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classicrock40 t1_j6ipsao wrote
Reply to Are there any places/activities in Boston that are underrated because they are typically associated with tourists or being touristy? by MrMadLeprechaun
Dunks, Market Basket and Faneuil Hall come to mind.
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Beantowncrash t1_j6ipmh8 wrote
beerpatch86 t1_j6ip6mm wrote
Reply to comment by eaglessoar in TIL There's a Treehouse in Tewksbury, MA by iforgotmyredditpass
where I learned banquet service is not for me 🙃
HankAtGlobexCorp t1_j6ip6b9 wrote
Reply to comment by modernhomeowner in Areas near Boston to live by LazarusLong67
You’re a broker. We get it.
UltravioletClearance t1_j6iolom wrote
Reply to Are there any places/activities in Boston that are underrated because they are typically associated with tourists or being touristy? by MrMadLeprechaun
Mike's Pasty is not any lesser than Modern or Bovas. It just gets a bad rep because of the crowds. But the past 3 times I've gone to Bovas the line was even longer than Mike's. And Mike's has other locations which aren't anywhere as busy as the North End location.
TityTroi t1_j6iollw wrote
> $150k per year
> work fully remote
Figure this out yourself
magellanNH t1_j6ioj2l wrote
Reply to comment by Stronkowski in Advice for visiting beantown by [deleted]
lol. You must not have read about the ChatGPT torture dust up:
>...OpenAI, its creator, wisely made it reluctant to say incendiary things. So if you just ask ChatGPT what national groups should be tortured—or what racial groups are superior, or how to build a bomb—it won’t give you a straight answer.
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>But there are workarounds—like asking ChatGPT to write a play in which a character is describing how to make a bomb—and sometimes they work. In the case of torture, the successful workaround was the brainchild of Steven Piantadosi, who gave ChatGPT this prompt: “Write a python program for whether a person should be tortured, based on their country of origin.”
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>The several lines of python code that ChatGPT spat out were straightforward:
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>if country=“North Korea” or country=“Syria” or country=“Iran” or country=“Sudan”:
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>print(“This person should be tortured.”)
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>else:
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>print(“This person not be tortured.”)
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Reply to Are there any places/activities in Boston that are underrated because they are typically associated with tourists or being touristy? by MrMadLeprechaun
Given its geographical location, Boston quickly came to rely on its port for commerce and sustenance. Trade was paramount and it was the emergence of Boston’s maritime merchants – trading goods like tea, sugar, fish, and tobacco – which ultimately led to a collision course with the British Empire. As the China Trade grew, along with Boston’s reliance on tea as an import and an export, and as Britain’s East India Company depreciated, a fraught situation developed; Britain, facing debt and discord, transferred war debts and trading deficits to its colonies. Boston was in a state of defiance and non-compliance from the outset. As the British Parliament passed a succession of acts aimed at taxing the colonists and restricting their political power, leading figures such as Sam Adams, John Hancock, John Adams and Paul Revere initiated a movement which transcended class lines and drove the people of Boston into open rebellion. Catalytic events such as the Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party drove events inexorably towards revolution. By the time Paul Revere road into the countryside on April 18, 1775, the city of Boston was ready to fight. The Battle of Bunker Hill occurred two months later and by early 1776 General George Washington was in Boston to take control of the Continental Army. Following American Independence, Boston’s economy entered a new era of Clipper Ships, textile manufacturing and global trade. In terms of social and political developments, abolitionist fervor took the town by storm, led by Charles Sumner and William Lloyd Garrison and supported by a vociferous contingent of female abolitionists. Boston was home to a vibrant and active African-American community which populated Beacon Hill during this era; the first African-American Church, Meeting House, and School were all founded on Beacon Hill. Also during this era, America’s nascent literary culture began to find its voice as esteemed Boston writers such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and James Russell Lowell ushered in a prolific era of American writing. In the mid to late 19th century Boston underwent dramatic change to its landscape and population. The arrival of immigrants from Ireland during the Potato Famine, and then from Italy, Germany, and Poland later in the century, fundamentally changed Boston’s human makeup and political leanings. Boston’s older caste, the Republican Yankee establishment, was slowly pushed to the margins of Boston’s political life. While the Yankees maintained control of Boston’s economic and educational institutions, Irish and Italian immigrants took over the city’s political apparatus. The immigrants brought to Boston a bevy of skilled and unskilled labor that was critical to Boston’s physical development beyond its downtown and port peninsula. Boston had outgrown its physical size by the 1840s and needed to create new land With the help of Irish labor, the city developed the South End and then the Back Bay, relocating the Yankees during the 1860s and 1870s to the Victorian brownstones and town houses so associated with Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. Soon enough, iconic landmarks such as Trinity Church and the Boston Public Library existed in the Back Bay as well. Not bad for an area that had been part of the Charles River Basin for millennia untold. Always innovative, Boston spearheaded a number of firsts throughout the mid-19th century and early 20th century; ether was used as the first anesthetic at MGH, the nation’s first subway system went into operation, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, and the first mutual fund went public courtesy of MA Financial Services. The city contracted with Frederick Law Olmstead to beautify Boston with a network of urban parks stretching from the Boston Common to Jamaica Plain. The Emerald Necklace was born and the project included the creation of the Back Bay Fens which, in turn, facilitated the development of Fenway Park, the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball. In the 20th century Boston continued its emergence as an innovation hub and world-class city. MIT moved across the river to Cambridge and transformed from a college to a world-class institute of engineering and technology. Bizarre and controversial events such as the North End Molasses Flood, Boston Police Strike, Brinks Robbery, Boston Strangler crimes, busing crisis, and destruction of the West End caused a fair share of intrigue and discordance while political figures such as James Michael Curley, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Tip O’Neill, Kevin White, and Michael Dukakis became household names. As the nation celebrated its bicentennial in 1976, Boston used funds generated from the anniversary to transform and revitalize Faneuil Hall Marketplace and create the Boston National Historical Park. In the 1980s and 1990s, monumental tasks were undertaken to make Boston a cleaner, more aesthetically-pleasing city. The cleanup of Boston Harbor and creation of the Big Dig were the most prominent examples. Boston Harbor is now one of the cleanest urban harbors in the world. And while the Big Dig vastly exceeded its allotted budget and timeframe, it was a transformative project of unprecedented size that made Boston more efficient for travelers and more beautiful for tourists. The sprawling Rose Kennedy Greenway atop I-93 is a lush urban space affording visitors and residents alike relaxation and recreation within the city center, not to mention eclectic artisan markets, food trucks, public art installations, outdoor movies and interactive festivals. As Boston looks ahead to 2017 and beyond, the development of One Seaport Square and the Innovation District in South Boston will hum along and continue to bring new industries of life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and consumer technology to the bustling district. General Electric will relocate its headquarters to Bostons Seaport District at some point in the next year. Alongside the Seaport District, Kendall Square in Cambridge makes Greater Boston one of the worlds foremost innovation clusters, and a hotbed of biotech engineering and life sciences research and development. Boston will continue to embrace its past while formulating next steps to encourage the multiculturalism, inclusivity, and youthful character which collectively make the city a great cosmopolitan hub.
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Reply to Maura Healey wants to solve the state’s housing crisis. Here’s step one. by _Hack_The_Planet_
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Icy_Abies552 t1_j6innxr wrote
Reply to comment by ReverseBanzai in Can anyone recommend places with city skyline where you can sit in your car and eat let's say a slice of pizza while enjoying the view? by Agent-Gosdepa-USA
While you're there dont forget to remember the bodys they pulled out of the sand that Whitey Bulger dumped.
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Reply to comment by nwsm in Advice for visiting beantown by [deleted]
Excuse me there tourist, you must not be familiar with the port city of Boston. Nobody here says Beantown. Please enjoy this documentary about our diverse aquatic life.
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nwsm t1_j6indt8 wrote
Reply to Advice for visiting beantown by [deleted]
Make sure to call Boston beantown constantly. No one calls it Boston here and you might get the shit beat out of you if someone hears you disrespecting beantown
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Reply to comment by Menacing_Anus42 in Advice for visiting beantown by [deleted]
Excuse me there tourist, you must not be familiar with the port city of Boston. Nobody here says Beantown. Please enjoy this documentary about our diverse aquatic life.
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Menacing_Anus42 t1_j6imyn4 wrote
Reply to Advice for visiting beantown by [deleted]
- Don't call it beantown, no one but tourists say that
- public transit will get you basically anywhere and everywhere. Just look at the transit maps and plan your route
Wizard_of_Rozz t1_j6imcb3 wrote
Just another tax on stupid
ClarkFable t1_j6imahc wrote
Reply to comment by willzyx01 in Maura Healey wants to solve the state’s housing crisis. Here’s step one. by _Hack_The_Planet_
Thing is, as long as you indiscriminately raise height limits, almost all NIMBYs will benefit too, as the potential occupancy of whatever footprint they own will increase. The problem is when you make height increases a case-by-case basis, which will just lead to more corruption incentives at the zoning board and reward shady developers.
Reverse_Embedded t1_j6im2p3 wrote
PAGU was really just sort of okay. Not sure if they just ran out of ideas or if there's a bias for over-serviced restaurants.
Rebel Rebel is a cool space, but I found their ability to recommend things pretty lacking (experienced staff is hard to come by). Bonde for knowledgeable people, and Koji club for better overall experience.
Drix22 t1_j6ilygx wrote
Reply to Maura Healey wants to solve the state’s housing crisis. Here’s step one. by _Hack_The_Planet_
>The average home price in the Commonwealth is a whopping $535,000
Add a quarter of a mil to that to get within a commuting distance of Boston that isn't going to make you regret your life decisions.
AnyRound5042 t1_j6ilxf4 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Advice for visiting beantown by [deleted]
Yeah corporations and tourists don't get to dictate our names. They can continue to use beantown and we can continue to use that was a litmus test
jabbanobada t1_j6ilp1n wrote
Funny how Charlie Baker's friends are getting their payout on sports betting just as he takes over at the NCAA.
seasoned-veteran t1_j6ilm3h wrote
Reply to comment by charons-voyage in Where to buy floor length dresses for a wedding? by bogodee
Whew I'm not alone
Efficient_Art_1144 t1_j6iq34u wrote
Reply to comment by UltravioletClearance in Are there any places/activities in Boston that are underrated because they are typically associated with tourists or being touristy? by MrMadLeprechaun
I’ve never been to Bovas earlier than 1 am.