Can we at least throw some appreciation to the jelly stick? So hard to find now.

I found it hard to read that material, and I’ve been reflecting on my actions in all this. I didn’t know very much about them when I added them and I agreed when they asked for the full set of permissions. I put my trust in them. Did not do proper diligence, did not anticipate this situation at all.

The pseudonymous stuff has its advantages and disadvantages, I have met very genuine and kind people on here but there is always the chance that someone is not who they initially appear to be.

I am concerned about how many other accounts this person has and if they are doing the same in any more communities.

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Zestimate: $717,100

The blessing and curse of Reddit has always been the people creating and running subreddits.

Some subreddits were created by folks who saw a need for a place to discuss, educate, explore and truly celebrate a topic that didn't exist before.

Many others are created by folks who have no business having power over anybody or anything, and are elevated to a position of authority because they got lucky and grabbed a now coveted subreddit topic because they just got their first.

The piece that's most concerning to me (assuming it is true and I'd love to hear from u/ky1e on this) is the story bopping around that Linux did an end around and essentially convinced Reddit to elevate him as a moderator based on some dubious Facebook job he holds.

No low-ball offers, I know what I have

>It's simply that the rest of the state doesn't want to be Boston

What, specifically, is wrong with Boston, Springfield, or Worcester outside of "lots of people"?

Because my town is affected just as much as the much wealthier towns. We have to follow the same mandates as the 128 region. There are no compromises unless you want to and can afford to be "punished".

I don't know about that. The whole thing kinda felt like a sneak peak at the next Matthew Harris.

(apologies if the link isn't the best, just looked for one quick on mobile).

What part of Springfield because this is cheap for a decent area?

Are we changing Ukraine profile pic?

You know, I hate that real estate agents successfully branded themselves away from what they truly are, real estate salespeople. I think we often forget that they're basically glorified used car salesmen and should be hated as much as those lemon fuckers.

So based on your estimation. If your study estimate is 150 additional students per grade in 20 years you would then double that to 300 then double that to 600 then either double it to 1200 or 50% increase to 900. Yeah I don't think any municipality or national planning group would consider that making sense or feasible. By those standards you have created a once town into a city.

Now to staff said increases with fewer and fewer teachers. With your logic. A class room of say 20 students is now halved to 10 then halved again to 5 then halved or split 50% to 2.5 or 3.5 students to 1 teacher until the towns growth reaches your dream number.

Towns invest a lot in growth studies and ensure the school systems can last 20+ years without being strained. When new mandates come into play that are out of the usual then all those studies are thrown out the window and towns are told you didn't plan for the state to tell you that you need to grow at an unusual rate.

Face it, the only area gaining from this is Boston proper. There is a reason the rest of the state and towns are complaining and are being "NIMBYs". It's simply that the rest of the state doesn't want to be Boston and definitely doesn't want to be forced to adhere. Come live in the "sticks" for a few years and tell me, if you are still living here, do you still want these mandates put in place? Or is it just that you live in the city and want us to be as miserable as you with overcrowding?

He was an issue before that

I'm a bit of an internet deep diver. I don't like, dox people or go out looking for terrible things, or anything. I just tend to notice little weird things sometimes and then follow the thread for a while to see where I end up.

Linux-is-best was definitely off, worryingly so. I'm not even sure that the things they posted about their real life, like their job, was accurate.

They also were not possible to engage with. It's just not what they were doing here. Online, there's no way to force a genuine interaction. Like, offline? I could look at them in the eyes and tell them something and they'd have to at least consider it. Online it's so much easier to harden yourself against that, or to click away, or to focus on a different comment that you can argue with instead. There's not really much benefit to engaging online with someone who isn't there to engage, which unfortunately means there's almost no way to help someone who is slightly crazy.

Them deleting their account is probably the best case scenario for them, although they are definitely the sort of person who has tons of accounts on other websites they switch between all day, so... Really, my point is that there's not anything anybody can do from here. You shouldn't feel bad about it, but you probably will for a bit, which is good because it means you've still got perspective and empathy.

0.14 acres = 6,098 sq ft. That is a good sized lot in proximity to a major city.

His L-i-B account shows as self-deleted. But it goes without saying that he likely has alt accounts to replace that one.

It's funny you say that, because a year ago when my wife and I were looking for a house, we saw a listing in Braintree that was basically that.

It was this old, barn-style home in a heavily wooded area, clearly with a tiny bit of land around it. The house itself looked like a complete tear down. If I had to guess, it had not been lived in for 10+ years, and the previous owners did not do much to it when they were there. Exposed beams in the walls, all wooden kitchen that was dirty and literally falling apart.

The priced it awkwardly at $450K - as if it was a light fixer upper.

The first line in the description for the home was:

"As you enter, you are greeted by an abundance of natural sun shining through the skylight."

No, you are greeted by death and decay and maybe a touch of asbestos, but you do you, real estate agent with a creative writing background.

Mental health is the silent pandemic. This mod reportedly worked for Meta, a massive company, is probably paid very well and would fit this world's definition of successful, and yet made a very public sub showcasing their probelems as (perhaps) a therapeutic instrument. Most people's struggles are not so obvious.

I'm using this experience as a reality check. People I run across everyday are fighting battles I know nothing about. It's important to be patient, empathetic, and supportive.

You are telling OP that the installation completion date and the in service date are the same thing. Yet, you have zero support for that. You haven't cited a single thing.

If OP follows your advice, gets audited, and the IRS says the installation date is different because the law says so, what do you expect OP to cite to prevent getting hit with a 20% penalty?

The sad part is I can’t tell if you’re serious or not… .14 is pretty small! But it is Massachusetts near Boston…

Wrentham Outlets never made any sense to me. Why make people walk outside when the weather is bad so often? Although with climate change (who would have believed we'd have a winter with no snow?) that might actually become a little more practical.

At least until the heat gets so bad that people start dropping dead of heatstroke when they're walking outside!

It wasn't deleted. He took it private. My guess is that he didn't delete his account, and is just keeping his head down and dreaming of a comeback.

Given that he was such as well-known karma whore, it never made sense to me that he'd give up 161k+ karma by deleting his account.

As for the recent unpleasantness, that sort of thing happens all the time - at least on privately-owned forums, which is pretty much ALL of them these days. You couldn't see something like that happen on a truly free forum like Usenet. A takeover wasn't possible, because there was no central authority to corrupt or usurp. But when a forum has an owner, speech can never be truly free.

We got lucky this time. Usually forums die when someone like Linus-Is-Best takes over. But he made the mistake of assuming that ky1e wouldn't come back. Normally that would have been a safe bet.

I've seen a lot of subs which were taken over or even literally bought out. Not to be too specific, but in the run-up to the big primaries and elections, lots of political groups on Facebook and elsewhere were taken over and destroyed. Apparently the buying price for a decent-sized group was $10,000.00. Of course that was quite a few years ago, before inflation. It got to the point where there were literally no groups of more than a few people that covered certain political points of view!

Which was the intent all along, of course. You don't spend tens of thousands (realistically, hundreds of thousands) of dollars to silence dissent if you're not going to make a profit out of it.

Can I stop sounding paranoid now?

Gillette is in the burbs...128 has loads of office spaces as well as other cities like Worcester, Lynn, Springfield. You are missing the point that the infrastructure exists to handle the load IN THE CITIES. No need for special treatment plans or even large scale construction of new schools or roads. I am near an MBTA station for a reason. I expect that others will want that same thing and I think it makes sense. Evicting a bunch of cows because there is a T station half hour drive away (followed by a 90 minute commute) seems like a dumb place to harass a town over how many units they put in.

fight the good fight all you want. I hope this becomes a major issue in the next election and people will vote out the people that pass this style of reform. Feel free to vote how you wish.

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