Skiing in VT and NH is certainly better than skiing in eastern Canada. Tremblant is a lovely resort town but nothing super special in terms of skiing, and while I've heard le massif gets tons of snow it's pretty small.

The Canadians all come down to ski Jay.

It wasn't the end of North Korea. Who would attack a country with a nuke?

You're being too unspecific with "it": yes, CIA-caused regime changed happened dozens of times in the last century. Yes, targeted sanctions work for convincing a regime to change concrete policy: the original JCPOA was a great example. But what you're describing is sanctions and external pressure convincing a regime to dissolve its own existence, which has arguably literally never happened (maybe the end of Apartheid in South Africa would count).

Even looking at 1953, supporting 1 side in an internal power struggle is pretty different from the North Korea/Cuba methods you are advocating against Iran. And if the Ayatollah thought he had a credible internal challenger the US could support, it would certainly push him to get a nuke as fast as possible.

How are you reading the 1979 revolution as US pressure leading to the overthrow of the regime?

It literally never has. Not in Cuba, not in North Korea etc. It just gives the regime an easy common enemy to blame for the suffering of their people and an excuse to engage in further repression.

Cutting off all dialogue with Iran is a good way to encourage the Ayatollah to go all-in on a nuke. That path leads to Iran becoming North Korea of the Middle East: not a great outcome for the Iranians currently fighting for freedom.

Yeah every grad student makes it work (not one any more, but was not so long ago and live w grad students). Cambridge, you should expect to pay 1200-1500 even with roommates, but Allston and Somerville are about 30min walking from Harvard Yard (or 10min bike) and you can get under 1000.

Your point 2 Is generally known as the "induced demand" hypothesis and is deeply controversial (to say the least) among economists who study housing. And starting with "are you aware" is pretty close to gaslighting and very likely to rub people the wrong way.

Adding an additional note to the already excellent answers others have already posted:

Rent stabilization heavily incentivizes landlords to increase rent by the absolute maximum allowed every year even if they wouldn't otherwise, because failing to increase rent one year will restrict the possibility of increasing it next year. That means exponential growth: at 10% growth/year, rents go up by 2.5x in the next decade. It's a truly awful policy which looks good on a very cursory glance but will hurt exactly those its designed to help (since it only applies to older apartments).

The vacancy rate in greater Boston is exceptionally low.

Parker River NWR/Salisbury Point near Newburyport and Halibut Point on Cape Anne are good spots to see really cool birds that migrate down from the arctic for winter (birds of prey, sea ducks etc.). They can be crowded on weekends but are always empty during the week.

Neighbor had an auto repair business (see screenshots in thread above). No indication that they intended to hurt the cat.

Neighbor had an auto repair business (in screenshots of ops original story). No indication that they intended to hurt the cat.

OP let their cat out despite knowing full well that their neighbor had an auto repair business. They are 100% responsible for the cat entering the neighbors property and poisoning itself.

Blue hills is the absolutely nearest place, probably fine if you're a beginner. Wachusett, Crotched, Pats peak are a bit farther out.

Ask your landlord. They might give you some of the coins from the coin-op laundry. Sounds like a joke, but it's not.

Counting parking, it's faster for any trips under 30min in greater Boston. Usually 2x as fast as the T.

Had us in the first half, not gonna lie

Yup, the whole route Cambridge side has bike lanes (but about 50-50 paint vs separated)

Broadway to alford street bridge is bike lanes all the way - if there's a good way to get there (is the Malden River Greenway a thing?) it could be an alternate bike route.

Might be a good way to save some parking money even if you don't do it every time.

The kind of person who talks about "the kind of person" is probably the kind of person who makes unfair generalizations about other groups of people

There was literally a post on this sub a couple days ago about a hit and run that they couldn't ID because the offender was missing the front plates.

Doesn't mass have the lowest rate of driving fatalities in the country? My experience is that driving in Florida or Seattle is way worse.

Faster than the lane to the immediate right. If you are not passing the cars to your right, you are in the wrong; if you are, you are in the right. There's nothing more to it.

"Subject to the same rules in general" is dramatically moving the goalposts from your original comment, which stated verbatim that bikes are subject to the same rules as cars without exception.

The Massachusetts legislature makes lots of bad laws, especially about bikes: if law was automatically aligned with good policy we'd have the Idaho Stop here, since it's been shown to substantially reduce accidents.

If you want to be upset at 99% of road users across all categories, live your life I guess?