It’s possible that a) I miss arguing in the bird site more than I realize b) chaos/rage are my brand. I say this because I have show my claws twice in the last 12 hours. Once on Facebook and once on mastodon and, gos help me, it felt good.
@Camerondotca it could be that you are in the process of detoxing. it's not instantaneous. nothing is...
@redenigma or that I am fundamentally set off by gits. But yeah, let's go with detox.
@Camerondotca i post stuff i KNOW is going to set off the right wingnuts & lolbertarians on the town dumpster fire. i've been snarky online since usenet, so it's definitely a habit :) i do mostly manage to confine it there though
@redenigma Yeah, my Facebook one was gentle by twitter standards, partially because it was on a group based on our postal code.
@Camerondotca i don't let that stop me (although i'm not going to run for office here in March again. i'll accept write in votes, but these idiots are not worth volunteering my free time on)
@Camerondotca also, i'm actively looking to move out of state, so asking to be elected for a 3 year commitment seems unfair to the town
@Camerondotca i also have 20 acres of wetlands, which are very low tax anyway since they aren't usable. that's a third of my property
if one decides to take a property out of current use, one has to pay all the back taxes to when it was placed in current use. that's to dissuade development, i suspect, but in the case of my property, there's no way to develop further due to terrain & state ordinances anyway
@Camerondotca NH has tax relief called "current use" for properties over 10 acres. there are various levels of reduction depending on use. i have 5 or 6 acres of pasture, 15 acres of sugarbush, and a managed woodlot. (it costs me money to file the management plan for that & to keep it up). i have to provide a map to the town showing what each area is.
my property was in current use when i bought it, but i have changed woodlot to managed woodlot (a 45% higher reduction, but more work)
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