I feel bad for anyone at Fenway today, too fucking cold for baseball.

💯... but as I've come to find out more and more, much of MA politics is people being afraid of slippery slopes and thus pedestrianizing Huntington (and don't get me started on Newbury) would be quite a battle.

39 toward Forest Hills has always been bad. So much loading and unloading along Huntington -- we really ought to at least have the infrastructure in place so that buses and trains never wait at lights.

Pretty much a tradeoff between health/safety benefits for people active in early morning versus health/economic benefits from having more daylight after normal work hours. The two sides will never agree and thus the stalemate we're stuck with. But generally the pro-DST side is winning and has gained ground, we have like a month more DST than we did when I was a kid.

Earlier reports stated that the surviving kid was riding in the hatchback -- guessing they're leaving this detail out since it's bad message discipline (obviously wasn't wearing a seatbelt).

Yeah I suppose opportunity cost killed it in that spot, oh well. Wish we'd get something similar in JP -- we sort of lack a happy medium in that niche.

The original closing was such a huge pandemic loss. Such a great friend meetup/date night spot. That place was the definition of a thriving restaurant, ironic that so many lesser restaurants weathered the storm.

I apologize, we proactively made sure our snowblower would start about a week ago, guaranteeing it wouldn't be needed lol.

But yeah in general Boston is pretty disappointing for fun weather events. Really miss the dramatic thunderstorms in more mid-Atlantic places, here they mostly seem to miss us or evaporate.

For JP my money is on 3 inches of slush. Whatever happens, the warmer weather later this week means it'll mostly be gone. Too bad the snow is coming after the rain or else maybe we'd wash some salt away too.

Sounds like the sort of thing someone might do during a manic episode. Probably wasn't really planning ahead that far.

> Prison based punishments have proven to be a terrible deterrent over time.

I've sort of given up hope of people ever coming around to this in the US. People in the US like revenge too much. Not sure anyone past college age is really capable of evolving on this once they've dug their feet in.

Comparing the justice systems in the US and Europe will make your head spin, and once you realize just how unnecessarily cruel our approach is in the US, it's even more tragic to see widespread brainwashing into defending that system.

Yeah I think the most obvious theory is that they blew too much cash building out their brewing op and along with the pandemic it was a two punch knockout.

Yeah, trouble for that spot is what do you do on nights when there's no Roadrunner crowd. Brighton Center in general is pretty sleepy, although that might change as more and more big residential projects pop up.

Hasn't stopped countless other places that fit that bill (and don't have the city's hottest music venue virtually next door) from staying open for years.

Awesome news, location of that space for Roadrunner pregaming seemed too clutch not to get another similar place in there. Baffling how Brato failed there, they must have really screwed up their finances or something.

The dependable flow of stories of drivers winding up on the the B or C line tracks always amuses me. IMHO should be automatic permanent loss of license, obviously the person is either too drunk or too senile to be on the road.

"town character" needs to be ridiculed until it's widely enough recognized to be a racist/classist dog whistle that it's scorned and retired. Wish SNL would do a skit or something...

Assume it's .wav, 10 MB per minute. Assume separate tracks for each instrument, we'll say 100. So that's 1GB per minute. At most a couple of albums worth of material.

> It’s just a matter of if they care enough to do the right thing.

It's a matter of pushing policies that police unions are opposed to, and this is apparently pretty difficult around here.

Of course, but this doesn't really address why there's this incongruency with MA in particular. Methinks it's largely because we have big issues with police unions having too much political clout here.

We like to think of ourselves as a solid-blue liberal-minded state but on civil asset forfeiture we're one of the worst:

https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-2/grading-state-federal-civil-forfeiture-laws/

Agree with the sentiment, but I'm guessing you have your order reversed and they put the airport a mile from the blue line.

Basically, bus bunching happens because when a bus gets behind it creates a self-reinforcing feedback loop.

Say a handful of strollers happen to get on a bus near rush hour and make loading and unloading slower than in the average situation. Now the bus is behind, and the further behind it gets, the more people are waiting at each stop, the more overcrowded it gets, the further behind it gets, and the cycle compounds until the next bus catches up and possibly jumps ahead to start picking up the excess passengers who are waiting at the stops.

Years ago I'd do this with the 57 in the morning but when the weather was bad I'd walk upstream to get a better chance at a seat. A few times I made it from St Elizabeth's nearly the whole way to Oak Square before finally getting a bus.

Nobody should be slashing anyone over it, but I do believe in the 1-ass 1-seat rule for mass transit. Neither your possessions nor your giant fat ass should be over the line onto the neighboring seats if the train is full.