But someone could've had a dash cam and turned me in. This was just last night

We currently don't allow for camera traffic enforcement for moving violations in MA. If you didn't get pulled over, you aren't getting a ticket for a moving violation

it sounds like your quality of life is better because you’re wealthy enough to be insulated from the things that make life truly suck.

But thanks for the continued property taxes at least.

Well, people with no strong ideologies will choose the places to live where they can get more from their dollars. It’s just the truth. If i can have a job in Dallas where i can make above 85k, i will live there without any hesitation. (And i’m not even white, also I’m gay.)

That experience should now motivate you to invest in a dash camera.

It probably was green, but remember the rule around here is that four or five cars get to go though even after their light turns red.

You'll be fine.

I got so scared I called a lawyer. He said it's possible they could mail me a citation but unlikely :( the anxiety is killing me

There are no red light cameras in MA, so even if you fuck it up, you're fine if you don't crash

Their answering machines were turned off when I tried calling a few months ago. Must have been that damn coronavirus too.

I also wanted to mention that many employees collectively of Cambridge/Somerville wanted the Grand Junction Project to move forward, but the NIMBY crowd of Cambridge-port stopped it. Those unfamiliar, the plan consisted of using the freight line in Kendall Square in order to provide services for those living beyond city limits. It would serve to encourage more commuters to use public transportation rather than their vehicles.

So for those who continually rant about cars, they should be asking the pols in Cambridge why they allowed the Brahmins of Cambridge to prevent a perfectly good remedy to the problems with the overcrowded roadway system we have in the 4 mile radius and highways that surround it and push the project through.

This article below is exactly the same problem that occurred which was about the Red Line Extension plan that was stopped as well. The NIMBY crowd in Arlington- Lexington- Bedford pushed back on the political establishment and they also got the church involved (Arlington), cited “undesirables would be moving in”, as their reasoning so Alewife became the last stop.

Here is the article that outlines more detail of the issues with NIMBYISM in this region as it based on unsubstantiated rumors to suggest home values would plummet.

https://tuftsobserver.org/red-tape-why-the-red-line-stopped-short/

States have been reduced to entities that cater to consumers. The speed at which things have changed isn't manageable. It's why so many nations haven't even figured it out, let alone states that have less power.

Boston is too important to the state and the region. That's not good. You see the same sorts of things with monopolies, and Boston is a monopoly. People are leaving MA for a lot of reasons, but an MA where people don't leave isn't necessarily one where people come to. The region is too crowded. Sorry, but it is. Housing is too spread out and car-dependent. The area has changed even since I was a kid and I was a kid not too long ago. There's no direction other than up for some people.

We need more housing, we need more people, we need more more more. That's not going to work even if everyone's onboard. MA is trying to manage a neoliberal society that's "post" production (really just moved abroad), but these kinds of jobs that follow are weak and ephemeral. How can you build up anywhere when a decade could spell disaster for a whole industry - and when other recessions loom?

MA is no different from so many other places. It's just trying to always play with big dogs, and it's tiresome.

I'm from here, so it's different. Why do people move here, though? Opportunity. They move elsewhere as a secondary option. That means we're constantly trying to keep up with other trends just to say attractive, but attractive to whom? Things were way different decades back, but the economy was totally different too. Are we supposed to want more people here? We can't handle them. Are we supposed to want fewer?

Ideally, the state would make sure that the region were condensed in some parts and that industry were spread out. People should be asking "Boston, Worcester, or Springfield" at a minimum. They don't. It sucks. This is why we have people scrambling for the same things, so that when they can't live in Boston, they often jump states - not even regions within MA.

Having blue hair is probably a job requirement for an art education director.

To be serious, I work at a school and most of the art teachers and drama teachers have alternative hair colors. It’s not a big deal around here in certain jobs. If you were a lawyer, it might be hard, but your field is filled with folks with similar fashion sense and do not care about hair color stuff like that.

Any information of what the plan is to replace those funds? Gas tax is unsustainable, a vehicle miles traveled tax will be a more effective means to fund road maintenance. But if the plan is to simply eliminate the gas tax with no replacement or dedicated road funding, it's a foolish endeavor.

We don't want our roads subject to annual appropriations. We want the funding proportional to the amount the roads are used since that's what drives maintenance costs.

My understanding of the excuse tax is that it funds road maintenance and repair through Chapter 90 and does not support municipal general funds. It's not a proxy for income tax, it's a supplement to gas tax.

Sounds like you had a nice ticknick

I mean, we have Cumbies pizza.

No it wouldn't in Massachusetts. The line for wrongful death and murder of a fetus is based on viability of the fetus on the logic that it's not a meaningful distinction if someone's 8 1/2 months pregnant and killed in a way that the fetus is seriously injured and dies of injuries after birth or killed before birth. There's case law on this for wrongful death and vehicular homicide. Commonwealth v. Cass (1984) and Mone v. Greyhound Lines (1975).

Lawn is where you get the show, within the show. The people of the lawn are typically people of Walmart, but all boozed up.

Says the crazy cat lady

FYI Florida is the top state people have moved to in 2022. 😉

I work as a manager at a corporate restaurant but points for trying to project me as a low paid employee

It doesn't make that a fetus is a life in one sense and not the other.

I was talking in general. If she were 2 months pregnant it would still be considered murder.

Thank you, I will check it out.

wait, is this "excellent job" the one you mention working with dishwashers at? wtf excellent job would that be? jesus fucking christ low standards abound....floridian restaurant worker goblin line cook....dude.

just know someone out there is laughing at ya. Nice chat.

A good campsite can definitely make for a more enjoyable trip. Empty sites that are a massive upgrade sucks.