Sure, if you enjoy a rain-snow mix in 40mph winds.

Feel free to move south whenever.

Don’t listen to them, there is no issue at all with calling it “Mass”.

Za’s is excellent if you feel like pizza that doesn’t taste like regular pizza. I love their bacon and potato pizza!

You and every other asshole who “wasn’t willing to chip away at it for fear of damaging the paint”.

You know who’s going to care about that paint when that sheet of ice flies off and smashes someone’s windshield? No one.

I see them in Concord.

That Concord stop would change my life.

We get a cold spell like this at least a winter, it’s not that unusual.

No, the ten day forecast is based on the model projections for where high pressure and low pressure will settle, which steers precipitation and determines temperature. It’s not like it’s a guess.

The conversation should not be about how we, as a society, punish her for killing her children. It should be how we, as a society, work to ensure this never happens again.

Post-partum psychosis is shockingly COMMON. It happens to 0.1-0.2% of birthing mothers. Post-partum psychosis is DEADLY, 5% of women who are diagnosed with it kill themselves and 4% kill their children. It’s a serious, serious disease. She was doing everything right: was in outpatient treatment, was not supposed to be left alone, etc.

Where is the societal support? Where are the beds so she could be inpatient? Why does someone in her position have to rely on insurance agreeing to pay for treatment? Why do we not cover aides to help with home care and supervision? Where is the state funding for mental health treatment? Where is the respite care for her husband?

It’s hard because the first instinct is to judge HER. The second instinct is to judge her husband. But it’s not a PRIVATE tragedy, we should all take a good hard look at the state of mental health care instead. We need to do fucking better: the kids’ deaths were preventable.

No, just one vote each. How's that not fair?

It is absolutely not cold enough for safe pond ice.

You’re right! I forgot we have a corner of a runway. I live in Concord directly under the one of the current approach path, yeah. My husband is a pilot out of Hanscom.

There is no way that a red line expansion to Hanscom (hah) would be blocked by Concord NIMBYs, since it wouldn’t touch Concord in any way. It’s Arlington, Lexington, and Bedford that you’d have to deal with first.

I would happily take the red line all the way from Concord, by the way.

And you’d have to knock down like four Bedford neighborhoods and the entire HAFB if you wanted to ever turn Hanscom into a Bravo airport.

Surprise! Hanscom is definitely not in Concord.

But Hanscom is a Delta airport to Logan’s Bravo. You’d have to triple it in size at least, at LEAST!, and reengineer that entire section of route 2 and the 95 exits. And never mind the actual Air Force base and Bedford neighborhoods to the north.

It’s not as easy as all that. Bravo airports require a lot of infrastructure.

That's why I'm responding to the comment above mine? The comment that says " I'm not sure what could be done now though, other than build a new airport elsewhere".

I mean, you could do what Milan did. They have an in-town airport and they decided to build a new international airport in the middle of fucking nowhere. End result: twenty years and 9 BILLION EUROS later no one uses the hard to get to airport and they are expanding the in-town airport instead.

Proximity is key. There are things that can be improved, namely car transit to and from the airport and, potentially, a better MBTA connection than the silver line, but Logan is one of the most convenient major airports in the US.

I’m a conservationist. It’s just that in this specific case what you’re trying to conserve is junk chock full of invasives nestled between two highways.

There is plenty of beautiful wilderness to protect which has to ACTIVELY be protected. Even the Estabrook Woods, for example, which are the biggest forested area close to Boston are a dying environment because of all the deer overbrowsing and an underbrush made almost exclusively of barberry, firebush, oriental bittersweet, and in the open areas, multi flora roses. Even the knotweed is creeping in now. NONE of those plants have any function for our native pollinators and fauna.

You see wilderness. I see a profoundly damaged environment that is not fulfilling its ecological role.

This is not a cut down all the trees moment! But it’s important to note that the only reason we have white pines everywhere is precisely BECAUSE we cut down our native hardwood forests for farmland. When the farmland was abandoned, the white pine seedlings germinated fast and shaded out most diversity. It’s not a healthy environment to begin with.

Look into the environmental history of the state. What you call “beautiful wilderness” is mostly anything but.

North of the panels?

So... just say no? What's the big call out post for?

As an Italian immigrant, I have to say that regional Italian food is PLENTY interesting. It's Italian-American food that's been played out.

(Spoiler alert: if there's alfredo sauce on the menu it's not an Italian restaurant).

You... overestimate how many people play COD.

Vermont Creamery non è male, lo trovi sicuramente a Whole Foods!

Posto in Somerville has great tiramisu, but honestly? Whole Foods' is just as good.

Edit: I'm Italian. The key for great tiramisu is the ratio between the cream and the cookies/espresso. Too much cookie and it becomes grainy and wet instead of creamy, the zabaglione ought to be the star of the show. It needs a HINT of espresso, the cofee shouldn't be the only thing you taste.