You don't even need to know how to swim to buy and operate a consumer-grade boat.

>You forgot to call them racist or classist or fascist or something. > >Their store brand products are on par with any other store brand.

Even if their products are equivalent, if they treat their employees worse, I'll avoid them.

Okay. But can you at least agree that Big Lots shouldn't be selling products that can't meet Maine's minimum implied warranty?

>That's not what I'm saying, either. My point is that Big Lots, Mardens, etc. aren't really ideal places to shop, if you are looking for products that are in good quality upon home arrival or store arrival that will last long. I'm not talking about the warranty at all.

How is that relevant, though?

We're discussing the warranty in this thread. You keep bringing up that Big Lots isn't a place you expect to find quality products. I don't think that matters. Legally, Maine requires that the products sold to its citizens meet certain minimum standards for durability and longevity. If Big Lots sells crap, this is a way to hold them accountable for that.

I'm not trying to convince you to shop at Big Lots. All I'm saying is, if Maine mandates a particular amount of "product longevity", I don't think it's reasonable to suggest that anyone shopping at a discount store should expect their purchases to be exempt.

>I guess I should have saved the receipt for my $27 Mr Coffee from Walmart for when it fails.

Even if you don't personally care about your $27 coffee maker, we all benefit from fewer products ending up in the landfill a handful of years after they were purchased.

> I just replaced a 40 year old coffee maker and have zero expectations that the replacement will not last nearly as long. Cuz they don't make things like they used to.

While that is true, no new consumer electronic should be failing inside 4 years. The company selling such poor quality merchandise is the one wasting taxpayer resources.

> Yeah, I can see why it crapped out on ya after only 3 years. Buying appliances from places like Big Lots is a fool's errand.

Big Lots sells new merchandise, and customers are legally entitled to the same protections they would have if they bought from Walmart.

Is there an active LGBTQ+ community on Craigslist? Or are you one of those folks who equates "not being cis/straight" with "sexually promiscuous/deviant"?

You think fighting pseudoscience is greasier than advancing pseudoscience?

> Thirdly: This is Maine honey, where words like Retard, Queer, and Moron alongside many other words that people deem offensive are still used because their meaning up here is not offensive nor used in an offensive way.

This is in no way accurate in 2023.

> It was expected for most people to participate in at least one sport when I was growing up. Parents don't put that pressure on their kids as much anymore.

Given that many kids don't like sports, and enjoying sports is hardly universal among adults, I can't see a downside here.

> The government of the usa doesn't care about its citizens.

If you aren't on the path to financial success, you aren't the type of citizen many are interested in caring about.

Even during the day?

>I’ll look for this comment the next time I see an article about a republican. Spoiler alert, it won’t be there.

Are you saying that Democrats don't call for Republican politicians who break the law to be punished?

>I’ll admit it’s a bit cringy but I’m just so sick of seeing the constant Republican bashing that goes on in r/Maine. The bias here is so obvious. It’s nice to finally see another conservative here. I was beginning to think I was the only one.

As a Democrat, I don't feel the need to bash Republicans unless they are doing something that violates my moral code. It doesn't help that there are some pretty offensive (deliberately so) bits of rhetoric in circulation at the moment: "LGBTQ+ folks are all deviant groomers" and the like.

But I also will bash Democrats for doing the same.

This guy is a crook.

First Adelphia, then Time Warner, now Spectrum. Every time our cable internet provider has been sold/absorbed into another corporate entity, things have gotten worse.

Yeah, I'll give you that - the stylization isn't consistent. As I scan the piece vertically, my brain does a little hiccup and I can't really integrate the upper and lower halves of the body. Good render of a flawed sketch, maybe.

The face looks quite stylized, so I assumed it was an artistic decision.

>Your dog eats poop

So?

Isn't that a flophouse or boarding house? Efficiency apartments are a specific real estate term, was my understanding.

Even nastier, if that's, the case.

It's more "hard circumstances mean you need to work however hard is necessary to survive (and might not survive) and that isn't something government has any business meddling in - it's just life" in my experience.

Nasty stuff.

If true, that's a nasty side effect I hadn't heard mentioned prior.

I honestly haven't seen an efficiency under $1000 in a long time. Like, I get that it used to be an option, but today I don't think it is.