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RolloutTieDispenser t1_j5v3e4k wrote

Maybe I'm getting whooshed, but what do you mean that you can't see inside of a baby/fetus with ultrasound (*echo)? They do ultrasounds on pregnant women all the time, especially around 20 weeks gestation when a typical detailed anatomy scan is done.

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jsal0087 t1_j5v2vm2 wrote

A bird in the hand is the most common form in humans of the same age as the bird of a human body in a given species or group or species or group that has the same characteristics or traits or characteristics that are present on a human.

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canadacorriendo785 t1_j5ujzlm wrote

I think you're overestimating the difference in violent crime levels between Massachusetts and its neighbors. The rates fluctuate year to year and Mass is consistently well below the national average.

There's also a difference between Eastern and Western Mass. The rate is much higher in the western part of the state, and it's not just Springfield. Pittsfield, North Adams, Greenfield, Turners Falls, Ware all consistently have some of the highest violent crime rates in the State.

I moved to Vermont and trust me there's a lot more crime up here than you think there is. I won't be surprised at all if there was more crime per capita in Vermont in 2022 than in Mass.

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scottieducati t1_j5uf3oj wrote

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canadacorriendo785 t1_j5udng1 wrote

Total deaths related to firearms is a much better measure of the effectiveness of gun laws than some vague notions of criminality. "Crimes committed with a firearm per capita" isn't a statisitic that has been kept since 1993.

Besides, the violent crime rate in Mass is significantly below the national average and other states with strict gun laws like Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island have some of the lowest violent crime rates in the country.

The highest rates of violent crime are overwhelmingly in states with less restrictions on guns. Alaska, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana etc.

Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire are the exceptions not the rule.

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Melbonie t1_j5u9xbg wrote

DEFINITELY need to cultivate a way better environment for small business. I'd love to use my public sector skills to craft similar programming for anyone who could use it, not just MassHealth qualified folks. Given the trend toward corporatization of everything, we should really try to be progressive leaders in making small business more achievable. We talk a big game about local source in Western MA, but not a lot of action. I was really disappointed to see the crony capitalism in the MassHealth sector when Baker brought Optum on board- another layer of administration and bureaucracy is not what the system needed, and their services can't be cheap, given all their advertising at Fenway and Gilette. (seriously- what are they even selling, exactly? and to whom?) Don't even get me started on the outsourcing of MassHealth customer service to places like Indiana and Wisconsin...

I was driving to the store a couple weeks ago and saw the Repubic waste management garbage trucks picking up in town and wondered whatever happened to local DPWs-- thinking yeah, they saved money going to the corpo, but now that Republic is the only game in town, they can pretty much name their price, can't they?

I digress for sure, but looking to big business for everything is eventually going to be a losing proposition.

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scottieducati t1_j5u6msr wrote

That’s not a metric of criminality. The post was asserting some measure of safety benefit from our 2A laws. Look up homicide pet capita. Lookup crimes committed with a firearm per capita.

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