Recent comments in /f/massachusetts
Ineluki_742 t1_j7ie42p wrote
Reply to Which hospital is best in western MA? by blindmike95
Baystate is king. CDH was not great for awhile but I hear its better since the new partnership
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.
lalaw39 t1_j7ibrl4 wrote
Reply to comment by Educational_Lake_147 in Heat not working by [deleted]
Thank goodness!
triplefreshpandabear t1_j7ibm2a wrote
Reply to comment by jacobjivanov in The fast battleship USS Massachusetts at rest as a museum ship [1290 x 1304] by liltunny
Yeah but you can't just visit an ssn like you can a lot of battleships the older USS Connecticut was a pretty storied BB, it was flagship of the great white fleet which was the best peacetime paint scheme for warships ever it was a good looking ship.
stametsprime t1_j7iaz34 wrote
Reply to comment by triplefreshpandabear in The fast battleship USS Massachusetts at rest as a museum ship [1290 x 1304] by liltunny
I agree, it’s a fantastic museum. Officially it’s supposed to be floating, but it will often be settled in the muck at the bottom of the river…unlike the USS Kidd, which is out of the water completely due to the level of the Mississippi River.
triplefreshpandabear t1_j7iald3 wrote
Reply to comment by stametsprime in The fast battleship USS Massachusetts at rest as a museum ship [1290 x 1304] by liltunny
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.
charons-voyage t1_j7ia9po wrote
Wow I had no idea HAFB and Hanscom air field were different. I always assumed that whole area serviced military planes. Interesting. Well hopefully this doesn’t get built.
DeadassBdeadassB t1_j7ia3tq wrote
Reply to comment by stametsprime in The fast battleship USS Massachusetts at rest as a museum ship [1290 x 1304] by liltunny
Google says it’s floating, not sitting on the bottom.
stametsprime t1_j7i7rm3 wrote
Reply to comment by DeadassBdeadassB in The fast battleship USS Massachusetts at rest as a museum ship [1290 x 1304] by liltunny
USS Intrepid is sitting on the bottom of the Hudson River.
Outrageous_Map3458 t1_j7i52i8 wrote
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Whoever gives me the best referral fee.
poprof t1_j7i4i9z wrote
Reply to Which hospital is best in western MA? by blindmike95
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.
bws155 t1_j7i44mg wrote
I can smell this picture
gerkin123 t1_j7i2mxw wrote
Reply to comment by LumberJack732 in Woburn schools to open Monday - strike ends with tentative agreement by GyantSpyder
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.
OldBobKenobi t1_j7i02zn wrote
Reply to Which hospital is best in western MA? by blindmike95
I can’t imagine it gets much better than Baystate west of Worcester. It’s easily your best bet of those you listed.
OscarOrr t1_j7hzn8j wrote
Where do I sign up to resist
erikthepink t1_j7hyd32 wrote
This is bad news!
DarthT15 t1_j7hx2gt wrote
Reply to comment by VMProductionsGPK in The fast battleship USS Massachusetts at rest as a museum ship [1290 x 1304] by liltunny
You could have probably called the French Hoche a hotel.
DarthT15 t1_j7hwdop wrote
I like how they did her in Azur lane too.
DeadassBdeadassB t1_j7hvb0e wrote
Reply to comment by BrockVegas in The fast battleship USS Massachusetts at rest as a museum ship [1290 x 1304] by liltunny
If she’s in the water, she’s floating. You can just have it sitting on the bottom😂
Zaius1968 t1_j7hu480 wrote
This is one of the best naval exhibits around in my opinion. Audio your is awesome and you have access to a large portion of the ship.
wkomorow OP t1_j7htmx7 wrote
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) has approved reductions in gas supply rates for most gas customers across the Commonwealth. On average, the decreases will result in a monthly bill decrease of about 4-5 percent for a typical residential heating customer.
New rates begin Feb 1
OwenRocha t1_j7hsp2r wrote
Reply to comment by singbowl1 in The fast battleship USS Massachusetts at rest as a museum ship [1290 x 1304] by liltunny
I did too, it was a blast
[deleted] t1_j7hpd7y wrote
Reply to comment by singbowl1 in The fast battleship USS Massachusetts at rest as a museum ship [1290 x 1304] by liltunny
Managed to weasel that camp out and the submarine one before leaving the scouts.
ShriekingMuppet t1_j7hovgw wrote
Reply to comment by logaruski73 in Student found dead in dorm at Emerson College by Hoosac_Love
Tenures professors are usually entitled rich kids who can never be fired
Initial-Ad-7654 t1_j7iglco wrote
Reply to comment by Outrageous_Map3458 in Student found dead in dorm at Emerson College by Hoosac_Love
Wow just insensitive🤧