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Just because you say it worked for everyone doesn't mean it actually did. I'm an MFA Student, and I TA'd for a completely asynchronous class last semester. There were a lot of students that struggled, and some who just didn't hand assignments in.

Assignments aside, I personally don't remember a lot from the classes I took during the beginning of the pandemic. Sure, students might have been there, but did they actually learn anything?

Just because something is "good enough" doesn't mean its better. And in our Campus, some of the Librarians were already told that their last days are in July when the merger goes into effect.

It's important to speak out against this because its completely unnecessary. Its trying to fix something that is not broken, and making it worse in the process.

The change.org petition has nearly 500 signatures, so clearly a lot of Vermonters disagree with what you have to say.

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If you take route 7 to Middlebury you’ll pass Dakin Farm in Ferrisburg, I’ve gotten a lot of gifts there

Wrj and Middlebury in the same day? Really going hard on the “can’t get there from here” experience.

…did you just ask if Northeastern was accredited ?

They accepted something like 400 people out of 90,000 applicants for their undergrad this year. It’s one of the best schools on the planet.

It worked for everyone during covid because we were not given a choice. It also works for the tens of thousands who earn degrees online every year. Just because something is different doesn't mean it's bad.

I learned a bunch of different ways where you can have the book read aloud. With an app or in the browser. This helped keep my reading on track, especially the unnecessarily wordy chapters. I learned how to take notes from ebooks too. I learned new skills when presented with a new situation.

I have teen kids. They don't have textbooks at school. Starting in 4th grade (my youngest) the public schools started to buy textbook material online. A couple years they didn't have any source material for math. So for students entering college right out of HS electronic source material is nothing new.

If Vermont is interested is equity they might use free text books. Those are 100% digital too.

All the research databases are online and have been for decades.

There will still need to be librarians. To develop the collection, to train faculty & students on how best to access the material & to answer questions. You can work from home now. That doesn't sound so bad.

The Johnson library is awesome and it'd be such a shame to see it dispersed to the wind! If the mission is to recoup cash and cut costs, the idea that the books are to be donated rather than sold makes no sense to me!

As someone who owns a small solar company in Vermont, I’d recommend sun common or catamount. They both do good work. Avoid sun run at all costs. Sun Run will give you the worst quality install for the highest price.

Underhill but I used to get the same channels in Burlington. You might have to put something up in your attic

Its good to care about dangerous jobs and to help make them safer. I’m glad we can count on you to never order another pizza.

Just because it worked for you doesn't mean it works for everybody. The nature of learning is that everyone does it differently. Having E-Books as an option? Thats great! But it should be a choice, not the standard.

You definitely want to remove heavy wet snow from flat roofs or roofs that don't facilitate it sliding off (such as a shingled roof, or one with too low an angle). Standing seam roofs solve the issue. I still remember how giddy my mother was when we had one installed when I was a kid - she HATED roof raking.

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The folks who retreat to AZ and other warmer climes for the winter are likely to fall into one of two camps: either they have a standing seam roof so the snow slides right off, or someone else takes care of it for them while they're gone (whether a paid third party or groundskeeping/maintenance if they live in a condo or something).

I got my MILS all online (mostly during covid). I got everything I needed from the school library virtually. As long as there are lobby areas and a student center where students can meet to work together the students will be fine. If enrollment goes down & students cite the lack of a library for choosing another school they'll bring it back.

I do think that the school will need to invest in really good wifi everywhere in campus so students can access information at all times.

Yup, that’s right over my house!

I heard helicopters today. No jets though.

Thanks for sharing your take. It may be unpopular, but I think your concerns are legit. Keep in mind that many students have a much different relationship with paper volumes.

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I got a laugh out of your strategy of using the Chinese literature section to avoid distraction! And, I can relate to your feeling of flipping through pages seeing the annotations and dog-ears of generations of students prior. Many of my peers love paper volumes at school for exactly the reasons you mention

As much as I would prefer his traitorous acts to be rejected on face value, the main thing preventing this guy from being a folk hero to the 2A-supremacists is that no one looks too kindly on Stolen Valor. It’s a bad look for anyone, but especially the ‘sheepdog’ types to have. You can be a POS otherwise and get pretty far/famous—look at Ted Pelkey!

I don't know anything about this case, but I'd bet good money this bozo is just itching to be a martyr to the far-right extremists he caters to.

Dan and whits, no brainer

> Ignores proof.

I did say TIL.

> Blames the gov’t.

Sorry-not-sorry: the government's decades-long history of infiltrating and instigating right-wing groups in order to create fear and advance the interests of the ruling (billionaire) class has made me skeptical of the real threat posed by two yokels with a plan to "destroy [a huge city]". From Operation Gladio in Europe, to all the Muslim teenagers entrapped via fake plots during the GWB and Obama years, to the January 6 rubes being thoroughly infiltrated by provocateurs (3 of 4 top Proud Boy leaders were FBI agents or informants, the lead guy they just convicted had been working with the FBI for ~10 years, etc etc), the pattern is clear.

Every major anti-globalization protest in the early 2000s had violence instigated by federal and state provocateurs. I was in Montreal when some of us actually caught some police provocateurs. (The cops later admitted it). Now they mostly just use identity politics to derail the left: "we want healthcare for all!" "what about purple lesbians in wheelchairs! Medicare for All is racist!"

consumables > knicknacks

get em a big thing of real vermont maple syrup, so they can say how much they hate it and go back to their corn syrup >:l