Recent comments in /f/massachusetts

triplefreshpandabear t1_j7idxxu wrote

I've commented about this before both here and on YouTube, I am 100% biased about the Battleship Massachusetts, because I am a bay stater, a Masshole if you will, but I genuinely think that while there may be bigger, more impressive battleships (though not many), out there, they aren't "better" ships. Big Mammie did all the things battleships are meant to do, completely crushed it in those roles, saw combat in the Atlantic and Pacific, took hits as she dished them out, dodged torpedoes, and yet never lost a soul to enemy action. She rained hell on her foes again and again, first and last 16" shots of the war for America, and still she brought her boys home safe, that makes Massachusetts better in my opinion. The Iowa class ships are beautiful, Texas is old and storied, the North Carolina was a carrier's best friend with the AA she would throw up (making her allies think she caught fire because she was guns blazing) but Big Mammie got her hands dirty in scraps all over the world, from flagship in operation torch duking it out with shore battery's and the disadvantaged but still very dangerous Jean Bart, to the last big guns firing on Kamashi hitting industry on the Japanese Home islands before the end of the war. She earned her rest as a museum, she has stories to tell, I'm glad we've given her a second role in retirement to tell them.

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triplefreshpandabear t1_j7iald3 wrote

Really, didn't know that, the Intrepid was one of the best museum experiences I've had, as someone who loves naval history, aviation and spaceflight history it ticked all my boxes, I was a kid in a candy shop.

Edit My wife said to add to this that she is not a battleship person but that she loved the intrepid, and to tell y'all if you want to do a military history thing but still something the wife and kids will enjoy the intrepid is good, so much cool stuff.

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poprof t1_j7i4i9z wrote

Mercy sucks, can’t speak for Hartford, Cooley Dick has a new partnership with Mass General.

I use Baystate and they did a good job on a pretty major surgery as well as the birth of all my kids.

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gerkin123 t1_j7i2mxw wrote

Freedom of assembly and speech sure is expensive if you're an essential worker... :/

Galvin, along with the rest of the school committee, set the conditions for a strike by refusing to negotiate in good faith. Galvin, along with the rest of the school committee, set the conditions for the strike to last by lowballing and offering little in the way of compromise. Galvin personally set the conditions for the strike to go longer than it did by walking out of a meeting to go on TV while the union was at the table ready to keep talking.

The idea that the union's actions are responsible for $250,000 for the taxpayer is, on its face, ridiculous.

Galvin could have walked out two more times, hardballed them for four more days, and said a cool half-million ought to cover it.

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