At the Williston station it’s free even if you don’t have trash to drop off.

Go to Snell Library some time. There are half a million print volumes there. Northeastern also benefits from being part of the Boston Library Consortium and sharing print collections with a number of other high-profile libraries.

If you don’t know that your university library has print books, you’re not doing a great job at college. Or your college is failing you and you’re paying way too much.

Given your ignorance of this very basic fact, why would I take anything else you say seriously?

So you support “Vermont culture” being a bunch of racist hicks fighting each other?

Found the eugenicist.

Why does it matter what slur was used? Are some more acceptable than others?

> Nearly five years ago, Chase drove a state-owned Prius 6,000 miles on Vermont roads for an earlier test of cellphone coverage and released a report in 2019. This year’s test was carried out by a contractor called Ookla and presented opportunities for Vermonters to provide data. The department and Ookla worked with drivers from the state Agency of Transportation who traversed 6,500 miles of Vermont roads between July 1 and September 15.

Read it more carefully.

You need to understand the difference between anecdotal data (i.e. your own personal experience, on your particular phone, and your cell plan) versus crowd-sourced/sampled data (more representative of everyone’s plans and phones and situations).

They were using license plates when they caused damage? How strange!

So your only evidence is your own biased anecdotal evidence.

Where is your source for the “out of state” speculation?

They wouldn’t be facing charges unless this was from only a few students. Do you know what a security deposit is? If this was 18 students causing $18,000 in damages they just need a $1000 security deposit from each to cover this damage. That’s pretty normal for rental housing.

That's not how this (givers vs takers) works. All states get a good amount of money from the federal government. For instance, NY State, the biggest "giver" state in terms of tax dollars, has a budget that is around 42% federal dollars (source: https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/state-fiscal-year-2022-23-enacted-budget-analysis).

What we're talking about here is states that are "givers" (i.e. they send more money to the federal government in tax dollars than they take in federal receipts) or "takers" (i.e. they receive more federal money than they send in tax dollars).

ETA: here is a more recent article that directly addresses this difference: https://vtdigger.org/2020/05/06/margolis-like-most-states-vermont-gets-back-more-from-u-s-than-it-pays-%EF%BB%BF/

Vermont is slightly dependent on federal funding if you look at giver/taker states. There are only 8-ish “donor” states and Vermont is 15th overall in the giver:taker rankings (i.e. the 7th “taker” out of 42 takers. So…again, not “hugely” dependent.

I'm pointing out that, without a reference to a particular channel/video, referring people to YouTube for information is harmfully spreading misinformation. When I search "kensington philadelphia xylazine" I find some helpful, first-hand videos, but I also find a lot of garbage from local news (or worse) that is just fear-mongering and misinformation.

I can search "fentanyl" on YouTube and I can find many, many videos telling me that it's possible to die from a fentanyl overdose just from having a tiny bit touch your skin, which is not only false, but can lead to real harm by causing people to avoid users who are od'ing because they fear having fentanyl touch them accidentally.

Knowing what substances do to users, and how we can reduce harm to these users, is important. Recommendations to YouTube, without any qualifiers of recommending quality videos/channels, are lazy at best and actively harmful at worst.

Ah yes YouTube — the unbiased and truthful source we all need. At least it supports your anecdote, which is also so helpful in this case.

Edit to add: Here is a proper source, for the area and time period you're talking about, that is not "YouTube": https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/4/395