Yeah they never recovered from COVID. They’ve been understaffed and underpaid since 2021. I live in the neighborhood and it’s just like… if you’re working fast food, Wendy’s, McDonald’s and Dunkin are within walking distance and you don’t have to duck in and out of traffic for $15 an hour at any of those places. Buffalo Wild Wings, Subway, even Dick’s and BJ’s, I can see Sonic being low on the priority list. A year ago they took my money even though they ran out of ice cream so I go elsewhere

There was another one on the other side of the park this morning - my bet is that they’re replacing them - but it would be nice to get some advance heads up so I don’t have to take a detour in the morning because of a giant coffee cup

If the property owners sold the property there’s not all that much she can do

My go-to is Cornerstone Hartford

Beyond the incredibly slanted and propagandistic platform on which it was published and the author's recent post history (I'm sure your app for the unvaccinated will go swimmingly, congratulations on your InfoWars appearance!) I'm sure this is a conversation that is worth having from sources that are worth trusting. Gun nuts, when you lie down with dogs, you get fleas. Either own that or shut the fuck up.

How much of this bullshit is directly attributable to the Kochs and other funding sources for the Yankee Institute, which operates the Inside Investigator, fighting investment in climate change mitigation?
Fuck off, by the way.

Based on the last time it was proposed this legislation would require either two or three verbal commitments for the patient after thorough review of their mental health and in different time periods (there's a set amount of time they must wait before the process can even continue upon application). Most importantly a patient needs a diagnosis of a terminal illness with professionally diagnosed six months or less to live before they're even allowed to apply, significantly more strict than Canada's. Once the medication is administered the patient can choose not to take it; in Oregon, only 60% of people who complete the application process end up ending their lives.

Tiktok is gonna Tiktok, as a formerly suicidal teen I can imagine making a similar post when I was younger. I'm concerned for the kids but I'm not going to let them determine my views on policy without doing more research. And, as with any other system, the possibility of abuse in my view is miniscule compared to the overall benefits provided to people in pain. I can't answer for Canada but after reading the fascinating article you linked I am confident this negative response will make their policies more of an exception than the rule.

https://ct-n.com/CTNplayer.asp?livestream=3

Both the pro-aid in dying and anti-aid in dying press conferences can be watched on this feed if anyone is bored, just scrobble back in the line. After watching both I cannot fathom how this bill has not been passed. Yet another “my religion matters more than your pain” issue.

If you’re looking for up to date, Plainville 20 and Manchester 18 both have been updated in the last five and seven years, respectively. They’ve both got the IMAXes, Manchester added a second premium sized screen and has the moving DBOX seats.

FUCK OFF YANKEE INSTITUTE

A protest at the Capitol on a Sunday? They’ll be watching football and Christmas shopping on their weekend. Protestors will be protesting to no one.

Gonna just point out the dichotomy of recent events here.

A man breaks into Nancy Pelosi's house with the intent of assassinating her; beats her husband nearly to death with a hammer; tells police he did so because he believed right-wing political theory; right wing media makes up a story where the assaulter was a gay man in a tryst with Paul Pelosi, despite official police reports telling a completely different story that is damning to right-wing ideals.

A man whose neighbors reported he frequently used homophobic slurs and who threatened to kill his mother in a bomb threat in 2021 that led to a police standoff, whose family then pays lawyers to bury the charges, goes to a gay bar a year later, kills 5, injures 25; His defense lawyers tell the police and leak to the media the shooter claims he is non-binary (most likely a defense strategy to avoid hate crime charges in addition to murder charges, and with no further proof to back it up, given that the night of the shooting, his loving mother referred to him as her son and used he/him pronouns to identify him) and the right wing immediately parrots the narrative because it allows them to downplay a mass shooting against the LGBTQ+ community.

It is obvious that facts do not matter to Republicans any more as long as they bray loudly enough to shout down opposing narratives. After a year of increasingly heated anti-LGBTQ rhetoric coming from the right wing, making blanket accusations up to and including that all queer people are pedophiles, that has led to murders in places like Portland, Oregon (where an alt-right furry, of all people, killed four people), and has led to at least three bomb threats against children's hospitals (and counting), once a mass shooting happens at a gay bar in a region known for heated anti-gay rhetoric including from elected officials, they pivot to, what else?, blaming the LGBTQ community for its own murder.

Don't bother responding to this, I already know you're either going to try to focus on one point I made that wasn't completely airtight or you're going to spin/whatabout this bullshit.

The conservative crypto parents in this thread see that as a feature not a bug

…you are aware GOP Congressional Candidate George Logan is an Aquarion executive, right?

Yeah this is bullshit. It's happening all over the place with both parties.

Here's the GOP Secretary of the State backing out of a debate in September - https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2022-09-15/secretary-of-the-state-debate-cancelled-after-republican-candidate-cites-unforeseen-circumstances

Here's the Fairfield and Greenwich GOPs saying that the League of Women Voters have majority Democratic members therefore they refused all efforts to debate, which is decidedly more pathetic than skipping a debate you never RSVP'd to - https://ctmirror.org/2022/09/25/league-of-women-voters-greenwich-local-candidate-debates-canceled/

And here's the League of Women Voters saying "we have not changed any of our bipartisan debate laws, y'all are fucked up for this one" - https://ctmirror.org/2022/10/03/lvw/

So, uh, yeah, it's not just Democrats.

I moved to CT with a cushion of $15,000 in my early-mid 20s and never saw my bank account drop below $8,000. I also spend more than the average person. I'd say mid-four-figures and you should be safe in most instances.