Gives them time to cover up the evidence better though.

Someone could have walked in without knowing that.

"If you need help, please contact the Attorney General's Consumer Hotline at (617) 727-8400."

Might as well tell them, but I'm not sure how much they'll help if you're not going to fight it yourself.

You should report this to... the relevant authority, which I'm not sure who it is. If they bother to actually look into it, it could scare your landlord into giving it back. Otherwise, you could sue them in small claims court if you ever move out.

Did you have to choose Chestnut Hill?

Except that they claim to cover out-of-state emergencies. Based on this experience, I wouldn't be surprised if they kicked you out of the hospital after a car hit you once your vitals were stable. "Need a CT? Fly back to Massachusetts!"

But "fuck you" is what they'll tell you if you need a (nonemergency) service outside of Massachusetts. In fact, I know someone who was in the DC area and an ER doctor called MassHealth claiming that they needed something emergently, and MassHealth vetoed the doctor and told them to fly back to a Massachusetts hospital.

"solving math theorems" is probably a very optimistic way of putting it on zucc's part

Maybe it's not Boston, but there are some jobs in software and IT with a smaller and less competitive group of people trying to get them.

I suppose not, but you also don't need to make as much money out there as in Boston and the immediate area.

You can reasonably commute to Springfield or Hartford (or even Worcester, but that's stretching it) if you needed work.

I wonder which of us should, u/PresidentBush2

I don't think the motto is problematic, but in conjunction with the symbolism of the seal/flag it's a little irksome.

It's cool until they put it on a flag with an arm holding a sword over the head of a Native American (who wasn't even from Massachusetts).

I think the Institute for Justice is the better legal nonprofit to donate to.

Why not email them and ask? Curious what they’ll say.

On Cape we know all about house price appreciation... unfortunately...

Only on the appreciation after write offs. It appreciated by $1,400,000 - $300,000 = $1,100,000. Then you get to write off at least $250,000, so you're only taxed on at most $850,000 and the law doesn't even apply to you. (Unless you make more than $150,000 some other way. So in order to even hit that $4k in taxes you'd need to have a salary of $550k in addition to all this, or more if you're married.)

>No shipyards means no ships which means no ships eligible for US-US travel under the jones act

This is the part that confuses me. Does a ship have to be built in the US to be US flagged? I would expect a ship built in Korea and owned by a US company could transport gas, notwithstanding the economics of it.

I guess you're probably right about the Jones Act though.

How can they be out-competed if foreign ships can't do domestic routes? There must be some solution here. Subsidies maybe? Seems more important than cattle farming, but I'm probably missing the scale of the oil industry.

But I mean just to ship natural gas from US ports to US ports. There is no international competition since foreign ships can't do it due to the Jones Act.

I feel like this is just an excuse. We can buy ships from Korea, can't we? We certainly buy oil rigs that are made there.

Can't we build ships? Shouldn't we be doing that now?

You can make your own decision about that, but the state is much more diverse. In other ways too...

Texas is a desert on one end and a coastline on the other.