If you're bad at running a restaurant you will lose money and go out of business, not make lots of money. Tell me the flaw in logic here

Current reality that is the choice. That's true and I stand by the point which I can make without coming up with a new economic model for the USA

The social contract is bullshit because society is forced on you. You don’t agree to participate, you don’t get a choice. It’s not some consensual arrangement between you and the rest of society. You don’t get a choice in whether you participate or not, and so the notion of a social contract is just propaganda to make people think that they agreed to whatever societal woes they face. The theory was literally invented in the age of colonialism, its not exactly a theory to champion.

And the deer is only less important if you think American social values are inherently worthwhile, and to assume American social values are inherently valuable I’d by definition nationalism. To think you should go to prison because of the symbolic value of killing a particular bird is obviously nationalist bullshit.

The only actual reason that that poaching is bad is because it makes the ecosystem unstable. Killing a bird is equally impactful as killing a deer in that sense.

If both of these acts are materially the same, then any rational government would implement that same punishment, and I don’t think prison is really suitable.

Prison entirely ruins your life. It’s far too serious a punishment for this crime. Getting your life ruined cause you shit a bird? I think yanking away their right to own guns, so that they cannot repeat this act, and a fine to help pay for conservation efforts, would be an actually suitable punishment.

The social relevance of the bird should be entirely irrelevant to our justice system. But that metric killing a celebrity would be worse than killing a normal civilian.

How would we get federal funding for that when there is currently no line between Houston and Dallas? Nashville and Atlanta? Las Vegas and LA? Cincinnati to Cleveland? Rural lines in Vermont would be like 200th on the list.

The places that would get funding first would be higher population areas and areas with higher economic output.

Most VT pizza is NYC imitations with extra salt. Woodbelly is amazing if you live in Montpelier. Positive Pie is good, but you have to have lower blood pressure to tolerate it. I steer way clear of Dominos unless I am too stoned to tell the difference.

It would have to be a federally backed project (like our highways).

I can totally see it being approved when gas is $12 a gallon

Yes please for the inclusion of the wrj > st j line! The towns along the ct would greatly benefit from the traffic and accessibility ( Thetford, fairlee, Bradford, etc) we’re always talking about how nice it would be to have those train stations reinvigorated!

After living in Japan for a period of time I would be thrilled to see Vermont enter the 21st century before the majority of the US. It's really astounding how much quality of life improves with walkable cities and public transport everywhere.

All resistive electric heaters are 100% efficient. Even the fan warms the air with as much energy as you put in. The oil filled ones do feel more comfortable since they have more of a radiative heat, but they won't save you any money if you use them to heat the room to the same temp.

It's called being realistic (which takes into account public sentiment). If this project would come into reality, it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars. When would that ever get approved? Look at the Concord to Lebanon line. That is about 60 miles between them. At current costs of building tracks, that would cost well over 100 million dollars. That doesn't include other costs related to it. It just doesn't make since in this environment to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in a place as rural as Vermont. We should always shoot for the stars but we need to be realistic.

No, but after seeing the video of the traffic jam posted here recently toward Stowe, I thought a skiing train would be a fun (and novel for those tourist $$$) inclusion! I imagine the residents would appreciate their roads being a little less clogged during ski season, and if the train were electric it would be pretty quiet.

There used to be a rail line but it didn't go all the way to the mountain and was paved over as Route 100.

There are quite a few stoned houses here in Barre… a bunch of drunk ones too.

you're not one for logic then.

I have a ton of freezer space so I just put it there. When I need it I take it out to thaw.

You said we have to choose between overpaid food or underpaid workers. That's bullshit. Find a better choice.

If they even answer the phone that late.

My dark blue line is actually just the Vermonter, haha. I wanted to include the existing lines as well to get a picture of the complete network. Yes, it would still go to all of those places.

is there existing track on the Stowe line? I'm not sure the residents there are going to appreciate train noise, and they have the money to do something about it.

It should be stored in your freezer, old timer native trick many are not aware of!

Monorail. Monorail. Monorail.

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Thanks so much for this idea. I'm doing that as soon as I get home from work today.

I'd label your dark blue line Springfield/Hartford/New Haven instead of NYC.

Oh I agree, but it would be a huge project. When was the last time we made a mountain rail line?

Yes