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Those are two entirely different scenarios. I'm assuming you understand that.

One is the active censorship by government and the other is a school not being able to fund itself, but using the guise of being more effective and streamlined.

You understand the difference right.....right?

1. don’t drive in the snow, especially at night, unless necessary.

2. don’t drive in more than ~1/2” of snow unless you have experience.

3. drive a 4WD or AWD vehicle, if possible.

4. whatever the usual “cushion” you leave between you and the car in front of you is normally, triple it (If you have experience in the snow, double it).

5. drive slower. If you feel slipping, you’re too fast.

6. snow tires or new tires help.

7. ignore the occasional aggressive drivers trying to make you go faster (They know how to drive in the snow, you don’t).

How did Covid change those experiences for you? Was finding physical documents still the expectation?

Haha damn. I bet. We used to have other jets, and the city airport flight path is right over head. You better hope you don't get F-35s. Idk how they compare to artillery so I may be wrong. Passenger planes are not so bad. The old jets were loud. They were F-16 or F-14 I think. F-35 is a whole other thing.

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I think this is highly dependent on the school, coursework, and major. I graduated not so long ago, I certainly took courses where I absolutely had to find written records or books as part of the class, especially things that were in the special collections of the library, I’m talking things for history or classics courses. I was a Physics and Math major, mind you, but still had lots of other higher level coursework outside my major in various other liberal arts. One of my roommates was a Classics major. He lived in the archival part of our campus library.

I get what you are saying, though.

What school was this, and what was the “official” description/name of the mascot? Not doubting, just curious.

>Can VTers ever just accept that there is something, anything, wrong with the state without trying to distract from the issue?

>Regardless of where Vermont stands relative to other states, it's clear to me that something should be done to help people without permanent housing

They absolutely, and literally, addressed your complaint. You just don't like the order of their comment. That sounds like a you problem.

Not everything has to be a full throated yell, it's ok to be measured in responses, and critical of studies that deserve it. Even if those studies prove the point you are trying to make.

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Manchester is like stowe. It's technically in Vermont but it in no way resembles Vermont. I went there for the first time recently (grew up in northern VT). Holy shit. Such a strange place. I absolutely do not see the attraction to places like that. The Lincoln stuff is cool, I guess. Otherwise, eww.

We get the sound of freedom in Virginia from USMC live fire exercises 30 miles away. The big guns make a big enough explosion to feel like a small earthquake and sounds like thunder.

It’s been happening to dozens of schools around the country and the authorities are doing a piss-poor job of identifying the trend. Here’s a podcast episode from September that’s some of the only coverage to link the threats to one another.

That’s fair! And I think the current system is plenty fair to the locals as is.

Bottom line you need more apartments. Suck it up and build apartments in downtown areas. No one likes their downtown atmosphere "ruined" but the state is hurting and it's really the only fix.

Across the lake houses can be had for under $100k.

That's the difference. In California it's big news all the time. Obviously they have a ton of unhoused people and that forces the issue but California is taking real steps, like penalizing towns that don't build affordable housing, that VT will never take. Just like back in the day when stowe went nuts over the education spending law, wealthy VT will never build for real people.

Either way, what's the outcome?

Honestly, I don’t think that matters. If you own x% of the value of a town you should pay at least that percent of the cost of running that town and educating its children. Whether you choose to use those services is not really relevant, if you live here you don’t get a tax break if you don’t have kids or don’t drive.

Act 250 only cares about not putting housing in a wetland or Indian Burial Ground or whatever. It doesn't do anything about affordability.

Stumbled into? I get where you're going with this and I don't totally disagree but people moving here can't be oblivious to what's going on.

So making the homeless take food, shelter, life skills/technical training and making them stay sober because they can't seem to figure it out on their own in a centralized location is wrong because other people abused the system before?

That's exactly why we have literal crazy people everywhere now, the aclu pushed for the deregulation of the mental asylum system till it happened in 1976, because the aclu decided it would be better to have no mental healthcare for anyone beyond private, than to install checks and balances in the mental health asylum system where abuse had occurred.

Might as well just go fully remote.

We know how well that works right?

Your symptoms are typical for COVID.