Skewed and biased? Your studies that you reference are garbage, and your logic is garbage. I could poke a thousand holes is your 'argument' that '40% of all cops in the US are wife beaters' but just that statement alone is moronic. You're using stats (poorly) to validate your narrative. Waste of time...

It’s not even free 😂 and they get so upset when you tell them that

Gray? https://vtdigger.org/2017/05/04/wcax-sold-to-out-of-state-media-company/

Winner winner chicken dinner. Also the military doesn’t build its technology, very few government agencies do. Check out a book called, IBM and the Holocaust, wild af 🤯

Aren’t we all like a satellite? Just flying through space on this rock we call earth

what does that have to do with texas winters

tbh Rutland Herald isn't far behind.

VTDigger is a solid newcomer

Gannett is who bought WCAX too, right?

Gary is a fucking dweeb and Middlebury should be feeling very self-conscious about hiring a "libertarian progressive" prof, but speaking as someone working on the front lines of this issue (municipal worker), I have to admit that he's mostly right about the economic factors that have led us here. This one is worth a read.

I don't buy Gary's dismissal of AirBnb and other short term rentals, though. I think there's just not enough information about the overall potential rental stock and how much of it is currently tied up in STR or second home status. Similarly, he handwaves away climate activists as "anti car" without acknowledging that transportation is by far the largest contributer to Vermont's GHG emissions. Doubling the density of rural areas (which he suggests due to the large lots available in those areas) would only exacerbate the current situation while failing to add enough density to make town-town public transportation more viable.

Finally, I am sick of people defending second homes on the basis that their owners use fewer municipal resources. Sure, they don't enroll their kids in the local schools or drive on the roads as frequently, but they also don't spend money year round. More critically, second home owners do not -indeed, cannot- contribute to our society the way that year-round residents do. It's not surprising that a libertarian economics nerd would forget about the social aspect of housing in favor of spreadsheet data, but it's an issue that anyone who's ever lived in a town within 20 miles of a decent ski slope can understand by taking a walk around their own neighborhood.

Nobody is engaging your posts except to tell you to STFU. So referring to yourself in the 3rd person like this is essentially you having a conversation with a strawman of yourself

The ones I have received are always labeled and the current date is usually on them, I've never had an issue and getting just a few seeds rather than buying a huge amount from major seed producers is definitely cheaper.

I guess you don’t like to have your lights stay on. You just sit back and enjoy that afternoon sun the summer when your AC has no power, lol

I actually only recently realized that most people actually think that NASA itself built and operated the hardware that put man on the moon or built the space shuttle, satellites etc.

NASA had only ever operated as sort of a loosely hands on project manager. The actual engineering, production and operation has always been essentially handled by the corporate military industrial complex.

IBM, ITT, Western Electric, Remington Rand, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and all the rest put things into space and landed on the moon. NASA comes up with some napkin bid specs, and coordinates delivery and writes the checks.

I appreciate your willingness to engage in a good faith dialogue, sincerely.

What I said was that sperm is not needed in order to reproduce, but that you needed a fertilized egg and a uterus to grow it in. And it isn't currently needed in a ton of species and is very close to becoming a reality for humans. The research in the UK was primarily focused on creation of non-viable embryos which could be culled for stem cells which would allow for regeneration of specified cells for healing damaged tissues, regrowing tissues, treatment of ALS, Parkinson's, cancer, etc.

The focus of a 10 year Israeli study veers towards reproduction without both sperm and an egg to address all of the goals of the UK study as well as to eventually assist with the declining human population. They literally grow tiny artificial testicles in microchips which then produce sperm. They've been working on growing embryos in petri dishes and the mouse embryos have hearts and tails, they are mice. They are working on growing the synthetic embryos outside of a uterus in and artificial womb. It sounds scary, but so does one Professors recent propositions to start using brain dead women as incubators labeled whole body gestational donation. I would personally prefer matrix babies to my corpse being used as a greenhouse for humans, but I think it's also worthwhile looking into why fewer women want kids.

Your article on trans women in sports (btw there is a corrected version which outlines additional background to clarify potential conflicts of interest) outlines what the authors believe performance should look like based on testosterone suppression during transition. The article I linked was the results of actual outcomes of women's sports competitions including trans competitors and the actual outcomes demonstrate that the predicted outcomes and assumptions (word used by the authors) were not accurate to real world results.

So while hormones indicate that trans women should have an advantage, they don't perform as anticipated. Assuming someone is going to be good at a physical activity based on their physical appearance is a misnomer that also impacts cisgender athletes. Im old as shit, but Muggsy Bogues would be an armrest for me and he was an amazing ball handler. There are other factors than hormones and physique. So good news, your concerns about women getting obliterated by trans women in sports on the whole are unfounded. The original article I linked outlined several instances where trans women underperformed in comparison to women even in sports which are considered to be male dominated like weightlifting.

I think you truly believe that you are doing women a service by defending women only spaces, but I also think you are underestimating what women as a whole are capable of, and what spaces need defending. We do need men who are willing to step in and be a voice in defense of women (all women) especially in conversation with other men, but we don't need to be defended in sports from trans women. What we really need is more people in general to start raising their boys to be and do better when it comes to their treatment and perception of women. The greatest harm to women, including trans women, are the boxes we are continually expected to squeeze into by others.

I urge you to do some more research on the negative impacts of trans exclusion on both trans and cisgender kids and adults. I am happy to provide some insights based on research, but also maybe consider learning about the lived experiences of trans people in your community.

Lamoille river, between #15 and Hogback

BFP and The Providence Journal (RI newspaper) are owned by the same company.

"texas has a $20 billion surplus and should spend that money on the least of their concerns" is a take you could only find on reddit

I've done some of that. Generally went well, but maybe 10% of the time I thought the seeds weren't great (poor germination). You've gotta be a trusting soul when you get those tiny little ziplocs with no writing on them, not even a date...

That’s what I was going to suggest, never been let down by them

Agree

BPDs Twitter feed used to actually post breaking safety/traffic information, but not anymore. Front porch forum can be good for some hyper local info as well. That is if you don't mind weeding thru all the "missing cat" posts

rednecks gonna redneck

No, I don’t.

Like the other Redditors here have said, use common sense when traversing somebody else's land: Don't assume everyone knows about the rules of access regarding posted/non-posted property- most folks do not.

The following link is to a PDF prepared by the Vermont Society of Land Surveyors regarding Riparian Rights in the State of Vermont- This should contain all the information you are looking for about waterway rights-of-access and waterway boundaries.

Be careful, be respectful, and good luck :)

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiQ28ye-pr9AhVLmIkEHZD6D5EQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vsls.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F07%2FWater_Law_Water-Boundary_Seminar_Materials.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2vuD1BZzx6wNfNAGnfnCC1

Someone else mentioned how big a story it was and the fact that it may have impacted Vermonters due to not being that far away or affected building codes here. All true. But this story is specific to the state of RI and talks about towns in RI failing to properly inspect buildings in RI. Here is a link that bypasses the firewall of anyone wants to read it https://archive.ph/80QV2