It's generous to call this subreddit a community. It's basically the alleyway that the Jets and the Sharks face off in each night.

I think most of us cannot be experts on this delicate subject, as the foundation of my reply. But I feel that people are generally afraid of being judged, and that mental health is the most invasive, vulnerable way to be judged that we have come up with.

Being judged makes us feel very strongly about many topics, all of them divisive. And part of being judged is our inclusion within, or deliberate exclusion without, a community.

That every human is always a single sentence away from losing their entire tribe of family, friends, and neighbors is what makes us all so fragile in this regard. (Hagrid: "Should not have said that")

So to be so vulnerable as to seek some mental health when you might need it, I'd have to salute or comfort anyone willing to do that because I share the world with that person, we don't experience it separately. And I can feel the nakedness and embarrassment of someone sharing that they've needed mental health because it's so profitable to judge and shame and ostracize. Kick the people who are down, it's the quickest win.

Just like we're all one sentence away from destroying our connection to people, we're all one bad experience away from losing our mental health. I believe that if you can view people through this lens that it's the tiniest bit easier to accept how precarious a situation we all are in and how much we might prefer we were all a little more accepting of each other at the outset of that one bad event.

I'm completely unqualified to have any opinion on this other than as being a person, though.

I've paid for tree removals several times now at the same house

It's a classic y=mx+b from your high school math

y is the cost

m is how expensive your tree person is

x is how many trees you wanna remove

but the biggest piece is b: b is how much it costs for your tree person to get their stuff to your land

to have a single pine tree that leaning over the house, in 2010, it was 1,200 bucks.

to have five more trees removed a few years later, it was 2,000 bucks

to have the entire crew and all their gear show up and clear cut as many trees as they could do in a full day, in 2018, was 2,500 bucks, with stump removal

to have the entire crew show up in 2021 for another full day, it was 4,000 bucks, without stump removal

Remember that each one of those years, a buck is worth a different amount. I actually think it was all very consistent with itself, all things considered.

Thats awesome to hear. A quarter of a century later it sounds like it's blossoming into quite a thing.

i still have my Claremont First Night '98 lapel button. was a crazy night. I think Boccia's stayed open late, and between that and the Chamber of Commerce, the tremont square bullpen was basically Times Square. And you could walk all the way up to the middle school, and they had grape juice. I can't remember what else there was but it was 0 degrees and almost a mile so it was one happening night. I was 14 if that sounds any less creepy

shapes?

Haha so I filled the tub with water out before our first storm here in Lee

I woke up to an empty tub and a burned out boiler motor. Tub drained on it all night.

/u/sonogteflon seems like a saint, I agree

I live in Lee and am the only idiot on my drive without a generator. 27 hours offline so far. Everyone here in town has a well so that's a lot of deciding when to flush a toilet. It's good to suffer every now and then to remember how good we have it here though

go against the grain, cook some chicken soft tacos with caramlized white onions, some spanish rice, and heat up some black or refried beans.

the best time of the year is when we have the infinity freezer. keep some coronas in the garage near the door, chicken on the back porch under a heavy pot, and grill it all up on the vermont castings defiant. fill your home with exactly the wrong smells for this time of year, in a spiteful, haut cuisine irony that pleases the taste buds, warms the gut, and gives you the satisfaction of the last laugh versus the ice and wind

edit: i mis-spelled haute. it's not my word, i was faking that i knew how to use it.

but while i am editing: heat your soft tacos up! put a tiny bit of char on them. they are 10x better tasting

keep on donating plasma, force your numbers down a little bit

if they don't use a lot of minutes and just need it for the ability to connect, i am sure a pre-paid cell phone would be reasonably cheaper.

True, but it's a 10 minute drive to Vermont, 20 minutes to Lebanon, and even Newport next to it on the east side.

edit: ok, my Claremont joke fell flat. i deserve it

We subsidize these industries by receiving constant unsolicited advertising: our streets are littered with posters, our phones called 15 hours per day, text messages beyond, and emails galore.

But if I suggest that other industries should get the same benefit - supermarket chains, let's say - we should support our supermarket chains by taking a few extra calls per day, maybe 10 or 15 texts and 20 emails daily, and a few extra signs on the side of the road - nah, that's as equally unpopular.

I just wish someone could explain why it's different to me.

This is hanging above a urinal at Piccola Italia on Elm Street in Manchester.

go to home depot or lowes and get the yellow gas cans. those mean it's diesel inside it. it just has a screw top. fill it up at the gas station, take it home, unscrew the back of the house connection and literally pour it in.

I ended up getting two so that I can fill them 10 gallons combined. Which is about how bad it can drink gas on the coldest day of the year.

very scary voice. the voice is less scary when he tells you he's putting you on the do not call list. try it

I think there's a typo, where it says 12ahUKEwj

white-orange, orange: the sun, up high

white-green, blue: the sky

white-blue, green: the grass

white-brown, brown, the dirt, below

what do you need from me to make this happen

Tempting. I'll have to weigh having another even-year family meltdown over the deep divide brought by recent election results. It's been almost 24 months since someone threw a turkey leg across a table for believing in something or other.

Well I could have a really loud party and it would be ok since I'd be my own neighbors. They have a Hannaford so I could probably get like, some steaks and potatoes, maybe get really crazy and play some cornhole with some beanbags. I dunno. Dream big, they say

I would buy Claremont NH with it. The entire thing could be purchased for between 600 and 800 million bucks.

It would be kind of a joke purchase, but then, about 1/60th as expensive as purchasing Twitter as a joke was, but probably as many laughs.

i drove through a deer at 1am on 101 between exits 3 and 4.

trooper comes up, checks me out, realizes i'm stone cold sober, so he's being very polite and awesome to me. my car was toast, so i'm standing on the side of the highway at about 45F with just a t-shirt, freezing. He's keeping me company til the tow truck shows up, super cool of him.

he says "yeah man, like, 1/2 maybe 1/3 people are legally drunk right now whether they believe it or not". That kinda stuck with me ever since.

Also, we're kinda up on a hill that can see about 2 miles down. He taps me on the shoulder and goes "hey listen real quick --" and then I hear this loud bang and water balloon popping noise. He goes "yeah, I saw a truck's headlights dip, you just heard a deer explode". Kinda funny. And gross.

If you call Wentworth By The Sea and ask about their spa services, they all but hang up on you once they find out you aren't a guest.

The double roundabout is terrifying. It is best to consider it a traffic amnesty zone. There is no justice, there is no fairness, there is only throughput.

As terrifying as it is, it basically killed the constant traffic jams. So which do we really hate more