there's only one reason: it's cheap as hell when compared to everything else. you can only sometimes get slightly cheaper by going to costco or something.

my only gripe is S&S and its ilk have a larger selection of goods than MB. obviously this impacts the price, but again, my only gripe.

right. i'm talking, some low level government official that handles building permits getting handed a bag of money with a big $ symbol on it while a corporate exec twirls his mustache type of corruption

oh, i absolutely agree. i just think in this case it's not explicitly malice, although i could be convinced otherwise. i DO think that the way tech companies are run are somewhere between stupid and malicious, still not sure on which side of the line they're on yet. but i doubt there's any corruption happening at a large scale.

i don't think this is shady necessarily, just really, really miscalculated. i feel like the MO of tech companies is to dump a bunch of cash on some moonshot thing, find out a year or two in it probably wasn't worth it, and then just cut it/leave it in disrepair. thats the feeling im getting from this situation.

my parents used to take me to brandeis for a smaller scale theater, i actually thought it was kind of cool despite not having a lot of interest in it. i have no idea if they still do those shows/they're open to the public since covid though. i do remember tickets were wicked cheap, but this is a while ago. i think for 4 people it was like 35 bucks? maybe a bit more or a bit less.

SAME! I went once and won't go back. I'd rather head west or north to hike.

The only addition is a new Korean Egg Sandwich restaurant named OH K DOG that is originally from TX, but has moved into the northeast. I think I saw one of their places when I was in Flushing recently.

Anyway, It's directly on your left as you enter, exactly opposite of the Tous Les Jours (which is on the right of the entrance).

I had the egg sandwich. It's good, but it's not totally worth the price IMO. It's a lot of cholesterol for like $9 - $12 depending on what you get. I am hoping that if egg prices come down a bit, their prices do too. It was definitely enjoyable though, if I'm wicked hungry and doing some shopping there again I may get some again.

Can't speak to the Korean style corn dogs that they have, I'm not a fan of them in general.

I think they opened about 4 weeks ago IIRC, maybe 3.

air too

firstly, she should try both, see what she prefers. i take the T into boston for work and from the edge of 95 (waltham), it's about 30-40 minutes, depending on the commuter rail being... you know, american infrastructure-y.

really, just check the commuter rail schedule, it's the "ideal" version, but shows you the length of time it should roughly take: https://www.mbta.com/schedules/commuter-rail

also make sure you choose the time when checking google maps for driving - it defaults to current conditions, but modifying it to rush hour times will show you, it's a way worse drive...

also we could really help a lot better if you would let us know the commuter rail stop and the orange line stop she needs to get off at.

> People diss Boomers, but really it's only bad if your boomer parents didn't take advantage of all the short-term grift their generation practiced.

boy if my parents knew what reddit was and could read this they'd be pissed!

while I understand the situation, I wouldn't apply it to every school district equally. But that, to me, sounds like a reasonable argument for delaying the start time and ending the day a bit later. I am mostly thinking of schools like Hampshire Regional, which have 5 towns that flow into one school and they are definitely far apart. I think there might be a compromise that could be had about minimizing bus travel time for school kids (or better yet, get some friggin train system out there that might be a good way to help speed up the transit! think about it: public train systems for bringing kids to school :D). That might be redirecting towns to larger/closer places (e.g. instead of Southampton kids being brought to Hampshire Regional in Westhampton, send them to Westfield or Northampton, whichever is closer, and set up the regional high school in Chesterfield). Although the reality is that when everyone is so spaced out, the minimum travel distance is going to hurt somebody somewhere. But the current school systems are mostly local towns just saying "hey, let's merge together!" without real thought about what the best regional merges would be. Just what local towns feel like at some point in time.

That being said, eastern mass has some of this too (sadly). The METCO program requires most of the kids being taken from Boston to the outer suburbs to get a 5:30am start, which was terrible for those kids. I honestly felt bad because they were definitely trying to stay awake, but just couldn't some days.

I've always wondered: many rural communities in NE (and honestly some not-so-rural communities) have shared school districts. Why not just go ahead and merge the towns? Or, at least, offer all of their services together.

the landed gentry have been developing techniques to hold onto their small but powerful position in society for centuries now

>hickups

who you callin a hick

heard it was like getting waterboarded with ocean-colored cement

> I think you mean calculated, but that depends on each race -- the higher the vote count the less likely it is. e.g., an election between 20,500 people being decided by one vote is much less likely than an election between 20 or 200.

This is true, but I think the probability increases are not as stark as we see a higher partisan split among a population of voters. For example, sure, there's a 1% probability that you get a vote total like 51-49, but take into account that the town is evenly split and that there's only really 20 votes that can go one way or the other, and now the probability is now at 5%. I'm not trying to say there isn't electoral fuckery, but I think considering the sample size is so small it's hard to draw conclusions at this point in time. (yes, the sample size of elections is not in and of itself small, but given how elections work these days the actual sample size i think is quite small to draw any specific conclusions from it)

good thing my landlord doesn't consider rats to be pets!

there isn't even ice on the roads yet and you want to claim slippery slopes are everywhere? sod off

this rocks

yeah, cheaper than most but not as cheap as MB.

seems to line up with the number of coughs i've been hearing in the office post thanksgiving.

go to taqueria el amigo in waltham, slaps pretty good. but yes there's a massive dearth of mexican restaurants here, possibly the worst part about living in MA.

A complete bell-end.

yeah I have to pay the electric bill and it's from eversource, so I'm going to try it out. thanks!

the best compliment i've heard about the northeast was from Andrew Callaghan (of All Gas No Brakes/Channel 5 fame), who described the northeast as just way too boring to generate a ton of interesting content from. very glad we are not like FL/TX in that way, haha.