I'm a train believer but is this anything besides lines on a .jpg? Seems like you've got BILLIONS of dollars of work on this map right now, and I don't really see that happening in the next century

This was really a one time funding coupled with Leahy's seniority in the senate pulling weight. With him retiring it will be a while before we have that influence again.

Ooh good call. We went to the Pizza Chef on route 4 in the Quechee area a few times. Totally forgot about it 🤣 but it’s also got a great mini-golf course out back which is a rarity around here. The kids loved it. Thanks for the reminder!

If I had to declare a pie Vermont style it would be, wood fired, thin crust, light sauce, mozz cheddar blend, fennel heavy sausage crumbles, light mushrooms, hot honey drizzle after oven...

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> ME has IRV so if you had lived in ME you too may have had first hand knowledge… it doesn’t appear your maturity level is such that you participated when Burlington tried it.

lol ok dude.

I have gone through and read a shitton of your comments in good faith, but I honestly can't find much to go off except "but BURLINGTON! and someone bad was elected one time!". it's likely I've missed some of your comments due to the large nature of the thread. If you actually state your arguments clearly and concisely, I will actually comment back in good faith.

The only way this could even be practical would be if the population went up 10 fold. Even if everyone in the state used this daily it wouldn't work, too rural and population too small.

There are many flaws in your logic, but the germaine one here is you can run a restaurant that rips off its customers, employees and/or does other shady practices. Your restaurant might have good profit margins, and you can still be clueless about what it takes to run a good restaurant.

When you get an interview, one of Your questions is about affordable housing.

The cupboard, you fool.

(This was a Detectorists reference; I do not really think you are a fool.)

costwise? peanuts compared to the highway system that got built no matter the cost.

What?! No kale?

Fun fact: the original Michelin star categories were as follows:

• One star: A very good restaurant in its category, worth a stop if you’re in the area.
• Two stars: Excellent cooking, worth a detour.
• Three stars: Exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey.

In that same vein, my friends and I have adopted the “being a little bitchelin star” rating system to employ when one of us is hangry.

As soon as something becomes “X style” what ever it may have been turns to crap. Go have some wings in Buffalo if you don’t believe me.

Pizza that truly represents Vermont would include overpriced organic vegetables(whose names are pronounced by dropping letters) picked by hippies, maple syrup, apples, venison and goat cheese. Additionally, the pie would be shaped like Champ and served on a parka.

Vermont Style = floating in the center of a kiddie pool full of maple syrup.

In Woodstock the options are Pizza Chef (meh at best), Ramuntos in Bridgewater (10 minutes away, pretty solid), or go 20 minutes to West Leb for Ziggy’s or Lui Lui (both are good, just 2 different styles).

If you’re at Killington, the pizza station in the new lodge is really good. They make personal sizes to order in the big brick oven that you get to watch bake in just a few minutes. Sure it’s pricey (~$20 for a personal size), but with employee discount it’s not bad.

Vermont retirees: "That would make a lovely bike path, it runs right past my AirBnB properties"

Where the snozberries taste like snozberries!

Also a foliage season train wouldn’t go amiss.

Gotta start somewhere! I'm not saying it's going to happen tomorrow, but if there is political will in the state, and our federal reps are up for it, we can get that money.

I'm not sure if you're aware, but Vermont received 1.25 billion dollars in coronavirus relief funds (actually more than that if you count other programs). Despite being a small state, we have a decent amount of influence and could be a pilot project for the rest of the country.

They don’t. They just let it ring and it’s up to you to give up.

In some cases like New York or Chicago, style refers to crust type but for others like Vermont or Hawaiian, It can refer to topping combination or at least that’s how I’ve always seen it.

Same, friend. A "merit increase" of 2% doesnt cut it when every cost in life has doubled. :/

Fridge for us

Different issue.

Mini splits just generally aren’t designed to be overly serviceable from the start. Unlike a traditional central AC system where the components are usually fairly universal and can be mixed and matched, they’re generally proprietary and model specific with the model lines refreshing every year or two with little to no parts compatibility between refresh cycles.

Lots of small plastic parts and clips, delicate mechanisms with tight tolerances and electronics that fail with the slightest power surge or just from normal use due to being designed so tightly to spec for efficiency.