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He can now spend more time with his true passion in life … arson.

07.03.2026 03:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fondly recalling the 2010s, when one could borrow money for free and instead of densifying our cities and building electric-powered mass transit, we pretended Uber rides would always be cheap and worked hard to prevent "transit-oriented gentrification."

06.03.2026 21:14 👍 103 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 0

The most Boston thing about the Dropkick Murphys is that they look like a bunch of dudes in southie pretending to be the dropkick murphys

07.03.2026 01:35 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Annnnd... now the title of the center (Center for Human-driven AI Research and Methods at Harvard) has been changed to... "Human of life aorknice"

Annnnd... now the title of the center (Center for Human-driven AI Research and Methods at Harvard) has been changed to... "Human of life aorknice"

Now I've got it! It'll be a robot helping scaffold someone through a pistol squat, a really hard exercise, so that eventually they can do it on their own! Do that!

And... womp womp. I guess I'm the co-founder of the "Human of life aorknice" now.

06.03.2026 18:17 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It does however look like they could be easily relocated by tipping them onto the sidewalk.

06.03.2026 23:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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06.03.2026 22:40 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

By the Bank Manager?

06.03.2026 22:15 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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06.03.2026 22:07 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It - Washingtonian The sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974. Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis: most of ...

We tried this. People hated it.

washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/t...

06.03.2026 22:02 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

We had Cash for Clunkers to reward people who had made bad decisions!

Then prices came down and they went out and made the same decisions.

There was a year-long wait list for Priuses.

06.03.2026 21:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't need to be reminded about changing the clocks (which change on their own now, except microwaves, cars and ovens) since whiny people on the internet will be sure to remind me they'd love 8:30 sunrises in winter.

06.03.2026 21:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
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This was also in 2008 when everything was falling apart … and it was down under $2 months later.

Prices fell 50% in 3 months, which is *nuts*

www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/his...

06.03.2026 20:44 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

People forget that in 2009 gas was $4.11/gal, equivalent to $6.08/gal today.

Fuel-efficient used cars *appreciated* in value.

06.03.2026 20:34 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1

The Commuter Rail portion of Ruggles opened Oct 5, 1988, as the A's started their sweep of the Red Sox.

I assume it was planned for the next season and printed onto the new maps.

06.03.2026 20:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Instead of having 20% of the world's oil going through a 35-mile-wide strait let's send it through a 1000-foot wide canal" seems like it would be a great idea even if it wasn't a 100-mile canal over a 1000-foot mountain.

06.03.2026 20:12 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Probably original to when it opened in 1987. Lynn was fully accessible from 1992 until a couple of years ago.

06.03.2026 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Prius drivers are going to be especially smug in the next few days/weeks/months.

06.03.2026 19:49 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

Really seems like they should pull some seats out of the lower level of another car on each set for more bikes.

I would say … cargo bikes take up a lot of room, so I get needing to have guidelines.

06.03.2026 19:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's Biden's fault! Biden made us start the war! Biden raised gas prices!

06.03.2026 18:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This was last week.

06.03.2026 18:48 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Be careful what you wish for, a notable frequent user of the BENGHAZI meme was none other than Jesse Singal.

06.03.2026 18:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes but then how will I be able to go back and point out all the times I was right about things?

06.03.2026 18:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yikes!

06.03.2026 18:31 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think we should take things further and have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on all the weird post-leftist (Grim) and fash-adjacent (Fang, Greenwald) horrors the Intercept unleashed on the world

06.03.2026 18:22 👍 108 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 0

Most of the network: building level boarding would take decades and be prohibitively expensive if not impossible.

Foxborough (which is in STRACNET): yeah we can get it done in a few months.

06.03.2026 18:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

B
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thaN that, Mrs Lincoln, how is the war
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06.03.2026 18:05 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

In 1994 my dad, ever the cheapskate, parked somewhere in Walpole and then we biked through the neighborhood and woods.

Oh and then we bought scalped tickets for $50 each, midfield in the third row.

06.03.2026 18:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Mission Accomplished?

No! More War!

06.03.2026 17:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The real news here is that apparently the T knows that high level platforms speed boarding.

06.03.2026 16:06 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

This is a particularly dumb headline.

2 million people over 7 games.

Of which maybe 500,000 will go to a game (over 7 games).

They're not trying to get 2 million people into 5000 parking spaces.

(I'm somewhat doubtful 1.5m people will come to Boston to … not go to a soccer game.)

06.03.2026 16:04 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0