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Actually, the fact there are two Dakotas has more to do with early trade routes, arguments over where the state capitol should be, and personal disdain by the south toward the north (and vice versa). The two Dakotas entered statehood separately in 1889. As for New England, well, those were all...

I second Kanopy, it's great!

I lived in my short bus in Boston for the better part of a year, and I mostly spent daytimes in day use camps, and rotated through Home Depot parking lots at night. There are a LOT of Home Depots in Boston, not sure about where you are, but I've never gotten a knock at one anywhere in the...

I'd be in for a skoolie thread.

 I would love to attend but as it will be my Mom's first Thanksgiving in assisted living, I feel it's important to be there for her. Hope it goes great!

12 volt electric blankets and mattress pads are pretty easy going on power. Personally, I don't need hypothermia to be motivated to heat my bed. I gave up competing for the deprivation medal a long time ago.

I have a terrific portable bathtub from Amazon and a Joolca shower system. It's not an actual bathroom but it gives me what I need. The bathtub folds, with an inflatable rim and a six foot draain hose, and I use a hula hoop and magnets to hang a shower curtain. That said, it is definitely not...

If I'm in a situation where I absolutely have to let someone else pump, I pay incredibly close attention. It's very unlikely a station's gasoline tank is filled with diesel. This problem is almost a result of somebody being asleep at the switch. Most vehicles are gas so they just don't even...

Also - traveling the east coast during COVID, every station had attendants.

I took my bus (Ford 7.3 IDI) to a Ford dealership to diagnose a problem with the fuel senders. They dropped both tanks and drained them. When they put them back in, someone on the floor who apparently can't read (fuel door says "diesel only") filled both tanks to the top with gasoline. I had no...

I'm in MA. There are some good spots in Maine, a few here that I've been wanting to check out. Also have a few friends with private property who might consider a not too large caravan group. That is if anyone wants to come this far north!

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100%.

It's interesting that decades of white people saying "we are different because of color," codifying it, in fact, into laws like redlining, is not viewed as divisive, but when people who are not white say it, it theoretically becomes this thing that separates us.  Morgan Freeman seems like a...

I'm not sure how you focus on a solution without talking about it. My experience is that sweeping problems under a rug just makes for a very lumpy rug full of problems.