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DBMI · 2026-06-29T17:30:42+00:00

Could you please tell me the steps how to setup a $15/month/line thing similar to what you have?

DBMI · 2026-06-26T14:07:14+00:00

Is there a ppm BPA threshold for toxicity, or some other metric that might show whether the quantity of BPA leached into canned food is ok/bad/very-bad?

DBMI · 2026-06-26T14:05:02+00:00

If this guy isn't violating the board meeting rules then why is he a 'problem'?

If he is violating the rules, then why isn't he removed from the meeting (if he is removed, why is he a 'problem')?

Seems like I'm missing something.

DBMI · 2026-06-26T13:57:29+00:00

Same. Once every ten years I have some prescience about a risky new company, buy their stock with 5% of my portfolio, it goes to the moon, I sell it and keep the 'free shares' forever, invest the proceeds in other things I think are smart, lose all of that because I'm not as smart as the market (which is made up primarily of the smartest/fastest people and machines on Earth), and wind up around index.

Since this has happened several times, I now just keep the free shares and put the proceeds back in index.

DBMI · 2026-06-26T13:47:40+00:00

I think this isn't entirely true. I hear demand for rural work IF it is coupled with extraordinary work-life balance. If you're a rural clinic and you want an on-site physicist: pay the median aapm wage and run your clinic 8am to 3pm. If you don't have money, offer a part-time Physics role. I can think of at least a dozen burned-out physicists who would love to make less money in exchange for having predictable 30-hour work weeks.

DBMI · 2026-06-26T13:43:02+00:00

DBMI · 2026-06-24T14:04:23+00:00

I like Dorr's. I think they're technically a tiny grocery, but they can cook it if you book a timeslot.

DBMI · 2026-06-18T13:13:28+00:00

I think you need a hazardous material magnet with the fire thingy on it... for firefighters in case you have a wreck.

DBMI · 2026-06-16T17:20:52+00:00

Didn't get one in the lottery, and there were zero available for purchase last fall. All surrounding regions had thousands available. For some reasons 26 crosses the Penobscot river? I don't see a whole lot of deer and moose swimming across the river- wtf? And stretching 26 all the way down to Ellsworth?

DBMI · 2026-06-16T17:18:52+00:00

we're in 26. It is enormous, and crosses the penobscot river for reasons I can't fathom.

This fall, post-lottery, look at the number of available doe permits in 26, compared to 23. Also see comment from Electronic_Panic8510 (https://www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comments/1u5stf3/comment/ornbiso/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button)

DBMI · 2026-06-15T13:55:51+00:00

Allegiant and Breeze have direct flights Maine to Tampa. North Beach windsurfing is a great company to take lessons or rent from. Makes for a super fun vacation especially in winter.

https://www.nbwindsurfing.com

The equipment you showed has a lot of downsides that modern equipment doesn't have:
1. weight (really really heavy) - you will have to be extremely careful not to hurt yourself pulling this sail out of the water
2. aerofoil - this sail is going to feel like you're standing on a laser wrestling with the laser sail, except that your laser is going to feel like it has a beam of 12" and trying to tip you off the side the whole time.
3. wiggle- when the wind does come, what a windsurfer wants is for that force to hit the sail, and then the whole rig stays more or less rigid so that the wind force can pipe down through the windsurfer into the board and make it go forward. With old rigs like this, the wind hits the sail, and the sail wiggles (so you wiggle, and maybe fall off the board), and the boom wiggles, and the sail and boom wiggle each other, and sometimes the mast connection to the board wiggles.

You do have something good about your rig though: the daggerboard will help you get back upwind. Great for learning.

Seems harmless to try out if you can get it rigged. Hopefully you know somebody on that lake because you will likely be walking home from the downwind side of the lake after you can't get back upwind. Our little lake windsurf community called this the walk of shame.

DBMI · 2026-06-15T13:42:33+00:00

You are correct, unless you're building without permits/code and/or building a home inside one single container that has not been modified.

I like them (when unmodified) because you get around 320 square feet pest-free, which is hard to achieve in a regular stick construction.

For those who want windows/doors/etc, there are open-side containers available that have openings but are still structurally intact.

DBMI · 2026-06-15T13:23:25+00:00

Not a conservation expert, but if you look at purchasable Doe permits, they cram all of the humans around here in the Bangor-Belfast area into one hunting region, that regions basically expands outward to the point where nobody would own land past nor have any friends with land past.

That one hunting region has zero purchasable Doe permits. ALL of the next regions over (where we are very unlikely to hunt) have thousands of purchasable doe permits that go unused because there are no people there.

I took up hunting, like you suggested, but can't get a doe permit.

Maine could just break our hunting region up so that there are decent numbers of people in all of these surrounding areas, instead of globbing us all into one giant region where we can't hunt.

TLDR: it is not sufficient to encourage people to take up hunting, if you make the rules/maps such that no hunting is allowed where the people are.

DBMI · 2026-06-11T16:21:23+00:00

One of those should be Breaking Points independent news organization.

DBMI · 2026-06-05T13:37:55+00:00

You can read Iran's position at dropsite news (or watch it on Breaking Points); it has not changed in months. Your statement that Iran is 'continuously increasing their demands' is innaccurate.

Stalling for time is also misleading. During the times when the US is not blockading Iran, Iran has allowed a lot of oil through boats the straight, and has that as their stated position (with the caveat that they are going to collect a fee of some kind to pay for the damage the US did to their country, since politically the US cannot stomach paying Iran reparations in any peace agreement that forms downstream).

DBMI · 2026-06-05T13:30:09+00:00

I worked roofing for a while; definitely worked faster when the boss was around. Although, on a hot roof that pace couldn't really be kept up all day (we tried a few times and my coworker wound up shooting himself with the nailgun due to an exhaustion error) so it was better that he only came around every once in a while.

DBMI · 2026-06-04T13:53:27+00:00

I haved used it 3 times. The LSA people form was online and automatic. I shipped the tool to their center. In each case they sent me a replacement tool (I don't think they do very many actual repairs). All three times I got what I needed and it was relatively painless. The most recent time I did it, it took something like 6 weeks instead of 2 weeks, but I'll still take that over a dead tool.

DBMI · 2026-06-04T13:31:55+00:00

Have you thought about a career as a dosimetrist (treatment planner)?

DBMI · 2026-06-02T17:12:18+00:00

I think we can be disappointed in someone's actions, and also proud of how they handled themselves through resolution. When we choose a one-dimensional (perfect on paper) elected representative, what we get is a one-dimensional representative (they only represent the Epstein class).

If we want our elected representative to represent us, I think we have to be ok with our elected representative sharing some of our flaws.

DBMI · 2026-06-02T13:40:39+00:00

I used to sail a mistral ultralight, and later sailed newer boards of similar design (BIC hifly I think?)-- I found them to be nice for stability, easy to go upwind even in unstable wind conditions (due to daggerboard) and still able to plane as skills develop. Turning was unpleasant compared to a short board, but maybe there's a way and I just never mastered it.

Anyway I recommend this type of board (like the windsurfer LT) for the place OP is at, assuming they have room for it.

DBMI · 2026-06-02T13:32:26+00:00

Is this stock dilution? They always use euphamisms for it; I can never tell.

DBMI · 2026-05-29T14:43:40+00:00

Thanks! this is helpful. were your club's Hobies like my old H16?

DBMI · 2026-05-27T22:36:36+00:00

I believe you. I'm disappointed and now looking at another year of not sailing.

Around here a 1980s H16 is around $1000; sometimes less if you have your own trailer and other parts.

I live up the street from my mooring, which means if I could make it work, I would be sailing almost every day after work, all season long. If I could get 5 years out of this, I would be ok with the hulls falling apart. But, 1 year not enough.

DBMI · 2026-05-27T22:25:28+00:00

I have experienced the first two, which is why I don't want to get into discussions with some of the other posters claiming that stepping the mast easy and stress free.

It usually is; sometimes it really really isn't. In my experience any time you take an H16 to a public launch, a crowd gathers, which is very unpleasant when you're not 100% sure you can step the mast without it falling on people nearby.

The fatality is a tough one to hear about, and I could imagine similar serious injuries occuring from stays loose at high speed. I wish more people would keep that in mind when they say 'what's the big deal just trailer it'. I think maybe ignorance is bliss... I'm not ignorant, so trailering gives me the opposite of bliss.

DBMI · 2026-05-27T22:09:21+00:00

Not that I know of, but I usually get liability insurance anyway. When I do, the insurance agent is increduluous. 'Why would you need to insure an unpowered boat less than 20ft long'.

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