As others have said, an having a plan b would be handy. You can check on the MBTA site for alerts on that line prior to leaving for the train. That should give you some idea as to whether the train will be viable or not.

If you look at the photo source, the artist ignores the perfect part of the photo subjects - their happy beaming smiling faces.

Coretta and Martin both have gorgeous smiles that convey all the gravity of the moment. Whereas the hug is a bit awkward and candid…

There was a news piece a while back about boomers being upset that there were no smaller apartments and homes in their towns that they could down size into.

And I got to literally laugh out loud at them facing the consequences of their own actions and voting behavior. Before I was sad again about how fucked the housing market is for everyone.

They might collect $450 million in revenue but that number is far below the MBTA's operating budget. Last year they had a budget gap of about $400 million. Don't think spending an extra billion on this is really going to improve their budget

Tons of great little shops on State, Pleasant, and Water Streets. Also great bakeries and restaurants! Buttermilk Baking Company and Paddle Inn are two particular favorites of mine. There's also a great rail trail.

Late stage capitalism is my least favorite buzz phrase.

Take the red line to Braintree, walk down ivory street. Stop in the Dunkin’ Donuts factory for a freshly baked donut. After that head on down to the Ivory plaza and enjoy the great shopping at TJ Maxx and Homesense. And finish it off with a delicious meal at Chili’s (I suggest the baby back ribs)

I can think of a billion ways the MBTA could spend the money better

Why don’t they prioritize a convenient, reliably working rail system before spending $1B on this nonsense? What a bunch of dunces.

The Schedule is affected by all Weather to be honest as we all know.

So everyone thinks they are"the one" to show the perfect angle that this monstrosity looks good. But wait you haven't seen it from this angle.

So true. We usually only go twice in October and we go on a Saturday or Sunday because they have all the tables and I usually buy some candles from 2 places though one has an etsy store I've already bought from twice since Oct. They have some great tables. Now thats all we go for and to eat. We do love to go in spring and summer too.

Oh I love these! They are definitely my favorite graffiti to see throughout the city. I don't know what it means beyond a really cute personal tag. I have seen it at basically every part of the city and some suburbs, and in some impressive places too. That person seriously gets around

I think the statue is odd but I applaud the effort

Very crowded is an undersell. Goes from quiet coast town to Disneyland on a busy day.

The boomers ironically will have priced themselves out of the GBA once they retire since they blocked so much housing being built that could have been for them.

I suggest just doing it at USPS. They’re very particular about the photo and you don’t want it rejected.

Probably tbh, plan a alternative way of getting there

Not at street-level stops when the operator is determined to collect every fare from every rider.

The "fallacy"of the *sunk cost fallacy" is people getting emotionally attached to money that has already been spent / time that's already been wasted / other resources that have already been used, and despite knowing or having good reason to believe that future resource use is not a good investment given the current state of affairs, continue using resources.

It is not, however, fallacious to observe that money has already been spent to make some kind of progress, that spending only a little bit more money will actually get you a useful product at the end, and that abandoning the project entirely will get you nothing of value. You are making a rational assessment to continue investing money because, with the state of affairs as it is, additional investment appears to be profitable.

Let's say, for example, that you signed a contract to buy a new Ford F-150 for a million dollars, paid in $1,000 installments, with the vehicle to only be delivered if and when the final payment is made. Otherwise you get nothing.

That would have been a stupid contract to sign. It would be stupid to keep paying on that contract if you had only already paid in $1,000, or $10,000, or $100,000, or $900,000. The value of the vehicle is not a million dollars. It's $100,000 or less. Every single payment you make up to roughly the $900,000 level is objectively a bad decision, even if you've already paid in a substantial amount of money. However, along the way, your decision to keep paying might have been driven by the sunk cost fallacy. After all, you already threw $100,000 down a hole. If you stopped paying now, that money would just disappear to no benefit.

On the other hand, if somehow you inherited the right to be sold the F-150 knowing that only a single $1,000 payment needed to be made to actually get the car, it would not be fallacious reasoning to make that payment. It wouldn't make it fallacious if you observed that the $999,000 already spent are a sunk cost. You would be making a rational decision to spend $1,000 in return for an F-150. Somebody else might have made a bad decision to pay up to that point, but it's not a bad decision to pay just a little bit more money to get a useful product at the end.

Local: North End, Charlestown (near Bunker Hill Monument and Main Street), walk down Marlborough Street (between the Public Garden and Mass Ave) and loop back via Commonweath Ave, East Boston, Chinatown, Jamaica Plain, South End

Commuter Rail: Salem, Gloucester, Rockport, Ipswich

Rent a bike! ride the Minuteman and visit Lexington and Concord

Break windshields, score points! Who doesn't love that?

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I assume that's the thought process.

Walmart is the answer. Send it in online, and pick it up in an hour. Obviously there is no Walmart in Boston- but I have found this to be the most cost effective solution.

she isn't doing nothing

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