IMHO it would only be a "thing" if people outside of Vermont knew what it was. So, no. Same with "creemees."

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We get flyers for fidium in the mail in Montpelier. I would hope they have service here though it’d be hysterical if they’re wasting mailers on a non serviced area.

All the older vermonters are republican they just don't vote so all the young people overwhelmed the graph

A lot of high efficiency stuff seems like that. Looks good on paper but the more complex design seems to break more often and there don't seem to be any techs who know how they work. My parents had a high end boiler installed and it took them along time to find some one who could actually service it instead of just randomly swapping parts. And the thing had issues like 2 years after they got it. Who cares how efficient something is if its broken all the time?

Didn't know that heat pumps were the same deal though, sounds worse to be honest.

You clearly didn’t look at the laws that I linked you to though. California knife laws are not an issue for anyone. They are very reasonable.

Also, since you brought up the issue with homelessness, the crisis in California is a national issue, not a local California issue. Homeless folks from all over the country flock to California and to Florida and to other southern states. Homeless issues in those places are very much a national issue. I guarantee you there are former Vermonters in those places that are living there homeless. Actually, I know for a fact there are because I have done homeless outreach in these places.

The reason I’m assuming you’re a right-winger, is because you’re using all of their fear mongering talking points when you’re discussing these other places. It’s actually slightly embarrassing if you aren’t a right winger my dude. Please get out and visit some of these places. They aren’t nearly as bad as the angry man on TV makes them out to be.

Barbara Ann taught my wife and I in our 40's and she was an absolutely lovely person and wonderful teacher. Not to mention Olympic Gold medalist. Cochran's gets my vote for starting out.

GOP strategy. Possibly to normalize the idea of only certain people being able to vote. Total speculation. I have no idea.

Nationalism? Are you stupid? That's how every fucking judicial system works in the world.

You want to give 30 years of prison to someone for killing a random beggar and, then, the same 30 years for killing the fucking President, who's way more important to the country socially and objectively. You want to give a guy 30 years of prison for killing a random kid and, then, the same 30 years of prison to a guy who killed a random kid while the kid was with a bazooka trying to explode his house. EVERY, I repeat, EVERY judicial system will take the context and social relevance of someone into account.

And is every living organism of the same importance? So go to jail, because you've killed probably three trillions of bacteries by now. Why wouldn't they be relevant? This is nationalism! Stop being nationalist! LMAO.

Ah good to know. I saw this https://www.fidiumfiber.com/fiber-internet-Montpelier-vt, maybe just a marketing thing though.

Fidium = Consolidated in the same way that XFINITY = Comcast. It's just a branding thing.

Hi, I know horselifter very well, we live in the same house and have the same child. We used a LUNOS e2 HRV system. They work great, I like that they are not centralized, easy to maintain, easy to install.

This would cost an incredible amount of money to serve a small population. Not a good use of tax dollars for a state that isn’t exactly swimming in revenue

Lol do you need help tying your own shoes too? Anyone can teach skiiing

Not sure Fidium is in Montpelier, but I know Consolidated Communications offers fiber. I only know a couple of people using it and it seems fine. Comcast offers similar speeds over cable too I think.

I was thinking along the lines of the money going to the boyfriend meaning there wasn't enough money to pay the actual care givers. Comes off like a miniature Ponzi scheme if you were to think of it that way.

Rockwool?

Whoa there. My advocacy for scary things like bike lanes and improved bus service does not imply turning Vermont into Amsterdam overnight and forcing everyone to throw their cars out. I just think that providing people with more options, including a modestly improved rail system that doesn't only go to Burlington from New York City, some more bike lanes in town centers, and better-advertised buses would be worth looking into.

I don’t even know what this is trying to say?? It also looks like it’s completely made up.

Marco’s in South Burlington, across the parking lot from Price Chopper right there on Williston Road. Thin crust with full-fat mozzarella. Bacon and red onion. Sauce on the side. Fuck the haters.

I like Cosetta’s and Red’s Savoy both!!!!

When are they open?

Quick question, when you quote do you have to retype the entire damn text? I can’t copy and paste, it’s just collapses your comment? Or am I missing something???

At least if voters started grouping people it would mean they actually learned about the candidates and didn’t just look for the letter next to their name, that would be an improvement, but I doubt that would actually happen realistically.

We don’t have FPTP voting, so I’m not sure the relevance of that. You can’t win with a plurality (see Shumlin v Milne 2014) or any traditional runoff really.

In VT IRV would actually likely lead to 1 party rule. The GOP would stop being a viable party. Progressives would pick up some of the democrats, but democrats would pick up almost all of the independents/centrists AND conservative voters who no longer have a viable candidate. One party rule is even worse than 2.

It really doesn’t save enough money to warrant a change, mail out balloting negates the “saves time” benefit, and it won’t disrupt the 2 party system (which isn’t really the problem, rather the party system as whole is).

I’ll finish here with my original comment, IRV is a solution looking for a problem.

I appreciate the conversation though and I’m glad we continued it through. I’ve given IRV more thought that I otherwise would have and that’s a positive. I’ll look forward to more dialogues in the future. Thanks.

I lived in Randolph for a year and would have stayed much longer if I could have reliably commuted to WRJ via train. It's such a nice little town.