And I think that racists everywhere are. You are missing the driving factor in racism today which is media and social media. 20 years ago I would agree with you, but now with Fox, OAN, Trump, NEWSMAX these people believe all races are at war against whites and trying to overthrow the power balance.

Explain the white fear of Mexican workers? They are gonna take our jobs… Jews will not replace us… they hate “ghetto culture” because they see black guys in beemers driving around with rap playing and they are in a 20 year old ford focus. They see Lebron talking about social justice and equality from his platform as a nearly billionaire basketball player and all they have is a trailer and an AR 15.

The Asia Africa thing can be again explained the same. Asia is an emerging area. Africa is trying to emerge that is an intersection. And for people in China they are not more than 1 generation removed from poverty the same is true for wealthy people in much of the developing world. So that historical stuff is still there

The other factor that can contribute is religion

Also the skin tone thing is a proof of the point. Lighter skin is seen as a status symbol, because it allows for easier assimilation into the broader culture. The concept of passing in the south during Jim Crow. It exists today, shit it even goes beyond that to names, and discrimination based on them. But at the end of the day it’s all built around the social hierarchy, and one group trying to maintain it (whites) and other groups fighting against each-other trying to not be at the bottom.

It sucks that w e as a society can’t look past that trivial shit and realize that the real structure is owners and workers. Some day Karl, some day…

It’s all about social status. Who is closest to the bottom fights to be above the others there. The Asian vs Black thing is a great example. I’m not gonna go down a rabbit hole of trying to explain why racial violence exists with detail, cause that gets into the weeds and becomes borderline racist itself (the concept the idea that conflict arises when one group is seen to get more than another)

But I think if you deeply examine the history of migration to and around the US and overlay that with social statuses etc you will see that the majority of the major racial strife happens on the intersections where 2 groups are both fighting for a better life, but doing it against eachother instead of fighting to overthrow the whole broken system that is holding them all down.

This is the truth. Downvote all you want, but racism exists at the intersection in the social ladder where jim bob sees his black neighbor as a threat to his social status. Historically that is at the lower ends of the socio-economic ladder (obviously southern slavery was a different game wealthy aristocracy perpetuating racism purely for financial gain) if you look at the battle for social standing as america grew it was normally some white immigrant community battling the black community for status. Look at the Irish, and the Italians. Over time this has transitioned into a battle between poor whites who have done worse than their parents and fear falling out of the middle class and POC who are doing better than their parents and rising into the middle class. The poor whites become virulent racists to maintain their status on the social ladder. Unfortunately for our country, the poor whites make up a greater and more unified voting block than the groups they oppose and show up at the polls, so we get regressive policies and states like Florida.

I don’t think the entire state is hanging onto dairy as the industry of the future. Sure we want to help the few farmers left, but we know the writing is on the wall. Also small family farms vs coal mines are very different conceptually. One is a low impact means of food production that could actually be better for the future, the other is killing the planet.

Who doesn’t moonshine? You need to hang out I. Better crowds if your not encountering home distilled spirits. We don’t do the make you go blind shit that they do down south, but the reason we have a lot of micro-distilleries that are making high quality products is because we have a VERY strong home distill culture, some with money go legit, but most are just making good whiskey, vodka, gin, etc for friends and family which is moonshining.

I lived in both. Way more different IMO. Poverty is the same, the racial makeup is similar, but how people approach life is totally different. They embrace religion and regressive policies that continue to exacerbate the issues, refusing to let go of the past, while VT has gone though many economic phases and isn’t stuck trying to keep one. No body here is advocating for major Potash factories to open, or for the copper mines to reopen, or the clear cut all the land for sheep, or that having the garment industry back would save the towns. We accept that change occurs and we adapt. They refuse to accept that coal is dying, and as a result they are dying.

Civics Camrys corollas all are fine. Ideal is a older subaru Impreza or legacy/outback.

There are several juvenile bald eagles on carmi and fairfield pond. Hard at a distance to distinguish them from a gold eagle as they are patterned similarly. Hate to say that’s more likely, but seems more likely especially given the area, and the number of bald eagles in that area. Tail pattern does say golden, but also says juvenile bald.

If anyone is looking for the bald eagles on carmi they nest on the tallest pine tree 100yds south of the island on the west side of the lake. They also frequent the tallest pine tree on the southern point, and a pine tree on the east shore just north of the state park.

Fairfield they like to sit in the tree off the first point on the north end

I don’t tailgate. I know my passing places well, and use them effectively. If your going UNDER the speed limit, I may ride your ass to get the point across, but otherwise I keep a minimum 4 seconds of following space, which is the rule I was taught in drivers Ed as a kid. If people are tailgating you every day I have a hard time believing you are going 5 over, but if you are, just pull over and let them go by, or speed up. I get out of the way of people who want to go faster than me. I blinker and pull onto the shoulder. Let them go by. No need for me to hold someone up, and pulling over into the shoulder to make it safe for them to pass doesn’t take me any time, effort, or cause me a safety concern (unless it’s a snowstorm)

It’s not deep, it’s factual and a logic based reason why I don’t drive 10mph under the speed limit. It just give me more time doing what I enjoy. I’d rather not waste an extra 1% of my life in a car. as it is with my current average miles a day, I will spend 3 years of my life in a car just getting to the place I’m going. That’s 4% of all the time I’m on this earth based on average male life expectancy. I’d rather it not be 5%. I don’t know what I will accomplish in that 1% of my life, but I know it will be more enjoyable than sitting in the car.

Worked in a bank for years. Don’t get it from the bank they are going to upcharge for the service. Honestly just use your card while traveling. It’s more convenient, you don’t come home with money that no one will exchange here, and you get the real exchange rate (plus 1% with some card companies) most of the time there is no use for cash, Canada is an advanced society not Neanderthals like us.

I mean maybe. Time is finite for us humans. I prefer to not spend extra time in my vehicle. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect drivers to go the speed of prevailing traffic and to get out of the way if they can’t.

I think that’s a myth to an extent. Every vehicle has an optimal speed based on aerodynamics, transmission gearing and some other factors. For instance at 65 my truck gets 17mpg on the interstate in VT, at 75 it gets 19 and at 77 it gets 21. I don’t know why, I think it has to do with carrying speed on the small ups and downs we have, so the cruise control doesn’t downshift as much on little hills, but it’s a thing in some vehicles. It also generally rides smoother at 77 than 70, my tires have a small imbalance as the are all terrains and it’s impercievable at 60, but becomes a tiny vibration at 65-73 and then goes away.

And to your point about speed and time it’s dependent on commute. If you are driving 3 miles to work the person doing 60 gets there in 3 minutes and the person doing 45 gets there in 4. That is a small difference working out over a year to 8 hours of extra time in the car for the slower driver, and over a 40 year career 13 days lost. If you extend that commute to 25 miles which is fairly typical in VT it’s 17 minutes a day 71 hours a year 118 days in the 40 year career. That’s 1/3 of a year in a finite life span being wasted just driving slower than is needed. That’s .4% of one’s life they waste.

When you add in all the other non-work driving we all do, that person who commutes 50 miles a day round trip probably drives 350 miles a week. It’s 100hrs a year, if you do that for 55 years which puts age say 20-75 typical driving years, it’s 230 days lost just sitting in the car on the way to the destination. And it grows the more you drive.

I just did out the math, and since age 20 I have driven 410,000~ miles in 15 years. While speeds are not constant I do 10-12 over pretty much all the time, so while this isn’t perfect math it’s close as benefit of that is greater at slow speed in town than at highway speed and a lot of the driving is in towns. If I had gone 15mph slower on those miles I would have at age 35 spent 93 more days in my car than I have.

If you can’t figure out what you would do with 93 days of free time returned to you just by pressing the gas pedal a little more then idk what to say. But it’s not “small” amounts of time when you look at it for a lifetime. With the amount I drive it will be an entire year of my life avoided in the car.

Additionally I think if you were to ask those that know me they would say I am punctual to a fault, very anal about being on time, I just in my time of driving have really nailed down the time it takes to do things in different conditions. Sometimes I get somewhere early, but that’s just more time at the destination (fun if it’s something I want to do, and I can finish sooner if it’s something unfun like work), but I’m never late.

If you don’t encounter slow drivers you are the slow driver. It’s amazing how when I drive slow with a trailer in tow I never encounter a car I need to pass, but without the trailer doing 15mph faster I pass 2-3 cars in the same 25 miles of road.

I often wonder if slow drivers on their death beds regret the thousands of hours they wasted of their lives driving slow. I know for me the destination is more important than the journey. I do 10-12 over at all times, and get very impatient with people who go under the speed limit. Slow drivers are more dangerous than people who speed, and cause significantly more accidents.

Nothing mentions that they were walking the dog on their own land either, just that it was private and a place she has walked the dog before. So even if it wasn’t an illegal trap, if she was walking her dog on someone else land without a leash, then that is a risk outside of the trappers ability to control. Pets under proper supervision do not become victims of hunters.

Lakers are fun. And they are incredibly easy to catch on Champlain. It’s a bad thing for them honestly. Popularity of fishing them there has skyrocketed, and with it average size has dropped.

The inland lakes are more challenging for catching lakers. Much more rewarding getting a 20lb laker on a small lake than 100 10lb champ fish. It’s incredible seeing a 40 inch trout come out of a pond under 100 acres.

Well if you want to initiate the process of seizing the large tracts of land that are vacant in the state, cutting them, and subdividing them into suburbia, then I guess that’s an idea to fix the problem. I’m more of the mind that Vermont is beautiful BECAUSE it’s not Massachusetts or New York.

And that’s fine, but why does the better life have to be somewhere other than where they are? It’s a free country so they can do what they want, but EVERY blue voter that leaves a red or purple state makes that state worse. It further erodes the accountability of the leaders there. So they may find a better life here, but at the cost of making things worse where they are coming from.

Guy I’m left of Bernie. I’m just honestly sick of seeing liberals flee a fight. Eventually it’s gonna be a bunch of unarmed granola crunching artists afraid to hurt a bug filling up all of New England, and on the doorstep of out for blood, heavily armed, mouth breathing, moron, neo-Nazis. I don’t honestly like our odds if the conservatives in America keep getting more radical. The anti-fascists are dramatically outnumbered on the left by those doing everything they can to avoid fighting.

Tons of off-roading in Vermont. Not always done within the law, but people off-road all over the place.

Lots of land in other states. Let young Vermont families buy houses, don’t make our shortages worse and force people to leave their home state.

It’s fucking crazy. I’m a hardcore liberal, and I am amazed at the total lack of understanding and empathy in these over privileged liberals coming from other states and displacing people here.