Boston always gets a pass for being the economic & cultural hub for all of New England. Their crime & school rankings may not be #1 but the city makes up for it with literally everything else -- highly-regarded companies, great restaurants & bars, lots of entertainment, multiple pro sports teams, world-class museums, world-class universities, public transpo, etc.

Fall River? Worcester? Not so much.

Too many people don’t understand what an altered mental state is. Even less understand what psychosis is and what it entails. Too many people are acting like the person who committed this atrocity is the same person who loved and cared for these kids every day. It may have been the same person physically but it certainly was not the same person mentally and her husband even acknowledges this. Everything about this situation is devastating to all parties involved but demonizing the mother for something that she had no control over helps nobody.

It’s clear to tell when someone doesn’t understand mental health issues when they say “well why doesn’t mass shooter X get sympathy for mental illness?” Not every mental health disorder is created equal and the vast majority of them do not cause complete breaks from reality. Lumping a diagnosis like psychosis with something like sociopathy or bipolar is completely unfair, but some can’t understand that “black and white” does not exist with issues like this. Good vs evil is not the argument here no matter how many people try to say it is.

“you picked a bad time of year for outdoor activities” I didn’t choose when my girlfriend’s birthday would be 🤣 But i appreciate your recommendations very much — thanks!!

Doesn't he have a microchip? That might be a labradoodle.

You don’t unless you want her to take you back to court.

Thought those were the Arlington heights nvm

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You picked a bad time of year for outdoor activities. We're in the dead of winter, which means anything outdoors is probably shut down for now. You can go hiking in any of a number of spots, but those might be kinda rough when it's so cold out.

That said, there's still a lot of fun stuff to do in Mass. There's the Minute Man National Historical Park (a series of small museums covering the opening battles of the Revolutionary War) and Boston's Freedom Trail if you like to walk. For more indoor activities, there's the New England Aquarium, the Boston Tea Party Museum, the USS Constitution, Bunker Hill Monument (it's not outdoors but climbing to the top is a bit of a workout!), Hammond Castle, the Eustis Estate, the Witch House at Salem (call them up for times, as they're open less often during the winter), the Salem Witch Museum, the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Science (lots of museums in Massachusetts!), and the JFK Presidential Library, among other options.

I'd like to see a provision in the end of a contract period, if a new deal isn't reached, no work will be performed until a new contract is approved.

It puts the burden equally - on the towns and state to get a new contract in place, and on the union to get it done unless they like their membership not collecting a paycheck.

Ron's got nothing against that.

Ron hates bikes because they are (said with teeth gritting hatred) European

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Funny how Boston is never included in that list of rough cities, even though the crime and schools are comparable.

thank them and drink it

Stay there and put out a BLM sign. That way you don't have to go anywhere and you can still be one of the good white people.

And the good people of Worcester, which isn't Memphis, don't have to have their evening commute interrupted.

If the state is telling you that you can't strike, then you definitely need the ability to strike. Like, I get the idea that there are some sectors too important for disruption, but the solution to that is to make those jobs good enough that nobody working them feels the need to strike. A ban on striking just gives the state an absurd amount of leverage, meaning those workers eat a ton of pain and then eventually quit. I would rather have veteran public servants working happily to keep the Commonwealth moving smoothly than see heavy employee churn kick out everyone with an ounce of experience while the newbies hired in have all the optimism and joy ground out of them.

And in the case of that it should be something done safely, not alone at night in freezing temps

Tattoos are not something that you should trust to walk-ins.

There’s a reason why you can’t just get one done next week from any tattoo parlour. The artists who do it well are highly skilled, and the services surrounding it to do them safely are pretty strict.

Small or not, it still takes time and skill to do well. You could go for cheap same-day, and you could easily end up with a blown out tattoo and an exciting new infection.

It's not about virtue, I'm not some justice warrior I'm a redneck from up in the woods but this brought me out the woods

Should public employees be able to strike? Yes.

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Performative for what? If it performative I sure as hell wouldn't be out here in the cold I would wait till June to do something but it's not performative I live in the region and all upset about it so I'm doing the protest about it until everyone who was there gets charged because not everyone who was there has been charged yet and I'm not stopping till at least the main five have a conviction

B-b-b-but I thought only teenagers worked those jobs which is why we're allowed to underpay them

Saying no thanks, Dunkin coffee is terrible

Sure, put it on the ballot. Choice is good.

I love the kids original. I’d be happy!