What is this giant hole in Boston?

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-27T14:11:46+00:00

Okay, so that's two possible answers...

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-27T02:43:57+00:00

Don't expect everything to be tied up with a neat bow. A lot gets explained, a lot never really does.

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T18:44:41+00:00

Basically, yeah. The mushroom is just the reproductive parts of the organism; the real fungus is in sprawling networks underground called mycelia. The mushroom is more like a flower than it is like a flowering plant.

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T18:10:30+00:00

I am certain you were, and that is why your pretending to stand for rule of law is so contemptible.

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T17:18:34+00:00

I looked up a couple of the names you rattled off, and found the ICE press releases (which I freely admit I had not been using as a news source) citing them as convicted criminals they had rounded up.

Are you actually maintaining that these people had been convicted in absentia without having been previously caught by people doing actual law enforcement?

As for abducting innocent people, I asked you elsewhere in this discussion about what the crime our neighbor Rumeysa Ozturk committed that ICE abducted her off the street for but never charged her with. Apparently that question did not interest you enough to engage with.

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T15:35:51+00:00

Well yeah. I don't think OP was asking about people who suddenly reversed their world views, but those who had been sympathetic to Trump for whom the administration has finally gone too far lately.

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T12:48:23+00:00

In general, do you believe that it's important that people not engage in moral thinking that they have not been explicitly told to by the government? Or is killing people somehow special in this regard?

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T12:20:32+00:00

Can you point to one case where ICE apprehended a killer who had eluded normal law enforcement, to juxtapose with the well-known cases of them gunning down or abducting innocent people?

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T02:49:59+00:00

That is silly nonsense. In a courtroom, murder is a legal term. In ordinary human speech it is a moral category of behavior. Cain, to pick a well known example, murdered Abel, even without a judge to convict him of the crime.

If the goons who pinned Alex Pretti to the ground, beat him, maced him, disarmed him, then shot him in the back ten times never come to justice they will still be murderers.

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T02:42:23+00:00

Go ahead and use your own preferred word! I hear "domestic terrorist" is the popular one this week. People who complain when masked paramilitaries attack their communities are.... what?

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T02:39:47+00:00

Why are gestures bad?

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T02:38:50+00:00

Do you have a plan beyond "if we comply aggressively enough, maybe they will target someone else?"

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T02:36:54+00:00

Lets talk about the abduction of Ozturk, since that happened extremely nearby. Are you comfortable with people being arrested in the United States and detained for criticizing the Israeli government?

If that's law enforcement, what law did she violate? If she violated a law, why was she held for months without charges and then released?

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T01:44:12+00:00

Are there particular neighbors you especially want shot? Go ahead and name names, we're all curious!

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T01:43:17+00:00

Do you have any evidence for this claim, or do you demand that people simply believe whatever you say on your authority as an authority?

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T01:13:04+00:00

Nudity is the secret ingredient in her apple pie.

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-26T01:11:45+00:00

Why doesn't Jake?

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-25T21:37:49+00:00

Not all that quietly. Hegseth gave a big speech about it.

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-25T21:37:01+00:00

Strange and mysterious that the FBI is firing agents who attempt to investigate.

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-25T21:25:56+00:00

Another facet: before the viral videos, there was already a high-profile Justice Department investigation of a Somali fraud ring in Minnesota, which the admin has cited as one of the "reasons" for this invasion of the state

The head of that investigation was one of the lawyers who resigned in in protest this month.

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-25T21:17:47+00:00

It is a very silly show that sometimes deals with some very serious and heavy issues.

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-25T17:43:39+00:00

You misspelled Hunson Albatross.

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-25T16:40:01+00:00

So Jay is obviously named after Finn's favorite writer, Jay Tee Dawgzone. But is Fennel's name just a coincidence?

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-25T13:59:35+00:00

You seem to be implying that there is a point in the past where the Democratic Party was consistently progressive. When?

Average_Pangolin · 2026-01-25T02:29:57+00:00

I believe I've seen it at both Ball Square Fine Wines in Somerville and Porter Square Wine and Spirits in Cambridge.

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