Acela costs like 3x to 5x as much, saves about an hour at best. Generally nicer experience, with nicer assigned seating, less stops, and a quiet car. The regional is fine, just slower and makes more stops.

Baggage works like any other train, you bring it on and there's a rack for suitcases + overhead space. You can bring two suitcases + two carry items.

Worth signing up for the Amtrak rewards points and using your number when you buy tickets. The Acela especially gives a lot of points, and you can easily get enough for a trip to Maine if you take it regularly.

Ultimately the best way to get to NYC I think, more comfortable than the bus and less headache than flying. They all take about the same amount of time, but the train is the most comfortable and convenient.

If you can't afford their recommended care because insurance isn't covering them, you're probably going to skip getting that care. They would be concerned about that from a billing perspective, and, if they're good dentists, because you're not receiving the care you need.

I paid over $4k out of pocket in the past 1.5 years to get a broken tooth and some wisdom teeth I had ignored for too long taken care of. Insurance only handled like $2k before they told me to get lost until the next billing year.

Welcome to America. 😭

Yup, about 30 minutes from Central Square to passing security for me, via uber with no checked bags or traffic disasters.

Depends on the time and terminal more than anything.

Last ~6 flights (Terminal B and C) I've never spent more than 10 minutes getting fully through security with pre-check. Might take a bit longer for the morning rush.

2 hours early and you'll be sitting at the gate for 90 minutes.

Only citizens can vote. They wouldn't be able to register.

There are some local election exceptions.

The triple deckers down the street leaning over like 20 degrees are easily the best. No idea how people live in those.

I live nearby, it’s hilarious because they developed the two neighboring lots into luxury shit already but then the new owners have this fuckin thing next door.

It’s pretty funny but I won’t miss it.

yup you’ll see a skull icon on your phone if you walk past here

Google bucket traps. They're way more effective than anything you can buy.

You could get an exterminator to come seal up every hole, but with a single family it will be a big project and definitely not 100% guaranteed.

A cat is the only really effective method at making sure you never see them again, they'll find somewhere else to live when there is one in the house, or at the very least not come out of the walls into your space.

Everyone is at home having a late breakfast and getting ready to enjoy the crisp fall day except you.

no

Just leave out a turkey carcass with a note on when and where the speaking date is.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/chapter-62f-taxpayer-refunds

https://www.fcc.gov/media/engineering/dtvmaps

You can check there. In my experience local stuff like neighbor buildings / hills impacts the most. Get one on Amazon and you can return if it’s not great.

No idea but I like what that calculator is telling me

antennae for pats games, legal streaming if available, pirate streams for everything else

$325 ish for two cats total, yearly checkup with two shots each at Porter Square vet. Assume half that for one.

I get a zip car to bring them. They yowl the whole way because nobody likes driving but are good at the vet.

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oh whack :(

Dental insurance is such a rip off and dentists are obviously very good at exploiting it already. Tough call and I think them gaming it even more is a valid concern.

But dental insurance is so garbage already I feel like we gotta try something.

It only applies to people who occupy their primary residence, so no.

see below

We already have the cheapest property taxes in the metro by a lot, so can kinda see the opponents side.

There's a high range on the required temps too, the heat isn't supposed to exceed 78F, although every rental I had with steam radiators did lol. Telling you to heat the living room to 100F so the other rooms will be warm isn't a legal solution. And if you're paying for gas you don't want to do that anyway.

You gotta combine it with the other part about maintaining temps in each room, it's all part of the same law. If you have a blast furnace in the living room but your bedrooms are 50F because the doors are closed, they're in violation. The landlord needs to provide heating equipment that keeps every room within the stipulated range.

I think it'd be a pretty quick ruling from the health department if you wanted to go that route.