The republicans won't stop until they're allowed to appoint someone king of America, although they might settle for bringing back all the Jim Crow laws.

They say Alfred Maine himself used to get McNuggets from that location every day.

I used to work with a guy who would sometimes go around Boston on a unicycle playing an accordian while dressed as Darth Vader.

As far as I know it's a federally protected historic building, although those have been torn down before by developers who managed to find a way around the laws.

I love that the reason the station building is two story is because back in the day the stationmaster and their family would live in an apartment above the station, that way there's someone there on site 24/7. It's kind of a lighthouse deal, which makes sense considering that back before all the development, stations like this one really were in the middle of nowhere.

The building needs a lot of work, rehabing it to be ornamental still means saving it from eventually just collapsing. Even if they re-do the whole thing with a nice exterior and leave the interior empty, they'll still have to have everything up to code, which will make a future use for the building a lot easier.

>I don't know how they plan to continue to provide access for disabled users.

The same way both Philadelphia and Camden already do, by just assuming nobody will care. I'm sure if you asked they would say something like "well, why would a disabled person be on the walkway? Wouldn't it be easier for them to just drive across?"

Same goes for bikes. Bikes, pedestrians and wheelchairs are expected to just stop existing anywhere it would be inconvenient for them to be.

At larger mountains many of the lifts start further up the mountain, so they require all lift employees to be able to ski safely enough to get from one lift to another easily. With the exception of Wachusett, most places in MA have all the lifts starting at the base level so anyone can walk up to them.

There's also a lot more people in MA who want easy consistent seasonal work than there are avid skier/snowboarders who don't mind making minimum wage. With the work being seasonal they get away with not paying overtime, so many of the lift operators/attendants are working open to close 7 days a week

FWIW, every ski area in New England makes most of the snow themselves.

> a justifiably irate man

Miiiiister Crowley, what you done in your head?

You'd be surprised. I've worked at various ski areas and resorts around New England and a running theme in Massachusetts is lift operators who have never attempted to ski and have no desire to, they just like working the lifts because it's easy work if you don't do more than the bare minimum.

The only problem I have with the $15/hr minimum wage is that it's a set number, which means that as inflation increases, the wage will stay at $15 until this whole battle is fought again in the coming decades to make it $20.

Don't make it $15, make it "a livable wage constantly adjusted for inflation".

I stand corrected. Either way, the resort's logo was on the sign so I think it's safe to say their snowmaking department had a hand in this.

It could be done. The same equipment used to make snow at ski resorts can be used anywhere as long as it's cold enough and there's plenty of water and electricity available. The water can just be pumped straight from a river.

This thing doesn't look like it was cheap or easy to put together no matter how simple the concept is.

EDIT: It's at the Sunday River Ski Resort, which makes a lot of sense.

This didn't happen in PA, but it does happen, which was my point.

Yeah, but you get 2 free when you buy 3 for the price of 5.

This wasn't in Pennsylvania.

If 2 17 year olds are in love and one turns 18 before the other, is that creepy?

If you have LED headlights, you can leave them off, the sun is blinding enough.

I get where people are coming from with turning your lights on for safety, but so many cars these days have low beam headlights that are ridiculously brighter than what we're all used to high beams being like.

Also, if you have an off-road light bar and you're using it on the road, I hope you miss the low bridge sign and that thing gets obliterated.

Or in the case of a former coworker of mine, pissing on a dumpster behind a bar on his 21st birthday. A cop caught him and charged him with indecent exposure.

He didn't do anything to anybody, but that doesn't matter because anybody who sees that he's on the registry is going to assume he's a monster.

A guy I used to work with is a registered sex offender because a cop caught him pissing on a dumpster behind a bar and charged him for indecent exposure.

I'm not defending sex offenders, but not everybody on the registry is an actual danger to the public.

EDIT: This happened in a different state, you can stop telling me that in PA there's nothing wrong with a guy showing his dick to random people, aka "indecent exposure".

They could even run single track in sections so they can work on one track while trains run on the adjacent one. This is how the NYC subway is able to do all their maintenance while keeping the system running 24/7.

FWIW, if the FBI wants to find the source of an anonymous tip, that's not gonna be hard for them.

As an electrician, I can't bring myself to enter another electrical engineer's house. They have a very strong grasp on how electricity works but they typically don't know anything at all about building codes and standard practices because that's not what they were trained to do. The issue I have is all the DIY modifications to the house's electrical system. A common theme with EEs is doing all the work themselves then calling an electrician because for some reason they think a licensed electrician will risk their entire reputation by claiming to do the work themselves for code/insurance purposes.

To be clear, I'm not talking about construction engineers, I'm talking about people who mostly design circuit boards for electronic products. Any commercial or industrial electrician can give you a bunch of clueless/arrogant building engineer stories, but in my experience the vast majority know exactly what they're doing.

Ski lift operators operate massive machines that carry hundreds of people to the top of a mountain. I did that job for 8 winters and was never piss tested even once.