Suckerman is your classic neoliberal larping as a hemp farmer. Never liked the guy and found him to be as real as a unicorn. Sick hair tho

Vague platitudes don't really make good law.

You’re not wrong, he checked and corrected Peter shumlins absurd spending and for the most part only signed in reasonable laws. (Imo the only exception is the wack ammo capacity law a few years back)

Goes to show that if you support sensible policy you could run for under any party you want and Vermont will vote for you if your priorities align.

Massachusetts is the same as we just had Gov. Baker who did 2 terms in an EXTREMELY blue state.

If only we could harness all of the potential energy of things we have access to…like the sun!

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There is a VT specific discord available here: https://discord.gg/56KfXbaH but most active around Williston/burlington. You may find luck trying to get a game together more north.

Oh please.

Don't be daft. When someone shows you who they are believe them.

If you still see it happening, if 'could' be the line coming in. Depending on how old it is, the bitter cold we had could crack the casing and that would affect speeds. But that is not a 100% guarantee of the issue. I would watch times/days when its happening. If there is a pattern then file a complaint with them.

To my lay ears that sounds like imposing a “prior bad acts” factor on bail- again, unconstitutional as it stands. The right to a speedy trial stands in far greater esteem compared to a nebulous ‘presumption of guilt.’

You should be aware that Common Sense Fallacy is a thing and your best bet is explaining how it would work rather than implying it’s too simple and easy to explain.

Republicans in VT are old school? Have you been to the NEK? It's Trump land over here. Not a day goes by that I don't hear someone complain how.... "nobody wants to work any more" or some other Fox News talking point.

Phil Scott is not a Republican no matter what he says…

I've always thought that Vermonters are practical, pragmatic, and smart. It's hard to truly BS folks in a small state, and folks like a balance.

I'd say that applies to local and state level elections, but I would never vote for a Republican to be sent to US Congress because the party whip will have their way with them and compel them to vote for whatever terrifying stuff the national GOP is on currently.

It’s supposed to be great according to one of their installers/techs. Symmetrical up/down.

Tbf, any upgrade from consolidated’s 7mb down, 1up dsl trash is going to feel like a Ferrari.

Anyone who is comfortable being in a political party whose leadership is actively working to overthrow our government, even using violent coups as tactics, should be shunned from decent society. Full stop.

There were about 25 killings last year by extremists in America, every single one of them by someone who is on the "right." Instead of calling for civility, the republican party's leadership and most prominent members continue to throw fuel on the fire while throwing tantrums about people that suggest we should have access to affordable healthcare and things like that. Some of them are even calling for secession right now. I mean, how dumb are these people? And how dumb is anyone in their party who isn't loudly calling them out? Blue states literally fund red states. No one will want to live in their shithole country should they secede. So no, I have zero faith and zero respect for anyone's intelligence that remains a part of that.

Signed, someone who is also not a Dem and quite unhappy with them too. Why? The answer is in MLK's Letter From Birmingham Jail. Highly recommend.

Seems like with a history like this guys maybe some common sense could be involved...

Violate probation... Maybe you get detained. Multiple convictions get detained.

I think the Vermont Gaming Academy does adventure league on the weekends, although I'm not 100% so you might want to give them a ring:

https://store76957833.company.site/

Bit of an odd URL but that has their contact info at the bottom of the page; they've got locations in Burlington, Rutland and even Plattsburg.

The meadows / Connecticut river in Brattleboro is always a nice place to kayak. Plenty of wildlife to check out and even in the river it’s not too difficult to paddle against the current. I’m an out of shape fat guy and I go up and down the river without any issues.

I'm not sure but I'm not the one paying for it since I'm paying for my mobile. The phone's generally work as does our internet. It's hard to compare though since Spectrum is infamously awful and I dunno how big an improvement i'd have.

This is true but coming from elsewhere and hearing how tried and true blue VT was my whole life it was still a surprise. It didn't match the reputation.

The CCI test you attached is very unlikely to be Fidium, as even their lowest speed 50mbps plan is fully symmetrical and will nearly 100% of the time test at the fully 50/50. That has to be their DSL offering, and in a particularly lucky location to be getting such a decent speed over copper in VT.

Once you get to the gig sometimes it’ll show as 900/800 or some minor variation on a computer wired to their CPE. On wifi all bets are off.

I also think most republicans in New England are more socially progressive than the republicans from the south and Midwest that you see on the news.

I personally hate Scott, wish there was a half decent alternative!

I hopped on the install as soon as it was available to me last July and everything since has been great. A couple of blips outside of power outages, 5-10 minutes each, no action required and I don’t even notice half of them (observe through the app).