This is important. Everyone is bringing up lead remediation, but the law only requires a landlord to remediate if kids are under 6.

You could try making sure it's clear that your kids are over 6, and that you don't plan on having more. (It's not important whether that last part is true.)

Note the landlord is not required to immediately de-lead the house. Rather, the only have to if the tenant asks them to.

Plenty of people who are on good terms with their landlords and are not too worried about lead operate under a "don't ask don't tell" policy.

Which is the biggest force, the healthcare industry that wants to increase costs or the insurance industry that wants to reduce them?

> Ten percent of all healthcare spending in the U.S. goes toward end-of-life care

https://www.wrvo.org/health/2019-09-30/ten-percent-of-all-healthcare-spending-in-the-u-s-goes-toward-end-of-life-care

That means after 75 years or whatever of life, you still spend a whopping 10% of your total healthcare costs in those last few months of life.

That's huge.

And they run off with millions from the insurance company!

That made it way less cool, I was hoping was an original creation by someone local.

Oh, actually I like that poem quite a lot.

As far as I understand, there were zero parking spots available at the Sermon on the Mount. Then later he got crucified. I'm just saying.

While I 100% support all waste-reduction incentives, what's interesting is that our instincts may actually often be backwards when it comes to plastics.

Take single-use plastic bags. If you have an organic cotton bag, it would need to be re-used hundreds of times to have the same carbon impact as a single-use plastic bag, and thousands of times to have the same water impact as that plastic bag. (Source 1, Source 2)

If, like me, you have 5-10 reusable bags, you need to use them tens of thousands of times to offset the emissions and water impacts they had, compared with if you had used single-use plastic bags the whole time.

And paper bags, from that source, would have to be reused 40 times, which is unlikely ever to happen.

(Note, my take-away from that study is not to not use my reusable bags, but to make sure I use them as many times as possibly possible. But also, if I forget my bag, I should use single-use plastic rather than paper (bad) or buying yet another bag (much worse).)

Our instincts usually come from a "visible trash" perspective, we assume that what we see littering is the worse thing. But actually from a climate change and water freshness perspective, this is not always correct. (And, interestingly, studies have shown that all plastic bags make up less than 1% of litter.)

I'm not sure the point I'm trying to make: initiatives to stop trash and waste are definitely good. But that our good intentions aren't always correct when it comes to plastics, so we should try to look at the available research, and let that guide our decisions, more than our gut instincts.

This creates these annoying lines where everyone feels morally obligated to pay for the person behind them. And it totally takes away the spirit of the gesture, because then absolutely no one gets a free drink except for the one guy at the end who doesn't want to keep the train going, so then he's like the jerk of the train *any* is the only one who ever benefitted from the whole entire thing.

So basically the guy at the front paid for the guy at the back, only really inefficiently and annoying all the workers.

Just take the first free drink in the spirit it was given. Pay it forward in some other way at some other time.

Unions generally do campaign for elected officials. However, that's not a magic wand. The person might not get elected, and they are also not all-powerful.

The ability to strike is a rarely-used tool that is only done when the union feels they have no alternative. It isn't used willy-nilly, or they'd quickly lose all public support, and without public support they have nothing.

I bought in Cambridge 12 years ago and it's more than doubled in value. It's one of two units in a wood-frame house.

We haven't had any problem with the HOA. There's only the two of us, so if you're both personable and reasonable people you can make things work. Of course, if one of you is unreasonable, that could of course be a problem.

We haven't had issues with family noise because we were both roughly the same age -- they had kids, then we had kids, then their (now) renters moved in and had kids, so everyone understands kid noise.

I have heard of condo-mates who can't stand kid noises, in this case they were older people, though I don't know that that's always the demographic. I don't really understand that. If you're going to live in a condo, you're going to hear the other people. If you want to live out in the country, go live in the country.

But it's a fair point that five out of those six rolls have massive pieces of avocado in them. I like avocado as much as the next person, but at that point there's not a lot of fish in those rolls.

Oh my god, she really looks every reviewer up, compares it to her database of credit card sales, gift cards, etc, and denies that they could have come in, or has some excuse after deducing exactly what day they must have come in ("there were only two unverified latte sales in December, and we were short-staffed on both those days," etc etc etc.)

Seriously unhinged.

She actually gives off vibes of that viral restaurant owner that Gordon Ramsay ripped into in Kitchen Nightmares, who only wanted Ramsay to come in to prove that all the negative reviews of her restaurant were just haters and liars.

> Fourth, maybe people who dislike cars should take on more responsibilities and obligations

Wow, some real "Ok Boomer" energy there...

Nice companies. I have worked for a good-sized non-profit software company, a university lab and a school and all of them had at least a $500 deductible.

What companies offer zero deductible?

>For reference, I receive 296 days PTO.

Huh? Not sure if a typo, or a completely bizarre, unique situation that has nothing at all to do with coffeeshop workers.

British police vs man charging at them with knife.

British police vs man charging at them with machete.

British police vs man charging at them with two knives.

That's just the first three hits searching YouTube for "british police vs knife," there are hundreds of others.

Note: I do think that the police have the right to defend themselves, and occasionally a gun may need to be the weapon of last resort. However, it should actually be the last resort.

It's hard to know what happened in this case with no video footage.

Yeah, that's a typical case of two liberal ideas at odds with each other.

While one could argue either side, I'd say police oversight trumps surveillance worries.

That's one pissed off meter maid.

They do, and it's not relevant. Don't turn this into cars v bikes.

They didn't need to overthrow the military, they just needed to convince Mike Pence not to accept the count and that would have thrown the country into chaos.

It's literally not. They wanted to scare congress into not counting votes. They wanted to scare Mike Pence into not accepting the results.

The law agrees with me. Over 900 people have been charged with insurrection so far, and many convicted of it, by a wide variety of courts including judges Trump appointed. Do you know what "insurrection" means?

I don't know what the plan will be with the large building that CHA is housed in now, but I did get word from someone who works in the city that they will probably be trying to encourage businesses that are good for the square -- i.e. improving foot traffic, and not another stupid bank branch. A&C would definitely seem to fit the bill.

Talk to the Inman Square Business Association, and/or the city's Community Development department?