Boston hasn't had a Republican mayor in 93 years, so that's a lot of quiet quitting.

He was taken to a hospital instead of jail, which means he is probably pretty seriously mentally ill.

Almost everyone in the Belarus army is drafted. They didn't sign up for anything, other than not going to jail.

In rich neighborhoods like mine (Coolidge Corner) it still feels like banks are taking over. While branches are closing at an increasing pace across the state and country, they are retreating into neighborhoods like this one.

In 15 years there won't be any bank branches left, but that's a long time to wait.

Rats are way worse over the last couple of years. Pre-COVID there were nowhere near as many rats in the Boston area.

Accidental discharge yes, but the police have released a photo of a person of interest, which suggests that she wasn't the accidental discharger.

In the TV show Fringe—which was set in Boston—they said "Bill-air-eh-cah".

Yeah, is it pronounced anything other than "RED-ing" anywhere? Other than when you talk about what you do with books of course.

Most of the dropping temperatures are actually going to happen Friday afternoon and early evening, but because it's starting so warm it won't be really cold until later at night.

It's going to be ~56° at noon Friday, ~40° at 6pm, ~20° at midnight, and ~15° at 6am.

Science/health journalism always neglects specificity. From the paper's abstract:

> We developed three machine learning models based on urine (Nurine = 220 cancer vs. 360 healthy) and plasma (Nplasma = 517 vs. 425) GAGomes that can detect any cancer with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.83–0.93 with up to 62% sensitivity to stage I disease at 95% specificity. [...] In a validation study on a screening-like population requiring ≥ 99% specificity, combined GAGomes predicted any cancer type with poor prognosis within 18 months with 43% sensitivity (21% in stage I; N = 121 and 49 cases).

There's Van's Fabric in Chinatown. They specialize in high-quality Chinese & Vietnamese silk brocades, but IIRC they have some other stuff.

At 100% storage, Germany's gas storage can last 10-12 weeks in the winter. With a single cold snap it could be gone in a couple of weeks.

They will need new supplies of gas throughout the winter.

Currently the city asks residents to water the trees. This is most necessary for young trees and during droughts. Mature trees in normal weather will generally get enough water to survive.

Towns with successful urban forests (e.g. Brookline) will make watering new trees a city service, but they still ask for neighbors to help. If you plan on living in a community a long time, it saves money in the long term to water trees. However areas that are poorer or with mostly short-term residents often have a harder time keeping young trees alive.

If you're serious, this is exactly what Film Rescue International does, and I suspect many labs would point you to them. It's expensive, but they won't charge you if there are not usable images.

It is very much not local (Montana).

Cumbys are usually very clean and well-appointed, but their food game is beyond weak.

Bean boots are unbeatable for walking through mud, but other than hunters and fishermen no one does that. Once it gets below freezing their soles make them pretty useless.

Go to REI (or LL Bean even) and find the waterproof walking shoe that looks and feels best to you.

A 24 hour MBTA would be great, but hundreds of medium-sized towns outside of New England have more late night action than Boston without any public transit to speak of.

> "may disturb students."

When the Mission Brookline dispensary was under review, one of the local NIMBY's warned that it "might expose Boston University students to marijuana."

The counterargument to that is that in the other nine cities where the Mooninites had been up for weeks no one reported them.

Maybe all the other cities underreacted.

Trigger warning please!

Thoughts and prayers from Brookline.

This weekend is the Head of the Charles, a regatta on the Charles that regularly brings in hundreds of thousands of spectators.

Another study by the same researchers found that psychopathic male offenders had five to nine times higher mortality risk compared to the general population.