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I threatened to do it yesterday, so here it is: andor scenes as dril tweets

does not seem like everyone benefited from reading The Jungle in school re: food safety

burlington vermont has been victim to a police work stoppage since 2021. police dispatchers were telling callers they couldn’t do anything because the police had been defunded.

30s into this vt edition and phill scott sounds like a total moron

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

i’m starting to think allowing gov’t surveillance capabilities to grow unfettered wasn’t a good idea.

‘Pete Hegseth? I thought you might be worried...about the security...of your shit.’

saying it for no reason whatsoever but i found the green mountain citizen intelligence brigade really inspiring and effective when vance visited

is the maxim that time in the market beats timing the market still true when you take a sledgehammer to the alliances and arrangements that make line go up in the long run? i guess what i’m really asking is should i be pulling out rn?

love to get stuck behind someone going 40 on rt. 2 west

there should be a yearly referendum on the president. every year we vote on whether they’re doing a good job. if not, new elections.

i hope this gets delayed by so many meetings and reviews, like nothing ever before.

just had an absolutely satanic idea: ai to turn your feed into 24/7 cable news talking heads format

how does nancy think about any of this? her leadership feels sorely missed. maybe it’d be the same, but it sure did seem like there was more fighting spirit in her.

what the hell is peter welch doing on this list.

time to dust off the hat

this is a stupid question probably, but why are insurance markets state-by-state? why isn’t the risk spread out across all the states an insurer does businesss in? re:higher premiums in vt bc of older avg. age.

they should start selling duty free gas at the border

BREAKING: Trump confirms tariffs will be implemented on Canada and Mexico- #fuelprices will be impacted fastest in the NE USA- states like ME, VT, CT, MA, RI could see prices for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel jump 20-40c/gal in the next week or two.

i say this at great risk to my reputation in vermont and, potentially, my marriage

catching up with vt news

all those “giant fucking meteor ‘24” bumpers stickers not looking so funny anymore

Something something Presidents Day

If I get on a plane and the takeoff announcements don't contain a land acknowledgement or the pilots' pronouns, I am jumping off the fucking thing.

not a pilot, and open to feedback, but i don’t think commercial planes are supposed to be belly up

guys the last two grocery trips have been really expensive

stirring a hearty soup with a wooden spoon

i have been sounding like a lunatic all day