I've never had that happen. They're too busy fucking around in the bird feeders.

Yeah I can't speak to the quality of people you meet. I met my wife (10... 11?) years ago on OKCupid. Completely different world now.

Casually looking at the stuff that gets posted to r/tinder, it seems like you have to walk such a ridiculous tightrope right out of the gate. Some people want straight sexting right away, some people don't, and all of them want just the most bangin original pickup lines...

Seems exhausting.

At least the ones I've been in, cashier and stocker are the same (1) person. They always have a bell to ring when you're ready to check out, and I always feel shitty about ringing it because I know I'm putting them further behind.

"easily cleared up"

Tell me you have no experience with this without telling me...

Have fun getting a job when every background check shows "ARRESTED FOR KIDNAPPING A CHILD." Good fucking luck "clearing that up easily"

I really have nothing to add as a happily married dude, but just to say that I really feel for people that have to deal with the whole dating app scene. From an outsider looking in, it looks awful and I would have no clue how to navigate it.

Funny, I was gonna tack on "ain't you a damn lawyer?"

But isn't the deed registered with the town?

If simply "livestock" is referenced, then I bet it does. Because the definition of "livestock" in Maine is not at all clear. That's what I'm getting at. Each municipality defines it differently.

If you're impatient, peas are basically invincible and you can put them out as soon as the dirt remains uncovered for a week or so.

I'll answer you in earnest, because I get why this is not intuitive.

Say you have 20 acres, and you want to split off an acre and sell it to someone else. But you don't want that "someone else" to be... I dunno, a pig farmer. (Because pig farms stink)

You can put a (reasonable, legal) restriction on the deed. "No pigs allowed." So even if someone buys that land, they cannot break that deed restriction and set up a pig farm.

If they do, it's off to court you go, where you will most assuredly win.

I've been down that path myself.

Each municipality can have it's own rules, and typically if they don't spell it out, they refer to state code which is incredibly vague.

I lived in Indiana for a good chunk of my youth.

I could not get the fuck out of there fast enough.

It's a pretty arbitrary "no right on red" though.

I see this all the time, this idea that only "skilled" labor is worth anything (and as if dealing with customers without gouging their eyes out isn't a skill)

Labor is labor. There is no company without those workers. There's no profit without them. They are the value. Why should the value they generate only go to the top?

That's what I'm getting at. I mean you can pick the issue out of a hat- whatever the punishment is for a corporation, it's wildly out of balance for what a person would get.

> As part of the agreement, workers who were on payroll when Chipotle closed its store at the Marketplace in Augusta will each receive between $5,800 and $21,000 depending on the number of hours they worked and their pay rate, among other factors. The company must also offer “preferential rehiring” to all Augusta employees at its other Maine locations for one year, according to the Maine AFL-CIO.

There really needs to be harsher repercussions. Big box stores all but shout through a megaphone during their orientations that they will do the same thing if the get a whiff of unionization.

The punishment needs to be severe enough that it can't be filed away as an operating cost.

I honestly don't understand people who think like this. It blows my mind.

> This other raccoon attacked a German Shepherd in the area by a fence, with the raccoon on the outside of the fence and the dog on the inside. > > > > A sheriff's deputy did not have a clear shot to shoot the raccoon because of the dog in the way and the raccoon then ran under a wood pile. > > > > Daigle and the deputy started to take the wood pile apart but it was frozen solid, not allowing them to get to the raccoon.

Are we seriously gonna act like this isn't a Looney Tunes script?

#L

Here you go.

I've had similarly high quotes, and I don't exactly live in a mansion. Just a single story ranch built in 55.

Hell, JUST to get the box windows in my basement replaced- probably the easiest possible rip and replace job? Was 12k from one guy, 17k from another.

The windows themselves aren't expensive at all, it's the labor.

Yeah, for those who never have looked into it... replacing windows is redonkulous.

No shit, my (video) ad exposures per year has to be in the single digits, almost all of them come from gas station pumps. Ads make me irrationally angry.

Firefox, ublock origin and sponsorblock for my internet, and I don't have cable.

What I personally love: Ask right wingers to explain, in their own words, why [whatever totally organic issue they're screaming about this week] is a problem, and what are the causes, and what should be done about it.

9 times out of 10 you'll get some permutation of the following:

"Yeah typical NPC just gobbling up what you see on CNN"

>!as if it's not hilariously ironic that ALL OF THEM WITHOUT FAIL use that "NPC" line... like an actual NPC would.!<

> I've noticed that, for a lot of Americans who haven't visited, the scale of NYC can be really deceptive. It's huge. Huge huge.

The very first thing I noticed as my plane was landing in LaGuardia the first time was the absolutely ridiculous scale of the city. It seriously looks like it stretches to the horizon.

It's unfathomable to me that as a species we're able to build and manage something of that size.

> I hope this is useful.

I speak corporate, and my effing WORD is this some concentrated passive aggressive energy

This part of the desert is something else. I live in Maine, and I love the landscape here and thought I could never want to live anywhere else.

After driving through, I would absolutely live in Sedona.