Recent comments in /f/massachusetts

Cheap_Coffee t1_jdi3drk wrote

Soft paywall. It's so annoying when people post links to walled articles without even bothering to summarize the article.

"Boston resident Martin Kelledy has filed a class-action suit in state and federal courts over his contention, which basically boils down to the claim that the Dunkin’ mobile app sometimes adds upcharges that it doesn’t explain."

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pillbinge t1_jdhzw7t wrote

I understand there's a news effect, where if you hear news of, say, a suicide, suicide rates go up. Same thing happens, horrifically, with school shootings.

But is it literally everything? Trains just derail now? Or have they always derailed like this and we just haven't gotten reports?

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BeastCoast t1_jdhozs0 wrote

Totally. After living out west for 14 years I got used to driving a lot farther for things than out here. I’ve kept that mindset since I’ve been back and I’ve seen so much more of New England than my first go around.

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Puzzleheaded_Oil9958 t1_jdhlfdh wrote

It’s funny because the whole concept you are arguing for is simply not legal according to a big portion of the world. In Scotland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Austria, Czech Republic and Switzerland there is legislation called “right to roam” where anyone can walk through someone else’s land so long as they don’t stay too long or mess it up. Although it is law in those countries it’s pretty much culturally a law in most of Europe going back centuries.

So from a European perspective, the entire concept of suing to disallow people to simply walk across your land is ridiculous. Same as the idea that the state would have to buy that land from you just so people can walk through it.

Tldr: the entire concept that we are even spending resources fighting things like this in court in America is almost a laughable parody of American exceptionalism

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