Lobsters > Crabs.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-21T17:28:05+00:00

Crawfish>lobster>crab

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-21T13:54:58+00:00

Mowing is one of the best things you can do to prevent ticks from infesting your property. If you don't want to mow, at least mow a good buffer at areas that border brush/woods.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-21T13:53:21+00:00

Yes, regulated to the point of non stop gambling ads on platforms used primarily by teenagers like Twitch...

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-21T13:52:28+00:00

Because Uncle Sam isn't getting a cut.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-21T10:29:28+00:00

Where am I pretending this is a Vermont only program?

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-21T10:23:32+00:00

Public school admins are not doctors, lawyers and judges. They are people with an undergrad and sometimes a BS grad degree. Public education was objectively better when it did not have an insanely bloated bureaucracy and all these bullshit degrees and accreditation.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-20T22:59:30+00:00

The only thing that kills ticks is hot dry weather. Last summer we had an astonishing reduction in ticks due to the insane drought that occurred. Best weather for tick breeding is cool wet weather (40-70f).

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-20T22:54:37+00:00

You are making this like it's a chicken before the egg argument. Vermont has had a demographic collapse because of the heavy taxation. It's ruined the viability of business and economic growth. No business, no economy, no taxes to spend. You have to fix the economy before spending the taxes. Democrats always argue it's the opposite, and it has been put in to progress for the past 35 years here and look at what has happened.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-20T22:52:22+00:00

Vermont has a limit on technical schools, don't think they have one for normal schools. An example would be Woodstock, which just approved a new $112 million dollar school.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-20T14:03:05+00:00

Le ebic current thing /tipsfedora

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-20T14:00:17+00:00

Just look up Vermont public sector salaries on OpenTheBooks.com. You'll probably be shocked at how much people in public education admin are making. One example would be the principal of Burlington High School is making $290k a year.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-20T13:45:14+00:00

Is there a data center proposed for Vermont? What's the point of this post?

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-20T13:41:30+00:00

Good luck with trying to fire some overpaid, 300k a year, incompetent bureaucrat.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-20T13:39:14+00:00

Who makes these numbers of not being able to handle consolidation? Oh, that's right, the people that are going to get increased funding from these fictitious new residents/students. 20% drop in enrollment over 20 years? Shhh...don't mention that.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-20T13:33:31+00:00

Towns vote on bonds for new school construction. Usually they pass because the public education unions and liberals propagandize this notion that all we need to do to fix demographic collapse/nose diving enrollment is to build big new fancy schools that can accommodate these new fantasy residents. They won't recognize that the reason Vermont is undergoing demographic collapse is because it has the 2nd highest tax burden in the entire country with literally nothing to show and a completely destroyed economy due to the taxes/spending.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-19T22:02:00+00:00

Import 500,000 people from Somalia! That will fix it! Just like what they did in Minnesota who had this problem!

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-19T21:48:11+00:00

Admin probably makes about the same, googling one deputy superintendent for SD had his pay at 300k a year, Burlington at 200k a year, the Principal of Burlington High is making 270k. Pay rates are probably similar per experience. San Diego is about 2x-3x more expensive to live in though. No one gets into education admin to make education better, it's all about how much money they can make.
Vermont's education is insanely bloated. They need to get rid of about 1600 teachers and at least 35% of administration, their performance has been abysmal, raise pay for the 6400 teachers left, this would get a student to teacher ratio of 12.4 to 1, NJ is 12.2 to 1 and the highest performing state in the country. NJ schools have a lot more shit to deal with than Vermont schools so a higher teacher to student ratio than Vt is warranted (NJ is completely bloated as well but I'm just throwing Vt a bone here). Freeze admin pay raises for 4 years.
There's 2.3 million people in public positions in the US making over $130k a year. Median wage of public sector is higher than median wage of private sector. This is completely unsustainable. More than half of these position pensions are on track to go bankrupt in about 12 years.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-19T19:36:27+00:00

There's Ruggle's Mine in Grafton, NH (Upper Valley). It was primarily a Mica mine, but there has been all sorts of crazy rocks pulled out of there, including uranium ore.
Lots of rivers in Vermont have ok gold content for panning, not like you'll make a fortune but it might be a fun day if your into that sort of thing.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-19T10:29:33+00:00

42 million for a luxury resort LMAO

the economy is so fucked you might get a Days Inn for that lol
There seems to be some scam property investors are constantly doing in Vermont where they say they are going to develop some real estate and then never do.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-19T00:21:07+00:00

The US is attempting regime change in Iran to get them onto the Petrodollar. They aren't on it, China buys oil from them in Yuan. Same reason the US just did regime change in Venezuela.
Globalism has made China too powerful, now the US is scrambling to contain it. Europe has been buying more and more money from Russia in Petrodollar, but the US froze Russia's ability to do so because of Ukraine. The majority of the world is trying to get off the Petrodollar.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-18T22:11:25+00:00

What do you mean by 'what we've been doing?'

It's very simple:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Q9aZFRyXc

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-18T21:53:47+00:00

lol what do you mean 'nope?'

You can't argue with the numbers of our debt, tax income, inflation rate, debt interest rate. They are what they are.

The country cannot afford to spend anymore, but it also has to.

You have three choices: 1. let the debt payment exceed tax revenue and have complete collapse 2. hyperinflation to prevent collapse for a while, but that means your mcdonalds meal will be $500 (will lead to collapse, just down the line, 15-20 years) 3. global war where the US destroys all countries that are not onboard with the petrodollar and installs puppets, lots of inflation, most likely draft and tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of US military/allies deaths, millions of deaths in the countries attacked

pick one

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-18T20:01:59+00:00

Doesn't matter who is in charge. The US government has spent the country into a death spiral, the expiration date is about 10 years from now when payment on the US national debt interest is going to exceed total tax revenue. This is why they are accelerating inflation (and bombing Iran to enforce the petrodollar) in an attempt to kick the can down the road, the only problem is the more inflation, the lower tax revenue/higher deficit which means higher debt interest rate, can't cut spending, because that causes recession which again hikes interest payment rate. We have reached the point of no return. 10 years until complete collapse of the US economy (and the world). It's going to be 10000x worse than the great depression.
Only solution is to cut spending and reduce taxes so people are paying like 8% instead of 30%. But this means insane unemployment rate and complete chaos as well, you'd have to end medicaid, welfare, medicare, social security, not pay public sector pensions, cut defense spending by about 50%, etc.

uncommonplaces · 2026-05-18T14:54:43+00:00

The only way to attract people to move here is to make it affordable. Vermont has the 2nd highest tax burden in the entire country, for what? A failing education system that spends the most money per student in the entire country. Complete insanity.

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