There’s definitely been a lot more lately though. I’ve seen plenty of military training here, but not at the frequency that I’ve seen it the past couple months.

They were circling over my work parking lot. Definitely F-15s, not F-22s.

If you’re not comfortable rigging up your own flare, pick up one of those weed burning torches from Harbor Freight for $25 and just let it run full blast for a couple hours. It’ll burn off enough to move.

I’ve bought several Erlenmeyer flasks off of Amazon for my home brewing yeast cultivation experiments. No idea where you would get them locally though.

It’s been there for a long long time, they just switched it over to space force a couple years ago.

That said, there’s always been strange things going on around there.

I’ll add a second for El Rincon (best Mexican in the city), Gyro Spot and Mr. Mac’s. All solid choices depending on what you’re in the mood for.

Cannon is owned by the taxpayers and it’s annual reports are a matter of public record. However, I’m not going to spend my time digging through state financial documents just to appease a stranger on Reddit. You are able to research it yourself. I worked in the ski industry for a couple of decades and always have kept an eye on revenue vs snowfall up until the past few years. Last report I remember looking at was pre-Covid, so the info I have is probably from 2018-19 season or so, but it was around $7.25M in annual profit. By comparison, Gunstock does around $1.5M. Cannon, as probably the most popular ski area in NH, has generally shown steady growth of about $100k-250k per year since 2011, obviously dependent on the weather. That’s a rate of less than 3%. Not huge, but still profitable.

Only that I worked in the industry for 20 years and I still have family who works for Loon.

It was originally supposed to be done in 2021, but they lost a ton of money due to Covid, so they pushed it back.

Loon has their gondola scheduled to be replaced next year.

Cannon generates $7M annually for the state. A good chunk of that is solely summer tourists riding the tram. The long term benefits outweigh the temporary cost.

That said, it was originally built in 1938 and then rebuilt and refurbished 42 years later.

Sounds like another refurbishment is due.

It was the first aerial tramway in North America. It should be designated on the National Register of Historic Places.

I grew up in NH but lived in NM several years before moving back home. I really miss The Land of Enchantment.

The point is that most European countries have a left-wing. The US does not. The Dems are center-right… center at best. The DNC has put a strong effort into shutting out the more progressive members of their party in the interest of the status quo.

In recent decades, the closest thing we’ve had to genuine left-wing American politicians at the federal level is Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard, and they’re not even that far left. Both are registered independent, not Democrat.

Ask any European what they think of American left wing politics and they’ll laugh at you.