He keeps vetoing unfunded and/or deficit spending popular social bills. Bit different than just swinging the Republican veto hammer.

Yup. Every weekend we were out there either walking or skating by ourselves, on my dad’s snowmobile, in someone’s shanty watching tip ups, launching model rockets, just generally having a blast.

Yea no. I also remember out in the bay by rozzis the people out there the car races the snowmobile races the fishing driving and playing on the ice was something that we just did as a normal kid.

I remember driving out to the breakwater - THE BREAKWATER, routinely with my dads truck. Never in a million years would I do that now.

Bernie ❤️

Our king

People often don’t pay attention to much of anything, this time of year should be perfectly safe to go out on ice but it’s been about 30° warmer than it should be most days for the last month. Others are just stubborn, others don’t understand that bad things can happen to them.

Lmfao

Lmao fr. Like, it's been the hottest winter on record, why would you go on the ice of the states biggest lake. It's like those people who wander up mount washington in running shoes and leggings in the middle of winter. What do you expect?

How stupid do you have to be

I'm no expert on ice but I see people fishing at our local small lake when it has not been really very cold (plenty deep to not be able to stand ) and wonder what they are thinking.. The water under the ice on this lake is moving by the way . i would imagine that makes it less stable.

Then there's also the distorted view each side has of the other- as in the case of "democrats transitioning children". Who exactly is a proponent of transitioning children?

Like I said, I just want decent candidates. Half the problem is we cling to this tribe mentality of being a part of one party or the other. It's the same thing that drives people to stick with one sports team over another. Tribalism. It's bullshit.

I try to avoid that thinking, which is why I generally vote blue but will still vote for Phil Scott, because he's halfway decent. I don't care that much that he's a republican, so long as he doesn't act like the others.

I grew up in shelburne as well and I can remember so many people out there in the bay. It’s just sad. At 37 years old to see everything we had as kids go to shit.

I can understand that. Very similar fear as to climbing a ladder. I used to hate it as a kid because I couldn’t catch anything. When I got older and learned to fish better, I could make money selling perch, and fill my freezer too. It’s easy to catch the fever and cast away common sense to get out there and try to fill a bucket. Humans are a complicated species.

My dad and I would drive his truck out a mile or so on Shelburne bay at like 3:30/4 on a weekend. He would drill a hole close enough to each door that we could sit in the truck. Bud heavy for him and root beer or Mountain Dew for me. In less than an hour we would catch enough HUGE perch for the whole family to have a fish fry.

Nowadays so many things about this would just not happen. It’s rarely safe enough to drive a truck out onto Shelburne bay these days, drinking and driving is no longer in vogue (probably a good thing), if you DO get out there it will take you all day to catch a few dinky perch….

and this wasn’t even that long ago. 20-25 years. I now have a son of my own and I’m afraid he will never experience ice fishing to any meaningful degree.

I absolutely would enjoy the fishing part but can’t get over the terror of being on ice.

What’s happening under the ice is also a factor of how safe it is. Such as current and amount of vegetation. If there is a lot of grass it emits oxygen which will rot the ice from underneath. Same with current. When the weather is warm, feeder streams run higher with runoff which will also deteriorate the ice from underneath.

The system is also messed up, because they tested it ahead of time and said it was fine only for that to turn out to not be true.

Wow you’re a self righteous asshole. I read about this particular accident and they said speed and negligence played a part.

Not everybody is able to.

Was driving South on 89 the other day and noticed a skater out on the river (south of Colchester) and thought to myself that can’t be safe. The next day it warmed up and the same section of river was wide open. Skaters be safe too!

This is the sane take.

People reported getting sick from a particular batch of flower. So, the government agency responsible for regulating this product tested a sample and issued a consumer protection warning based on its findings.

This kind of response does not happen without a regulated consumer market.

It's been unseasonably warm this past week. I feel sorry for this person's family.

I’m not really surprised actually. Old guys have memories of being able to drive cars out there, and think that things are still the same. Their mobility is restricted too. So they resort to mechanical means to get around. I’ve met a lot of old timers out there that believe climate change is bullshit. I remember being able to fish from around Christmas to Saint Patrick’s day. But that hasn’t happened in at least ten years now.

Or you can use an auger and a spud bar to continuously check the ice instead of guessing based on conditions.