I remember riding down 15 to NYC and just seeing cardboard boxes ALL over the road.

They were EVERYWHERE.

About a mile down there was a box truck that looked like it had exploded because it had clipped one of the bridges, presumably going 65.

No clue how it didn't cause a massive pileup/jam.

That was my first experience going through CT.

"Baby up in this bitch" is infinitely funnier than "Little assholes on board" in the "live laugh love" font, tho.

It definitely has to do with the way Rt 15 is constructed, but HOLY FUCK... in no other state do drivers STOP in the middle of the highway to exit.

For real, though: Connecticut can't drive.

Like, collectively as a state they just can't do it.

Driving through Connecticut is an abysmal experience.

Those people also walk into a Dunkin Donuts, daily, and order a "great one" with extra extra, then make fun of Starbucks size names.

KTP

Now we know why it had to be replaced.

Majestic birb.

BRO. WHY YOU POSTING PICS OF MY WHIP!?

"Fear mongering at best" ...K

Unfortunately I think it's right on schedule, but the "you're being alarmist" crowd would have you believe otherwise.

Yeah that one.

> We shouldn’t make the lobstermen out to be the villains they are portrayed as being…

Nobody on this post (or in the article) is claiming lobstermen are villains...

Okay? Because that's what I'm suggesting...

"The potential effects climate change has had on crab populations could be indicative of what will happen with lobster" ≠ "the article says there's a correlation between Alaska and Maine fisheries"

> Climate change certainly has and will continue having an effect on the lobster industry.

Literally my entire point.

> Your title also suggests that whatever happens in the Bering Sea will happen in the gulf of Maine. The article makes no such correlation.

I didn't claim the article did make any such correlation.

I probably should have made the title longer to include the actual headline (either that or Reddit should get it's mobile posting options together).

If you read the article there are no claims of overfishing.

It's a question of where the crabs went, and what happened.

Have an up vote.

(P.S.: I upvoted your other comment too, but people are dumb.)

> Right now every lobster fisherman I know in Maine couldn't give 2 shits about Alaska.

> They already do. Talk to any of them.

Either they care that the warming waters, thus the massive decline in crab populations off the Alaska coast, could be foreshadowing a similar series of events off the Maine coast (which is already underway, anyway) or they don't...

...which is it?

Pretty sure lobster fishermen are gonna care when their crops either die off or move to Newfoundland, but yeah, fuck Alaska... I guess?

If that's what you want to take away from this that's your prerogative, I guess?

Crabs, lobsters, cockroaches, and dust mites are all of the phylum arthropoda and it's suspected that that connection is why, seemingly, people who have an allergic reaction to dust mites are more likely to have an allergic reaction to crustaceans, as well. (I'm sorry. I don't have a source other than "my wife has 14 known food allergies" or "trust me, bro", and I really don't want to look one up lol)

So, if you want to get technical/assholish: all that would have to be switched would be changed in order to clear up any semantic issues is arthropods/insects.

FAKE NEWWWWSSSS!!!!

— starts shrieking —

— head starts spinning —

I felt it was relevant to post here, given the on-going news cycle regarding Maine's lobster industry.