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Bywater t1_isu325m wrote
Reply to Stop The Corruption by sillychillly
Luck in battle Bub. You got people who have been in office for decades and have grown fantastically rich off this shit. The odds of them doing anything but lip service or some piddly ass 10k fine on millions in trades is long. He would have a better bet trying to get them to have to list all stock trades as they happen, because as soon as you get other people following them the system is likely to breakdown as all trades become insider trades because of corrupt politicians. That is the only thing that would actually force them to stop it.
Bywater t1_isiff6c wrote
Reply to comment by gulfofmainah in Alaska's cancellation of the snow crab season offers a grave, potential prediction for Maine's lobster industry. by combatbydesign
"Still, projections are never perfect, he points out. While the projections Le Bris used captured the differences in tidal mixing, they are based on standard atmospheric effects on ocean temperature and do not reflect changing ocean current patterns in the Gulf of Maine, which Wahle said are harder to model." “I’m not sure the oceanographic forecasting is at a place yet that can project what those conditions are going to look like with respect to the relative strength of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream, but to the extent those trends continue, we may be seeing a worsening effect,” he said.
I mean hey, I really hope that they are right and that this unprecedented warming of the Gulf of Maine and death of micro biome won't drive lobstering offshore here. But considering how we are seeing it everywhere else the idea [that the currents that are all going to shit] (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/climate-crisis-scientists-spot-warning-signs-of-gulf-stream-collapse) are going to save the day might not be the best gamble. "Particularly considering how much of an effect rising temperatures not only affect biological processes but also reduce water density and thereby stratification and circulation, which affect organismal dispersal and nutrient transport. Precipitation, salinity and winds also affect stratification, mixing and circulation." What we are seeing is one of those "snowball" effects, the water temperatures rise, the microorganisms die and change the density of the water, affecting current and continuing to make things worse. That zooplankton and phytoplankton are foundational to life on this planet, when they are gone and the oceans stop acting as a raditor because of it, well, "thanks for all the fish"... That was Cousteaus unheeded warning.
Bywater t1_ish1x8m wrote
Reply to FUCK MASSACHUSETS by A_Sad_Badger
We were Massachusetts... Just saying.
Bywater t1_ish1m5e wrote
Reply to It’s starting 🤖🔫 by Guygan
I wish it would hurry up and put us out of our misery.
Bywater t1_ish0ews wrote
Reply to comment by gulfofmainah in Alaska's cancellation of the snow crab season offers a grave, potential prediction for Maine's lobster industry. by combatbydesign
That copium you huffing starting to affect your brain. They called this shit back in the 80's, I did a report in high school about it being the geeky little Jacque Cousteau fanboy I was. He and others from the time predicted what warming was going to do to the seas and how coupled with the death of the microbiome from pollution we were going to be in for some shit.
Then in the 90's the lobster industry in Long Island sound collapsed... Just like they predicted it would and everyone was looking for a reason instead of the obvious one that science had already provided for them. Snow crab in Alaska? Ya, that shit is done too apparently, for the same reasons. They guessed then that our industry would suffer the same fate by 2050, but with the astronomical rate of warming in our gulf the odds of it still being viable for even another decade is comically optimistic.
It will never cease to amaze me how many people refuse to listen to scientists despite was is clearly occurring right in front of them.
Bywater t1_isduq9q wrote
Reply to Caswell Woman Faces 10 Years to Life and Up to a $10M Fine Following Seizure of 92 lbs. of Methamphetamine by DrMcMeow
That sure sounds like a lot of meth...
Bywater t1_isdrair wrote
Reply to comment by gulfofmainah in Alaska's cancellation of the snow crab season offers a grave, potential prediction for Maine's lobster industry. by combatbydesign
Nah, pretty much the only thing they got wrong is how fast global temps are rising. I know this shit scary to think about, but denial of the obvious won't help shit.
Bywater t1_isc1xv0 wrote
Reply to Alaska's cancellation of the snow crab season offers a grave, potential prediction for Maine's lobster industry. by combatbydesign
I mean, its not like people have not been predicting this shit forever.
Bywater t1_isatm99 wrote
Reply to Human remains found in Acadia National Park by kittienne
That sucks.
Bywater t1_is6oeks wrote
I can't believe that after 8 years of his circus he is even in the running again. I mean Austin Powers pisses me off sometimes, but she is at least passably sane.
Bywater t1_is3y391 wrote
Reply to What’s going on tonight with the coyotes? by 16F4
Look up.
Bywater t1_is2dr2k wrote
Reply to Hi from Stormi by Commercial_Team5950
He looks like he having fun, that blue eye from Husky?
And thanks for keeping him on a lead too, as someone who hikes a lot and gets bummed about all those "missing dog" posters end up at trailheads I dig it.
Bywater t1_is0yizz wrote
I mean that is cool and all, but is it as economical as delivering the mail in a sports car or am I missing something?
Bywater t1_irw9ln4 wrote
Reply to comment by LaChanz in Maine lobster put on California’s Monterey Bay Seafood Watchlist by spacecityfuckyou
Elton John is dead? Dammit, that sucks.
Bywater t1_irw9eu1 wrote
They a non-profit, they can do whatever they want.
Bywater t1_irw7jgg wrote
Bywater t1_irur2om wrote
Reply to Let's Talk About Bill Pluecker by JimBones31
I like how you can often get to talk to and get a feel for your local reps up here. I really wish our national politics were not such a focus and local politics mattered more. It's funny too, because the more you talk to you realize the more they tend to be aligned on about 80% of things regardless of mascot. For sure you get some fuckwit outliers but most of the shit they have us pissed off at each other about is not as decisive as the media makes out.
Bywater t1_irjitt2 wrote
Reply to Ooooh Auburn Walmart! You done it again! by grc207
I guess if they were turning into it then it might have lined up perfectly with... No, I got nothing.
Bywater t1_irfk8ti wrote
"Southern Hospitality" is fake as fuck. I spent quite awhile bouncing around and living down that way and the one thing that stuck was that for as sickly sweet as they come out of the gate they don't mean any of it. They are also real quick to turn on friends and family over things that my yankee ass took to be trivial shit based more on "What will people say!" than any real fucks to give.
Bywater t1_ir6dtcs wrote
Reply to comment by SamLoomisMyers in Lepage is choking at the debate - giving 250 million to the oil companies? by [deleted]
The people voting for him considered it a feature.
Bywater t1_iqy81go wrote
That is a fuck ton of mats to pull.
Bywater t1_iqxi8sw wrote
Brown.
Bywater t1_iqtgyoq wrote
Reply to How do you pronounce 'Scallop'? by bleahdeebleah
Scawl-up.
Bywater t1_iqt0f94 wrote
Reply to comment by BuddyBear17 in What is up with all the resting bitch face? by BuddyBear17
It's fake. Presenting emotions that you do not feel to affect the emotions of others, even if it's to brighten their day, is disingenuous. Just get the "Mainer Nod" down, little reverse nod raise of the chin. Acknowledges that they are there respectfully without indulging in some small talk song and dance.
Bywater t1_isu3aps wrote
Reply to comment by Squidworth89 in Stop The Corruption by sillychillly
You really defending politicians engaging in insider trading and allowing them to make decisions based on stocks because they don't get paid enough? Holy fucking Stockholm syndrome Batman.