I'm really afraid to ask which of these examples you think the US is closer to, given the state of our current housing.

If you could force the builders to make beautiful works like that, go for it. I can't even convince the average person here that if they built nice, brick buildings like you see in the more expensive parts of Boston, they'd get more public approval.

With a rule of thumb: spend more time taping and covering than painting. A lot more. Especially your first time.

There's nothing to disagree with. Getting punched in the face isn't safe. Not getting punched in the face is safer. My neighborhood is safe, but if you asked me if I'd go down a particular alley at 2AM, I'd say I wouldn't. Safe isn't defined as being able to walk around an area naked without any threat of even staring.

One can feel unsafe but be completely safe. You see that in the modern day where people feel things are worse when they aren't.

One can feel unsafe and be safe, just as one can feel safe and be in total danger. That's just a cliché that can't be tackled. We're talking in the aggregate here, since we're on Reddit, and talking in general.

I'm anyone else, who knows what safe is and isn't. This isn't a work of art where two people can walk away with five understandings lmao.

Nothing to do with what I said, or the situation you're talking about.

A community isn't defined or limited to a place you frequent to consume stuff. That's what hobbyists have. They're trying to meet other gay people, not play Warhammer 40k.

You don’t need safe spaces if most places are safe.

Whenever I get the thought again, "We Irish Americans aren't like real Irish folk", I'm going to think of this post.

Yes! I thought it was a clever line too!

It’s a line from Chevy Chase in Community, so I’d say it’s definitely a good one.

I feel bad because it's a joke, and this joke has never worked out on Reddit. Still, I make it.

(The joke being that the lawyer I would recommend is one who fucked me, not people I was suing).

I know a really good lawyer. Took my ass to the cleaners.

For one, it was a compromise to get the new minimum wage.

Two, Sunday has stopped being held as a day of rest, or a day in which people can just take it easy. So no one's going to consider it that important, and suggesting it be like a worse Saturday, or leadup to Monday, is therefore pretty normal.

For a year. The wage would have to increase. But then, there's nothing saying a business cannot and should not offer time and a half for Sunday.

I can't make out anything from that link or thumbnail, but I know Malden/Medford had an Asian Supermarket there when I was a kid. First time I had aloe vera drink and White Rabbit. Not sure if it's still around but if it's going there, it's just a change in name. I cannot imagine an Asian store in that part of town was doing business well enough to stick around.

88, I think it was called?

Climate change.

Under 16.

There's something to be said about already having been in a relationship with someone who's 15, in your grade, maybe, but I think the law's the law. That said, it's not like people are keeping an eye on you like that, and people know kids at that age are in an odd position.

>"Praying" is not going to help her.

I know, right? Why are people coping like they have for tens of thousands of years during a time when someone is dead, and probably killed in a horrible way? Don't they know how funny it is to wear a pasta strainer on your head?!

But we already are an educated population, and can barely do more, outside of making things fairer outside schools. We are the educated population philosophers and people like Horace Mann imagined. The bar just gets moved.

Never mind that you aren't the person I was asking, and they were just giving a cliché. In this case, it's education to convince others to hire them over just hiring people where they can learn on the job. That's stupid.

>Healey says this would help train older adults in critical emerging industries like clean energy and advanced manufacturing.

This is a major problem, though - we aren't relying on those industries to train people reliably and sustainably. The emphasis on a college education means people are still focusing on one path, but they're doing it while not employed in that industry. You have to continually come prepared with an education - that may not even have caught up to real practices - instead of relying on a way to just give adults jobs. So just give adults jobs.

You can see these problems manifest in some fields where you need a degree to get in, but may not stay (e.g. teaching), or where you have people getting degrees in things that don't matter anyway, because the field didn't really need it and they switched a few years later regardless.

What does that even mean? "Education is our future"?

Would honest people not attach a license plate to their car?

These days? It's been happening forever. I'm still desensitized to seeing swastikas and other bullshit on bathroom stalls just because kids were edgy decades back. I think a lot of people missed this or just weren't paying attention and now thing it's happening all of a sudden, but in fairness, it could be due to more attention being brought to it. People feel more unsafe after watching the news, even if they've never been safer.

Are you under the impression that the only people living outside Boston, but within MA, are people who chose to live out there? Like they don't have connections, family, roots, or aren't people who grew up there, and call it home?

It's been so long since someone posted in response a study or official link to something as a way obfuscate a discussion. Even longer since I've seen someone shoot themselves in not one foot but both.

>"cloth masks did not produce a statistically significant difference"

Kids aren't wearing cloth masks. Those masks aren't handed out. Cloth masks are made of cloth. The masks being handed out are surgical masks, and many wear better variants. Kids are wearing surgical and respirator masks, which have an increased chance at blocking the spread of COVID - which is all these things ever aim for. The flu vaccine, for instance, is never 100% effective. It doesn't even need to be. Same with masks.

If you can find a school handing out cloth masks, or asking kids to wear cloth masks, you let them know about that study. Otherwise, the disposable masks people are wearing aren't cloth lmao