Think about how you get gonorrhea, an STI, and think about why someone might be sad they have no chance of getting it, an STI. Hehe.

If you browse for sales, comparing the weekly ads, Stop and Shop is worth going to once in a while. Their prices (and Roche Bros) are straight up atrocities unless you look for sale items but some of us plan these things strategically.

Before anyone says it, I mean sure, Market Basket almost always has everyone beat, but in exchange for having to shop at freaking Market Basket.

I think you're looking for r/RhodeIsland

This is correct, but there's also no reason we couldn't have had both.

This one leaves me fuming at the leftists and liberals who supported this anti-labor legislation and pulled a conservative-style "screwing myself to own the righties".

Yeah, Blue Laws come from our extreme puritanical past. Eliminating them mostly makes sense. But having one day a week where laborers get extra pay sounds like a pretty freaking amazing thing regardless of history.

Glad the supermarkets and megacorps can save some bucks (that don't get passed onto consumers) though, good for them.

Good luck fellow teetotaler! There are dozens of us!

The 1980s called, they want their jokes back.

Oh, you're not talking about poor people? But I thought you mentioned Haverhill, with half of its students economically disadvantaged. And Lawrence, where over 75% of its students are classified as such. But no, you're not talking about schools for poor people. Ok. To say that claiming a students can get a great education at any public school in this state is a "crazy statement" is ignorant of what goes on in our schools.

I'm all set with you now.

Yes. I would rather send my student to any Title I district in MA than any average school in about half the states in this country. A student has the opportunity to achieve at any public school in this state. That's not true nationwide.

Frankly, as someone who works in one, I refuse to subscribe to "schools that poor people go to are bad", and you should too.

>My son is 1.5 years old, so soon he will need a kindergarten, thus would be nice to have a good one not so far from our location. And some good hospitals nearby will also be useful.

The reason why many of us MAholes are such big fans of our state is that when it comes to schools and hospitals among other things, they're literally all good. Even the ones people here would say are trash are still far better than the majority anywhere else.

2 bedrooms plus an office isn't necessarily 3 bedrooms. We have a "3 bedroom" that has, essentially, a 4th bedroom. We use it as a nursery but it was used as an office by the previous owner after their kids were grown, before which it was used as a bedroom.

>when we go there we would like to not spend more than 30-50 minutes by car

You could be 3 miles outside of the exact location you want to go and still have it take over half an hour. Boston is insane for car travel. Fortunately the subway/rail system is pretty great (despite all the horror stories). If you choose a location with a commuter rail station, and there are many, you're looking at decent travel time into the city and much greater flexibility for where you'll be.

Personally, I'd never want to live inside of 95 or too far outside of 495.

Being college educated is cool. Knowing how to sort out real knowledge and bad sources into two different piles is cool. Having a basic understanding of how the world works is cool.

Being a nut job who 30 years ago would never have found a single person with the same insane beliefs as yourself is not cool.

You're so deep in your own colon you lost the ability to smell your own farts at least 20 inches ago.

Smashy the fashies!

Funnily enough, I have a degree in history. Helps me make political jokes. How about you, thug?

Several companies keep track of where you're located at all times via your phone. Every time you use a credit card you're essentially lifting your hind leg and attempting to mark your territory. Go to any website and hundreds of companies have your preferences. I don't know. I think there's a little more to it than "freedom is when megacorps know more about me than I know about myself but showing a government ID is the real problem".

In before some selfawarewolf calls out a LiBeRaL cOnSpIrAcY evidenced by all those progressive states in the top.

You know, I have never gotten religious on Reddit, not in a decade, but I'm going to for a sec. See, when I talk to God, He tells me to do what's right for other people. God tells me that if I have an opportunity to protect others that I need to do it. A little sacrifice here to better others there, that sort of thing. I guess we're praying to different Gods. Mine doesn't have time for my ego, nor do I want Him to.

Announce that we will be pouring additional funding in to the MBTA solely for the purposes of rebranding (like when UNH spent the equivalent of a typical yearly salary to make their logo dull, only on a much larger scale).

Lisa is a legit badass. Everybody should be like Lisa.

Read the contract before you accept any offers. It's easy to get over excited when you get an offer and hear the salary, but you have to dig deeper. How many personal days do you get? Sick days? Is your work year 182 days? 187? 190? Max class size? Teaching load to prep period ratio? Duties outside of teaching? Is there any level of reimbursement for the mandatory graduate credits you will be required to earn?

Working conditions and respect for the profession always trump pay for me. I could make more elsewhere, but I'd have to lose some sweet bennies from my current workplace.

Don't forget Easton and Avon!

...intentionally leaving off Stoughton though. Sorry Stoughton.

>Lots of places have alarms that go off for propped doors and opened ones

Our doors can be propped open just so that the alarm doesn't go off (five index cards can do it).

There's security, and then there's security theater. A guy who sits in an office and watches people come through the door is theater. Cameras are real security, but they're also not proactive - they're reactive. So, let's say metal detectors - those are proactive, but they also force every individual who enters the space to be treated as a potential criminal. There's a line that needs to be drawn and my sense is that what people like Unlawful Trespass Barbie up here want is for us to cross that line in the name of safety. There are better solutions. And of course there are better experiments than "let's commit a crime to prove a point".

>are you a slow adult?

Are you?

>it's not a matter of making schools a prison. it's a matter of simple security measures at the front fucking door. did you miss that?

My point, which should have been obvious to anyone with a brain stem, is that typically even when the front door is locked, there are always vulnerabilities, and some clownshoes would be investigative reporter shouldn't be trying to sneak in to prove a point.

>when was the last time you saw a capable human being with ample training and qualifications acting as school security?

Uh, every day? When was the last time YOU were in a school, period? 7th grade?

Throw the book at her. Make an example out of clowns who take the law into their own hands.

You want to make teen mental health issues even worse than they already are? Turn our schools into actual prisons. The fact is when you have a building with 20 entrances, even if 19 of them are locked, you're putting 1500 underdeveloped brains in there and you can't expect them to be smart about safety. Doors get propped open all the time. Kids open doors to people when they shouldn't all the time. There's nothing at all that can be done about that short of imprisoning everyone inside.

I would suck your blood to get a Vampire Hunter D series.