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Subject_Meat5314 t1_je6moy4 wrote

Reply to Moving to Old Orchard Beach! by CalligrapherNo7790

I’d recommend living in Portland or South Portland and visiting OOB occasionally when the mood strikes. Portland is a wonderful city with lots going on year round. Your commute would be super easy. Unless you’re into the off-season boardwalk experience on the daily, not sure what OOB would offer you for a living experience that would be better than those towns.

That said, if you’re already locked into a lease, it’s not a big deal. The distance between them is not big and OOB will be a fine place for you and your family to spend a few months.

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Subject_Meat5314 t1_jdx67yj wrote

Reply to comment by Longjumping_West_907 in Land covenants by Lfcfan2187

Agree. The answer is first to just call/write the guy and ask. Then if it’s agreed on, you can either just document the agreement and live with the risk that he might be a dick about it later, or go through the process of actually lifting the covenant.

The only reason not to do this is if you’d rather just act first and apologize later which might be fine, or might be a huge legal nightmare, ruin goodwill with your neighbor, and worst of all make you live under the cloud of fear that you’ll run into those things (that last one is just the way my mind works. I hope you are healthier than me.)

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Subject_Meat5314 t1_jdx5etv wrote

Reply to comment by MathematicianGlum880 in Land covenants by Lfcfan2187

The way it works is the former landowner agrees to lowering the value of the land (or even to sell in the first place) only if certain conditions are met by the future landowner. The benefit to the future landowner is lower cost to purchase or just the ability to purchase in the first place. If the current owner no longer wants to abide by the restriction, then there is appropriately some work to be done to revise the deal.

Why wouldn’t it make sense for me to sell half my land to someone only under the specific legally binding condition that they don’t turn it into something I don’t want to live near? Especially if that person explicitly and knowingly agrees?

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Subject_Meat5314 t1_jdnls2i wrote

Reply to comment by ninjadude93 in What happens if it turns out that being human is not that difficult to duplicate in a machine? What if we're just ... well ... copyable? by RamaSchneider

Agreed. Scale of the hardware (wetware?) is necessary but not sufficient. Next we have to write the software. The last effort took 100’s of millions of years. We have a working model and better management now though, so hopefully we can make quicker progress.

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Subject_Meat5314 t1_j9d7s34 wrote

Reply to Life in 1970s Maine by bugmoon

I have a community theater poster from Athens, ME that’s mid 70’s and a couple others from late 70’s/early 80’s if you’re interested. Also one from Slate’s in Hallowell from ‘79.

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Subject_Meat5314 t1_j96h6lt wrote

Reply to comment by SnurrDass in so why don't earth slow down do to the drag of the water created in the tidel forces by the moon? by SnurrDass

Life on earth is already sustainable. The moon and earth will not reach the equilibrium you’re hoping for, but that’s not really related to sustainability.

Unfortunately, if you’re looking for perpetually life sustaining conditions, you’re out of luck. The sun is the problem. Stars have a life cycle and they don’t end well for life on their planets.

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Subject_Meat5314 t1_j4bd6p2 wrote

Reply to Dark matter by Artichoke_Inevitable

Finding any form of Dark Matter would be great. Currently we are forced to believe it’s there in order for our understanding of gravity to work. But since we have no idea what dark matter is, we can’t be certain that it even exists. Should it turn out not to exist, then we have a lot of work to do to make the rest of our theories hold up.

But finding direct evidence of dark matter, especially if it led to a good understanding of how it actually interacts with everything else besides gravitationally, would be a great affirmation of our models AND open up new avenues of discovery.

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Subject_Meat5314 t1_j49074m wrote

Reply to The not-so-great shepherds pie debate by marrymejojo

The recipes without 100’s of ads you’re forced to scroll through are suspect.

That said, I grew up in Maine but my mom never would have made a shepherd’s pie without lamb without calling out that it wasn’t really shepherd’s pie. I don’t recall the term cottage pie being used instead. That said my mom lived in England for part of her childhood so maybe that explains it?

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Subject_Meat5314 t1_j14bmjh wrote

Reply to comment by djamp42 in Antimatter from space can travel thousands of light years to Earth, a promising development in the search for dark matter by marketrent

The only reason we need dark matter to exist is to explain the things we can see. For galaxies to work they way they work, given current understanding of how gravity works, they need more mass. That mass has to be somewhere in the galaxy. And there are plenty, as in trillions, of galaxies that are entirely contained in what we call the observable universe.

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Subject_Meat5314 t1_j0zn08g wrote

Reply to What if time travel is impossible because of this? by [deleted]

Haha well it’s one more hurdle towards a likely impossible challenge. My bet is that it’s not the hardest one, so no I don’t think it’s plausible that we would solve all the other issues with time travel and forget to offset position. But I could be missing some of the complexity of the positioning problem.

However it makes for a good Evil Genii story where a guy wishes for a time machine and the genii gives him one but leaves this part out.

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Subject_Meat5314 t1_iuj98et wrote

Reply to Who's hiring in Portland area. Benefits is main priority as well as work environment. by Throwaway2020_etc

most of the organizations hiring will not be open to most people looking. it’s all about matching skills and experience to the work required. a list of companies hiring now isn’t what you need. you need a list of companies hiring people with your background and skill set. unfortunately you didn’t provide this so everyone is just guessing.

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