Recent comments in /f/boston

Sayoria t1_j2fcbgs wrote

This. I went one time a few years ago and was like "Wow, only like, one outdoor area and everything else is practically inside a single big room"....

Then my company rented the place out last March as a buffet (I guess you can do this) and with my company of just 200 or so people, it felt crowded in there.

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jamseph t1_j2fc1ra wrote

Reply to comment by FoodGuy44 in Boston in 2022: Murders by spedmunki

The reason this is such a fucking shitty take, and it is a very fucking shitty take, is that those communities are impoverished beyond their control. You might as well ask poor people why they don't just buy a vacation home or a yacht. It's ignorant and almost purposefully avoids addressing the real problem.

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Frunk2 t1_j2fbz25 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Boston in 2022: Murders by spedmunki

You realize that the vast majority of these murders were also committed by black people right? Overall Boston still has an extremely low murder rate per capita so how is this some kind of racist issue?

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chronicallyill_dr t1_j2fbv0u wrote

I remember the first time I was confronted with stoplights at a rotary, it was in Guadalajara, Mexico. I thought to myself that of course you had to put stoplights in there to make them fucking work, since for some reason that state just decided the person merging the rotary had the right of way and that made no fucking sense.

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chronicallyill_dr t1_j2fax7p wrote

To be fair there are countries where the right of way changes depending on the STATE you’re in, so if they got their diver’s license elsewhere they genuinely might not know or have thought to look it up until the moment they were faced with a rotary. Mexico is one of such places, 0/10 makes road trips weird.

Also tf is up with the places where the person merging into the rotary has the right of way, it totally defeats its purpose.

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9Z7EErh9Et0y0Yjt98A4 t1_j2f8tvb wrote

My limited experience with blue bikes is that they are heavy and are only 3 speed. They are fine for peddling around the city at low and moderate speeds, but I imagine you'd find them quite limiting if you were trying to do any serious mileage or got out anywhere where you could actually achieve higher speeds.

They are also time limited, so seeing them outside a 1hr ride from the nearest blue bike dock is a pretty good indication they have gone feral.

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