Mbta buses often switch routes due to driver shortages.

Hence the phantom bus issue.

They also don't track every single bus, many shown are just the scheduled arrivals.

All I know is when they towed the cruiser one of the windows was broken.

Perhaps the teens are fans of the Lock Picking Lawyer on youtube!

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It probably is pretty easy to pick, but shit stealing a fucking carbine from a state trooper's cruiser would have my hands shaking.

Because police are "trained".

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Actually, no they are not. Most barely pass their annual qualifiers and after X years of service they no longer even have to do that.

Police are "allowed" any firearm sold in the USA or fielded by the military. While technically giving a machine gun to a poorly trained cop is a bad idea, there's no law against it.

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Any police officer can buy any firearm they want. Technically it needs to be "for work" but many get them for personal reasons.

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There's been a few cops arrested/fired for abusing this ability and re-selling those same firearms on the private market. Because, for example, a modern Glock pistol cannot be transferred to a buyer in the state of Massachusetts by a gun store (FFL holder). But, you can sell one in a private sale. Welcome to loopholesville, because police can buy all the glock pistols they want and then resell them that a tidy profit (due to the soft ban in this state, Glock pistols and other restricted firearms sell for extremely high markups on the secondary market).

They broke the window but I'll bet a whole US dollar the rifle wasn't locked into the secure mount.

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Getting it out of the mount would have been difficult if it was locked, unless the whole mount itself was removed.

During COVID they just fired all the employees and closed the locations.

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Since you could only cancel in person, it was a stroke of business genius!

In startups, there was always one super senior engineer who would work from home each morning and call into stand-ups, then come into the office for a few hours, then go home and call into afternoon meetings.

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The rest of us weren't allowed to do this. "Working from home" was a euphemism that we were taking the day off. Everyone knew it.

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Now I'm 100% remote and I love it. I never want to be forced back into an office and I'll do whatever it takes to avoid it. My performance review was fantastic so any concerns about loss of productivity are crap. No commuting and the ability to get appointments/chores done while listening to meetings? Quality of life is just way, way up.

The change happened when Dunkin was bought by private equity. Economies of scale to lower costs.

Of course they are doing this to purposefully hide from the courts.

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It's why civil asset forfeiture (Thanks Biden! , teaming up with his best pal Strom Thurmond and Reagan to pass it) is designed to make it impossible to afford to challenge it unless you are already rich.

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This is why due process is so significant. Life, Liberty, Property (and probably a fourth one, Family, should be explicitly added) cannot be taken from people without due process of law.

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Nothing in this case even suggests the children were in imminent danger. DCF knew the court would never give them an order so they waited until the court house was closed to fuck a family over, maybe damage their finances permanently and scar their children for life.

So yeah, the issue is sometimes the PD will say "it's a civil matter". All the tenant needs to do is flash a fake lease paper and scream "illegal eviction" as loud as they can...and they basically get to live for free in your home until you can get the court to order them removed.

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And while they live there, paying no rent...you are legally required to keep the house in working order. It's fucking awful. It's at the point where if someone breaks into your home you'd be better off doing what you did than calling the police for help.

Those literally kill people. So yes, call the emergency line.

How do you know this for sure? Have you looked this up in city records? Utility companies often have broad access easements.

Tufts: Am I a joke to you?

The blue box keys are a path to free money.

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People still mail checks. They steal the checks, whitewash them, fill them out for whatever number and launder the proceeds.

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It's so bad that USPS actually says don't even use the blue boxes anymore and drop mail off at an actual post office. The blue boxes might as well not even be locked, so many are just opened and robbed.

It's a national CU, but Alliant.

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I've used them for years. In order to qualify, you have to "promise" that you made a $5 donation to a charity. I think you can pick which charity...and honestly, they don't even verify you did it.

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But it's fantastic for every day checking/savings. A decent APR on the checking account, the savings rate is competitive with the big online high yield places like Ally, and they refund $25 worth of ATM fees each month (fees are deposited the next business day after the charge, too).

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If you use their "car buying service" they'll knock half a percentage point off your rate.

guerilla marketing campaign by Wet Seal, no doubt

Silly question, but does the MBTA own the air rights above the tracks?

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I'm guessing the major issues are tunnels overpasses which will either need to be raised, or they will need the battery hybrid trains to pass through those sections.

I live next to a commuter line. I will support electric trains whole heartedly, overheadlines or no.

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The electric green line trains are so, so much quieter.

Line the perimeter with random blocks on the ground, no one would dare tread there to escape.

If they show up and cancel on you, they get penalized in the app. UberXL is a big vehicle, if you are just moving suitcases/bags should be no problem.

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Not saying they won't do it, but drivers who wait until they see the passenger to cancel can have various negative affects. If they have more than 5% cancel rate, they lose the ability to see upcoming trip durations before accepting a ride. They can lose other perks, and theoretically they can be completely deactivated but I suspect that's rare.

To make it even worse the Lego facility in Enfield is basically surrounded by CT state prisons.

I've used both Ubuntu and Fedora/CentOS quite often, but never anything Arch Linux.

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Any opinions on differences from the Debian/Fedora based distros?

Blue ribbon is in Arlington, isn't it?