smokeythemechanic
smokeythemechanic t1_j9v5tzx wrote
Reply to comment by BrigAdmJaySantosCAP in Kelley Stand is not plowed! No charging stations either! by SVTer
Used to be 5 generations, times have laxed. It's now 2 generations and you are from here.
smokeythemechanic t1_j9udctv wrote
Reply to Landlords and political signs? by [deleted]
Considering I know someone with a rental property that took two and a half years without getting a single payment to get those not paying their rent evicted while trying the legal way to just get them to pay their contracted rent for the house. I'm more inclined to think people that oppose fixing this crazy loophole in letting renters have a huge upper hand are gonna welch on their rent and don't deserve housing to begin with.
smokeythemechanic t1_j8dkalw wrote
smokeythemechanic t1_j8dhape wrote
Reply to comment by VermontZerg in Could a climate change denier please tell me that this weather is actually normal for February? by MarketplaceMallBTV
So mining the raw materials has zero impact to the net CO2 ? Because everything to keep a V8 on the road is all tallied into running a V8 for 100000 miles, calculating what batteries put off once created is great and all, but that's not a true measure. Also not to mention the batteries on a Prius are recycled as they used whole material vs plates material. Plating zinc with a tiny bit of cobalt for a lithium battery is what's happening now, when exactly are people gonna recycle for trace amounts of materials? Like we can't even get people on board with recycling bottles and cans that have a deposit on them here in VT never mind the rest of the country that largely does zero recycling.
smokeythemechanic t1_j8dbugv wrote
Reply to Could a climate change denier please tell me that this weather is actually normal for February? by MarketplaceMallBTV
Not a climate change denier, but I can tell you EV cars being built account for as much pollution to be made as driving a V8 100k miles. Battery tech is still 25 years from being clean enough to make the switch. So all the smug assholes in their Teslas and Rivians can preach all they want, but they are as bad as the guy buying a Ram 3500 gas powered to commute in. Want real change, target gross amounts of gases released including consumer goods, ships, planes, trains, busses, factories worldwide and power generation world wide. Otherwise shut the fuck up and quit stirring the pot.
smokeythemechanic t1_j7seeld wrote
Reply to comment by Stevo2979 in Vermont’s rates of homelessness are (almost) the worst in the country by DaddyBobMN
So making the homeless take food, shelter, life skills/technical training and making them stay sober because they can't seem to figure it out on their own in a centralized location is wrong because other people abused the system before?
That's exactly why we have literal crazy people everywhere now, the aclu pushed for the deregulation of the mental asylum system till it happened in 1976, because the aclu decided it would be better to have no mental healthcare for anyone beyond private, than to install checks and balances in the mental health asylum system where abuse had occurred.
smokeythemechanic t1_j7qpiyr wrote
Reply to comment by herklederkleferkle in Vermont’s rates of homelessness are (almost) the worst in the country by DaddyBobMN
Yes it's a problem, what's your suggestion on dealing with it in real time? Mines already on this thread.
smokeythemechanic t1_j7qjldh wrote
Reply to comment by Stevo2979 in Vermont’s rates of homelessness are (almost) the worst in the country by DaddyBobMN
So what's your idea to fix it? I'm all ears, it's not fair to me or anyone else making it work, to have to suffer injustice at the hands of those that won't better themselves. You say that those programs stopped people from the ability to better themselves, I challenge that with less than 10% of those that choose homelessness ever better themselves even briefly even when handed the tools with instructions on how to do so. And it is a choice.
smokeythemechanic t1_j7qdt68 wrote
Make being homeless illegal and punishable by being kept drug free and fed/sheltered in a work program in one place where they have to produce something for themselves like food and clothing. I'd be into paying more in tax to fund no more homeless people allowed here period.
smokeythemechanic t1_j7qdbbs wrote
Reply to comment by MargaerySchrute in Vermont’s rates of homelessness are (almost) the worst in the country by DaddyBobMN
Thievery, meth labs, heroin needles strewn about and the massive trash piles they leave everywhere.
smokeythemechanic t1_j653ok2 wrote
Department of public safety search and rescue unit.... Not VSP
smokeythemechanic t1_j60y0s8 wrote
Yeah, no matter the location those same people deserve a pit maneuver into an immovable object. Fuck them. Can't even observe common courtesy/obvious communal safety, eat airbag.
smokeythemechanic t1_j5ud7f5 wrote
Reply to comment by h802 in Please don’t be like this person by vtham
Naw, it's not live free, it's live within the feel good laws that do nothing for anyone's life bottom line or quality of life. Useful laws are outside the scope of local government.
smokeythemechanic t1_j5uc24u wrote
Reply to Please don’t be like this person by vtham
People who do this deserve a pit maneuver into the trees sideways.
smokeythemechanic OP t1_j4n6st8 wrote
Reply to comment by Practical-Animator87 in driving slow and stopping to turn by smokeythemechanic
It's cool, we just actually had a decent conversation here, as opposed to the usual political shit storm every post turns into in a post 2015 world.
smokeythemechanic OP t1_j4n56k8 wrote
Reply to comment by Practical-Animator87 in driving slow and stopping to turn by smokeythemechanic
Several admitted to being the problem I'm talking about, and why they do it....
smokeythemechanic t1_j4g7k00 wrote
I used to hike with a sudanese girl a lot here like hundreds of miles a year, she was always in better shape than me and left VT for Colorado for bigger mountains. While I see less poc here I'd argue percentage wise there are as many people of color that enjoy the outdoors as there are white people like it's still only 5% of white people that get off their ass, the more you hike the more you see the same person in a different corner of the state no matter what color you are. If you want to be outside on a mountain, you will be, not a race thing, a personal motivation thing.
smokeythemechanic OP t1_j4az9bj wrote
Reply to comment by landodk in driving slow and stopping to turn by smokeythemechanic
Yeah after days of dry roads and unseasonably warm weather, I did wait till people legitimately should be slowing down to mention it, but it is a fair weather issue I'm talking about even mid July this was happening.
smokeythemechanic OP t1_j4883od wrote
Reply to comment by Wired0ne in driving slow and stopping to turn by smokeythemechanic
Deserves to have his driving privilege suspended till he figures it out
smokeythemechanic OP t1_j4792ns wrote
Reply to comment by Not_the_sharpest_1 in driving slow and stopping to turn by smokeythemechanic
Lol that's why the weed Rd sign in Jericho is 25' up a pole.
smokeythemechanic OP t1_j46ig0e wrote
Reply to comment by random_vermonter in driving slow and stopping to turn by smokeythemechanic
I'm born and raised here. This is a new thing.
smokeythemechanic OP t1_j46bvib wrote
Reply to comment by MarkVII88 in driving slow and stopping to turn by smokeythemechanic
Best comment yet.
smokeythemechanic OP t1_j4433xo wrote
Reply to comment by canadacorriendo785 in driving slow and stopping to turn by smokeythemechanic
Fair. I don't think my desire to drive the speed limit as a general flow of traffic is unreasonable though, I admittedly am one of the ones going 20 over when I don't have traffic holding me back though.
smokeythemechanic OP t1_j43refx wrote
Reply to comment by anothervtcouple in driving slow and stopping to turn by smokeythemechanic
I grew up here and now at 40, it seems to be new to me, but I also don't know about it really being old timers as it's in 8am work flow traffic I see it all the worst
smokeythemechanic t1_j9vqyva wrote
Reply to comment by random_vermonter in Landlords and political signs? by [deleted]
This landlord is being judged without knowing their situation just the same. What if they have another building with people not paying for two plus years?