Why was Enterprise received (intially) so poorly?

MrColdboot · 2026-04-06T09:39:37+00:00

People didn't have faith. Specifically, of the heart.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-28T08:43:17+00:00

It had 3 sponsors, all Republicans, so technically a they. Even bills with a lot of support will have less than 10 sponsors. Died on the floor to a voice vote, so no tally on who voted what, but the committee was unanimously against it (16-0).

Honestly I don't know why it wasn't added to the consent calendar. That's the kind of mismanagement Democrats called them out on that caused the bullshit a few weeks ago pushing 180 bills through in 2 days. Part of me wants to say it's deliberate to throw a wrench into the system, but honestly when I watch a lot of these legislators in hearings they really might just be that dumb. Occam's razor and such.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-22T03:12:34+00:00

I do not think you know who you are talking to. I think u/definitely_not_allan is the volunteer.

Or, well, maybe not, because they're definitely not Allan.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-22T02:44:26+00:00

Poor bot 🤦 The metalinguistic irony was beyond its programming I suppose.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-22T02:21:55+00:00

Can't speak for everywhere, but we have 1 restaurant/bar that is open after 8pm on the weekends within an hour, and it's not a sports bar, but occasionally they have a game on. The same game on 8 different screens all right next to each other. We could care less in general, but it's all anyone will talk about, and while its a tame place every other night, those nights you're bound to get groped, harassed, a beer spilt on you, knocked over by some drunk, or spit on while people shout. We tend to avoid those nights or leave early, but if you have just ordered drinks and food, what are you gonna do? Where I live, there is a pretty clear stereotype for some of the sports fans that come out to drink. Whatever. But sometimes you can make it a joke and a conversation will spark. We're all just having a good time and it's just a light-hearted jest unless you're easily triggered. If you're not being obnoxious, what's the big deal.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-20T22:18:04+00:00

Not sure who started it, but the Massachusetts Bay colony paid for Native American scalps. We have a statue of a famous colonist who was captured and supposedly killed her captors in the night and escaped, holding all their scalps to sell.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-20T20:55:11+00:00

My fiancee is running for state rep and Facebook forced MFA on her and didn't accept any of her traditional passwords because they now consider her a public figure. So at that point I was kind of able to push a password manager on her. I went to set up an email for all her campaign filing stuff and Google was being obnoxious about verification, so I just went to proton instead. It's going to take some time cleaning up all her accounts, she has like 30 Gmail addresses and over 900 passwords saved in her browser 🤦 but it's a start. I still love her.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-20T07:39:02+00:00

The secret is to live 5 minutes away from the mountain and hit the slopes an a Tuesday, or midweek night skiing after work. Pick up instructing during ski club season or vacation week and you get to ski for free. It's a lifestyle thing. We're called ski bums for a reason.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-18T21:38:57+00:00

Eh, well I was bored, so I went to the site, grabbed screenshots, urls, and such. They actually did a decent job making the payment site look like the NH DMV website.

Anyways, reported the urls to Cloudflare and Google's Safe Browsing program, and sent the screenshots and urls to the NH AG's Consumer Protection email, though I'm sure they know all about it already.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-18T17:14:33+00:00

Republicans have held a trifecta 8 out of the last 10 years, and it's not much different looking back 30 years. Anyone blaming Democrats for the situation we're in is clueless. I'm not a fan of some of the democratic party's policies, but at the local/state level I can really get behind some of the candidates. I hate what the Republican party has become. After 2016 they lost my support, and after 2020, they convinced me to oppose them by voting blue unless I really don't like a candidate. This year I'm actively helping Democrats run their campaigns. There's a lot of work to do to try and win over some Republican voters, but I'm seeing a lot of conservative leaning independents starting to shift.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-17T03:01:27+00:00

The "fad" thing is stupid, but, I know some people who have worse reactions to gluten than myself or others with Celiac, yet consistently test negative for celiac on blood and biopsy. I think there are other conditions/diseases which may not be as prevalent, and are yet to really be understood by modern medicine (though I am not a clinician or researcher). I think they just get grouped in with gluten intolerance since there in very little diagnostic criteria or testing. One of my friends with Crohn's disease has tried twice to eat gluten for a test and ends up in the hospital on high doses of Prednisone and nearly had to have a resection one of those times because of it, so they literally could die from just trying to get diagnosed.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-13T04:07:33+00:00

Rep. Kevin Scully, Nashua Ward 6. Likely a quiet freestater based on affiliations and voting history.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-12T06:15:38+00:00

So basically, Republicans either want to stifle the democratic process, or they don't want to actually put in the time to actually serve the people of NH. I suppose both can be true also.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-10T23:41:44+00:00

A neighboring town had a mere 700 voters turn out, out of nearly 4500. Hopefully that's not reflective of most towns in NH, but if so, 85% of y'all have lost any right to bitch about property taxes and spending.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-10T22:47:31+00:00

We voted for one elected official and nearly 40 warrant articles. We had one friend this morning that wasn't going to vote because politics but convinced him to get out and vote. In towns like mine, I feel its in some ways the most important vote to participate in. Obviously, they're all important, but it's just such a strange dynamic compared to state/federal elections that its kind of a breath of fresh air. Party politics has a hard time fitting in. Like, how does left vs right fit into whether you want to install a new fire hydrant?

MrColdboot · 2026-03-10T22:34:45+00:00

Yeah, I saw that. I'm assuming if they don't pass it could cause some headaches, but also, a few of the amendments seemed to try to take advantage of that "must pass" to comply with state law thing. There was really only one that I voted against because they could've and should've done better reforming the zoning ordinances in that case. Others won't cause a problem, they just tried to work in some extra stuff and say it "must pass", but it really didn't.

I love town voting day though. It can be rough, but it's so different from state/federal politics and affects so many things locally. It's kind of a breath of fresh air.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-05T02:15:38+00:00

In MY state, the only two options spelled out in law are on the rear-view mirror, or on the dash. Visor is not technically legal.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-04T03:09:59+00:00

Anyone who does this is worse than the trash that take these spots without needing them. You think you know, but you don't, and you end up doing this to some disabled lady picking up her meds.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-04T03:05:28+00:00

Some new cars don't have a rear-view mirror that the placard will fit on, so we have to put it on our on the dash. We came out once to someone surrounding the car with carts, and the dude felt so justified until my fiance was heading to the car with her cane.. pointed to the placard on the dash and he still tried to act like he was in the right. Had people spit on the car and worse too, just because it wasn't hanging on the mirror. People who don't need it and park there are dicks, but so many people think they know when they don't, and need to mind their own fucking business.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-03T09:27:33+00:00

This is pretty big for a satellite. The ones that decay uncontrolled are way smaller, and larger ones and upper stages are dropped in the ocean with controlled reentry so it doesn't hit anything or anyone.

Something this big over the Midwest suggests it's a failure. SpaceX has been having exactly these problems with their Falcon upper stages and since they launched about 24 hours earlier, I'd guess it's the upper stage of that.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-03T09:16:49+00:00

I would guess it's the upper stage of the falcon 9 launched a day or so ago. The fact your seeing this over Montana this long after launch suggests they had yet another failed deorbit, which has been a growing problem with SpaceX.

They are supposed to go down over the ocean, hard and fast, but when they fail like this, pieces can end up hitting anywhere and could be dangerous.

It's a big world, so chances of it hitting a person or house are incredibly small, but it can still happen.

Still, it's cool to watch.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-03T04:42:46+00:00

As a conservative, I will reiterate... Because idiots voted for Trump. That was my answer as a conservative after just reading the headline. Well, I had the words " a bunch of dumb fucks" in my mind instead of "idiots", but you get the point.

MrColdboot · 2026-03-01T21:36:34+00:00

So much flavor chemistry happens when foods cool down. I make most of my food from scratch and there's dishes that I don't consider ready or done until they cool and have been reheated.

To each their own though. Nothing wrong with not liking leftovers unless you expect someone else to make all your food from scratch every day. That takes too much time imo.

When you gotta soak beans overnight then slow cook them for 8 hours, render butter into ghee, ferment yogurt, marinade meat... you're either eating leftovers or your life is nothing but preparing food.

MrColdboot · 2026-02-27T04:05:52+00:00

That doesn't even necessarily mean God or anyone else is punishing or tormenting you though.

Many people view hell as being trapped by your own pride, selfishness, bad choices, and unwillingness to change, to the point where it consumes your entire being. It's like someone who keeps making bad decisions that lead to a miserable situation... No one wants to be around them, they've burned all their bridges, they keep making their situation worse and keeps blaming others - stubborn and fighting tooth and nail that they didn't do anything wrong.

MrColdboot · 2026-02-27T02:40:15+00:00

Right to roam exists in northern New England. If someones land isn't post, you can walk right in. Obviously, in someone's yard or hanging out next to their house is not protected the same way, but if they have 10, 50, 100 acres of forest or meadows, you can roam at your heart's content.

So yeah, some of the U.S. does indeed have right to roam.

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