Yup, mass corruption ... and voters just shrug and keep supporting it while mumbling "I don't like it, but what choice do I have?"

The country has fully surrendered to the corrupt.

I guarantee almost every kitchen in Maine is hiring for a dishwasher right now. I’m not saying this is living the dream by any means, but being in an environment where you can learn some basic cooking techniques, eat for free at work, and probably earn overtime as an hourly employee would solve half of these problems.

There are solutions.

I mean, roommates exist.

Of course.

Rt.35

Anybody else grow up with 'no suh'?

Why would anyone listen to a computer wizard when it comes to climate and human nutrition is beyond ridiculous to me.

that seems like they at least treat business clients well. but you are paying a lot extra for reliability/service. Fairpoint always treated its business clients well at the expense of its residential clients... hopefully Consolidated didnt keep that as SOP when they took over.

back when I had Fairpoint service I couldnt get a live human to answer a call. On at least 3 occasions I had to get the PUC involved.

no worries about landlord... I own the building, tenants piggyback off my Wifi (I include it in the rent)... but they aren't around during the day (Bates students) when i'm working so they don't affect my bandwidth much.

yeah absolutely no idea why they are letting it rot. I remember going through having my street blocked for them to upgrade stuff on the poles and to pull fiber a while back so I know there is already fiber 50ft from my house on the pole. Oxford was so much better before Firstlight bought them. At that point in time I had upgraded to 150/20 DSL but when Firstlight bought them they removed that tier of service.

You need to homeschool them and live in an old bus though. Eventually one of them will stop talking to you and move away, but if you're lucky enough to stay Facebook friends you can see pictures of people being friendly.

They are sure long in the tooth out here.

That's kind of the whole point of this whole thing bro...

Yeah, just go to the big apple and listen to the clerk talk about baby mama drama, then go home and drink yourself to sleep. Eventually you'll grow a beard.

One friend is 35, the other one is 70.

Move to Providence.

The fact that people are recommending you meet young people at church is proof enough, it's a trap.

Agree. Anybody who says otherwise is gaslighting you or trying to get you to go to a puppet show.

Struggling to survive while doing meth and working part time*

Times like this it’s best just to admit defeat rather than prolong suffering.

You're right, you didn't prove my point. You only personify the example of the reactionary I described in my initial point.

You want to focus on blaming neighbors who have woodstoves while ignoring that everything we buy is shipped on ships burning the dirtiest fuel we currently refine, with zero emissions/efficiency standards for the ships that burn it, while we continue to increase annual shipping miles every single year. Better still you seem to have no understanding of annual global shipping emissions, which continue to increase year over year, or interest in changing it. If you did, woodstoves would not have been your chosen rebuttal.

Instead you jump at a comment about woodstoves as your point of contention. You aren't responding based on data, but reacting based on your emotional understanding of something you don't like; woodstoves or wood burners.

How can I make such a projection? Because you only want to react to rightful discounting of the global impact of woodstoves by getting defensive or declaring I am ignorant to their impact.

In the context of environmental impact you're tripping over dollars to point at pennies; A low information reactionary.

Yeah, Maine has already been overrun by them.

We can discuss the per annum increase in air miles, and lack of emissions/efficiency standards on commercial and private jets some other time. They too dwarf any impact that the average North American wood stove reliant resident has on the environment at large.

Plus expect a lot of second growth forest, trees not mature enough for building, useful just for newsprint, to become agricultural land, since longer growing seasons will enable farming for varieties of fruits and vegetables that are hit or miss today. Think beets, radishes, carrots, maybe broccoli, cabbage, etc.

That little access road that goes along Sommes Sound north of northeast harbor.

What? How did I prove your point?

For those that are saying the drug addiction isn’t the sufficient cause of his homelessness, my company would hire him for a caregiver role including a place to live half the time at >50k yr starting if it weren’t for that… and not only the drug use itself but from an industrial organizational psychology perspective all of the indicators about his problem solving capabilities, personality traits, etc that are relevant to working professionally… to those that say he’s on the drugs because of the situation… that’s worse when determining his qualifications to do a particular job, not better. It’s all related. Despite the cigarette mention, it’s not one decision that made this guy end up here. It was a series of decisions and absence of decisions.

Now I think this person needs help and all the compassion we can muster but the first step in solving the problem is identifying the problem correctly.

I do. I also am fully aware that we ignore all the emissions from industrial ocean going shipping around the globe.

Thank you for proving my point.