Local here - the lack of the bollards is a huge factor. A lot of local news stories brought this up. The location is also at the end of a straight roadway, hence how the vehicle was able to get up to speed.

This has caught me out a few times when I've tried to self serve at one of these stations. Fortunately the attendant was very polite about my confusion, as I'd never been to a full service gas station before.

Yup, having lived in Texas I always feel guilty complaining about the MBTA because it at least exists.

The pregnant patient was extremely lucky to survive: >In this case it was obvious that the abdominal implantation was secondary to undiagnosed ruptured left tubal ectopic pregnancy.

The patient needed an emergency c-section and a blood transfusion.

>In our opinion, bleeding from placental implantation site is the most life-threatening complication during laparotomy.

Extremely lucky to have survived.

DiZoglio included planned auditing of the Legislature as a central plank of her campaign. Did Speaker Mariano not notice this?

Yeah, the "It's good to be honest we shouldn't lie" sounds like something right out of children's educational programming. If it wasn't on TV, it's the type of things preschool covers. Although it makes me think the toddler had to be at least 3 or 4 years old to do such a speech.

I used to have this problem. I'd try to choose nonfiction books that were basically a series of vignettes, as I could keep track of what was going on better if I could get each chapter in a different sitting. I gave up on audiobooks for a while until this past year. For some reason, something seemed to click and I can keep track of the plot better.

I'm wondering if part of the change is due to the books I'm selecting. I started getting into audiobooks when my friends were reading Becoming by Michelle Obama and I really wanted to hear her read it out. I was able to keep track of progress pretty well. Shortly after my library had a long wait list for a book that was immediately available as an audiobook. Since then, I've been doing a lot of relatively short novels.

Mortimer!

Oof. Definitely a lot of mistakes by the adults.

It completely depends on the situation. Little kids can be real escape artists. It can happen with responsible parents or neglectful ones.

My cousin, as a 2-year-old, loved letting himself out of the house. My aunt and uncle had a heck of a time keeping the front door secure from him (rental house so limited in what they could install). Sometimes they were sleeping, but sometimes it could be simply doing something in another room. They're great parents and were doing their best, but it's not realistic to have the kid glued to their sides 24/7. My aunt's horror story was finding him walking up from down the street, having let himself out while she was cooking dinner. It really only resolved when he grew out of the behavior.

The article says they think he got out of the house while his parents were sleeping after last being seen Thursday morning. It could be that the whole house was sleeping and he woke up and let himself out of the house. From the article, it doesn't sound like there's any charges against the parents for doing anything that put him at risk.

It's fantasy with a sci-fi bent. There is a big component of tech and how nature works in this world that is in the sci-fi realm. There's a lot of scientific aspects in the world building.

It's so good! It does resolve and make sense to a really great effect.

I actually enjoyed the shifts in narrative voice. It gives us a mystery to piece together as readers.

I dyed my hair bright blue early in the pandemic, so had the blue-black dye at the ready to be workplace appropriate. It was something I dreamed of doing but never was the right time because I had to look professional. I kinda hid from video calls for a bit, but my manager saw my hair she mentioned that our employee dresscode does not include anything on hair color. If I was interviewing, I'd likely go with that blue-black like your candidate did, but I have two decades of conditioning that unnatural hair colors aren't professional.

I was at a Red Line station where a bunch of teens were messing around and one boy purposely jumped down into the tracks. Fortunately he climbed right out, but an MBTA worker came running over to get the kids to knock it off.

Well, yes, but not for the same reasons as a few centuries back. Although I wonder how often blood letting accidentally treated the condition (compared to how often it worsened and killed people).

Thanksgiving with my crypto bro cousin has been a lot more chill since bitcoin crashed.

That's why these deportations were so effed up. Non-citizens serving in the US armed forces have long been told it's a path to citizenship. Heck, I was told this in JROTC over two decades ago.

My issue is every single new development is freaking "luxury." That's why that Braintree one bedroom has a ridiculous price.

Not just PPD, but likely PP psychosis, the most severe form of postpartum mood disorders.

The Mass GOP put its efforts (and money) behind the Question 4 ballot initiative to overturn the Massachusetts Work & Family Mobility Act. First getting it on the ballot, then attempting to get No to win. They stirred up anti-immigrant fervor and spread misinformation about how state driver's licenses will work for residents without proof of citizenship or immigration status. They were far more successful, as 46.3% voted no compared to the 34.9% who voted Diehl.

The Texas state legislature makes the Massachusetts legislature look amazing in comparison.

Thank you. Freaking autocorrect!

I've cried tears of joy for getting a statistically significant result in a months long experiment. If I was in conversation conservation, I too would be sobbing out of relief that the intervention worked.

Even Texas has required front license plates for decades!

That happened to me - I didn't realize the dates of their deaths meant that they didn't have any further time together. In my case, seeing the film later on made that even more of a gut punch.