Recent comments in /f/boston

hce692 t1_jef78nz wrote

Yeah no that is not under 10 minutes. And it’s one giant hill. My point is you blaming it on one single stop being wrong. Making people who are close walk from Chestnut Hill Ave or South Street all the way to Washington street would have been moronic. Residents are not the issue, the infrastructure ever being allowed like this in the first place is

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pjspin0331 t1_jef6kps wrote

This is just it. There was already an existing memorandum of agreement between Local 718 and the mayors office made during the interim. Mayor Wu went against the existing MOA and then refused to meet with the union to discuss further, which prompted all the legal action to begin with. If there is an existing MOA, one of the two sides can’t just up and dissolve it when they feel like it. Thus making this a labor dispute and not really a CoViD dispute.

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houligan27 t1_jef6kg4 wrote

Who said anything about Police unions? They're a small fraction of all unions. The comment connected unions, in this case the Boston Firefighters, to "conservative nonsense."

You can disagree with their stance on a vaccine mandate during the pandemic (and I do), but there's no need to misrepresent the situation of vilify them for fighting for their member's right to collectively bargain changes. There's quite a bit of irony in calling that conservative.

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BatterMyHeart t1_jef65rk wrote

Or it teaches the opposite of coexistence. Played on fields with geese shit all my fuckin life, these people can't even go outside for fear of a little bit? Not to mention that dog is going to be shitting outside and stepping in dog shit even once is more likely to ruin your shoes than walking through a whole field of geese since they are carnivores.

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Schemati t1_jef5o1y wrote

A bike and a heated jacket would be as much as your car spot for a month or 2 and depending on how long your commute is could just be a quality heated jacket

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CompleteAndUtterWat t1_jef5a6n wrote

Philly is an underrated city. It's hella cheaper too. It's school system is terrible though, crime / drugs / etc are worse, here in Boston we have some atv/dirt bike hot boys, but they're really everywhere and constant in Philly. PA politics are also pretty gross. It's gritty AF I still love Philly but Boston has more opportunities for my work and definitely better schools for my kids.

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Parallax34 t1_jef4gos wrote

Mystic River Watershed Associations stance on the topic of eating things from the main lower mystic river.

https://youtu.be/Wp5zgGVeRg0

But it's also still a pretty dangerous place for fish due to high temps and low levels of oxygen, water quality is improved but still not great, Historically it was said you could walk across the Mystic on the backs of herrings they were so plentiful, before poorly regulated industrialization hit the region.

https://youtu.be/oCV1swNDFPA

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