and making it regulatory vs advisory prudent.

Good day to you.

The original argument here was that you try to justify your claim that nuclear generation is ideal by saying that nuclear accidents don’t happen. That’s false. You won’t convince anybody who doesn’t already share your view by making claims that can be so easily verified as false. Then when you’re presented with a fairly long and comprehensive list of accidents, you say they’re not accidents. Well, according to the scientific community they are accidents. I don’t think your determination carries more weight. In short, people don’t want nuclear power because of the risk, however remote the possibility of a serious accident might be. You won’t be convincing anybody otherwise.

That's when I tweak all my mirrors - useless at that point but I can see.

Most of the time in Maine there's only a left lane and a right lane. No "far right lane."

Cope

“Risk free” Let’s be sure to consult Super-Lychee8852 on the risks to nuclear power generation here. This guys knows what’s up.