I did specifically ask why maple baked beans, or beans at all.

You'd think racist assholes would at least know how to correctly spell the name of the group they intend to discriminate against. Or maybe they just don't like Muslin fabric AND they're dumbasses who can't spell.

Yeah, I know. I saw this post earlier. But you said "Muslin" in your comment, and I was fucking around and poking fun at your type-o.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslin

There aren't many of us but...

Anyway, I thought OP's question just seemed random AF. Why maple baked beans? Why not spaghetti and meatballs, or cereal with milk, or macaroni and cheese? What's the significance of the maple baked beans.

Muslin the fabric? What could they have against fabric in Roxbury?

Would it matter if the beans were not maple or baked?

I feel bad particularly because we wasted hundreds of dollars to buy ski passes for our kids that they won't get to use. Definitely not getting our money's worth this year. And honestly, I'll be hesitant to spend that money next year.

Image would have been better without those other people and the dog in it. They distract from the composition and do not add anything to the final image. I'm assuming you took this with your phone and not a real camera, right?

When was this photo taken. What camera and lens did you use?

Otherwise..."Cool Story Hansel."

Personally, I can do without all the snow, ice, and cold weather. But I know that it means more hard times for people who make their living, or at least part of their living, from wintertime activities in VT. Fewer people visiting ski mountains. Fewer people for all the businesses and services associated with the ski mountains and other winter tourism. Fewer people riding snowmobiles and doing all those outdoor winter motorsports activities. Hard for people who make money plowing snow in the winter when there is no snow.

It means reduced tax income for the state and probably more people who will need all kinds of state-sponsored assistance too, because they lost their winter jobs and/or much of their income. Though, without the super cold temps and ice/snow, heating costs are going to be lower for everyone and towns won't have to pay as much for plowing and sand/salt for the roads. Not much of a silver lining though.

I'd be double sure about the permitting and zoning requirements of the town where you live before you go plopping an empty shipping container down next to your garage. There is always some nosy busybody with nothing better to do, who will make it their business to prevent you from doing this, because they don't like how it looks.

This little, satirical, parody would have been more effective if it was written properly and used better grammar. Then it might have been possible to believe someone with that "entitled" perspective actually wrote it.

Does a beer shit in the buckwheat?

This job is not worth $18-20/hour. Maybe that sucks, but that's reality. I don't give a shit if this redemption center can't afford to pay people more. Maybe they shouldn't be open anymore. Great. That just means one or two fewer jobs out there for people who have basically no experience or qualifications or qualities

You can take time if you're sick or want a vacation, just not paid. Boo fucking hoo that a bottom of the barrel job doesn't have full benefits from day 1.

Some jobs are simply not worth $18-20/hour. In fact, tasks like this, at the redemption center, are probably perfect candidates for being automated. Take the person out almost entirely. Then you can free up these employees to pursue the real, meaningful work they were destined for.

Per the article: The full-time position at Hartford Redemption pays $15 an hour and after one year of employment includes one week of paid vacation, paid federal holidays and paid sick time, Trombley said. Part-time employees make minimum wage, which in Vermont is $13.18 an hour.

Also per the article: But in recent months, the center has struggled to maintain a full-time employee. Trombley had to fire one employee for stealing from the cash register, he said. Another hire showed up for only two days. More recently, “a couple of weeks ago,” Trombley found a Hartford center employee “slumped over inside his car” from what appeared to be a state of intoxication.

So the issue is finding people to work who aren't thieves or no-loads, for a job that pays $15/hour. Maybe someone could make more money at a place like McDonalds, but do you think an employee who acts like what Trombley describes in the article is going to last any longer at a moderately higher paying job, where there's probably more responsibility? There are people who want to work and those who don't.

Now I wonder, why I don't feel any sympathy or empathy for people who, as you say, just want to pay their heating bill, yet they steal from work, show up hammered, or otherwise drugged-up.

Yes, by assuming they can or should be able to live decently off working at a redemption center. Who'd have thought?

Clearly they expect to be paid a living wage, and probably have paid vacation with cheap health insurance. After all, "bottle boy" is no longer something you hire high school kids for. It's a full-blown trade and career, don't you know. Even then, it's not like the quality of employee would dramatically increase.

EDIT: Even though the full-time position includes paid vacation and paid sick leave, after the 1st year, apparently it's too much to expect anyone to be able or willing to work that long.

I'd be concerned about anyone who wants more Little Caesar's anywhere. Seriously, if your main criteria is that it's cheaper, then you probably shouldn't be dining out anyway. Save your money and make some goddamn PBJ sandwiches to go with your White Claw and Mike's Hard Lemonade.

It's not like this kind of work is going to attract any "cream of the crop" employees. If you can stand, you're basically qualified. $15/hour seems generous. I'd hardly call it a "dying trade", surely not like valuable plumbers or electricians who actually have to go through some serious training and apprenticeship before they can be certified.

Sorry, not sorry.

There's no shortage of idiots on the roads here, or anywhere for that matter.

My kids...for obvious reasons.

The state needs more young people, more children, more families, more people who pay taxes, and more people who can and are willing to work. This is necessary in order to be able to afford the number of elderly, disabled, and low income people who require services, not to mention to be able to make our public education system more affordable again. I don't particularly care whether this is accomplished via proper population growth, attrition, or a combination thereof.

There's many obstacles to achieving better VT population demographics. These include such factors as:

• the lack of available housing across the state
• the lack of housing that people of reasonable means can afford
• the lack of childcare in general so that people can afford to work
• national & global market forces that drive costs of things like building materials, food, and fuel
• regulatory hurdles that VT imposes that make it cost prohibitive to do things like build housing and open a daycare center in this state

A lot of these are real chicken-and-egg issues that will take a huge amount of effort and money up front to address. I know, deep down, that dealing with these (and other) issues that are hurting Vermont and Vermonters will be beneficial in the long run. But, like most people, I don't know how happy or willing I am to pony up my tax dollars to pay for these solutions, especially if I am not going to be a direct beneficiary of the services themselves. Sucks, don't it?

My recollection of past inspection rules was that tint on the front driver/passenger windows had to be very minimal in order to pass inspection. For example, I had dark limo tint applied to the back 7 windows of my van back in 2012, but my front driver and passenger windows could not be tinted. If I wanted any tint at all on the front windows, it was essentially nothing, and all my other windows had to be tinted to the same minimal level.

Another change with vehicle inspections has to do with dummy lights on the dashboard. For example, if your vehicle came with TPMS tire sensors, and you were running aftermarket wheels that didn't have TPMS sensors, the dummy light on the dash would be illuminated. This was grounds for failing inspection, because it was essentially a factory safety feature that had been disabled. Now though, the TPMS dummy light can be on and your car won't automatically fail inspection. This is helpful because, when I run snow tires on separate rims, I don't have TPMS sensors installed. I used to have to get my vehicles inspected every year before I swapped out my summer rims/tires for winter rims/tires. But in January 2021, I bought a car, which had just been inspected prior to sale, so inspection wasn't due until February 2022. Of course I put new steel rims with snow tires on the car, and the TPMS light is on during winter. My mechanic said this was no longer a problem.