They just recently, that I noticed, started allowing you to remove those old service addresses from your profile.

Not universally true, but it usually starts with the drug addiction. Most people have a basic support system of family and friends to at least get a roof over their head if something catastrophic happens. Addicts spend years destroying every relationship they've ever had until they get to the point where no one will help them anymore. It's fucked up that we as a society can't get our shit together to provide basic psychological healthcare to people. Most don't become drug addicts without some deep seated mental problems in the first place. Moreover those "catastrophic" things that cause people living paycheck to paycheck to become homeless in the first place are often medical related expenses. Yet we elect politicians driven by corporate interests who will never pass universal healthcare and will continue to spend trillions on corporate welfare (eg defense spending, bailouts, tax breaks, incentives, etc). I guess CEOs need bigger bonuses then people need basic healthcare or a warm bed that's not inside a private prison.

Game On is great. Super nice people. Having moved around a bit and played in many game stores, I also have to say that the crowd there has above average hygiene for MTG players too.

For those of you that haven't lived outside of Maine, I think you'll find this thread enlightening:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/zsw4y5/what_do_people_in_the_north_us_do_when_winter

As someone from the Midwest, I never worried about long term power outages before moving here. We don't have hurricanes, other states have forest, other states are rural, and yet we have the second least reliable power grid in the country, barely behind West Virginia. It is completely unacceptable how much we pay for the shitty service we receive. I don't give a shit if a state run power company may cost more. I'm sick of a bunch of wealthy fucks profiting off of our inconvenience. Fuck CMP.

Why upgrade our 1960s infrastructure. It works so well. /s

Just an article today that people can't grid tie their solar because it would overload the grid. WTF year do we live in? I see this being an issue in a really sunny populated state, but Maine's has the population of a decent sized city and we're not exactly getting 12 hours of direct sunlight everyday.

Sitting here with a generator running the pellet stove and fridge. They'll be "assessing" the outage until tomorrow. Greedy corporate fucks. Fuck CMP.

We should all install wood stoves and take CMP to small claims court to pay for them as they wouldn't be needed if their grid wasn't utter shit.

Warming. Check. Gulf of Maine is warming faster than virtually anywhere on the planet.

Over fishing.... Nope. I know most people don't have literature access, so here are some quotes from: Ryan, Richard W., Daniel S. Holland, and Guillermo E. Herrera. "Bioeconomic equilibrium in a bait-constrained fishery." Marine Resource Economics 25.3 (2010): 281-293.

"The massive amounts of herring used for lobster bait are hypothesized as one of the reasons for the unprecedented productivity of the lobster fishery in Maine, where landings in recent years have been more than three times pre-1990 average levels (Grabowski et al. 2010)."

"The Gulf of Maine lobster stock is the recipient of a “growth subsidy;” i.e., increased growth as a result of consumption of bait. Jury et al. (2001, p. 1127) find that of the lobsters entering a trap, only 6% are captured, whereas 94% escape. Among that 6%, only legal-size lobsters would be kept, while the others would be immediately released. Due to the high rate of Bait-Constrained Fishery escape from traps and the fact that sublegal lobsters along with V-notched5 females are released, bait consumption while in the trap provides a free meal for many lobsters while they grow. Additionally, discarded bait supplements food available to wild lobsters. Saila, Nixon, and Oviatt (2002); Grabowski et al. (2009); and Grabowski et al. (2010) attribute the proliferation of lobster biomass and landings at least in part to these externalities associated with the process of harvesting lobsters. In a mark-recapture study, Grabowski et al. (2009) find that lobster in areas with traps; that is, areas delineated as open to harvesting lobster, outgrow those in areas without traps by approximately 15%."

With herring getting expensive, lobster harvesters have turned to other bait. I strongly suspect the net input of biomass into the Gulf has increased since more of those sources have become freshwater (see the commercial sucker or sea-run alewife fisheries in Maine). Essentially, the Gulf of Maine is a lobster farm that's had increasing numbers for decades due to the warming ocean and the increased input of bait. Now it's starting to reach the point where it's too warm and the lobster are moving North. Catches have been increasing Downeast. Over the next 10-20 years we'll see Southern and Midcoast Maine catches continue to decrease while Downeast and Canadian catches increase. Additionally, as others have pointed out, there is nothing natural about the Gulf. See the previous collapses (ie, cod, shrimp, herring, scallop). The warming is also presenting as species moving into our waters. For instance, I have little doubt there will be a decent recreational blue crab fishery within the next couple decades.

Large scale removal is just starting. It's expensive and not efficient. These chemicals will be with us indefinitely. Same with plastics. Don't worry too much though. Shorter life spans aren't a huge deal when climate change, ocean acidification and insect collapse will crash our population. Humanity and capitalism are great.