Literally ran first in human clinical trials on the vaccine during the pandemic, so I guess you can argue both sides have valid statements.

I'm not arguing who's right here when it comes to EUA's I'm pointing out that, as a medical researcher myself, the when of requirements matters. We were still collecting data when first shots in arms were being injected under the EUA.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/emergency-use-authorization

>Under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), when the Secretary of HHS declares that an emergency use authorization is appropriate, FDA may authorize unapproved medical products or unapproved uses of approved medical products to be used in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions caused by CBRN threat agents when certain criteria are met, including there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives. The HHS declaration to support such use must be based on one of four types of determinations of threats or potential threats by the Secretary of HHS, Homeland Security, or Defense.

May authorize unapproved medical products...

The vaccine didn't get approval until much later, but essentially it still wasn't approved, and still in clinical trials. The fda's own website states this clearly. Vaccines were still in phase 3, or wide scale clinical trials looking at safety and efficacy:

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emergency-use-authorization-vaccines-explained

I'm 100% with the FDA on this, the benefits outweighed the risks by far.

I'm also with the workers on this- until the vaccine is officially approved no person should be forced to take it against their will as a condition of their continued employment.

How do you negotiate the middle ground of "we need workers and we need to stop the spread?" I have no answers for that, but I do not believe that terminating employees was the right way.

Don't remember the "popular" argument, but the only place this would have held up is that the vaccine was basically experimental and not fda approved. As soon as the vax was approved however that argument flew off the table.

"I'll have anything but a Canadian Club on the rocks"

This is better

Trump: "Elect Jeff Deihl, he'll rule MA with an iron fist"
MA voters: Last time we were ruled with an iron fist we started a war and made our own country with hookers and blackjack.

I'm a bit more cynical and was thinking of the military using it for interrogation, or worse police getting a warrant to put a hat on you that pulls the info.

MIT already has a device that scrapes your internal monolog by using sympathetic reflexes in the throat. Technologically speaking, the requirement for an implant is a current limitation that will be overcome.

So while legally questions about use are somewhat ambiguous, typically the solutions don't get resolved until someone decides to abuse it.

Well this is awesome and terrifying at the same time.

Where's the neurological line between tapping into what we want to voice, and our internal monologue?

My old supervisor has a house in Salem, he used to charge people $100 per car to park on his lawn, he was pulling in 2-3k per weekend. It was his solution to "fuck the tourists"

Can i just ask wtf people do when they're there? I went several times with friends in college, we walked up and down a busy street and waited to get into bars, it was lame AF, way more fun was had at private parties.

I've heard MA is eyeballing a carbon tax for pellet stoves to discourage this sort of thing too.

If we are going all electric- and that's what MA seems to want to do, there is no other choice.

We don't have the oil, we don't have the natural gas, and we don't even have the distribution network ready for 100% electric, look at where our electricity rates are going and that's before people are forced into all electric cars and fossil fuel surcharges for home heating.

We are going to price ourselves into a problem unless we start working on solutions now.

From the photos I saw he wasn't necessarially in all white as much as a color that reflected the IR light from the camera making it look that way.

I could have sworn I read at least 2 articles this summer that there were ignored triggers. 🤷‍♂️

Says someone who has no idea where the fuck I've lived and worked.

I specifically stated "not likely" but in the country I grew up in people were innocent until the facts proved their guilt. When this was published there were no facts on where the gun came from, and other potential explanations, even as indicated "not likely" are still possibilities.

I've literally linked a story of someone discarding a firearm running from the police in dorchester which was luckily recovered. I know its unpopular, but Dorchester isn't a paradise, it is meh to ok at best and had its own crime problems in certain neighborhoods, but guess what, those certain neighborhoods are still Dorchester.

These are all facts. I know it sucks when it's your own back yard but figures don't lie, Dorchester needs to do better. Don't pretend like I'm saying that you can walk to any street corner and pick up a glock like it's afganistan or something, nobody has ever said that, so calm down.

I get what your saying, but for reporting dorchester is dorchester and the towns reputation is based on the reports generated within. This isn't a "It's that neighborhood's problem", the schools intermixed, the police and fireintermixed, quite simply, it's dorchester.

And yet just about every neighborhood reviewing system does it. Maybe the fantasy that Dorchester is a great place and not just an ok place is laughably out of touch.

The latest data indicates Dorchester's overall crime rate is 16.3 per 1k and its 2017 homicide rate was up and 12.8 per 100k.

Sure I have, and it's been getting better, but let's not pretend it's some bastion of paradise- generally speaking when it still ranks between a C and F on most contemporary neighborhood safety lists.

It's middle of the road when compared to other places in Boston, and it certainly isn't Fall River, but then again it's no Wayland either.

The statistical chance of recovering a dropped gun used in a crime in dorchester is not 0. Incidents do happen, hopefully these things are recovered responsibly by PD, but that is not always the case.

The sidewalk of dorchester isn't your neighborhood FFL, but let's not pretend nobody has ever found a gun in a bush there.

Hopefully not.

Did you not get the point?

It's Dorchester, the kid could have found it on the way to the bus stop.

Not likely, but possible. Police investigate these things to make sure before they throw the book at someone they're throwing the book at the right person.

Doesn't look like a legitimate construction barrier at all.