I mean, telehealth and brain of your own is a good option as well, but OP seems like they may have some deficits there...

Just amend "site:reddit.com" to your Google search query, whatever you're looking for has almost certainly already been discussed.

This is my go-to whenever I want to know what 300 idiots think about the topic I'm researching. 😜

If it's urgent, go to urgent care; otherwise stop whinging. The world is full of millions of people more important than you, deal with it.

Winterport is real close. Check out Penobscot Bay Brewery.

Mmmm....rauchbier.

If that's "as well" and not "instead of" I fully support it.

Let's abolish "corporate personhood" altogether while we're at at.

For taxation, I'm talking state-wide.

...and a statewide 10% property tax on non-owner occupied properties and a >50% tax rate on rental income to cover that "X,Y,Z".

👍🏻

Look, the more rent they collect, the more they can tip their barista. Trickle down baby!

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Just a reminder for anyone who hates socialism, when you get this cheque, tear it up and burn the scraps to show the state you mean business!

Maybe

Electricity is expensive when you create it with fossil fuels. Moreover, it should have ALWAYS been fucking expensive.

No one is getting screwed, we're all just guilty of getting addicted to an unsustainable lifestyle that we all fucking KNEW was unsustainable but did nothing about. Now the whole fucking thing is collapsing and we cant outsource our suffering to the rest of the world anymore.

No one with a modicum of intelligence could seriously look at the way the western world has been living for 80 years compared to the other 90% of the planet and think this shit wasn't going to catch up to us...

Those people are called "idiots".

Nationalize their businesses. Seize the means.

That's a pretty low bar for "evil"... I guess we really are "post-truth" where everyone's feelings trump reality...

All utilities have multi-year maintenance schedules and limited resources. Can you imagine if they had to push their maintenance schedule for EVERY layperson homeowner who called in with a "totally definitely serious and immediately urgent concern"? There are branches on lines fucking everywhere and only a small percentage of those lead to outages, and an even smaller percentage to bodily harm.

What's your hypothesis here? You think the people they hire don't know what their doing or how to assess risk as well as you? Do you think the company WANTS outages and infrastructure damage they will need to pay for? Or do you think they just get off on the thought of YOU being in the dark for a few hours?

Get over yourself...

Cool.

In the future, feel free to expound sand if you have nothing intelligent to offer.

You southies are tiresome...

Then use your words. Don't claim that 10-20 trees +/- a cord is the only impact for your lot... That was an asinine assertion that undermined anything else you had to say on the matter.

Cool! Maybe you'd like to come give a presentation to my first nations community?

To echo what u/flocking_north said; if your personal bank or local credit union isn't able to do anything like a secured consolidation loan for you, you're pretty much at the mercy of predatory loan companies. Only advice I can give is try and stay away from unsecured (revolving) lines of credit. These will have higher interest rates and are more likely to create more risk for you down the road.

You're better off looking at programs that can help subsidize your food, heating, etc. to free up more of your income to pay down debt.

Everyone needs help sometimes. Don't suffer for pride. You'll get through this.

You lost me at "aesthetically important". If people are too inconvenienced by power outages I say we tear their houses down and send 'em packing to some nice urban community out west.

Also, if you think that "10-20 mature trees" is the only casualty of your developed residential lot I don't think you fully understand what this place looked like prior to European colonization.

Let's just agree that the people complaining about CMP are fucking insufferable and of limited value to our species moving forward.

You realize I'm not suggesting we do this right? My point is that even the "foolproof" solution would not appease the folks here whining about how self preservation isn't their responsibility. Obviously they should be prepared or suck it up and STFU.

Also FWIW, our entire presence in this state required the "decimation of millions of trees". So as long as you're living in a wood house, in a lumber state, you may want to check how much toity you've got in your hoity there...

Also, "decimate" mean "to reduce by ten percent".

https://www.greenway.org/native-american-sites-along-the-greenway

Abbe Museum, Acadia, Goddard Site, Katahdin Iron Works, Fort Knox, Colonial Pemaquid.

Wait, you want the people who are whining online about how all their problems are someone else's fault to demonstrate personal responsibility? Do you know what country you live in?

Seems like it would be easier, and more effective, just to take their internet away.

Love aquatic edibles wherever I can get 'em. Bladder wrack is delicious.

Highly recommend: https://www.cupofsea.me/

This is an underappreciated point.

As much as everyone wants to vilify CMP, I'm sure if they rolled up in spring and said they were going to remove every tree on their property tall enough to fall on a line, all these people would lose their shit.

Anyone who owns overland power lines is going to have the same endless maintenance issues. We COULD bury everything, but then everyone would be complaining about rate hikes, or tax hikes if it's a subsidized project.

Long story short, the free ride of America's post-war boom is over; our marker has been called in and everything is going to be harder and cost more forever now.

Don't let your care worker forget your meds before bed!