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Agreed. Massachusetts has a nice page about the Eastern Pearlshell. https://www.mass.gov/info-details/eastern-pearlshell In the town of Sandisfield MA, I've found live mussels in t…

Beautiful sim. Looks like red oak. As someone who has split a lot of wood, wish it could incorporate more of the struggles of splitting logs. - missing your spot by 6” or more and …

What about when you’re splitting a log with a branch and the maul bounces straight back up? Lol

I've been thinking about using an app like this to count parking spaces in a city! Thank you

I think this is blissfully ignorant. Walmart's model is built on creating prices and selection that are so attractive that it is very difficult to compete. Part of the way they do …

Way more. First, a small business is not just a "family". Their employees are other members in the community. And there's the cascading effect because those folks are using their p…

From the comments here, I don’t think people understand how much small retail supports an entire local economy. With big retail, you get the smallest possible wages and all the pro…

Finally a real world use case for bitcoin!

Capture the market by not making customers pay full costs => low profits. Grow revenues without substantially increasing costs (i.e running a loss) Hope you can turn up the profit …

Google is not demanding that they censor their comment. Google is telling them that they won't serve ads on their page because of issues. Funny complaint coming from a site called …

I've been using Z-wave devices since 2017 for the following: 1. Dimmer lighting 2. Door sensors 3. Relays to customize radiant flooring better than thermostats 4. Seasonal lighting…

I converted my small (~1400 sqft) MA log cabin house at 1500' elevation to a heat pump as main heat source in 2017. We also added a 8kW PV system at the same time. It was a great c…

I've started to think about the current use of AI as trend in the 1990s that started moving unimportant goods to be "manufactured in China". Quality doesn't matter -- money matters…

No, not at all punishing for future crimes - just acknowledging issues and making sure they get attention to prevent them from getting worse. Local government has very little power…

No, it's actually not at all about forcing people to live the way I (or the townsfolk) want to live, it's actually about making it so that the way you live your life is in harmony …

Having been a selectboard member in a small town in MA, I can put forth that rigorous enforcement of contracts, bylaws and laws is the best way to avoid issues spiraling out of con…

Commented on other reply first... please see there.

I haven't watched many of their YouTube, but I concur that Strong Towns knows what's up. For anyone that doesn't know what a "stroad" is, I hope you look into it. You'll never see …

I don't necessarily disagree. But the issue has been that municipal taxes are a zero-sum game. People expect taxes to stay at a constant level unless they are getting additional se…

State-mandated design and build engineering requirements

Underfunded pensions are a problem only because tax revenue must be spent on maintaining unsustainable infrastructure that was originally built on an expectation of never-ending gr…

I come from Western Massachusetts, which is characterized by smaller populations and lower budgetary allocations. The most significant budget item in most municipalities here is ed…

I've been thinking about local taxes a lot recently (I've been a locally elected selectman for a tiny town in MA) and realized that the automobile ruined the way we value land, whi…

I think this is a misunderstanding of the recommendation. When you're just getting started on something new where the ROI is going to be minimal, it makes sense to not put a ton of…