I'm doing slightly okay again because I got injured and have to give up on my hobby for a couple of months. But it's gonna go back to complicated when I get back to it. Me and partner have low to low-ish income, low rent and no utilities. Otherwise I don't know how we'd fare.

Didn’t Norfolk Southern cut their workforce and not update their brakes? Accidents happen but just explaining away this situation with that completely ignores the explicit decisions made by Norfolk Southern that increased the chance of this happening.

You can’t hold him responsible. He is making his way to the accident scene. I believe he will try to do the right thing only to be overruled by the board of directors or whoever is the committee over him. Time will tell.

We just put solar on our house. With the insane rising costs of Nat Grid, it made sense.

I'm doing fantastic. Vocational School FTW!

I’d say I’m waiting for the day that my kids are outta daycare because its basically just paying my mortgage again, but it’s just gonna be putting that same almost away for their college education. The continued rise of that cost is utterly terrifying.

In 2021, South Shore 5 days/week 7am-6pm $2,780 per month for 1 child. $100 per day for toddler 8:30am- 12:30pm.

10% discount for sibling. 3% annual increase. Does not include annual fee or registration fee.

With 2+ kids, hiring a nanny is cheaper both on/off the books than daycare.

I’d love to go solar but I can’t get over the used car dealery sales tactics and presentation. If I can’t trust what you’re telling me, I’m not gonna drop $45k+ on a solar system!

This is my hometown and my mom used to work there back in the day. Management was… not great.

Wasn't that because of the Clean Harbors fire in Quincy, not the derailment in Ohio? Not to downplay the latter, I just didn't think it was actually related to the dirty car phenomenon.

Yes but it’s because people hate on pipelines so much that we have to do this by rail and often by truck instead. Make it make sense

We could move it through pipe lines but we all know how evil pipelines are!

It’s just as possible in Worcester as anywhere else. The Millers River watershed through Erving and Athol has more to worry about with Pan Am’s abysmal maintenance and all of the propane they are moving to New Hampshire and Maine.

More stressed and depressed than I've ever been...when will it end....?

So what you're saying is that it's only a matter of time until my town Worcester gets hit with one of these derailments.

Nothing has changed for me.

That's the fuckin point of a strike like this. Organized labor disrupts capital. They have the money, but we've got the bodies that do the work.

We stop working they stop making money. It's pretty damn clear the bottom line is the only thing that matters to them.

Organized labor has ALL the power unless the government comes in like it did and kneecaps them.

Florida should read “America’s dirty asshole”

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Our boy Jim McGovern voted to impose that bullshit contract and was complicit in allowing them to get away with the trickery of splitting the contract and the sick days into two separate things so they can cherry pick what they get to give the workers.

Think about the money solar companies spend trying to get you to buy. Look at those salesman, how much money has to be there to go door to door as a professional. The solar companies make a massive margin off your choices and really if you spend just a little time the incentives to buy solar panels are pretty good. You can buy all the equipment yourself, have real professionals install it so it looks like it belongs and as long as you don't go insane with sizing get a reasonable return on your investment. Remember there is no "solar install" license in Massachusetts. You need an electrician and a contractor, just like the solar company would hire.

Oh, just wait, you’ll see, you’ll see. Not gonna argue my reality.

Was working for a company getting paid well, insurance paid too for family, then they decided to sell said company got a pay cut on top of having to pay for insurance again so really just a fat pay cut, rents going up 200$ march i have a 3 month old daughter, things I didn’t think I would experience as a CDL driver, I have my A but alot of companies at the moment that I see don’t pay much or require you to run cross country which is the only thing I won’t do, going to try and get my hoisting license maybe operate cranes or something but mean time I have no choice but to start doing some kind of side hustle soon…

Speaking as a Nebraskan, the state has an interesting progressive history. Nebraska and Kansas joined the union at a time when there was a big controversy over whether new states would be slaveholder or free. There was a huge conspiracy to vote in slaveholding in Kansas that Nebraska managed to steer clear of and join as an abolitionist state. The state capitol building has some really interesting progressive mottos all over it and the only unicameral nonpartisan state legislature. It's also the only state in which corporate agriculture cannot own farms or ranches and public power districts are the norm. Too bad it's so solidly red right now.

Yes, if the data was accurate and there were no red flags, they say it can take up to three weeks for release of payment.