Hey I gotta take back what I had said, at least partially. Last year I needed an appointment for a registration--couldn't find one. Had to try to game it like getting a COVID vaccine when they were first out.

Went now to see and there are tons available, though not necessarily where I want to go. State is small at least.

DMV has impressively latched onto COVID protocols and is taking them to an extreme other state agencies can only dream of. Still reservations only and now no road tests.

I notice they haven't abandoned the VIN Check shakedown, though. Maybe they can have us do it ourselves--use some non-encrypted website hosted by a politically connected vendor to search for our VIN, and when it doesn't come up (it won't, there are no cars in the database) we just pay a flat fee split among the police departments.

Hey DMV. I'm consulting over here.

Cops lol

I really don't know what they do. Don't solve crimes, don't do paperwork, just seem to sit around and conduct racially motivated traffic stops while whining how unfair the world is to them.

Hot could be OK because the tank's water is fine. Have you tried running the cold water for a while to see if it goes back to normal?

If you have building maintenance does that mean you're in an apartment? What about your neighbors' water?

Fortunately our august Senate President Ruggerio is trying to jettison RIPTA under RIDOT, and then you won't have to worry about this problem since there won't be any more buses.

While you're at it, check for some caesium-137 coming out of Chernobyl.

You mean a jury of highly selection biased peremptory dross, as is always the case with cop trials.

The problem's right there in the bus's destination sign:

RIPTA.com/jobs

Only if Silvio Dante doesn't buy it first.

Yes this just shows how inconsistent people can be especially on this sub, at least in the aggregate. There will be a thousand upvotes for something like Seven Stars unionizing. Then when there's an opportunity to shop at a unionized supermarket everyone complains that it's too expensive so why would they do that when Whole Foods (AMZN) is down the street?

Sounds like you're the one who hasn't been anywhere else, certainly not to any "warn torn cities."

Not sure why you're being downvoted. I live in Providence, never parallel park. The city's such that if you don't want to parallel park then you can simply route plan better and park down a side street and walk an extra 30 seconds.

Sure, if you don't want to risk burning more calories than you have to, and so insist on parking directly in front of wherever you're going, yeah, you'll probably have to do it.

What I'd do is look up the assessment record for the property you want to rent and use that to research the owner and owner address. Does the person even live in the state? I'd be reluctant to rent from someone who's not around. Is it a name you can connect to a management company, and can you find information on that management company? Run the name or any name associated closely with the owner or a company through Google and the RI court system. Eviction hearings can give you other properties the owner might have, can check on those, see how they're being managed (or not).

We could also have an opportunity to send what little welfare dollars we have to retired quarterbacks. That'd be cool.

Yet another slumlord. Basically every landlord I know who's not owner occupied is a slum lord, couldn't give a shit less if the tenants kill each other, call an airstrike down on the property, brew radioactive meth in the basement, etc.

Councilperson's a good option as others have said. Also you can try the Mayor's Office. There's a new mayor and his administration may be inclined to assist.

Well, since you want to get nasty by calling him "monkey," let's get nasty. By all means.

No one wants to listen to your bullshit speculation on this thread. Ok, to be fair, maybe lovecraft_401. No one else. A man's dead, you have no idea why, have absolutely zero details or inside information, and yet none of that stops you from showing up to basically blame him for being outside and doing something "probably not safe." Show some goddamn respect for the dead or common decency and keep your completely useless Internet sleuthing bullshit to yourself.

Oh, and by the way, no younger woman's ever gonna fuck you, so for God's sake take your super cringe personal ad down. No one cares how many miles you drove around Europe, like what in the fuck is that brag even?

Welcome to Reddit. Now please do everyone a favor and delete your account.

You really shouldn't willfully violate your lease like that.

The landlord can compel you to remove the pet and, if you refuse, evict you.

You don't know what's going on with the exterminator's question. It could just be a routine protocol he has to ask everyone. Other tenants may have leases that allow pets. Other tenants may have service animals. Your lease says no pets, so unless you want to risk being tossed out in this rental market...

Whoa, that's not bad. Think you can do some ed consulting too?

It's under 40 outside--you could put everything in a cooler and dump it out there.

Wow, cool tool they put together, incorporating the best guess for private lines. (Is accurate for the 6 houses I know, all lead)

Do you know what contaminant I care about in my drinking water? It's lead.

So not having lead pipes is a good way to avoid lead.

You really shouldn't because of lead. Lead in pipes is everywhere in Providence as our housing stock is so old.

You can have your water tested if you're not sure, but if you have an old house/pipes then assume you have lead and filter it accordingly.

That's a charitable read. As this sub's Designated Smiley Voter, I'm shaking my head at the DPW choice and very disappointed in it. I cannot for the life of me understand it for any reason other than a political one, whether it's a friend of his from the Raimondo days or a placeholder for someone else. And so if it is political, then that's an ominous beginning.

DPW is the department which arguably has the most influence on Smiley's primary campaign promise: the best run city in America. And so he appoints a lawyer who ran the prison system. I mean what? Even his press release didn't try to sell her to the residents as anyone other than someone who oversaw a large organization, suggesting that this department head will be completely divorced from what's going on at ground level and will exist to crunch numbers.

I believe you need department heads with subject matter expertise. I don't even think this should be a controversial statement, yet here we are with a person with zero SME managing one of the city's most public facing and important departments. Yes, you don't want someone without management experience or talent in the role, but that person should absolutely have been involved in the department's business. Not respecting SME is how you wind up with clueless managers who make unreasonable or even impossible demands as well as major blunders.

One of Smiley's unsavory allies is Joe "I Own 7 Acres of Parking Lots" Paolino Jr. He believes there's no greater threat to Providence than bike lanes and speed bumps.

As long as that idiot's advising him, we shouldn't expect much progress on transit.