Burbank Arena in Reading has a Sunday afternoon public skate if weekdays don't work for you.

Castine Field near RMHS gets flooded for skating and doesn't have any time restrictions, but it doesn't have a chilling system so needs to freeze over naturally.

Nice line work, but in terms of composition the complex geometry of the house is fighting with the colorful trees for your attention. My eyes don't know which they should look at.

This is the way

Very nice! I can barely draw stick figures, so this is amazing to me.

I just think it's funny that you whip this out like anyone can still do it.

OkBoomer

Social safety nets and capping obscene inequality isn’t that but we all know hyperbole is all you enablers have

You’re your own captives. But hey at least your feelings feel special when you say that emotional stuff right?

Enjoy supporting an inefficient system and stagnating economically and technologically.

It’s piddly twiddly widdly winks

Festering capitalism and wealth inequality blow that out of the water, you’re just spinning wheels on bandaid concessions. It helps maybe short term but not much overall

Bernie was right

This is is hostile society that half of the people here push forth just because they bought into the idea that they need to hollow their humanhood out so the wealthy asshole can get 5 more jets or sports cars

Real talent. I like it a lot.

>Well done! Hard for me to imagine being able to do this myself. I’m impressed.

Thank you so much for your very kind words! I draw a lot since I was a kid :)

Empty housing units are a drain on resources, landlords like renting them out.

Why do you all act like piddly housing will even touch the monstrosity that is wealth inequality and systemic greed?

Extra housing is good but you’re chasing your tail by focusing primarily on that as a solution

1/12/23 UPDATE:

Just got the new bill since the one discussed here. It's for a 3 week period and the bill came to $133 for just 52 therms used with an actual read-not estimated. FINALLY the reading was accurate and matched up to the daily readings I had been doing on the meter. We literally have not turned on the heat since the last bill. In fact for this cycle, we used about 50% less gas than the Dec 2021 bill.

With that said, I'm not sure if I still have any "leg to stand on" in trying to dispute the insanely high last bill. How can I tell them something was/is wrong even though the most recent bill was accurate? Thoughts?

I don’t know how it works in Massachusetts but I’m in New Hampshire the shelters are pretty much always full. I also know that a lot of the housing authorities have stopped taking waitlist applications for section 8 because it’s a wait list is about nine years long in most places. Public housing is probably a shorter wait, but it still takes a couple years.

Yeah if there’s a car I don’t get it. If they don’t have transportation it absolutely makes sense to me that someone will need to be around where they get services, where their doctors office is, whatever. But when I worked in Chelsea Massachusetts and I ended up moving in with my friend in Maine I drove to work until I found a new place to work closer to home. I didn’t live in my car. WTF?

It’s always about money and self promotion. Actors are the most self absorbed people out there

Not all, but most. I live on the border Vermont, and if you saw the amount of idiots on the highway with Connecticut plates that are in such a hurry to get to the ski lodges, then, yeah, you would understand. New Yorkers too.

Breaking news: building new housing associated with more housing construction

Yeah! Jusssss wan more city! 🥴 More toxic capitalism will fix it!

Or you know, just basic safety nets and social services

You’re all that brainwashed aren’t you 🙄 boomer mindset go home. Ya done.

Ironic how you called CT drivers dumbasses says the MA guy

Most intelligent response I’ve seen in this thread 🥂

Funny you say that because a lot of these “red state shithole”states are having lots of people moving to them. Care to guess why?

https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/states-move-to-from/

>I’m guessing we’re going to ignore hundreds of major riots and mass-marches… But yes, Northern Whites and their philosophy did push it through Congress.

Marches mean nothing when you don't have the guns to make it work. Selma was a tactical disaster, for example. What it did was draw support from people with guns who would otherwise not have been sympathetic.

>There is a right side of history: The side that won.

The side that won so far. There is no permanent victory. It's entirely possible that in 200 years, the fall of the nazi regime is discussed as the greatest tragedy ever to befall mankind.

Literally a ton of rinks that do free-skate all around

> They didn’t do that. Sympathetic White Northerners and the 101st Airbourne did. If you don’t have the force to back up your proclamations, they don’t matter.

I’m guessing we’re going to ignore hundreds of major riots and mass-marches… But yes, Northern Whites and their philosophy did push it through Congress.

> History is not a narrative or a grand march to a leftist utopia.

In case you didn’t notice, I’m critiquing you from the right.

> It doesnt end. There are no “sides of history”. If Hitler stayed out of France and we’d be singing the praises of the Nazis for standing up to the genocidal Soviets.

There is a right side of history: The side that won.