This is what they look like in bloom, and here's a good article about the native vs. non-native lupine species in Maine: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/lupine.htm#:~:text=This%20plant%20is%20not%20native,to%20as%20an%20invasive%20species.

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Deer eat the lupine

One is breaking the law and the other is asking if anyone else has noticed other people breaking the law, but you do you.

Unfortunately, they are also an invasive species in Maine. Plant native clover for nitrogen and bees and native milkweed for the butterflies instead please! (I still think lupines are pretty through)

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

I saw two cars with just the DRLs and no running lights on 295 on my way from Scarborough to Brunswick Thursday night. Tried flashing my lights behind them to let them know but they were both completely oblivious.

No, it comes from old English word Reiver meaning River Pirate or Plundering Raid.

Reavers? Is this a Firefly reference?

I'll be there!

Electric boats arent gonna be popular for a lonng lonng time. Huge strides need to be made.

About halfway through their traps then they'd have to for a real boat to tow them in 😂 (joking I have no idea)

If I had to decide who was more ridiculous between:

A: someone who brings a dog to the grocery store in a stroller

B: Someone who post about said dog on reddit

I'll pick B all day

Yes, Lupines. They're like the people of Maine, to my mind, which is easy for me to say—I'm a old Masshole who spent his boyhood summers on the shore of the Passamaquoddy Bay, and I have a deep and abiding love for the Great State of Maine. They're hardy and strong, you often find them by the shore, they are good looking in a not-so-flowery way, and they don't transplant well. Kudos to Thin_Meaning_4941 for making the Miss Rumphius connection. They can be hard to nurture, and they're not so pretty out of season, but they're unforgettably natural. Lots of flowers are prettier, but few leave a stronger impression.

They bring nitrogen into soil and help break up compacted soil with their tap root.

this one is brown

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OK ! they are lupines but what color?

Dead.

Yeah, the Portland Metro has what? Under 700k people? Boston metro has 5 million. Somehow i think we're safe from Portland becoming Boston in our lifetimes.

🤣🤣

"Why is the Dunkin/Amatos/Hannaford understaffed. Don't people want to work anymore?" 😭

"Ma'am/Sir, most of the employees can't afford to live in this county let alone in this town, so they aren't going to work here either. Maybe if we upzone the area we can build more affordable housing. Look at this nice apartment building that's proposed to go where the abandoned Hollywood video was." 🤓

"No, that building is horrible. It's three stories, practically a skyscraper. Also the shutters look different than what I want on my house. Why are you trying to make (random town) into Manhattan." 😭

However, if you collect the seeds at the peak of ripeness, it can be ground up and made into flour.

What are you two lunatics even talking about ?

Which would also fix the issue where people don't turn on their lights for rain.

lupine! they spread quick :)