this is a better idea than a card reader, both cheaper to set up and operate, plus unlike a card reader it's really hard to hijack. A bad actor can put a skimmer on an unattended credit card reader in like a minute

Is Colby a school?

Edit: yep, small area college

Not in this context, his comic strip getting pulled from syndication is pretty new afaik. But there have been articles about him being crap for years now, this time he just crossed more lines and people cared more

Tbh, he's been this way for far longer than qanon or COVID were around, it just isn't that publicized. He's been like this for pretty much as long as his comic strip has been pretty big

Is that for vehicles which are on the road? I didn't see a link to the actual text of the bill, and am assuming it doesn't care about a car you're just leaving parked outside and not driving, but it would be good to check

It's not that low-income people CAN'T, it's that a nice looking and brand new apartment complex is likely not going to be priced at such a point that lower income people or families can live there at all

Should be a different world, but generally seems to be the way it turns out

We also have poor white people

So.. planes landing at an airport ten feet from your front door is fine, then?

>All taxes are regressive.

what

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> Very few areas need zoning for planning services. 90% of Zoning in Maine is Nimbyism created by flatlanders who move up here build a house fill the driveway with 2.5 Subarus and begin stopping people from doing exactly what they did.

ight. What do you think zoning is? It's not just "you can't build multifamily homes and must have cars everywhere", it's the entire concept of having regulations around which kinds of buildings can be which places. What zoning laws in maine are you envisioning here?

Most zoning rules are pretty good - I like not living next to a cement factory. Landowners can take out loans to build their own homes, generally, but banks will indeed treat them differently than a company known for already doing so. Sales taxes are regressive but school funding does need a mixup to be more equitable

There don't seem to be tons of complaints that there are just too many $1500/mo rents available, even though that's pretty high compared to the average income in state

It's r/Maine, this state is one of the worst impacted by short term rentals eating away the otherwise normal housing stock, and attacking services like Airbnb might have more positive impact here statewide compared to most areas of the country. Between people having a second home in Maine to summer in and short term rentals catering to people doing the same, the street I live on is something like three quarters gobbled up by housing which sits vacant except when rich assholes vacation here for three months out of the year.

Even building more housing here likely won't help without this situation being addressed - since the 60s, Maine has built about one new house for every two people added to the population, but a supermajority of those new houses are not lived in by full time Mainers. New houses right now are majority built by developers looking to sell them to the highest bidder and tailoring them to that market, so it's mostly to the short term rental/vacation home people.

They didn't say there was anything new or strange about it. There will still be people who die, there will be some people who don't know some important cold preparation steps. Nothing wrong with sharing tips, they aren't saying the sky is falling.

Some of the weirdness about Maine seems to be how such a high proportion of new builds are purchased by people who don't live here, and not just for purposes of renting them out. I'm currently effectively in a ghost town, most of the homes built in the last 10 years seem to not have year-round locals living in them

Everywhere is suffering from a housing crisis, it does seem to be a little worse here than some of the other states I was used to

Hi.

I might have to try driving up one of these weeks, little far for me unfortunately but the game scene where I am is nonexistant outside of driving to Augusta/Lewiston

It's fun living out in the sticks, no clubs particularly close to me. Trying a new place in Augusta this weekend, and going to their other one for a tournament a couple weeks later. It seems like portland is likely the place to be for games

> No they don’t. They put the power in the Union. You’re just a cog in another companies wheel

You sure don't appear to know the difference between "company's" and "companies" lol, Mr. "I promise I'm totes important on the internet"

While still keeping in mind that, functionally, most people who go on about anything close to "big government" are actually arguing against safety nets and accountability

It seems like you don't like people identifying historical similarities

That's true - I think people typically mean different things with those expressions (I think when people say Biden stole the election, they typically mean literally changed votes illegally), but that does possibly get some color from my political experience. It is indeed annoying when people are unclear in their communication, we have the language to be precise

Were you asking for clarification of what they meant or trying to be pedantic when you already understood what they meant?

Always wonder if comments like yours are actually made in support of mills, since they both make lepage supporters seem dumb, and expose lepage support as unpopular

people are generally salty when the candidate with fewer votes wins an election, because the truth that our elections are more 'elections' is not something which is good.