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HomeOnTheMountain_ t1_j75e44m wrote

Reply to Frost Quakes by Commercial_Case_7475

With it this cold, there's little to no moisture in the air which means there's very little resistance to sound waves.

Couple that with everything freezing to the point of brittleness and you get all sorts of weird noises from all angles and distances

It's pretty neat

Right now I can hear snaps and cracks up and down the mountain. It's loud enough to hear clearly through double pane windows

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ragajoel t1_j759gw2 wrote

Reply to Public money for public schools. by LetterGrouchy6053

Another issue with public money for private schools is that many of these private schools are not under any obligation to teach children with special learning needs under the Americans with Disabilities Act, unlike their public counterparts. This goes beyond children actually diagnosed with autism or ADD and can include students who have been dubbed behavioral issues in the classroom as well. The result being that students that require the extra resources to teach are only being served by public schools. That means less resources at public schools for mainstream students as well.

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stangusbrule69 t1_j758o45 wrote

Reply to How is Google Fi in Vermont? by Reasonable-Sock9551

I recommend visible (owned by Verizon so on the Verizon network). They’re running a promo right now for a $15 monthly unlimited plan for one year (will go up to $30 per year afterwards).

I just switched and it’s been working fine.

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headgasketidiot t1_j758nnh wrote

Reply to comment by Outrageous-Outside61 in As homelessness crisis deepens, rural children pay the price by FearandLoathinginBTV

I fundamentally disagree with you that those people aren't part of our communities. They're living here. To actively reject them from our community for the sole purpose of denying them housing is cruel.

To put it another way, if those same people moved here and didn't need housing, we wouldn't be saying they're not members of our community. I don't want to be part of a state that specifically defines community to exclude people for their poverty. That's gross.

As for your suggestions to work with relevant organizations, that is what I do. I work mostly with human rights nonprofits. My experience there taught me that until we learn to organize our society around the things that actually matter -- camaraderie, friendship, mutual aid, etc -- this problem and those like it will always plague us. If we continue to organize ourselves around money and violence, like we do now, we'll always be able to think of the things that matter as being someone else's job, like a charity's (which everyone knows will never have the resources they need to really fix problems), therefore absolving us of guilt while we callously argue that some of the homeless who are in our community do not deserve shelter because they're not really members of our community.

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