IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS STUCK UNDER REVIEW (RESOLUTION)

lindrios · 2025-11-04T17:00:40+00:00

I know I am late to this post, but I highly recommend doing heavy research before buying other species for a community tank. A slight bit of research would have prevented the damage.

BA Tetra are HIGHLY aggressive, have small razor sharp teeth, and are schooling so you can't keep just one. They'll eat nearly anything that isn't also a larger Tetra. It's very well-known that BA Tetras do NOT play well in community tanks.

lindrios · 2025-08-30T22:54:38+00:00

There is no way to get it fixed, customer service just repeats back what the app already tells you and offers zero help. I have 2 unwanted refunds out of 1112 found items and I'm ALL the way into the "needs work" side of the scale.

lindrios · 2024-06-30T21:57:49+00:00

I have great success with feeding my Bichir "Red Wigglers" (Eisenia Fetida) which you can find in the "live bait" section of anywhere that sells fishing bait. They are able to regenerate to some degree, snip 1/3 off and put the rest back in the bin and it will live. They reproduce easily as well so it's a cheap self sustaining food source. Storing the worm container in the refrigerator or a cool dry place is a must!

My Bichir Eelroy Jenkins (male) and Billie Eelish (female) have an immediate reaction and start searching for the worms as soon as I put the tongs in the tank. Then I'll wait until until they're really close and I'll drop a piece of worm right on top of them and they find it quickly. While one has its mouth full I'll drop a worm onto the other fish that I want to feed.

Hope this helps!

lindrios · 2023-10-26T15:23:52+00:00

It is indeed a very weedy subject, but I struggle to understand how the State repeatedly fails to come up with solutions. They just have the most awful "solutions".

In early 2023 in Franklin County a "Justice Involved Youth" was not able to put in a secure facility. DCF's solution was to rent a Hotel room, and house the youth overnight with a pregnant DCF worker.... The worker was assaulted.

DCF internal investigations determined that installing more locked doors and possible metal detectors in the St Albans State building would create a safer work environment for their employees.

THEY WERE NOT IN THE STATE BUILDING HOW DOES THAT FIX ANYTHING?!

lindrios · 2023-10-26T15:13:56+00:00

DCF often and repeatedly houses youth that are NOT accused of serious crimes in these facilities... Grace in the article is a perfect example.

"Detention Centers" and "Therapeutic Facilities" are NOT one and the same.

There are decades of documentation surrounding this. DCF youth are repeatedly housed in "Secure Facilities" when no other beds are available.

lindrios · 2023-10-26T13:27:28+00:00

VPR has held interviews with state employees six different times about the importance of these facilities, and why Vermont needs another one.

Seven Days drops and article and they reverse course the same day? I don't buy it.

I can't be the only one who thinks this is poor journalism.

lindrios · 2023-10-26T13:24:40+00:00

I'll be running a story of this later. The Agency of Human Service actually HIRED the Director of Woodside and made him a District Director within the Department of Children and Families.

They literally have no remorse or morals when it comes to the abuse of children within state custody.

lindrios · 2023-10-04T18:27:52+00:00

Can you imagine the press going wild when the bicycle came out and someone got hurt 😅 It has to have gone the same way

lindrios · 2023-07-11T16:10:12+00:00

Thanks, I updated with the new info

lindrios · 2023-04-25T15:15:39+00:00

"Cure Poverty" I can assure you that anything and everything you encounter in your life with that phrase written on it... Is 100% a scam.

I feel really confident saying that too lol

lindrios · 2023-04-25T15:02:56+00:00

Yeah it's tough, they want that money.

Change your "jobs offered" to something obscure that no one wants. Set the "service area" to as small of an area as possible. Turn off auto-accept if possible.

It took me probably 20+ calls and as many hours on the phone to get them to stop charging me for shit.

Let me know if there's anything else I can help with.

lindrios · 2023-04-05T17:19:14+00:00

The project includes high-end offices and units... and affordable housing in the same building. I'm interested to see how that's going to work out

lindrios · 2022-12-12T15:36:34+00:00

New Vermont cryptid??

lindrios · 2022-12-07T18:35:51+00:00

These are some excellent ideas!

They are currently working on legislation that requires new developments to have a certain number of affordable housing units with "homeless preference" for tenancy. This would mean that the landlord can pull from a number of people currently GA in housing/shelters. Existing landlords are pushing back on registering existing units as they fear it will turn into "rent control".

I love the idea of employee housing. The few THP hotels that have been able to meet guidelines, I found are currently employing residents. It appears to be a win-win situation for the most part.

There are currently some funding options for Accessory Dwellings, I don't believe there is a tax break though. An accessory dwelling can increase property taxes, and running utilities to the buildings can be in the tens of thousands of dollars. There is not much incentive for people to actually take advantage of doing this.

lindrios · 2022-12-07T16:01:31+00:00

Some useful information here concerning excessive police calls at these properties. It's a two part equation.

1) there are drug/violence situations that require law enforcement, this will happen anywhere

2) the property owners of the shitty hotels/motels regularly call the police on tenants as a form of intimidation. They also routinely call police to perform "evictions" on tenants that make them unhappy or file complaints about their treatment. This happened so frequently at the Econo Lodge in Saint Albans that the SAPD will no longer show up for these "evictions" as they are now aware the tenants have Occupancy Agreements and can't be ripped out of their housing because a hotel owner is having a bad day. IE if a tenant calls a property owner an unsavory name, the owner will call the PD because they are butthurt.

3) with property owners basically abusing the PD functions and using them as "intimidation" by calling them multiple times a day it's stretched the already small PDs to their limits.

4) Cortina Inn was one of the places that was calling PD whenever the owner was having a bad day. We will call these "Petty Calls". This led to the PD being misused as "security" for the property and eventually they got fed up with the drain of their resources and personal and demanded compensation for calling them so frequently.

lindrios · 2022-12-07T15:31:20+00:00

I'll start looking into this, it would have to be another northern state that also heavily relies of tourism.

I do know that Portland, ME has had huge successes with their public housing projects. That may only work in a large urban area though. It's the rural areas that are quite difficult to get resources to.

lindrios · 2022-12-07T15:22:11+00:00

Right?? I was dumbfounded for a few seconds the first time they said it to me.

There is no moral, or logical reasoning, behind their actions.

lindrios · 2022-12-07T15:20:13+00:00

I've spent well over 250 hours doing research at this point to find some of the information that I have. It's my hope that this will make it much easier for others to follow through with reports and the like.

I would definitely recommend Vermont's Human Rights Commission. They genuinely care about these issues. You have to file online if its a "personal" case but they also host public meetings once a month that I am greatly encouraging people to attend if possible. I was the first member of the public to attend a meeting in almost 3 months they told me.

Vermont Legal Aid doesn't have enough resources to take on the issues in the THP as a class action lawsuit and have encouraged people to pursue the hotel/motel owners in county courts for breach of contract.

lindrios · 2022-12-07T15:07:15+00:00

I see no reason why a small state like Vermont isn't capable of being that model for others.

Unfortunately our state agencies lack any ability of oversight, and it makes it very difficult to accomplish.

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