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borebore@lemmy.worldOPto
Massachusetts@lemmy.world•Merrimack Valley makes state history with permanent fare-free transitEnglish
2·2 years agoInteresting. Is there a history of this phenomena? Does free ridership have a tendency to stagnate a system? I don’t have anything against free transit, but I do worry that it can devalue it. I am definitely not the target audience, so it is hard to have a definitive opinion.
borebore@lemmy.worldOPMto
Boston, MA@lemmy.world•State senator wants Mass. to create bitcoin strategic reserveEnglish
2·2 years agoCryptocurrency in general is largely a scam.
borebore@lemmy.worldOPMto
Boston, MA@lemmy.world•State senator wants Mass. to create bitcoin strategic reserveEnglish
4·2 years agoJust to be clear I think this is a horrible idea.
borebore@lemmy.worldOPMto
Boston, MA@lemmy.world•Steward Health demands local nonprofit pay $100K or face lawsuitEnglish
1·2 years agoIsn’t this the standard practice of corporate raiders where they will buy a company strip it of all its value and then bankrupt it and leave? It seems like this should be extremely illegal.
borebore@lemmy.worldOPMto
Boston, MA@lemmy.world•Boston to remove some of its new humps on Allandale Street in Jamaica PlainEnglish
2·2 years ago@MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world maybe they saw your comments!
borebore@lemmy.worldOPMto
Boston, MA@lemmy.world•Whole lotta shakin' goin' on from earthquake off Maine coastEnglish
3·2 years agoI fealt it. It was very short, but enough to check the camera for a truck going by.
Yeah, that’s one situation where complaining about a bumpy road is very very valid! Hadn’t thought of that
I haven’t had a problem with them, because it seems easy enough to go over them at around 25 miles per hour. 25 mph is the speed limit and all these neighborhoods. I’m sure there are situations where it becomes very annoying. I’m more curious about what the snow plows are going to do with them.
borebore@lemmy.worldOPMto
Boston, MA@lemmy.world•Boston City Councilor Calls For Public Hearing To Discuss Soda TaxEnglish
1·2 years agoIf the only major argument is that soda is the cheapest and there’s not a cheaper alternative then that further justifies this bill in my opinion. It’s hard to predict the future, but prices and behaviors would have to change if there were no cheap alternatives. Of course there’s no guarantee that unscrupulous healthy beverages wouldn’t go up in price, but that seems unlikely.
They are all over Dorchester as well.
borebore@lemmy.worldMto
Boston, MA@lemmy.world•Weird, large, pink guys hanging out around Boston.English
2·2 years agoWow, I don’t know how cute those things are. They’re kind of creepy to me. But yay for art?
borebore@lemmy.worldOPMto
Boston, MA@lemmy.world•The Museum of Ice Cream Opens In Boston SeaportEnglish
2·2 years agoWhat about that cold plate instant ice cream? That is kinda recent right?
borebore@lemmy.worldOPMto
Boston, MA@lemmy.world•South Boston Residents Debate Over Planned Bluebike ExpansionEnglish
3·2 years agoIt’s been a long time since I’ve been in this situation, but biking around Boston is an amazing form of transportation except for two major things: having your bike stolen, and storing it somewhere. Blue bike covers both of those scenarios. I wish they had been around years ago. Of course I don’t know how the prices compared to owning a bike.
borebore@lemmy.worldOPMto
Boston, MA@lemmy.world•Tearing down Mass and Cass encampment only spread its problems into surrounding neighborhoods, residents, business owners sayEnglish
3·2 years agoHopefully, no one is advocating for doing nothing and leaving it in place. To some degree I think tearing it down was a start, but not a well thought out solution. I personally think that ignoring these sort of encampments only allow the problem to get worse. I think they definitely need to be broken up, but simultaneously services need to be put in place to address these people’s issues. Drug addiction, poverty, homelessness from being kicked out of other protective services. The list could go on forever, but these are huge and difficult problems that we need to address.
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Boston, MA@lemmy.world•Industrial-strength battery storage wins zoning approval in ChelseaEnglish
1·2 years agoI am so glad that I can block people on this platform.
I was out with friends and my neighbor called to tell me to get on my roof. Too much light pollution where I was 😭
borebore@lemmy.worldOPMto
Boston, MA@lemmy.world•Solutions for more housing? Let apartment buildings have just one stairwell.English
9·2 years agoI would like to know the difference in survival rates of fires with one staircase in these situations. It’s easy to change codes based on political factors, but I’d rather do them based on statistical ones.














Yeah, that was my feeling as well.