Instead of one big glass, you get several smaller ones all with a different flavor. It’s typically more expensive but a flight is usually 1.5-2 regular drinks worth of drink spread across 3-5 smaller drinks

A variety pack, if you will lol

I would but unfortunately someone ain’t a team player and won’t touch a Madawaska martini

I did get her to try a White Russian last weekend though so we’re making progress lol

Shit I replied to the other person first, my bad

Fancy iced coffee flavors like s’mores and white chocolate truffle, things like that. But also with alcohol in them.

They come in a flight like ciders or margaritas though so you get a few small ones for some variety

Not typically how I like my booze or coffee but I figure it’s worth a shot lol

Hey if it’s any consolation I didn’t know about them till like, three days ago and I’m 26 lol

It’s a flight like ciders or margaritas: you get a variety of a few smaller drinks that are all different flavors. It’s just fancy flavors of iced coffee with booze though at the end of the day. Stuff like S’mores, caramel mocha, white chocolate truffle etc etc

I’m more of a black iced coffee with liquid sugar kinda guy myself but I want to try it before I write it off lol

I never said it was a bad thing that people want to be in unions. I’ve been in two IAM locals and I’m in USW now.

I was trying to get at the fact that the expectations of some are waaaaay higher than they should be

I stand corrected; that happened about a month ago. Figured that would have made the news/social media rounds like the story of them loosing them did

They quite literally left off the CBA as a paid benefit though. There is no labor law stating any that has to be paid by a private employer; only time off given without penalty. I’m not saying it wasnt a real dick move to take those benefits, just to be clear.

This article states it was straight up forgotten. Every other article makes statements of negotiation which means a memorandum of agreement was drafted and signed which means it wasn’t on the original contract because someone fucked up

I sit in on similar meets a few times a month as a union employee, for what it’s worth.

The majority of people I see in here screaming about unionization don’t strike me as the type that have ever been union labor.

How do I know that? They seem to think being in a local is the silver bullet cure for everything negative they see in their current employer and fail to realize that 85% of the time, union-company negotiations move at a glacial pace and you typically achieve half of what you expect too. See: the nurses at Maine Med who’s CBA allowed them to be stripped of PTO for jury duty, bereavement and military service. Someone on the union side dropped a huge fuckin ball on that one

Being in a union absolutely does have its pros and I won’t deny that but people act like it’s sunshine and rainbows 100% of the time

Food might be good still; honestly I have no idea.

The bar crowd is ass though, that much I do know lol

I’d probably avoid renting anywhere in the south end: not inherently awful or dangerous statistically is just the “worst” part of town and it’s kinda gross. Cheap though lol

Oh stay the fuck outta Cancun too, it’s a trashy shit hole of a bar/restaurant trying to act like a nightclub. I got dragged in there three times last year and it almost always ended in having to deal with a belligerently drunk Colby kids that like to pick fights and will loudly exclaim they are Colby students like it makes them immune to the consequences of acting like a dickhead

Anyone with three braincells can infer that the other commenter wasn’t trying to insinuate you should leave a physically or developmentally disabled teenager to their own devices

Reading the full report by the aquarium makes this lawsuit make more sense, at least to me.

They’ve got a ton of compiled info regarding acoustic conformations and visual sightings of these whales and their own info makes it look pretty bad: in the past decade or so the whale activity has been WAY higher in the St. Lawrence Gulf vs the Bay of Fundy + Gulf of Maine by what looks like an order of magnitude. Reasonable gripe against the Canadian fishery, but kinda unjust to lump anyone fishing out of Maine when all the notable whale activity as of late is a long ways off

I dunno, I’m no scientist nor lawyer nor lobsterman. Just a dumbass with a phone lol

That’s an absolute fucking unit of a dude to begin with, let alone one that is knowledgeable on how to pull a person apart lmao

Yeah they made the lawn fucking suck. It’s nuts to butts on the hill now, abd while I don’t mind it being a little crowded I shouldn’t have so little room I can’t even drink my beer because I can’t move my arms

Nah I’ve got that earmarked for part of the Constitution

I do need to make good on a bet I lost and get “Dilly Dilly!” On the other side though

Came out great, soon as it’s done peeling I’m going to post it. I have a fresh picture but a couple of the darker spots swelled like hell unfortunately

There’s a reason I got “Steadfast as Katahdin, hard as winters rain” tattooed on myself last week. He was an OG hard ass

Not even kidding either, fit the theme well, great song, and I can relate to it a lot

I mean if you call it $3500 over 365 days last year that’s like $9.60 a day at Dunkin

Which isn’t great by any means but that’s basically an average of a large coffee, breakfast sandwich and tax every day

It’ll be like 100% autonomous driving, “five more years away” indefinitely

Uh, it’s got 4x Wabtec V16 diesels that are allegedly setup in a way that they burn clean enough to not require typical SCR or urea emissions equipment which saves quite a bit of space plus doesn’t stink like shit.

Those are all bolted to Cummins generator sets; the propulsion itself is all electric but you need a way to produce said (fuckload of) power to spin the prop and run everything else on the ship

It’s going to be vastly more efficient than the current one but I don’t see how they’ll be using electric power to do anything non-standard on it

> Unions have become huge bureaucracies, often totally out of touch with the needs and desires of their membership.

If you’re in a local with more than a hundred people, I can’t sit here with a straight face and say it’s incorrect. I’ve been in two IAM locals and currently in a USW local, there is more fuckery in this local I’m currently in than both of the IAM locals combined. Being unionized is almost always a good thing, but I can definitely tell in here who has and has not worked in a Union environment; it’s absolutely not all sunshine and rainbows like some people paint it as.

One day last spring one maintenance department got an unplanned, non negotiated, outside of contract $6 raise. This pushed their pay gap from the industry standard of $3-5 to almost $10. This was for all pay grades in that department. Roughly 290 days later the rest of maintenance got $2.65. I’m absolutely topped out as far as pay goes in my current position and someone can take a bottom rung trainee bid with the other department and be making within few cents of me. A level 1 trainee making virtually the same as a journeyman; while both are paying the same dues to the same local. That’s fucked up.

I’m rambling but point being: being organized does not make a workplace immune from stupid shit and nepotism

Keep your heat turned on and crack your faucets, you’ll be aiight

My side hustle is the same thing as my day job (millwright) I just have a couple small manufacturing businesses I do it for. A lot of it is diagnostic stuff, I try to stay away from anything to in depth though because I enjoy my weekends, but if I can make a couple hundred bucks in three hours I’m hard pressed to say no lol

> They are building Canada’s new naval fleet in a plant in a new Halifax yard that makes Bath Iron works look quaint

Full transparency, as far as shipyards go BIW is quaint. When you have one customer and one customer only, who pays handsomely, you don’t need a ton of room to attempt to crank out two ~600ft hulls a year vs what you need to build super freighters

I’ve been in a variety of heavy industries since 2015 including BIW, and as far as sheer acreage of an operation they’re peons. I worked a power plant in Texas whose coal pile alone was probably 80% of the size of the Bath yard

What’s Barre’s relation to the ski resorts in VT?

I’m assuming the bigger ones are set up like the Loaf with condos a plenty; which would make the numbers make a little more sense