I have not, but they do sound cool!

It was neat. First thought honestly was aliens. Then I remembered Starlink was a chain of small satellites, looked up the locations and sure enough one had just gone overhead.

Fun story about iridium, I once sailed to Bermuda with someone who worked on the project for Motorola. They chose the name iridium because initial plans were for 77 satellites in the constellation. But at least one launch failed and others might not have worked so really it should be called osmium or rhenium.

Timing is everything, good luck on your journey. I would check out warwick like you said, there is a bunch of apartment complexes

I'm not going to lie. His ineffectiveness borders on being impressive. It's like if you hear someone went bowling and got a 0. It's bad but you wonder how the fuck they managed to pull that off.

Light rail should absolutely be a priority… it’s embarrassing that RI lacks any form of rail transit outside of the NEC

The amount of nothing Saal has gotten done over the past year is staggering.

I know that is eventual goal and could be an optional but the timing isn’t right for may to make the big of an investment but totally agree I hate the amount of $ pumped into the apt

That must've been awesome!! I had several people contact me when they saw one of the Starlink trains back in the fall... and I MISSED IT!!

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Did you ever catch an Iridium flare? Now THOSE were amazing!

Spotting the ISS is pretty cool. Though one night while looking for it I saw a Starlink constellation, now that was cool.

For $2300 you can get a nice house

…..as they stick dirty needles in their arm…

>It kind of sounds like some of the people staying in the shelter need to learn to behave themselves a little bit better.

Why has no one thought of this before?

Have you tried zillow?

Sometimes, lights in the night sky disappear behind clouds.

Most likely a satellite or the International Space Station. It gets pretty bright, then winks out when it goes into Earth's shadow.

**Update** The ISS was visible last night from 9:11 to 9:15, setting in the ENE.

Could have been the comet that is approaching earth for the first time in 50,000 years.

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I wouldn't criticize Amos House as much as I'd focus it on McKee and Saal. This was thrown together last minute and I'd imagine Amos House doesn't have nearly the staff/resources to properly manage it.

This was a project that could've been planned and managed 6+ months before winter with multiple bids. Instead they announced it with nobody contracted to run it and no plan.

Okay well we are certainly on the same page there. I just don't know how to solve the problem outside of Amos doing something about it. Maybe it's not fair to lobby complaints against them as I'm sure it's a challenging task, but I do believe they are responsible for maintaining the facility so I think it's reasonable to voice concerns to them regardless of who's fault it is.

It's so weird how this last-minute plan that was thrown together at the last moment has issues. It's almost like McKee through the bare minimum of resources and planning into something to try and get people off his back or something.

It’s possible some of the people complaining also contributed to the problem. There are a lot of people in general who lack self-awareness.

It comes down to what do you do with the people causing problems? If we are genuinely trying to give everyone shelter, you can’t just reasonably kick them out back onto the streets.

I think a big problem with the Cranston St facility is that many of the people that are staying there are people that have been kicked out of other shelters for the issues you bring up. Fighting, sexual assaults, drug use in the shelter.

Do you believe it's the same occupants causeing the issues that are the ones complaining? I don't understand what point you are trying to make.

There definitely are but the concerns voiced here are just more publicly visible due to the news coverage of the Cranston Armory shelter and homeless encampment closures. The concerns seem to be common across shelters where there are issues of drug/alcohol usage, sexual violence (very often between occupants of the shelter), and sanitation issues. These aren’t new issues that only are happening here. Maybe they are worse, but maybe they also aren’t.

I have a friend who lives out in Columbus, Ohio who used to be a social worker, where he often worked with people in shelters. From all the stories he told me, it wasn’t uncommon for there to be fights, people getting kicked out for doing drugs in the shelter or coming back to the shelter high or drunk, the staff would clean areas of the shelter just for the very next person to trash the area just to spite the staff working there.

The reality is that unfortunately some of the people staying in shelters are just not good people and they ruin it for every other homeless person who is genuinely just trying to get by. The actions of those people hurts the image and further stigmatizes homelessness and it’s a problem, and not one that can easily be fixed.

I raised these concerns in another post about the Cranston St. Armory. There were some on here that accused me of making stuff up and being heartless, but there are very real issues going on there.

Probably aliens 🤷‍♂️ nbd