The French guillotine time was not actually good. The reign of terror was frankly horrific.

That's not going to be Norfolk Southerns cost at the end of all this. They've already been contacted by the government in regards to it being a super fund site. They're going to be paying out the nose.

The amount of particulate from the dust bowl is on a completely different scale to a train derailment. People are making this about themselves when the actual risk to anyone not in the area of the disaster is likely to be vanishingly small. If you want to worry about this feel for the poor people in the watershed or around where it happened. Don't panic for yourself some 700 miles away

Even if it's worse than expected we are so far away. This is going to be bad for the immediate area, but all the way up here any impact seems incredibly unlikely.

It probably depends on the data. If you are counting Hispanic whites with non Hispanic whites together they probably are not the minority. So this is probably separating out Hispanic whites from non Hispanic whites creating that distinction.

Hispanic as a category in the US is kinda weird. It's not a separate race category and has multiple races inside it (Hispanic whites, afro Hispanic.) It's more a cultural category but gets thrown into racial statistics all the time.

Heat is the reason. Loads of people aren't going to be able to afford changing their heat source if their current one is banned.

Just banning things has serious consequences when people depend on those things to live.

I mean there's a very good reason to not ban heating oil...

Like for heat or used motor oil?

It's really far away. Even if the winds are right it would dissipate before getting here.

Your comparing 80 a month over 20 years to a huge out of pocket expense. It doesn't matter if over 20 years the roof is cheaper if you can't afford it now.

Which is my point. A new roof is not cheaper than your current rent cost.

I think you'd be surprised. In my first house I had a furnace go very quickly after buying and my next home I had both washer and dryer go, as well as need to do roof maintenance. None of which made any sense to claim on home owners insurance and therefore came out of pocket.

Maintenance and surprise issues that insurance doesn't cover is not uncommon. If you don't have money to keep up with it and are depending on your insurance you're going to be in for a very bad time.

I spent thousands beyond my mortgage just keeping up and handling house issues at the last place I owned

Edit: forgot to add I had inspections on these places too. Shit just happens.

A roof pales next to rent? What the hell does your rent look like?

NINJA loans sound fun, let's have them back!

> With regards to to NIMBYism, reporters need to start showing up at town meetings and city council meetings and publicly shame NIMBYists.

That's not a reporters job. If you want people to distrust journalists, and reporters, more than they already do encourage this. If you want us to ever get back to a sense of normalcy than they shouldn't.

Just in time for dry January to end too. Throw your beer out there and race against the clock.

Yeah it's really just Friday night. Saturday is cold but not crazy so.

> you probably don’t need any fucking help to sit in your 750,000 house

What do I do if I don't have one of these? Do I need help then?

Gonna be real cold. Stock up on any emergency items you need now. Particularly anything heat related, wood, kerosene etc. Better to be prepared than stuck scrambling in -20 weather.

The average person drives demand for the products creating pollution and emissions. If more people cared to take steps to reduce their foot print it would have an impact. Companies aren't dumping C02 in the air for fun, it's because they can make money from us for doing it.

I'm not gonna say I'm for climate change. I like Maines climate and wildlife for the most part.

OP just seemed overly upset by a few warm days coming up and I had a particularly bad struggle with the snow (that's not melting in my area) today resulting in some car damage.

I would kill for the snow to melt by me right now. Getting out was a struggle from hell and someone plowed my road shut.

With just a GED and limited hours I think remote will be hard to find. If you can be more flexible on your hours call center work is often remote now and will take anyone.

Hunter Douglas a big blind company does all their CS remote and they pay decently. Have some friends working there

I'm not on CMP power but I sure am glad my generator is working. If not I'd be very sad right now.

What's your background in? Do you have a degree? Both of those things will help steer you a bit better!

I imagine the Main roads to and around Bangor are fine but our back roads are pretty bad right now. Wouldn't worry about getting to Bangor but depending on where you're going up here you may have some issues.