DidDunMegasploded

DidDunMegasploded t1_iueqslk wrote

Reply to comment by OriginalGordol in Vote! by OriginalGordol

Yep, I plan on going there after work. I just wanted to clarify because voting isn't super-familiar territory for me yet and I mailed in my voter registration in the previous city I lived in vs. doing it in-person. Thank you!

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DidDunMegasploded t1_iueconm wrote

Reply to Vote! by OriginalGordol

Just a question that I want to confirm, because I haven't registered to vote in a while.

Does the designated polling location take completed voter registration cards? Or does it vary by town and location? I filled mine out, but I missed the 21-day window to be able to mail it in and I'm a night owl so I haven't been able to go to City Hall and drop it off. I'd get an absentee ballot but 1) it's way too late, also mail delays and 2) me and a friend are going out on Election Day anyway and she offered to take me to the polls because she wants to vote too.

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DidDunMegasploded t1_iuc3fag wrote

Okay then. You can keep supporting the art of politics being shoved into irrelevant conversations and keep being blissfully unaware of the art of tone indicators. I'm happy to leave this pseudo-argument armed with a lot more knowledge of both arts.

And there's no rule of the Internet that states "assume everyone is autistic unless stated otherwise", either.

An autistic person who doesn't know about tone indicators...I'll have to mark that on my list of "Things I Thought I'd Never See". Adieu.

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DidDunMegasploded t1_iubxxgk wrote

Ahaha...aaaaah...ha, no, it's not sarcasm. Why don't you Google "tone indicators" and then get back to me.

If I, an autistic person, can distinguish what is sarcasm and what is not and you, a neurotypical person, cannot, then someone needs to step back and really assess the situation here. And it's not me.

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DidDunMegasploded t1_iubjatx wrote

Is it? Because that attempt sucked more than anything that has ever sucked before.

Sarcasm is hard to determine from text. That is why tone indicators are a thing. Furthermore, as already stated, it's a dumb comment whether sarcastic or not. If you insert politics into an innocuous conversation that has nothing to do with it, then you are a sad person and I will judge you harshly and accordingly.

Smart people don't do that. Even though we're near Election Day, smart people do not do that. Ever.

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DidDunMegasploded t1_iubixp0 wrote

Reply to comment by eljefino in A phenomenon by splintered-unknown

They could hide their good stuff, but not a lot of people do because Maine is a low-crime state, and thus, it must be a safe state where burglaries are exceptionally rare when they aren't. Hiding your good stuff is just plain old common sense no matter where you live.

But they could meet them outside too, sure. It's just the act of having a complete stranger come to your house and on your property that throws people off and causes them to lash out. That, or they order the food and don't wish to be bothered, but delivery people bug them anyway because...well yeah, it's their job, and customers don't get that.

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DidDunMegasploded t1_iub6id4 wrote

We try, but between the puppy pads we use and the stray McDonald's bag when we happen to get it, I have to use my squish-and-pray method more often than not.

Definitely wasn't this bad in other cities I lived in. We could put up to four bags in one bin and not worry. Now I have to make sure maggots don't invade our bin again like they did the last time I put trash in and the lid poked upwards a little.

But...but... it's still leagues better than Portland and whatever shit they have going on to charge us $15 out the ass for purple trash bags that we then have to take out of the bins and put on the sidewalk as free food for the bugs and the animals. I couldn't care less about the financial, political or logistical aspects of it; that's just insane.

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DidDunMegasploded t1_iub66xc wrote

We're talking about the city that charges $75 for inspections that are now going to be every 5 years and done by smartphone because they can't get their asses out of the office.

They don't give a shit about raising property taxes. They can still do it.

Still, you're right on the money with the latter, as funny as it is.

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DidDunMegasploded t1_iuayneb wrote

Because they have all the power to just give us the bigger bins from the get-go vs. making us pay for it and giving us tinny lil' bins instead.

SoPo has them. Saco has them. A myriad of other Maine towns and cities have them.

I know why they make us pay for it, but it's just so stupid. $122 is not something I should have to pay just to throw out an extra bag of kitchen trash, or just throw pizza boxes straight in instead of having to try and break my arm folding them the way I do with some boxes so they fit in the thinner can because you can't recycle things that have food waste on them anymore.

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DidDunMegasploded t1_iuaw3m6 wrote

If you want Biddo folks to recycle, then don't hide normal-sized trash bins behind a $122 fee, fuckwads.

Seriously. It's better than Portland which says "ewwww trash bins, what the fuck is that" and makes people leave them on the sidewalk where homeless people can mess with them, but we usually amass 2-3 bags of trash in a week. I have to use my "squish and pray" method. I don't want to use my "squish and pray" method. But those bins are the smallest bins I have ever seen in any Southern Maine city, which, granted, is not saying much, but still.

What a fucking joke.

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