People now showing up looking for a dispensary but leaving with the best Reuben in the state

Toothpick is great, and a bit to the west Litchfield is very cute with Arethusa, White memorial and Litchfield Distillery all worth a look

Definitely have to include an Eversource hate post

How is your bill still so high? You guys got something going on eating mad electricity.

Do the energy audit. They’ll tell you how, and you can fix a lot of it for pretty cheap since all of the it is rebates.

That seems high for a heat pump. Have you done the energy audit? It really helped us. We were around $800 last year but have got it down to $650 even with the rate increases. Energy supplier change goes into effect on the 24th.

Adjacent trend, a high number of Indian restaurants in CT are owned and operated by Nepali and Bengali people.

Being the first state to phone books and speed limits is so on brand for Connecticut.

If you or anyone in your family works for the state, I highly recommend Connecticut State Employees Credit Union. They have great service, are super sweet, pay out dividends for your account and great refinance and auto loan rates. Their new auto loan rate is 2.49%!

Cons are a lack of locations and hours are pretty sparse.

Not true, much of the budget surplus is from higher than expected tax revenue which is looks like it is here to stay.

https://ctmirror.org/2023/01/17/ct-budget-surplus-lamont-tax-cuts/

“You people” being the cedar siding industry in this case.

Nah, he’s out here doubling down and arguing with people in the comments.

OP I would encourage you to treat this post and the overwhelmingly negative response to it as the learning experience it should be.

Rather than doubling down, I would suggest you put yourselves in others shoes, and ask yourself why people might be reacting this way.

While I agree with the general statement “vinyl siding is uglier than wood or other natural sidings” this statement comes across as “Tell me you’re not a homeowner without telling me”

It’s cheaper, easier to maintain, and more reliable than other sidings. People who own homes in CT got actual problems out here fam, let’s not make up silly new ones.

I guess, but doesn’t that more or less happen in the current group format?

Does the math on this work out? A draw guarantees that one other team in your group has only 1 point as well.

Plus selling out to try to score but getting scored on instead is a four point swing in your opponents favor,

I mis-understood this in the same way, I thought that they were saying we would see a three-team group, knockout one third of teams, and then proceed as normal. Instead, after the worst team in each group is eliminated, we’ll have a big knockout bracket of 32 teams. World Cup going March Madness on us.

Down to 53-47

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