I now respect him more.

Sorry I can’t help identify him, just wanted to I’m sorry that happened to you and I hope someone finds that asshole

Mine are tied to the underground fence for my dogs. It’s a visual… so mine are on year round :).

Edit: I only have them in my porch.

Bolton was busy but not insane. snow was great, parking manageable, roads were fine.

I'd cross post to r/icecoast I heard Stowe was packed but no personal info

Year around! Keeps it real! Red lights tho

Are you aware of how much they are paid?

That's cool.

I come from an old Virginia mercantile family, and have many nail barrels I use around the house as trash bins - a great way to repurpose these old beauties.

My Christmas lights are on the same GFCI circuit as all my animal heated water buckets and stock tank heater. If the Christmas lights ever go off, I know I need to do some investigating.

Exactly. Gov Shumlin, in private, used to say that all of the legislators were r****ds and retirees. His language was terrible but the underlying point was that, at the current level of pay for legislators, we aren’t attracting our best and brightest.

It's butter that's made from cream which has been inoculated with cultures, which are microorganisms present in fermented dairy products (e.g., yogurt or creme fraiche). It's a bit tangy and tastes spectacular, so it's most popularly used as a "finishing" butter, like on toast or waffles.

The process for making it is simple, but does take some patience. I've used this video as guidance before.

That is Bs i am pay more for insurance now then any other time in my life oh i for got to mention I just was forced to by the federal government i hit the magic number 65.

No, the “paramilitary training” facility in pawlet that obviously influenced the writing of this bill was already a flagrant zoning violation at the local level in a number of ways. It’s just that zoning enforcement takes a while because due process of law and all that jazz, and Banyai is an uncommonly bad faith actor who is willing to face jail time rather than admit he’s got no case. If the legislature actually cared about this as a real land use issue, they could take a look at the powers delegated to municipalities for zoning enforcement, or the statutorily define process for zoning enforcement cases that wind up in environmental court. In any event, it’s a solution in search of a problem, and the worst kind of performative legislating.

I think it’s pretty obvious that the open carry ban piece, if passed, would never ultimately survive a second amendment challenge, but is also likely in violation of the state constitutional right to bear arms as well. If the piece about “paramilitary training” facilities covers even non-commercial peaceable assembly for the sake of militia training, that seemingly violates the first and second amendments on its face.

Preempting municipal zoning to ban commercial firearms training facilities statewide is probably also not constitutionally survivable, but that’s the piece that seems closest to passing the sniff test out of the litany of problematic clauses in this bill

A VERY small taste of what other states a dealing with..

They're actually way underpaid. It's a problem. The only way you can afford to be a lawmaker is if you have a good source of $$$ from elsewhere. If we paid them the state's average income, they'd all get a well-deserved raise.

Legislators make less $$$ than teenage pizza cooks. It's why the legislature has long been dominated by old-ass rich people who can afford to work for nearly nothing. They're bringing the state's average income down right now.

Wish I knew who he was so I could out that common motherf@#ker!!!

Volunteer EMS and firefighters should be given free health insurance.

Probably completely random, or possibly the fresh snow is giving everyone Vermont winter feels. But sadly there isn’t a Christmas light conspiracy that you are missing out on

Edit: it just occurred to me that we’ve had more sun in the last couple days than we have had all month. I wonder if all the lights you’re seeing are solar charged ones that are finally getting enough sun

Came here to ask…what is cultured butter?

Now that we have 3 kids under 3, the chances of us taking the lights down are slim. May as well make use of them!

I don't think of them as christmas lights, more like decorative lights. It looks nice when it snows and they're on. So sometimes I plug them in when I feel like it.

I also have white "christmas lights" as decorations on my porch in the summer, so maybe I'm just a fan of sparkly things.

I feel like I remind people of this every year. Simmer down people, it’s still winter and you’re still in Vermont

The correlation may be those shrooms you took, I see Christmas lights in July sometimes. /s

A fucking top knot no less. What. A. Dick.

I’m a personal chef in the Brattleboro area with an extensive bourbon collection, if I can be of any help.