In this deranged administration, they do have to worry about some couch fucker deciding to nuke them because his feelings got hurt

Yes, he should move there. I hear there’s some great land available in Gaza. I’m sure the neighbors will be friendly to such a kind and empathetic president

For sure, and I’ve said that about the town I grew up in as well. It was an ibm town when I was a kid, so very tech oriented. But it was a smallish town in the middle of nowhere and no other tech company replaced ibm when they left.

I came back for my 20 year reunion and just thought everything was grey, run down, stuck in time. It horrified me how many people I knew had just stayed. One of my brothers friends was driving the same Camaro. The same guy with a mullet was selling weed. My best friend from that part of my life admitted he had never travelled more than 50 miles. His gig as a DJ at the community college had been cool at the time but …… doing exactly the same thing? It had been 20 years and I got caught up in no time because nothing changed

My interpretation was

• you gotta get out of this little neighborhood where nothing happens

Southie has a very different stereotype from many other parts of the Boston-Cambridge metropolitan area. All those schools and industries Boston is known for, are NOT in southie. It’s known more as a blue collar town

a small neighbourhood in South Boston.

Aside from the underlying do something with your talent, I took the literal meaning to be getting out of southie. The Boston-Cambridge metropolitan area has many top schools and tech oriented companies that would be excellent opportunities …… but none are in southie. Southie has a very different stereotype than say Cambridge, or the financial district, or many tech areas

That’s actually the logic I use- if we hadn’t had those tax cuts we’d still have a huge debt but not “pain is unavoidable”. We could have been running a relatively flat deficit that you could argue we’d eventually grow out of. You can’t argue that anymore but perhaps restoring those taxes would bring us back to more sane territory

That’s a good start, but this is a multifaceted threat to democracy. I don’t see how they could expect disenfranchising 20,000 people would affect California elections, BUT

• are they targetting swing districts, specific congresspeople?
• terrorizing/suppressing many more voters?
• terrorizing official trying to run legitimate elections?
• distractions, always distractions. Are we missing more serious threats to elections in swing states?
• most importantly creating excuses they will use to try to invalidate californias elections?

Both of the injunction cases have some legal problems. They purport to restrict the feds from doing certain subpoenas or certain indictments before they actually do them

In normal times, it’s a good idea for someone to be harmed before you try to redress that harm. But this is one of the things that must change in today’s dysfunctional government, where people don’t hesitate to illegally demolish things first in order to say “now you have to let me build a gold plated ballroom for my 900 closest friends”. What good is a justice system that can’t stop injustice?

We have pretty strong real world evidence that austerity contracts the economy, makes things worse. Government spending brings more money into circulation, stimulates the economy.

Austerity measures may seem obvious, but we’d be far better off rolling back tax cuts for the wealthy of the last several decades, and provide better/more services to those who need it.

We have the world’s first trillionaire, yet he pays a lower tax rate than most of us.

A big reason for the success of WPA was hordes of cheap unskilled or less skilled labor.

But now everything is automated or has higher requirements. You can no longer hire 1,000 random people to build a road, a bridge or a dam, and the results would be far below what skilled people with the right tools can do.

So what types of jobs would this organization do and how well would they be able to match skills with jobs?

Public transport? What’s that?

• Most of the us doesn’t have functional public transport
• as a single datapoint, kids in Boston public schools get t passes. I don’t know if it’s some or all but a coworker had her kids get to school on their own using transit, with passes provided by the school system
• I live in an older suburb of Boston, and my kids walked to school. However it was falling to the same disease as so many suburbs: neighborhood schools closing into fewer and much larger ones across town.

They block AP News? That’s hardly a scam source

The research found that 8,880 of the names, representing 42% of the entire list, do not correspond to anyone in California’s current voter file.

The one thing missing from articles like this is any look at _where_the names are. Disenfranchising 20,000 voters usually won’t affect a statewide election in California, but it certainly could decide local elections and maybe congressional

Realistically i think it’s just a trial balloon. They’re trying many different ways of interfering with election to see what they can get away with, and in the hope they add up

That’s crazy! Why did it take until its eulogy to finally see what made it unique?

I don’t know what you include in convenience pricing but I probably don’t do it.

I am outraged over grocery/food delivery prices. My mom is mobility impaired so delivery is a lot more than merely a convenience, yet she can’t afford to spend huge amounts

I don’t see how: you’d get all your paperwork wet.

Gloves are in jacket pockets. If I did leave any in the car, it would be in the door pocket, or left on the back seat to dry

But most of us have heat in our cars

Pay attention to the news reports talking about ‘K’ shaped economy, which is exactly what you’re talking about

My company had another layoff about a month ago. But it didn’t get me

It’s been a lot of years but I believe there was a little fitting you can connect a couple pressure gauge to

You’ll have to look it up or hire someone, because it’s not like an outright fail. The tank needs enough of an air pocket to compress and create pressure. If the bladder leaks you’ll lose the air: with nothing compressible there’s no way to hold pressure. Then it’s just a tank and your pump needs to run every time you use water. You’ll not only use a lot of electricity but shorten the life of your pump because it runs too often.

I’m sorry I can’t give enough specifics to go on but this seems like a good possibility you should look into. It may be as simple as bleeding or inflate the tank (free!), but worst case scenario of replacing the tank is a hell of a lot cheaper than replacing the pump

My parents had a similar issue and it was the well pump cycling on and off constantly. Fixing the pressure tank solved it for them.

It was an older tank that needed bleeding, until at some point my parents replaced it to get a new bladder