You can search on mass.gov for licensed care providers, and the rates are listed: https://childcare.mass.gov/findchildcare

I liked it better when they just stole via overtime theft and left us alone, rather than ticketing people on their way to work doing 10 over on I90/91.

> should they be entitled to keep the gains from their illicit activities?

Your family member, morally speaking, should get their money back. Asset forfeiture should be illegal.

But those who are convicted of a crime (cough legally cough) should have assets seized.

>Instead they were given a clear second chance with no history.

Just a reminder, the state did that and the blame falls squarely on the state.

I was wondering if this was coming. But I appreciate the response nonetheless, usually I just get banned and sent some canned response about rule breaking.

Genuinely asking, can you tell me why you value respect over valid & informative posts, in this sub?

Is there a gradient where disrespectful posts are tolerated up to a point?

Is there a gradient where invalid and uninformative posts are removed as well?

I'm all for beating on Republicans any chance there is, christ knows they deserve it. But in this case, don't drink the kool-aid too much, Democrats in this state will fuck you just as hard if there is a dollar/vote behind it. And that's exactly what happened, and sycophants are more than happen to come out of the woodwork and place the blame squarely on Republicans, which just isn't true.

I have no idea, and I can't find any info after a quick google search. If someone knows otherwise, please correct me.

Regardless, why did MA residents have to give up time and a half, just to get what other states got? What did other states' residents give up (hint: we all already know the answer to this question)?

lmao right, just the other day i was walking down the street and whoops! i did a statutory rape. my bad, no biggie though. we all have flaws.

/s

Aside from your bullshit deflection, funny how these "flaws" keep showing up in certain groups of people, repeatedly. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

"but it's just one bad apple!"

everybody already knows it takes more energy to heat something as it gets colder and colder outside dude. and you still don't understand the difference between relative efficiency and absolute efficiency, you keep mixing them up, and then on top you that you mention absolute costs when i specifically called out the difference in the previous post.

when you talk about your gas boiler vs your heat pump, what does it cost you, in terms of dollars, to get 1 degree of rise out of each? post that, along with the manual j for the respective heating zones, and then we can start to get a rough idea of what is more efficient in terms of absolute costs. until then, you're just talking out of your ass

>They are bad in cold weather. You can't argue the physics of it. If you look at the efficiency curves the top of the line Bosch drops to 50% efficiency below freezing.

you really don't know what you're talking about. i can't find a bosh specific chart, but modern heat pumps can be ~200% efficient at 0F. and i'm talking about efficiency in the sense of units of energy in = units of energy out, not in a sense of dollars per BTU or whatever

>I'm not sure what variables you speak about, this is a fairly controlled experiment.

you really, really don't know what you're talking about.

there are so many variables that go into your situation, never mind anybody else's, it's completely useless to look at a $150 electric bill and $100 gas bill and draw any kind of conclusions, other than you have no idea what you're talking about. hur dur heat pump bad is basically all you're saying.