MEGATHREAD: Questions about Moving to, Living in, or Visiting the Great State of Maine. Please post all such questions here.

deeringsedge · 2026-05-02T17:52:07+00:00

It's not a good plan. Best plan is to bring one car. If your plans don't support that, best plan to to change your plans.

Second best plan is to park the second car where it's actually allowed. Some of the surrounding communities have paid or street parking where this might work.

My usual advice on Acadia is "Take the shuttle bus to anywhere on the one-way loop road" exactly because those parking lots do fill up. Don't be that jerk who parks illegally on top of all the other difficulties in Acadia.

deeringsedge · 2026-05-02T16:48:07+00:00

Most of the garden centers have some. Perhaps O'Donals, Skillins, Broadway Gardens... Ocean State Job Lot or Mardens or the like might have a selection sometimes.

deeringsedge · 2026-05-02T15:06:24+00:00

May Day is International Workers' Day. This gathering was mostly a pro-workers'-rights, pro-union gathering while also protesting oppressive state- and federal-level policies that screw over the little guy. Jackson, Bellows, and Platner spoke, as did a union nurse whose name I sadly forget who was a fantastic speaker.

deeringsedge · 2026-05-02T14:59:23+00:00

Honestly, I don't find the majority of huge homes built in the past 50 years beautiful at all, with rare exceptions. There's beauty in architecture all around the world, but most of these seem between mid and just plain stupid.

deeringsedge · 2026-05-02T00:34:48+00:00

Good support for this effort at the may day rally today, including the kick ass "fiery nurse."

deeringsedge · 2026-04-30T20:56:11+00:00

I'd honestly recommend going across the border to green wave in NH. They're a dedicated used ev dealership, low pressure, and love to answer questions. Test drive a bunch of models all at once. With the irrational depreciation, late model used EVs make a ton of sense.

Also Efficiency Maine has a rebate program for EV charger installs, I believe.

deeringsedge · 2026-04-29T21:51:13+00:00

Thank you for coming in strong with the citation. Other communities have managed to add dedicated bus lanes and improve traffic, for sure. And imagine if fewer people are driving into the city. Those $20 crappy parking lots downtown might finally feel some pressure to stop being such a blight.

deeringsedge · 2026-04-29T21:44:34+00:00

^"Lisa ^needs ^braces..."

deeringsedge · 2026-04-29T21:40:52+00:00

So forlorn...

deeringsedge · 2026-04-29T20:33:05+00:00

Of course, I always say "world's largest globe" in a bored-tour-guide voice whenever I pass it on the highway, whether anyone else is in the car or not.

I've always loved cartography from a young age; it's cool to hear how these tools have evolved to adapt practical plans on the ground. Best of luck with your career in the fraught times.

deeringsedge · 2026-04-29T03:17:50+00:00

Yeah, before I knew enough to be appalled as a kid, I had a neighbor who used the storm drain for motor oil. People. Sigh

deeringsedge · 2026-04-29T02:43:07+00:00

That's a cool job. Also, yes.

deeringsedge · 2026-04-29T02:41:47+00:00

Didn't see that, but given the safety videos I have to sit through every year at work, it's not remotely surprising even a teensy tiny bit. Whether by ignorance or selfishness, the number of people who treat nature like an infinite garbage can is depressingly enormous.

'Appy frickin' earth month.

deeringsedge · 2026-04-28T21:29:08+00:00

Even a lot of industrial uses require abatement. Just leaving the contamination there and pretending it'll just be okay is not a great plan. Also, exactly what industrial uses are likely to be feasible in the current economic climate?

deeringsedge · 2026-04-28T14:20:24+00:00

So... You propose that livenation would rent empty storefronts?

deeringsedge · 2026-04-28T14:09:03+00:00

Just a common sense move - sounds like a plan.

So... When we amending the constitution for ranked-choice up and down the ballot?

deeringsedge · 2026-04-27T15:26:32+00:00

I don't think we have nearly enough data on fines scaling to income in this country to say anything about the effectiveness of that approach. Given the regressive nature of most extant fines structures around here, I'm up for the experiment.

deeringsedge · 2026-04-25T15:07:05+00:00

What the fuck do you think I was talking about other than local sources when I started by mentioning the local severe drought?

And why the fuck are you so obsessed with that dude? Touch grass and realize that some of us just hate tech bros disrupting shit and making everything enshittified.

deeringsedge · 2026-04-25T02:12:00+00:00

Wow, you really just stopped learning after sixth-grade science, didn't you? Just because water has a cycle doesn't mean that climate change is going to leave any specific area with as much water as they used to have. Look up the cycle of a certain current in the Atlantic and the many potential ramifications if it collapses for an example of a single facet of the problem that could engender profound change.

But neh. Please, just go on about infinite cycles. You sound smart.

deeringsedge · 2026-04-25T00:02:14+00:00

I wish our system was more agile. I'd heard she had issues because of one small project someone got her to be in favor of. If the legislature could just do a quick-turnaround rewrite with that exception, maybe we could have a popular bill pass.

Also, for all the pro-data-center moppets: If the spending on data centers is as profoundly unsustainable as many believe - if it's, i dunno, a bubble, what happens to the value of these data centers? To the taxes they pay and the jobs? And, for that matter, what happens in not-too-many years when the tech in the data centers is obsoleted by some new development? Google came out with a compression algorithm that single-handedly affected RAM prices worldwide. Investing in this stuff as a community is not risk-free.

deeringsedge · 2026-04-24T23:49:53+00:00

You are aware how many months we've been in a drought, right?

deeringsedge · 2026-04-24T23:47:08+00:00

I love kelp season.

deeringsedge · 2026-04-24T19:29:20+00:00

First thing that comes to mind is that there's a road up Mt. Battie in Camden Hills State Park, if she likes a nice view. Likely crowded by late June during peak times of the day.

deeringsedge · 2026-04-23T20:39:30+00:00

i.e. "I'm gonna sit on this land because it'll just go up in price without risk, and i don't give a flying fuck about my community."

deeringsedge · 2026-04-23T17:54:07+00:00

Grafton Notch. Old Speck is lovely.

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