Consider yourself lucky. Over the past 2 years we've seen a $100 price difference for the same habits in the same house. We're now close to $350/mo, decent size house for sure. But when we first moved in it varied between 200-250.

Right, but the general manager doesn't pay utilities? The company does. An employee of a company should never be paying for utility expenses out of their own pocket unless the company is their company. That's not how jobs work.

You can just admit you don't understand how malls work and not contribute to the conversation. It's not hard.

The plural of Lego is Lego.

Bud, Angus King is and always has been a registered independent. He's not either side of the aisle.

Calling people assholes for flagging suspicious social media accounts during a time we KNOW there are rampant bot farms is just dumb. And this is absolutely a non-story.

That panel on top is a solar panel. The most recent addition (from just last week) was blinky lights.

Ah damn, I found my therapist through it and so did my wife. Was hoping to give you the same luck.

www.psychologytoday.com has a great option for finding therapists in your area that take your insurance and are accepting new patients.

Average take home money is also crazy low. Only a few thousand on average AND highly likely to get caught. Not worth it.

Because republicans still fall in line behind (previously) trump and now desantis and others like him. Laughing stocks to the rest of the world but Republicans stand by it.

Can you get a roof rake for the flatter section? We're supposed to get a bunch of rain on Thursday.

A lot of good suggestions so far, I'll throw Cowbell in. I love their burgers so much. Fried pickles are bomb too.

But we're not talking about any of that. The first comment was specifically saying the money is going to drugs and that's why he's homeless. If he stopped using drugs, he could afford an apartment. I'm specifically talking about funds, not mental health or well being. Financially speaking, drugs are not a problem in the same way "millennials eating avocado toast is what's stopping them from buying homes" is not the problem.

Drugs as a whole, absolutely a problem we need to solve. But this person quitting drugs won't fix their homelessness problem.

If you remove the cost of drugs, he still doesn't have enough money though. So no, they aren't a factor.

If he became sober tomorrow. No more drug expenses. But surprise! Still can't afford rent.

You also need a security deposit, usually that's an extra months rent, up front due on the first day. Electricity pricing has skyrocketed. Many landlords now require rental insurance. Food stamps will absolutely help, but grocery shopping also requires both the skill to cook and time to do so - which means he'll also need to buy utensils and cookware, most people working minimum wage jobs don't have the time because they work shit hours.

All I'm saying is that this isn't a simple problem to fix, just saying "there's no homeless problem" is incredibly out of touch.

My point is that he doesn't make enough money to pay for rent. The drugs aren't a factor, just his take home pay is $1200/mo. There isn't any place in Maine that would rent that amount, but even if there was, he'd still need money for transportation/food/electricity. You can't just belittle the problem down to "drugs" because it's more than that.

He makes less than $300/wk. That's not enough to afford rent and also food/regular expenses. So he uses drugs to escape the shitty world he can't afford. I'm not saying drugs aren't a problem, but you can't just write this off as "he could afford rent if he stopped doing drugs". Because he couldn't.

Lol my first thought was actually saying "mercredi" which is Wednesday in French, but said quickly could sound like eh cadis.

Though i don't think saying "Wednesday" is slang in French...

I have an old Roland tk-42. I replaced all the heads with Roland mesh heads and run it into mybandlab for basic stuff. I've never put a full song together, mostly just dicked around but it's a decent setup.

Yes. It's been about 10 years since I've been in a band. But I was in various metal bands from ~2005-2012. Metal, metalcore, hardcore, punk.

I'm a drummer, have an ekit and an acoustic kit.

Well yeah of course there will be people older than 25 in bars, but you'll find that in every activity you do? If you go out thursday-saturday and be selective over which bars you're more likely to find a younger crowd though

Bars, social places, join a club or an indoor sports thing if you're into it.

Indoor soccer/volleyball/bowling leagues imo are great. Generally you can find "beer leagues" that are more about social interaction while staying active.

It's not though, they're super open about their views.

Collins was re-elected in 2020, heating oil concerns weren't like they were this year. I don't think that commercial was running.

I'm mostly in southern Maine, occasionally in central, I've had mint for 3? Years and was Verizon before that.

You'll have less coverage than Verizon in the more rural areas, but I've never had any issues honestly. It's been great, though most of my time is in populated areas southern Maine so it depends a bit on where you're using it.