"Reporting anonymously" is not the same as "The FBI doesn't know who you are when reporting". If reporting to the FBI was anonymous, they would have no way to counteract spamming or flooding of their system. When you report anonymously, all you're telling them is "please don't contact me about this".

I don't know how to provide a source for something as basic as this. That's like asking to provide a source that air is air.

It's not anonymous. They know who you are since most people don't mask their online presence. They just aren't going to go out of their way to talk to you if they don't have to.

Edit: If you think I'm wrong then anonymously submit random made up bullshit about serious crimes multiple times. If it's anonymous then nothing will happen, if it's not, then you'll get a knock at your door. There's no such thing as anonymity when you're on any government site unless you go out of your way to mask your digital signature.

I am not a lawyer or an accountant. You should talk to yours. But for most business purposes you just hire the business to do the work, they give you an invoice, you pay them, the end.

An individual is a contractor, a contractor is a one person company.

In that case build it over the highways hahaha

You are quite literally asking "how do we hire a contractor but without hiring a contractor"

Least corrupt cop in MA:

Amazing numbers to pull out of your ass considering that Mass only has 1.5 million homes that use natural gas at all. And even then, you don't have to convert every single home to not use natural gas. You just have to convert enough of them to offset the made up natural gas shortage. I understand that this is a hard thing for you to understand though. Let me put it in simple terms for you: When you got too many trees, you take out enough so you don't have too many trees, you don't fell every forest until there are no trees. Make sense?

And no offense, but if you've ever worked with or interacted with Eversource you'd know for a fact that their CEO does jack shit. You should know this since being a CEO and president is a part time job, seeing as Nolan is also the director of seven other different companies. He could disappear and nothing would change. A CEO's job has nothing to do with business operations.

Hell, if Eversource wanted they could also build LNG storage stations, similarly to other states that rely on natural gas. But you know, that would require them to do their job as an energy supplier. So that's out of the gate.

But anyways, this kind of all goes back around to you ignoring the obvious statement that money is literally the only reason why this is an issue at all. Gas supply is only in a shortage because there's nothing that stops natural gas production from being shorted for profit. Massachusetts also has no regulation regarding cost of municipal supplies such as natural gas. There is no disaster coming other than the natural consequence of manufactured greed.

You're one of those kids who didn't pass basic thresholds in math at middle school, aren't you?

Again, I understand you are stupid, but use your brain for a second. What is the literal only barrier to converting homes from gas-only heating to gas and heat pumps?

I mean it, really, stretch those smooth lobes you have up there: Why don't people have heat pumps in their home to augment gas heating?

It's money. Literally just that.

I'm sorry if you're illiterate and didn't understand what I said in my comment. I am not paid you to educate on home heating systems.

I think you are illiterate and didn't understand what I just said in my comment. Why do we use Natural Gas as a sole heating source in homes? The answer: Because people don't want to/can't spend the extra money on other forms of heating.

Good job using your huge brain though. Really showed me.

Money is literally the only barrier to not relying on gas for heating, are you daft?

>and that would buy everyone in the state a few hours of heat.

Good then, because the issue is that there might be a shortage under extreme situations like a cold snap, which results in only a potential service loss of a few hours

That only makes the ridiculousness of making it a day about hijabs all the more hilarious.

You might be on the cusp of understanding why a not-Massachusetts-related opinion article got posted on the Massachusetts subreddit by a throwaway account. Please re-read that argument I had with you a few hours ago how how people like you are so easily marketed inflammatory propaganda for cash. You might be able to pick up on what I was saying.

I understand that reading comprehension isn't a big thing on reddit, but come on.

If you say so.

I've done plenty. It's why I don't get riled by corporate opinion pieces slathered on reddit. How about you though? Do you chase the highs of ego by spouting off about much much you hate [group of people a company is making money off of you hating]? Because /u/TheUnsightlyLocks over there does- not realizing that the OP of this post is a bought account.

There's nothing bad about admitting you were in the wrong.

Because a bunch of old white middle/upper class dudes in Boston probably aren't very in touch with something happening on the other side of the globe?

It's not complicated

Welcome to any sort of Democracy. First time?

Not even anything shady. It's the Washington Post. They make money any time someone goes on their website. Every idiot here that clicks on and reads some shitty opinion piece with a blatantly inflammatory title makes them money. It's so obvious.

The riot happened because a candidate who built his entire candidacy on a personality cult lost an election. Bigger riots happen every year here in the US when sports teams lose games. This is an issue of how people act with personality and brand cults, not of election validity. And that's not even getting into the fact of how the government security did not take their jobs seriously.

>Beliefs often result in actions. Actions have effects and consequences.

The Jan 6 riot has literally no effect on whether or not an old lady and the rest of her bingo-night crew, who are actually filing and sorting elections, do their job properly. This fundamental lack of understanding in how elections work is why the Washington Post is trying to make money off of you. You are easily susceptible to propaganda.

Again, please, don't be a moron that's easily propagandized. You are literally acting the same way that election deniers act.

If feelings mattered more than facts, then the election that conservatives claim was rigged would have actually been rigged. This is factually, not true. If you think feelings matter more than facts, then congratulations, you're have the same thought process as election deniers.

People don't "discredit" the voting process by not believing in it. That's how anything real works.

Anyways, don't forget to subscribe to Bezos's newspaper. I'm sure their news and opinion pieces have no ulterior motives.

They're planning replacing the government-can-overrule-the-will-of-the-people system with the government-can-overrule-the-will-of-the-people-slightly-faster system.

Oh, the horror

The narrative that those people are somehow without "compromise" or anything like that. It's standard balkanization propaganda. People from the civil war went back to working with each other and not having animosity over the civil war where brothers killed brothers over the span of a few weeks/ months. But you're telling me that people that don't trust the US government's integrity are somehow an uncompromising stalwart faction of integrity regarding their personal views.

Which one is more likely, that all of that is objectively true, or that the news organizations are relying on yellow journalism and targeted opinion pieces to generate profit from easily agitated people?

And no, people don't "discredit" the voting process by not believing in it. That's how anything real works.

It's being reposted everywhere because it's propaganda. Someone is making a lot of money trying to push this narrative.

Edit: You guys are so easily marketed to it's not even funny. Every time you click to read an article like this you're making Bezos money.