It clearly states in our bylaws that we the state troopers have no obligation to set down our cocoa, get out of our warm footie pajamas, and enforce the laws, during inclement weather, including but not limited to: sleat, hail, fog, tornados, windstorms, dust storms, electrical storms, thunderstorms, squalls, northeasters, southwesters, la niñas, el niños, blizzards, whiteouts, indian summers, mud season, or water spouts.

Can't wait till the bosses make them go patrol during a rain of blood/toads: technically rain, and that one cop jerked himself off on the internet with that one pic of his cop car and a statement about sun rain and snow, rain of toads is a subset of the category rain, that said insecure cop clearly promised we would do our jobs during, so get out there and patrol, you lazy locker room lawyer!

And no charging stations! 3 stars!/s

I mean, who you gonna call? If McDonald's shorted you a fry, it's not like they care about your fries. But you call the competition, they can use that to better defeat McDonald's on the battlefield of ideas. That's not weird, that's just capitalism, lol.

P.s., it's so weird that the politicians most violently pro-capitalist, just can't seem to fathom that if no one is applying for a job, it means the job is being offered at too little pay, not that "no one wants to work" lol. What if wages on open job positions had to slowly increase till the job filled? It's almost like they want the people in these jobs to subsidize these jobs that are obviously being offered to the market, at sub market pay rates. But it couldn't be that, cause that sounds kinda commy to me, lol.

Just make a furnace that runs on milk, problem solved!

That was the weirdest thing about driving a semi truck, I delivered to a lot of construction sites, and many times you'd see another big truck just sunk up to the doors, you'd get out to walk around and see how soft the ground was, and it would feel like concrete, just rock hard. But for heavy heavy trucks, they can get so very stuck in what seams like a perfectly good road, hah. Enough to make you paranoid...

Ah, so the Steven Sea-gull business model. I hope he doesn't have to many payments left to big Steve for the franchise.

I mean, building codes CAN be a little confusing...

A lot of states headlight rules are from pre LED days, so they just say like 55watt max for headlights. But 55watts of LED is a lot more than 55watts of incandescent bulbs, hah. I did recently pick up some retna pealer 5000's from the local junk store, but they were new in box, for $5, with new pigtail wiring harnesses, and they are the right size for my hoopty f550 farm truck, but don't worry, it just gets used on the farm, or to pull neighbors out of the ditch within a mile of my house on our dirt road, hah, hopefully won't peal any retnae, retnas?

Some joke about, if you are 5-10 years out, you should start scheduling now, tradespeople in new England are.pretty slammed, lol.

I've been interested in passive solar for decades, ever since I read an old backwoods home magazine article, about a couple who built one in northern Michigan, that was designed to store a years thermal energy so it averaged out the yearly temp, not the daily. This article has lit a fire under me to do more on it. Been thinking how to convert my house here in Vermont.

How do I find out what size gong I'm allowed to hire a worker to use, in the middle of the night? I mean, I know it says whatever size the select board or alderman prescribe in writing, but does anyone have a ballpark size here?

All joking aside, sorry you are having neighbor problems, it's something that gets easier with practice. If you are buddies with any of your other neighbors, you could ask their advice first too, they might have the skinny on what's going on.

There's a ton of Canadian YouTube sailers that have videos about getting around thay area, but the ones I've found so far are in French, hah.

I bet old boss felt bad that employees were getting a hostile work environment, it's expensive to swap jobs, so I bet the odd bonuses were a way to get them some severance packages maybe? Who knows.

I like to think of the mud season as a magical forcefield that keeps Vermont from going too hipster, too fast.

Don't worry, if they ever did, they would just investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing.

Pay crap wages, wonder why no one wants to work for you, lol.

I think that's the one my wife and I tried to find, are they only weekdays too?

That is a plus: a certain type of person really really hates changing outdated school mascots, lol

Rattlesnakes too, I can't remember, but I think each adult rattler eliminates 50,000 ticks per year, just from the mice it eats eliminating the larval stage of the tick lifecycle!

Oregon transplant here, they have a lot of cougars in Oregon, anecdotally they don't mess with cows that much out there, they can be hard on sheep though, so might be even less hassle for the farmers here than in Oregon, since it's a lot of dairy farming out here, and if there's big sheep farms here I haven't seen them. Central Willamette valley in Oregon is just sheep, sheep everywhere, hah.

Look who is unaffected by it, and who is harmed: longtime vermonter, planning to stay at the same place for a long time, no effect. Big money buying up Vermont real estate to flip or make into short term rentals, then roll the profits from that into more real estate buying, yer gonna have a bad time. But I'm sure it will make an increase in pissy phone calls the town clerks have to deal with, so probably not them. So there you have it, the culprit is a long time Vermont resident, who is not a town clerk. (Did I do the reddit detective thing right? Lol)

Chainsaws and microbrews don't mix.

Just remember, the adventure isn't usually fun while it's happening, it's more about outdoing your buddies at story time when they bust out their tale of daring do, lol.

I used to live on the Oregon Washington border, back when I was young and had absurdly good vision, I can't remember which one was worse but it was like a switch being flipped, with the road paint being less visible on one side of the border, pretty sure it was Oregon, so it's probably one of those deals where the paint is 3% less toxic and only 75% less visible.

It's for the cows. The city folk that make the rules don't realize yer average cow will just about push over a barbwire fence, just to scratch those hard to reach places, so they are worried about fender holes cheese grating some poor cow in an automobile accident/s

All joking aside, I've been a mechanic in rural Oregon and Vermont for over 20 years. I'm not into hotrods, rolling coal, or any of that idiocy, I believe in climate change, I've built street legal electric vehicles from scratch, owned approximately 20 geo metros, lol, and bike commuted 14 miles to an auto repair job for years. Rural poor people need cars, in our current society. x100 in a "cool" rural place like vermont. They gotta be way over here where they randomly found some janky old house they can afford to rent. They gotta drive way over there to the job where the boss is slightly less exploitative of their desperation. We need to punch up, as a society, not down. Several recent studies show our "carbon footprint" is directly tied to how much we spend, it's like Elon musk being all "we need everyone to use electric cars", then bopping all over in his private jet. We are all out of time on climate change, we need our climate change mitigation to be numbers driven, not just make us feel good, because of classist propaganda we vaguely remember from our childhoods. If you are mad about climate change, punch up, not down.

Yeah, it's messed up. They really need to have private liability insurance just like doctors and lawyers, and structural engineers and contractors, truck drivers and mechanics and commercial fishman. In fact, it's really weird that they don't!