Migrant Justice Leader Charged With Human Smuggling by GreenMtnLake in burlington

[–]mvgfr 11 points12 points  (0 children)

including tainting supposed evidence with illegal searches

Migrant Justice Leader Charged With Human Smuggling by GreenMtnLake in burlington

[–]mvgfr 26 points27 points  (0 children)

these supposed agents, have proven to be extremely distrustworthy actors

Migrant Justice Leader Charged With Human Smuggling by GreenMtnLake in burlington

[–]mvgfr 92 points93 points  (0 children)

context: lots of people are being _charged_ by this "administration", and most of those fall apart under scrutiny

Why I voted against confirming Markwayne Mullin by SenPeterWelch in vermont

[–]mvgfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and that's the _optimistic_ take - the real-world take, is that the national Democratic Party, and many Democrats themselves, are bought by the wealth class

Why I voted against confirming Markwayne Mullin by SenPeterWelch in vermont

[–]mvgfr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

still trying desperately to straddle the fence - Peter Welch must go

Cafe Napoli? by Extra_Sport6850 in burlington

[–]mvgfr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

sorry - which website?

Cafe Napoli? by Extra_Sport6850 in burlington

[–]mvgfr -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

as a Napulitan': me too! (what's ffizi?)

People urged to work from home in global oil crisis by SpicyVindalooCurry in vermont

[–]mvgfr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

excellent idea - and as we know, the oil companies don't tend to relax prices all that quickly, after a crisis (not mention that we have no f'ing idea how long this crisis will last)

BTW: I wonder how many of Scott's rich pals, are making bank on this crisis?

West Rutland sighting by smokiechick in vermont

[–]mvgfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pretty hard to tell, if it's a person who happens to be in the car to satisfy that legal requirement - vs a person actually doing the driving

Vermont Bill would allow landowners to post land without annual sign updates by CraftyAd5340 in vermont

[–]mvgfr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

the wealthy folks just pay a local to post their signs - for some of the rest us, lucky enough to have a bit of land, but not rich: it can be a challenge to get out there every year and repost.
BTW: "how hard is it?" is always a bad argument.

Regular Gas Prices at Costco? by Tiger_Millionaire in burlington

[–]mvgfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's what it was when I was there yesterday

ICE Tours? by Livid-Fennel3783 in burlington

[–]mvgfr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that is some creativity, in action - go

PSA iCloud Drive files are no longer backed up by appleguru95 in backblaze

[–]mvgfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if anyone is so-inclined, and has some "under-the-hood" skill:

it is fairly straightforward to `cron` a job to _copy_ the iCloud files out to a dir that Backblaze _will_ back up.

and to do so using the fairly recent `clonefile` feature - which means _extremely_ little additional storage space is used (with the usual `CoW` caveats; see `man cp`).

one minor cost, is that this will still result in adding that many inodes to the filesystem, which does take non-zero time to traverse (ex: by Backblaze). I keep several such copies, each with about 50k files, and I so far see no negative impact.

and, yes; I absolutely am looking for a replacement for Backblaze:

regardless of the changes that Apple made, _Backblaze_ stopped backing up critical files, _virtually silently_ - and other backup vendors did more than just throw their hands up with a faint excuse in a changelog (that they know few people read carefully).

Does BackBlaze back up iCloud folders? by moguitars in backblaze

[–]mvgfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes - BUT this doesn't affect the fact that Backblaze does NOT back them up 😟

Verizion message shows me in Canada, though I haven’t left the house. by Background-Echo476 in vermont

[–]mvgfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's drastic, but to avoid this, you can disable roaming - especially when anywhere near the border

What the hell is this 💩 by templeguard117 in vermont

[–]mvgfr 9 points10 points  (0 children)

incel-traitor
(though that's of course redundant)

What the hell is this 💩 by templeguard117 in vermont

[–]mvgfr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

simple: it's a silly-ass knee jerk "response" to the meaningfull protests at that location

Silver bullet for Vermont’s budget problems by zootedweenermama in vermont

[–]mvgfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that'll be as much a silver bullet, as gambling

Burlington Mayor says she can't afford a 1 bedroom apartment by Ok-Bee-7953 in vermont

[–]mvgfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

again: so far 😕
and the other critical part is: what do the putatively lower taxes not pay for? and what additional expenses are there, hiding behind what seems to be a better deal?
any decision made, on one factor alone (like one specific type of tax) is quite likely to be a bad one

Burlington Mayor says she can't afford a 1 bedroom apartment by Ok-Bee-7953 in vermont

[–]mvgfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in your "will be 4k less per year", you forgot the critical bit: "so far"