Unless your lease says something different, when your lease expires on August 1, your landlord can notify you within 30 days of August 1 that your lease will not be renewed or continued for month to month, and doesn't need to specify a reason.

I suspect your landlord is legally allowed to make this request. Definitely annoying though.

A neat fact I learned as an adult is that all birds are literally dinosaurs, indeed, the only known surviving dinosaurs. All birds evolved from theropods.

I'd love to see old photos or whatever of that!

The plan is to fix up the Waltham bridge (and the Weston rail bridge), unfortunately no funding has been identified yet. There's more details here: https://mass.streetsblog.org/2022/09/19/planning-underway-for-mass-central-rail-trail-link-over-i-95-in-waltham-weston/

No risk of trains anymore, but crossing the bridges is still technically not allowed until the new trail is built.

The original ETA of this new fare system was 2020-21. Yeesh.

Please see the CDC source:

> Bat bites can be very small

Rabies is very rare in the US because of a robust anti-rabies effort including animal control and preventative shots. It certainly didn't used to be very rare in the US and it's still not very rare in other parts of the world.

For example, ~60,000 Americans get shots each year, a big part of why we keep deaths at ~3-5 each year.

Hey OP, here's what the CDC says to do in your exact situation:

https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/animals/bats/index.html

>If you are outdoors:
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>...
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>If you are outside and have direct contact with a bat, you should talk to a healthcare or public health professional to decide if you need to be vaccinated to prevent rabies.

also

>A bat that is unable to fly and is easily approached could be sick.

also

>Bat bites can be very small.

Rabies is a fatal disease. A tiny, sometimes unnoticeable bite can transmit rabies. It can also be prevented after bites with a vaccine.

Not to be a Debbie Downer, but I don't think most towns have been given a chance to prove they are going along with the new law yet.

The only deadline for compliance so far has been filling out a form.

If you are innocent, definitely don't talk to the police, innocent people get in trouble for this all the time.

If you are an actual murderer, it would be very stupid to talk to the police, also.

But I'm not your lawyer, so please, do that.

I'd guess they meant "browser history", but I suppose they also could have meant Google Account history, ISP history, etc.

Haha. New rail service or not, the MBTA has a big staffing problem either way. Probably doesn't move the needle.

Arguably... Waltham's rail trail is getting built in 4 or 5 segments depending on how you count, haha.

There's a tiny segment that was built a few years ago as part of the construction project off 128 that includes Market Basket, etc.

This is the main 2.75 miles. It will start after that tiny segment.

Connecting to the Weston Trail over 128 and the rail tracks, using the two existing train bridges, is under design now by DCR, and it's unclear who will fund it right now. It's probably going to incorporate road changes on Main St/117 and Stow St. built by the unrelated 1265 Main roadway/development project. (This is the part I'm not sure is 1 or 2).

Also, the East end of the trail, `0.5 miles, will be unfinished, presumably until Belmont finishes Belmont Phase 2? I haven't heard much about this part, but it seems like it should be much simpler than the West connection to Weston?

Technically speaking, the MBTA owns the MCRT ROW and reserves the right to reactivate rail service!

That said, I'm firmly in the rail trail camp and I'm also certain rail activation just isn't happening for multiple reasons.

That said, based on public reaction to certain segments of this trail, I'm morbidly curious what public opposition to a new rail service proposal would look like 😄

The Newton improvements might be in the works. First, in Waltham at the Woerd Ave trail end, there's a low stress road connection to the Auburndale Park Path in Newton, going to Comm Ave.

From there, there's a series of projects in the works in the planning stages at least, though, hurry up and wait...

https://www.solomonfoundation.org/projects/riverside-greenway/

I know pedestrian improvements crossing Comm were recently funded by Newton/MA for starters, and one of the next steps, the rebuild of the pedestrian Boathouse bridge over the Charles, is funded by MA for construction in the next few years.

I love the Charles River trail and use it all the time, but as the MCRT is built in in Waltham, Belmont, Wayland, Sudbury, and Hudson, it will connect to the Minuteman, the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail, the Assabet River Rail trail, the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway, the Northern Strand (Bike to the Sea), the Charles River, etc.

It's uniquely going to be a bike network hub.

I'm not a physicist, but apparently if stainless steel has more than 2% nickel (for strength), it interferes with the iron's ability to be attracted to magnets?

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-home/july-august-2007/q-my-magnets-donat-stick-to-my-new-stainless-steel-refrigerator-what-am-i-going-to-do-with-the-stuff-that-hung-on-my-old-one

I can experimentally confirm that magnets don't work on my fridge.

I have a similar fridge, came with the house. And I'm saddened the trend of stainless steel fronts has relegated magnets to just the sides! :-(

My guess is the average consumer doesn't know the brand name of the SoC in their phone.

It might be close to 99% of people who post in /r/technology , but this is a hugely skewed sample of the population.

Technically yes, especially if you have a very large screen or sit very close. But the effect will always be very subtle. It's a diminishing returns problem.

There is also the content problem. 8k content exists, but it's very rare.

(P.S. Just my opinion, but the thing that makes people go "wow" with existing 4k TVs is not mostly the 4k part, it's improvements to things like High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut, the quality of which varies significantly by 4k set. I'm personally a bit cynical of 8k because of the price premium).