I'm gonna help you out here Deg cuz I think some people misunderstood your comment and were reporting it.

Aged like fine wine = good, meaning Deg hopes this post remains true for a very long time. Likely in reference to RI having no documented mass shootings since 2009, and hoping that continues for the foreseeable future.

Aged like milk is the bad one.

Gonna take this one down. Feel free to post a news article about the hoax calls. Just not too keen on leaving up a post with this title.

The author spent half the article romanticizing domestic terrorism… it’s way more than one paragraph.

1. Working adjacent to a lot of leaders in technology and biotech companies, no they aren’t scared. This author is full of shit.

2. It’s a bit unnerving how long this author spent kind of romanticizing domestic terrorism. Like I don’t know how the editor at Yahoo Finance/LA Times greenlit this one. Guy literally spends half the article talking about domestic terrorism with hints that it should happen again. What a lunatic.

One of the WJAR articles mentions that witnesses saw the bike driving at oncoming traffic.

There’s a couple I can think of, and some of them are somewhat niche.

In no particular order:

• Gina

• Family Guy stuff including Adam West

• H.P. Lovecraft

• Our congressional reps have been pretty involved in important committees over the years and are pretty visible.

• Newport/Tennis Hall of Fame.

• WaterFire

• Brown University, RISD, PC (mostly for basketball)

I’m definitely missing some, but those are at least a few.

The only thing I have a problem with is that I remember back in high school there was a handful of kids who failed their driving test multiple times, one so often that they didn’t end up getting their license until like 20.

Those kids could probably pass a parking lot test. Terrifying thought.

You think people would remember the natural gas explosions that happened in Massachusetts a few years back or half the state losing heat because of natural gas infrastructure issues.

What an odd article. They present the 3% increase for natural gas as the annual amount of $51 as some insurmountable amount and then when it comes to the 25% decrease in electrical rate, they call it a “slim margin” and present as only a monthly savings of $17 instead of presenting it similar to the natural gas increase ($204 decrease annualized, if you didn’t do the math).

Just such a weird way to write an article and indicates a bit of a lean in the author’s narrative.

No fan of RIE, but subversive journalism isn’t the answer.

For anyone that was curious, the first column is the residential rate, so 10.675 cents per kWh

If you mean run out of in a sense of have a lot stockpiled? For some reason, dry pasta and Mac and Cheese. Have way too much of both.

For a major storm that I need to get beforehand, usually nothing but I guess make sure I have gas or propane for the generator and batteries for flashlights.

To be fair, that merge is stupid and half the people in the left lane are turning into the Walgreens which just further fucks everything up.

Whenever I go through there I just let the person go. Who cares, not worth damaging my car over my ego.

Individuals making poor decisions. It’s not anything more than that.

Looking at that list, pizza strips and american chop suey don't deserve to be anywhere near some of the garbage in there.

You should call the department of public works tomorrow and see if they picked them up. Unless someone just like stuck them in their garage, DPW might have grabbed them.

I'm not sure about Woonsocket, but I know our trash cans are all serialized and assigned to specific properties.

Hey, I know you’re trying to be helpful to everyone, but we would prefer you avoid posting phone numbers. Thanks!

You know that this just indicates to me that you are one of the users that was banned for their transphobic comments and that you are now ban evading, which is a site-wide rule violation, right?

I’m of the opinion that the current model is generally the most appropriate with it being tax payer-subsidized, but the people who actually make use of the service carry some of the cost.

It’s a public service that’s available but not every single person actively uses it all the time. I think it makes sense that the people riding the bus carry some additional cost there.

I’d much rather RIPTA expand routes and invest in increasing driver compensation rather than making fares free, but if they can secure extra federal grants to cover all fares then it’s fine with me.

As it is for right now, for FY22 (which ended 6/30/22 for RIPTA) total employee comp pretty much equals out to the state and federal subsidies received, coming out to about $86M each. Passenger fares only make up about $9M of revenues, but the overall budget for RIPTA isn’t very high, with the revised FY23 budget coming in around $147M with expectations of about $11.7M in revenue from passenger fares.

It is worth noting that revenues for RIPTA are bit inflated for the next couple years due to extra funding coming from the Covid Relief Fund. Once that dries up, I’m not sure what changes they’ll make.

It’s possible some of the people complaining also contributed to the problem. There are a lot of people in general who lack self-awareness.

It comes down to what do you do with the people causing problems? If we are genuinely trying to give everyone shelter, you can’t just reasonably kick them out back onto the streets.

There definitely are but the concerns voiced here are just more publicly visible due to the news coverage of the Cranston Armory shelter and homeless encampment closures. The concerns seem to be common across shelters where there are issues of drug/alcohol usage, sexual violence (very often between occupants of the shelter), and sanitation issues. These aren’t new issues that only are happening here. Maybe they are worse, but maybe they also aren’t.

I have a friend who lives out in Columbus, Ohio who used to be a social worker, where he often worked with people in shelters. From all the stories he told me, it wasn’t uncommon for there to be fights, people getting kicked out for doing drugs in the shelter or coming back to the shelter high or drunk, the staff would clean areas of the shelter just for the very next person to trash the area just to spite the staff working there.

The reality is that unfortunately some of the people staying in shelters are just not good people and they ruin it for every other homeless person who is genuinely just trying to get by. The actions of those people hurts the image and further stigmatizes homelessness and it’s a problem, and not one that can easily be fixed.

It kind of sounds like some of the people staying in the shelter need to learn to behave themselves a little bit better. All these concerns are directly related to the actions of the occupants, but they are blaming Amos House for not fixing the problems the occupants caused.

I did mine just before Christmas and my reg and stickers came in last Friday. I don’t have the standard plate design, though, so I don’t have to deal with the whole new wave plate BS.

Most sprinklers can’t take a severe impact. That’s not all that surprising. If it’s anything like when I was in high school, there were always those kids who tried too hard in gym class and would blast the volley ball into the ceiling at Mach 10.

It’s actually surprising that it doesn’t happen more often, if anything.

I think I remember a video from URI's Kingston campus maybe a year or two ago. That video might have been on this sub at one point, but I can't recall.

edit: https://rhodycigar.com/2021/09/23/students-mourn-loss-of-local-groundhog/

Yea no, we aren’t doing that.