It’s very easy to make it look like you are somewhere else on the internet. The tools are actually free for anyone and lots of people do it for non-nefarious reasons.

It's going to be "stuff the poors (locals) in shitty condos in Williston and leave the pristine areas for the fresh arrivals from Jersey." No thanks. I personally am leaving as soon as I can because I have no interest in being one of the last people working here, trying to do 3 people's jobs while living in a ratty apartment.

Want to know why families are homeless? I'm a single guy with an advanced degree and a decent job. I'm stuck in a shit apartment because there's absolutely no where to move to. Instead of my shit apartment going to a young single mom or someone exiting homelessness, it's being occupied by me so that rich people can live on a few acres.

The future of VT is one of a bunch of old rich people unable to even buy groceries because there's no one here to sell them to them.

Which one? This is actually something that has been happening a lot but doesn’t often make the news. Going back a number of years too. And yes, we know it’s right-wing groups doing it. Sorry I don’t have sources at the moment but google can deliver some I’m sure.

you're 100% correct. without vtang and the f35s, I seriously doubt the city could afford to keep BTV open.

Thing is those dollars would not go to the community, the F-35’s would go to another base bringing money and jobs to another community.

I’ve heard the same. Lots of incidents aren’t making the news, either.

Many people in tourist towns have second homes. There are tens of thousands of second homes and condos in ski towns, in hunting areas, around lakes. The two are related

You're confusing tourism with second homes.

I have been looking for a large house to turn into a multi unit long term rental. Have looked in both Waterbury and Richmond. Found suitable properties that were large square foot residences in both towns, went into the town office and was told that zoning restrictions prevented them from ever being multi units… I’m not going to buy the property and start doing the work with the dream of changing the minds of some small town select board. The housing shortage is a frequent topic on here and nationally but change starts in small town government. Go to your local select board and ask about zoning. It’s boring to talk about but it’s a hodge podge around the state and it’s where some meaningful change happens and how smaller investors can become motivated.

But they are included in the 2.5% of units which are STR. As are seasonal camps and other non year round dwellings fo saying banning STR will double the vacancy rate is incorrect because it ignore the fact that not ever STR could or would become a LTR.

In our town you would still need an event permit (I think it’s required for events over 100 people). My neighbor had to pay for one when she had a wedding reception on her property even though the other neighbors didn’t care.

Totally fair, it's just too* easy to separate that good and real benefit from: "wow, this loud and expensive murder machine is frustrating, and that money could help a lot of people in this community" even though there's other benefits and dollars coming in because of them.

Edit: a word*

Deez nutz?

> Similar to the domestic terrorists who are shooting and trying to destroy our power grid.

Has there been any proof of who did that? I wouldn't put anything past rightoid yahoos, but I've only heard supposition so far. Maybe I missed something.

Man, I really want to believe democracy can work in the 21st century but we keep churning out dumber and dumber people whose singular goal in life seems to be to make the US a worse place to live in.

The schools have a strong incentive to CYA - who would want to be the one who ignored the one-in-a-million real threat? - and no incentive to not scare kids needlessly. This in turn creates a strong incentive for every anon or crank with a 3-line python script to spam out these robocalls. It's the same reason swattings happen: no matter how many innocent people the cops shoot, or how many babies they severely burn in their cribs with flashbangs, they have the same incentive to CYA and act on every implausible, anonymous TTY message.

> but we need to figure out a way to stamp this shit out

Right on. Stopping automated phone calls, or just not accepting them as a pretense for lockdowns and SWAT raids would go along way. Just having to actually call, expose your caller ID, and speak (with your actual voice!) would stop 99.999% of cranks cold.

Longer term, we should seek to change the material conditions which breed the sort of bleak nihilists that call in bomb threats (or worse). That's unlikely to happen, because asking why people's lives are so precarious, lonely, alienated and hopeless that they'd act out anti-socially inevitably leads back to our cruel economic system, and profits for the billionaire-pedo-island-class must be preserved at all costs. Expect lots of band-aid approaches and blaming identity groups (men/Muslims/xyz category) instead.

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Wait, you actually made it through that movie? Lol

You should stand outside with a white balloon and wave at them.

Money. Federal dollars keep up the runways and provide fire and emergency medical services to the airport, the airport doesn’t do a lot of business these days so without the military base it would struggle. Airport navy does 2/3rds the passenger volume it used to pre rona and even then it was rarely all outside of 4-5 hours a day.

I'd also like to add that anyone who can't afford to feed themselves should be shot. We could use the food stamp recipient list to get started. That would open up a lot of low income housing once they're all dead. /s

Opiates and lack of mental health care are what drives 95% of long term homelessness. There are a smattering of alcoholics as well. One of the biggest myths of homelessness is that you or I or anyone else is just a job loss away from homelessness. This is simply not true for most everyone. Most people have support networks, they haven't burned all their bridges. Almost all of the long term homeless have addiction or mental health issues or both.

Vermont has no real desire to fix this. Clearly, we need to build housing. A lot of housing. Like another Burlington, or close to it. What the legislature and the moneyed class want is a VT that looks like it did in the 19th century, plus maybe an apple store. They want VT to be a tourist mecca and a place to live for those who are independently wealthy. That's why VTs "fix" is to put people in hotels and anytime the clock runs out on that the legislature extends it because they want nothing to do with a permanent solution.

I get why they put them in Burlington, there's no other airport in the state that could handle it, but like, why tho.

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