>The cape is a ghost town (area?) outside of the summer months. Get ready for cold and windy days in empty beach towns if that’s what you’ve decided!

If you're of the single & ready to mingle persuasion I hear the Cape in winter is a great time to meet lonely local hotties looking to hook up. though I expect the average age will be about 40.

>On April 2, 2020, Defendant Roth contacted the Operational Services Division ofthe Commonwealth ofMassachusetts (“OSD”) with an offer for Bedrock to supply one million (1,000,000) N95 protective masks (the “Masks”). Defendant Rothstated that Bedrock had a connection with a reputable mask manufacturer in China and sent OSD a picture of the packaging of the Masks that Bedrock was offering to provide. Defendant Roth stated that the full purchase price for the masks would be required up front.
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>On April 3, 2020, OSD signed an Emergency Purchase Order (the “Purchase Order”) to purchase one million units of the Masks

3.5 million in one day with a picture of the packaging as due diligence.

Sounds possible that their "reputable supplier" in China also liked to take their money up front, and then turned around and fucked the Commonwealth's "reputable supplier" in Salem.

>Why are we contracting with a company that doesn't actually have the ability to manufacture what we are paying them to supply?

Few companies in the US actually have the ability to do rapid turn-around custom manufacturing on anything in-house. The ones that do tend to charge an enormous premium.

>Bedrock and its owners offered to procure one million (1,000,000) N-95 compliant respirator masks from their contacts in China...in reliance of the Defendants’ misrepresentations, the Commonwealth issued an emergency purchase order and paid Bedrock $3,560,000, with the understanding that Bedrock Consulting Group would deliver the 1,000,000 masks within 20 days.

The Commonwealth was high on crack cocaine when it believed some has-been "consultants" from fucking Salem had any ability to deliver on jobs like that in timeframes of 20 days. a 5 minute Google search would've likely confirmed for anyone with a brain that all the principals at "Bedrock Consulting Group" were certifiable nincompoops, who couldn't deliver a pizza on time.

>Yeah, that $3 mill is basically never coming back.

Nope. Seems likely their "reputable supplier" in China also only took money up front, same as they asked and received from the Commonwealth, and then fucked them and only delivered a fraction of the order before they stopped replying and went dark. Bedrock's cut is spent and the rest is long gone.

>I never understand the random hate from people that don’t know anything about us!

Though it could have been phrased more politely it's a valid question, and that you become defensive when someone poses it doesn't engender confidence. It was "mild criticism" at worst, not "hate"..

>I don’t mind keeping feelers out and hope to meet more amazing people.

That's all you had to say.

>I bet I pay more taxes than you anyways

Yeesh. Almost makes me nostalgic for the good ol' days when how much of a man you were largely depended on how many women you had banged.

Can we at least whip our dicks out and compare them in an entirely-straight fashion?

Judging by the user's comment history they seem to be an expert in the field of manbaby psychology.

One of the largest high-voltage transmission line networks in central MA runs approximately north-south just to the west of that flight path, so maybe surveying for the utility company. Seems too far away for doing direct inspection, which I think are usually done by helicopter

Seemed more like the illucid ramblings of a drug addict than anything one could conventionally categorize as a "joke"

Sharon is the type of town you're looking for on that budget in that driving range (assuming favorable traffic conditions of course) to the airport

>We'd be looking for a house on a bit of land (up to an acre) with woodsy views. Not sure how viable that is in Boston suburbs but thought I'd throw it out there

Pretty viable e.g.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/66-N-Main-St-Sharon-MA-02067/57507064_zpid/

Historic home within walking distance to several restaurants in the town center, the town library, and the commuter rail to Boston/Providence RI. (No financial affiliation)

>great things/challenges about living in Massachusetts.

One of the restaurants in the town center is a vegan restaurant.

Right-libertarians have largely made their peace with the idea of a highly authoritarian state. You can have a high degree of economic freedom in a police state, see e.g. Pinochet's Chile. And individual freedoms are a far distant afterthought in their pantheon compared to where property owning & private property rights fall.

That is to say the right-libertarian MO tends to be "To make an omelette you have to break a few eggs", or to have a large degree of economic freedom you still need to have a small and efficient night watchman-type state, whose primary job is (efficiently) performing a disappearing act on undesirables who think right-libertarianism isn't the best way to run things.

>It denies objective reality in favor of warm platitudes.

The last word I would use to describe the right-libertarians I've known is "warm", unless "Kill 'em all, and let God sort them out" qualifies as a "warm platitude."

>If I'm making $10M a year

If you were making $10M a year and living in MA, but were young enough/responsibility-free/attachment-free enough such that you can just pick up and move in relatively short order, "why are you still here" would be my first question!

Our gorgeous weather, white sand beaches, and stunningly beautiful local population of eligible bachelors/bachelorettes?

>They don't need to sell their home, they can just spend 183 days outside the state, something they may vary well be close to anyway.

Right, so why fret over the inevitable. Not much point in trying to convince someone not to bail out who's already packed their bags and has a foot out the door, anyway, seems like a lost cause at that point.

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>People will leave. It's how many is the question and what income level.

They may move to one of the towns in e.g. TN I'm familiar with large plots of multimillion-dollar homes on the outskirts, meanwhile the town center is still dead and boarded up, and the trailer parks still full.

Unfortunately simple environmental exposure to the heavenly radiant glow of the very well-to-do residing nearby, a thriving local economy does not make. I live in one of the wealthiest areas of the state, median income near $150,000 and watched five restaurants in town go out of business in eight years. A thousand millionaires (at least!) with at least one residence within five miles couldn't save them. Well, maybe they just had bad food..

But a good rule-of-thumb is the super-rich tend to be super-selective about how they spend their money, and the New England variety of super-rich tends to be more of a cheapskate than average.

>One guy making $50M a year and moving to Florida costs MA $2.5M a year in lost revenue.

And the chances he would have ever set foot in my business to spend a dime are asymptotically zero, and as you say the state already has a surplus.

Aside from the possible localized reduction in heavenly radiant glow (and there are so many millionaires in my town the glow keeps me up at night, sometimes, it sounds like angels singing 'aaaaahhhh') I'm not concerned over his absence.

Boston between 1969 and 1972 was the inspiration behind a pretty interesting, though likely now somewhat forgotten book on ecology, anthropology, architecture, and urban development called Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment by the (late?) E.V. Walter

>All jokes aside, I agree, it would be very nice and healthy for us to get money out of politics.

Yes, I think it would be better all around if politicians had to pay us to listen to them. that's not a joke either they should pay up.

A problem is there are people who thought there was compromise with the GOP to begin with..

>Not just that it could erode faith in our election system for some

I still have complete faith in US electoral system to the extent that at least one of the small number of very wealthy candidates whom corporations with a lot of money have spent a lot of money on making one of the small number of available candidates, will eventually be determined to be elected to a particular high office. for some amount of time.

But "being like them" seems to be working pretty good for them!

https://massgop.com/

It will mostly go to spending trillions of dollars on weapons and giving trillions in bailouts to people even richer than they are, why bother.

Even close to brain-dead people are aware that conservatives tend to love the government making all sorts of decisions, when it's conservatives that have the power to do so.

They only slip on their "live and let live" sheep-disguise when it's someone else who's calling the shots.

> I often wonder why the progressive logic for assisted suicide and abortion

I guess if you were suffering from an excruciatingly painful terminal illness, or dying from a pregnancy or abortion gone wrong you wouldn't have to wonder no more, eh?

Your last thoughts would probably be "Gosh I wish those progressives hadn't stopped me from having the opportunity to use more plastic straws in my life"

>These are some of the reasons stated in the Declaration of Independence

Yes, and God prevents tax-evading slave owners from ever not telling the full truth in written documents.

>They’re not Caucasian. Just call them white.

Yes it's anything but a neutral term the way the "pedigreed Caucasians" to whom I'm referring use it. That's why I used it. I've put it in quotes, now..

The difference between user "Foxcecil" and you is they're probably at some level self-aware they'd say anything if there was decent money to be made in saying it, while you seem to actually believe your variety of bullshit.

>Do better.

At least they're predictable.

>Why do so many people these days want the government to control what they can and can't do? Live and let live.

Perhaps in part because the fraction of Americans who actually operate by a "live and let live" philosophy in practice is very small.

In particular when a "pedigreed Caucasian" explicitly tells you "I tend to operate by a live and let live-kind of philosophy" you can generally safely translate that to "I am a control-freak lunatic. I will attempt to micro-manage the shit out of your life, every chance I get."

That is to say Reagan said "Trust, but verify" and with respect to dealing with Americans he wasn't wrong.

That always struck me as kind of a fly-by-night operation. There's a long thread about the situation here:

https://railroad.net/boston-surface-railroad-worcester-providence-commuter-rail-t160242-750.html

As one commenter mentions the odds may have been better back when the Providence & Worcester was an independent locally-owned operation. But they got acquired by the Genesee & Wyoming which is a huge international RR holding company conglomerate and I expect they're not interested in sharing their right-of-way for anything less than serious $$$ up front.

In the ideal it seems like it would be a good route for DMUs, or perhaps even BMUs, someday. But not sure if the US regulations with respect to operating lightweight units on the same tracks as freight have changed, yet..the FL9 is a museum piece, hope some good Samaritans save it before it rusts away completely.