The MBTA posted an announcement about a full red line shutdown a couple months ago and quickly deleted it. It's obvious it's coming and the PR has already been written. Just a matter of when.

Yup especially if you're transferring to the Red Line which is already running at reduced capacity due to the FTA mandate.

That's a problematic take. On the one hand you're right queer people need more ways to defend themselves. But the pro/con is far more nuanced than telling us to buy guns.

• Queer people are far more likely to use a gun against themselves than a Proud Boy. The reality is mental illness hits marganized communities hard and people with mental illness are far more likely to die by suicide if they have easy access to firearms.

• This isn't the southwest. We don't have Stand Your Ground, we have a duty to retreat before using deadly force. Groups like the Proud Boys know that and are pretty careful with their intimidation tactics to avoid creating situations where the duty to retreat cannot be satisfied. If you use your gun against a Proud Boy you're probably the one who will end up in jail.

• Many of the places where queer folks need protection the most are places you can't bring guns and for good reason. Gay bars and clubs? It's against the law to carry while drinking, which is what goes on in clubs ans bars.

I remember the absolute hell that was driving from Southborough to New Bedford during the first snow of the season in 2020. What was predicted as a dusting turned into 3 inches of snow, no roads were treated, and 495, 24, and 140 all had a solid sheet of ice on them. It took 3.5 hours to get home. Decided then and there I'm working remote for the rest of my life.

It's a small strip of land in a flood zone, directly abutting Route 128, with an existing utility easement cutting through the property. Probably cheap land since there's not much that can be done with it.

Don't rapid tests no longer pick up asymptomatic illness very well?

Don't forget the cops arresting all the counter protestors while Musk proudly proclaims free speech on the T is restored.

Why do you think they're so racist?

The real pro move is driving to the Market Basket in Burlington.

They used to be a part of the playoff system that decided who would move on to the playoffs. The MIAA changed the playoff system a while back so now brackets are decided well in advance of Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving games continue as a traditional rivalry game.

My entry level salary was $34K in 2015. 😭

I also know tons of volunteer firefighters who have that plate.

Why not buy now and refi when they go down?

All hockey parents are the worst.

Net neutrality has nothing to do with ISP fees or data caps. It got downvoted for using a buzzword without actually understanding its meaning.

The arlington buy nothing page is a trip. It's amazing what rich people will throw away.

No one can afford to work as a minimum wage pharmacy tech so they're facing labor shortages as well. Yet another consequence of the failure to build more housing.

Maybe we shouldn't have spent the past decade fighting natural gas pipelines in the name of green energy without having said green energy infrastructure in place first.

Sex / kink stuff is a grey area in most states, save for maybe Nevada. The city just never recovered from the destruction of the Combat Zone. The "adult entertainment district" runs for one block on Washington Street from Stuart Street to Boylston Street / Essex Street. It's so heavily gentrified it'd be impossible for a sex club to turn a profit and pay rent in that area. Luxury apartment complexes now occupy a good 75 percent of the zoning district.

Boston's kink scene got forced underground after a police raid in the early 2000s and stayed that way ever since. In my opinion, a lot of the legal issues aren't particularly relevant in 2022, but finding a venue for a "technically illegal but unlikely to result in legal action" activity is difficult. And I think people like the underground nature of it and resist attempts to make it more mainstream and accessible.

He did absolutely nothing to protect Boston's art community from being priced out. When people say Boston is boring this is why.

I live off of Lake Street in Arlington. I can tell when Waze tells everyone to use Lake Street and Mass Ave as a cut through to Alewife Brook Parkway because I can't get out of my neighborhood.

Calls it child pornography, then has it aired on statewide television? Why isn't she in jail?

Because Waze told everyone else to do the same thing now yall are waiting in even worse traffic than just staying on course.

Best Boston politicans can do is let the tech bros move into their neighborhood because there's no new housing for them, drive up rent prices, and send everyone else packing.

Reminds me of the Massachusetts non-compete law. After politicians patted themselves on the backs for passing it, companies changed one word in their contracts and nothing changed.