Truly - it’s a bizarre way of sidestepping the actual problem of rapacious capitalism that benefits a tiny oligarchy.

If you want to lay this at the feet of “activists” - well, that’s where you lose the thread. Homelessness is not a problem because of activists who refuse to engage in reality lol

Yeah, but all these facts are getting in the way of my efforts to interpret this in binary good vs. evil terms! /s

Yup - even Adam Smith advocated for a UBI.

(Like Elicker himself)

This is definitely the right time to be looking.

If you’re connected to the basement electric - does that include a shared dryer? That could be a lot of additional electric that you are paying for and even if it isn’t, technically (as I understand it) in CT, if you are paying for any electrical in a common area, your landlord owes 100% of your bill.

Definitely, the weird driving thing I’ve encountered in Vermont is that people will yield to me in situations where they clearly have the right of way, when it makes no sense for them to yield. It’s sweet and all, but it is way more dangerous than they really understand. But like you said, there aren’t too many folks up there, so it doesn’t seem to matter as much😅

Well, Americans have been narcissistic, passive aggressive assholes since I was a kid. This was Reagans message to America: “me first, screw everyone else.”

Go to Vermont - the only drivers I’ve seen driving aggressively there have plates from a different state.

To be fair, I have never experienced an entire subset of humans who seem utterly incapable of accelerating to the speed of traffic when merging. This isn’t just “short ramps” and the like - there’s a real problem here with folks wanting to get on the freeway at 45 mph before they suddenly hit the gas. It’s really bad driving and its pretty ubiquitous here in my experience.

Dear Clown (given that this is how you signed off), perhaps you are unaware that your post is a non sequitur. It does not follow. Essentially, your words : “if they can’t beat the poorest and most corrupt European country” suggests that Ukraine is defeating Russia sans billions of dollars worth of military aid from several of the world’s most advanced militaries. This is - obviously - what I was talking about. Your links about corruption are just a smokescreen.🙄🤣

“If they can’t beat the poorest and most corrupt…” c’mon dude🙄🤣. I’m anti-Putin and have been for twenty years, but let’s stay grounded in facts - that’s what I’m suggesting.

Agreed, but then that requires also honestly reckoning with the USA’s foreign policy and not being blind to it - the USA has engaged in all kinds of nefarious wars, coups, assassinations, etc. Pretending that we don’t have a strategic interest in Ukraine is not the answer.

Bingo.

It’s wrong to assess the Russian failures in Ukraine as “incompetence” - Ukraine may be David, but they are David armed with the world’s most advanced weaponry and it outclasses anything that Russia - with a GDP smaller than Spains - could ever put out barring an actual nuclear exchange.

It’s wrong to assess the Russian failures in Ukraine as “incompetence” - Ukraine may be David, but they are David armed with the world’s most advanced weaponry and it outclasses anything that Russia - with a GDP smaller than Spains - could ever put out barring an actual nuclear exchange.

Whatever - you’d make the perfect corrupt bureaucrat building a moat around your petty privileges if you haven’t already achieved that “goal.” 🙄🤣

“Maybe someday I, too, can have things that others are denied and for that reason, I’ll continue to support inequality.”

Logan’s a clown. Same old crap.