That's cool. Tons of directors are similar in that sense. Don't like it? Watch another movie, there are thousands of new movies every year. I'd say over half of all theatrical releases are absolute garbage but I never run out of amazing films to discover.

You're demanding Hood to start making shoes and Nike to get into the milk business. Don't hold your breath.

I have some great retirement advice for anyone interested.

Don't listen to a random redditor's anecdotal advice he inferred from a sample size of 2 people he barely knows who may have mentioned something offhand and were likely just venting.

Don't we also have one of the highest life expectancies?

Yeah, because arresting all the druggies and putting them all in the same place with violent criminals, where they receive zero help and their lives are ruined as they're ground into the cogs of our prison system has been soooo effective.

How many hours of cable news does one have to watch to be convinced sticking that fork into the outlet a third time is a good idea? You seem qualified to answer that.

From the "global warming is a bunch of liberal bullshit" crowd

I love listening to very slow instrumental doom/stoner metal. Bongripper's Terminal album especially while I'm reading the most dark and epic graphic novels or manga. 10 minute songs of just low and slow sludge guitars and huge drums.

Highly recommend. Pick up Watchmen and pipe that shit into your ears and it'll really suck you in and immerse you into those Rorschach monologues.

They added fake mountains to the fake Vermont town. Cool!

Man, I really want to believe democracy can work in the 21st century but we keep churning out dumber and dumber people whose singular goal in life seems to be to make the US a worse place to live in.

I'd also like to add that anyone who can't afford to feed themselves should be shot. We could use the food stamp recipient list to get started. That would open up a lot of low income housing once they're all dead. /s

Why don't you ask your mother? I showed her all the fingering techniques I know last night.

But for real, practice scales and use your pinky as much as you can. Then move on the hammer ons and pull offs where you change which finger is fretting the lower note while doing the HO/PO with your pinky. It takes a long time but the answer to 99% of these posts is just play the guitar if you want to become more comfortable on the instrument.

I used to live in Williston, too, for about 15 years. I'm just not used to that level of development so my opinion is probably more cynical. IMO it's closer to Soviet planning than anything historically present in Vermont. Those brick office buildings being built by 89 in Williston are a great example of what I'm talking about. It's the same drab building and Williston has now built it over 20 times. The apartment complexes surrounding Home2 are the same as well. Give Williston 30 years and those apartments will look like THIS

They are hideous but very practical. It's painfully obvious we've lost control of our housing economy and are desperately trying to keep up with demand. Hard not to draw a parallel to Soviet city planning.

Williston is going for the Soviet era building method of just having a single architect design an apartment complex they build 200 times and an office building they build 200 times.

It looks like a newer version of THIS

lmao yikes

Tell me you failed civics without telling me you failed civics.

You're wrong, it's literally their job to solve problems. It has been normalized that politicians are only working toward personal gain but accepting that and ignoring how things can get better is a level of cynicism you'd normally only hear from a Russian. It perpetuates the problem.

So you have, in this comment thread, asked for less vitriol toward MAGA people, saying it's unproductive and halts progress while also calling anyone who wants to hold politicians accountable for progress an 'idiot.' It sounds like you have it all figured out. /s

Considering you think the US heading in the MAGA direction is "progress", I'm surprised you can even spell "golfer."

How dare anyone hate the cult that continues to try to overthrow our government and kill our elected representatives

Absolutely. It's a cult, they need to be deprogrammed. No debate or discourse is going to snap them out of it. It takes a professional.

My mom is one of these people. In the early 2000s it was Oprah and magnets that cure cancer that western medicine doesn't want us to know about, "toxins" and an obsession with organic food. Now it's Trump, Covid is the flu, and the vaccine is evil.

We can talk about "western medicine is inherently flawed because of the for-profit system" and we can say other countries could seek cures where there's less incentive here. We can even talk about the flaws that insurance has where there's never an incentive to cut costs because higher costs means booming business for insurance. As soon as we talk about socialized medicine it's back to square one after a few canned responses about freedom of choice and wait time propaganda and how an imaginary 50% of all money earned in Canada is taxed toward health care.

I like to call them "politically challenged" because so many people are normal until you hit a trigger word or topic that Fox News has Manchurian Candidated them on.

You could basically skirt a normal topic like the fact that kids should be given healthcare and food and they're totally normal. "Of course sick kids deserve to be healthy and fed" they will say. And then you bring up school lunches or the cost of insulin and their faces steel over and they get grouchy. Then the canned responses come about Canadian wait times, welfare queens etc.

Vermonters like to think we're somehow ahead of the rest of the country on political and social issues but in reality we have just as many backwards dumbasses as anywhere else. It's a miracle our elections turn out the way they do.

That being said, r/vermont and r/burlington are brigaded constantly by a very loud minority that post misinformation and propaganda daily.

1. Vermonters dont do that really all that much.
2. Vermonters love green shit

I'm honestly surprised there's no dealership already. Like 10% of the cars in Chittenden County are Teslas.

IDK where you were going with the comparison of a Home Depot in southern VT to a car dealership in South Burlington. If you truly believe that it's a logical comparison I'd recommend never opening your own business lmao. Opening a sandwich shop, wondering why no one wants your food and saying "the tire shop by my house does well" is in your future.