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Glucose12 t1_j4lih2h wrote

Reply to Police: Man fires gun multiple times inside Dover apartment, rounds hit at least 1 other unit by Environmental3rdEye

OMG. I remember living there for awhile in a previous life. Cheap and close to the U where I worked. Very cheap ... and old ... and run down.

Cheap enough that ... yikes. The people there seemed to be extra-specially "precious".

If the creek next door flooded, half of the first-floor studios in back could flood out right up to waist height.

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Glucose12 t1_j44gnsn wrote

Reply to robo calls by Strict_Zebra_3585

You must be on multiple lists. I usually just get one or two.

Have you put (all of) your phone numbers on the national do-not-call registry? It won't help with the foreign hacked calls showing up as a local number, but it might help with -some- of the spammers who aren't out-and-out criminals.

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Glucose12 t1_j1smt9n wrote

Reply to Anything fun Happening for New Years? by TubbleRubble

It looks like it's raining New Years Eve, so even if you were in the Portsmouth area and wanted to do their First Night thing, it might be a bit unpleasantly "juicy".

You can always go anyways, and if it's too wet outside, check some of the events going on indoors.

Not everything revolves around hopping the bars, and there are usually fireworks early in the night.
First Night Portsmouth

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Glucose12 t1_irirwhk wrote

Reply to Enjoying one of the last warm days by Only-Geologist4652

They're running to the nearest cairn/rock pile for the winter.

Critters acting especially crazy before winter(squirrels insanely running in front of cars) makes me think they know something we don't. Like ... Hard Winter ahead.

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Glucose12 t1_irinkg1 wrote

Reply to comment by FagenSnow in proud boys in Manchester? by FagenSnow

Assuming you aren't lying about the entire interaction, Ms Jussie:

  1. How did you know they were Proud Boys? You didn't get close enough to them to -ask- them who/what they were representing.
  2. Using cancer as a emo-manipulation token to aid in getting people to accept your story.
  3. Even if it was real, how would you know if they weren't simply disgusted by you and your mythical partner running away from them for no reason? I'd be giving you the stink-eye if you ran away from me screaming in terror. Wierd, and not because you're "obviously gay", whatever imagery that was supposed to conjure up.

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I could be wrong, but my "manipulative polschemer" warning bell is dinging away like mad.

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Glucose12 t1_irav2hl wrote

Reply to Seems like more tradespeople are needed in central NH? by sim_BLISS_ity

Brother is a locksmith. If you're starting from scratch instead of buying out somebody's business when they retire(including their customer database) it takes time(a decade or more) to build up a customer base, and until then you're living in your parents house, eating ramen. If you're mobile, fuel/oil/maintenance for your vehicles. He's just beginning to do well now after moving back here in 2003-ish from the San Jose area, but there's still no way he could afford to buy a house on his own, or have wife/kids/etc.

For small companies, it's a chore hiring responsible workers who want to stay with you(once they've acquired skills and can go solo). The ones who do stay may not be the best workers in the world - but they're better than not having any employees.

He was living like a king in San Jose, plenty of high-rolling customers(banks, tech companies, etc). Obviously had to rebuild a customer list from scratch coming here. The money is not in residential in locksmithing - it's in corporate/business customers, and those are a lot thinner on the ground here in NH, obviously, than in San Jose.

Whatever. Not sure what I was trying to say, other than: the environment may actually not support the population of tradespeople that you'd like to see.

They want to have a house, spouse, kids, send their kids to college, etc., so they will be charging what the market will bear.

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