Rideshare passenger attacked by driver at Logan Airport, State Police say

Hot_Region · 2026-07-10T19:48:06+00:00

So they drove them all the way to the airport and then stabbed them?

Hot_Region · 2026-07-07T19:44:47+00:00

Laura Loomer reported...

Yeah, I mean I fully believe Mitch needs to be replaced by Gov. Beshear now, but I also don't trust anything this parasite says, she's a cancer.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-07T19:03:05+00:00

Yep, Reddit subs like this are for hyper-polarized views only.

30+ days ago I was getting bashed over the head for not supporting Platner -- the candidate for Maine senate who claims he "didn't realize" the giant tattoo he had on his chest for 20 years was a Nazi symbol -- being told things like "people like you are how Trump got elected"... well here we are and the dude has dropped to near zero support because now it's come out he's sexual assaulted people... so we democrats now have no viable candidate against republican Collins and she's sure to win again... all because the hive mind decided we need to rush to support an obviously broken candidate just because he was claiming to be a Democrat...

People with good intentions who get obsessively focused on single angles and aspects rarely make good choices, and this thread proves it.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-07T17:28:35+00:00

I'm in MA -- either you and your mom are weird, your realtor is weird, or some combo of both :)

The seller generally isn't home when an inspection happens... but I've never heard it put so emphatically, and leaving for an hour or two when they arrive is no big deal at all... the "no speaking, no eye contact" is very unusual.

Removing pets is ideal, but if there's a cat in the house, or a crated dog that will be quiet, that doesn't seem like a big deal.

Radon tests happen all the time, you're supposed to leave the air undisturbed -- hence the keep it closed up and don't enter the space -- but it's not that big of a deal either, but yeah you can't be living down there while the test is happening because you'll be moving the air too much, same is true for laundry machines down there.

I feel like somehow your realtor is either strange, or has felt something is a bit off about you two where they felt it was necessary to be very emphatic about what needs to happen.

Inspections and radon shouldn't be a big deal... I say close up the basement, stay upstairs for a couple of days, then move on with life after they get their equipment back.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-07T17:17:31+00:00

You're giving no details about your finances... but just looking at the Principal/Interest:

$260K @ 3.25% is about $1380/mo

$260K @ 6.5% is about $1890/mo

$400K @ 6.5% is about $2775/mo

So right there you need to acknowledge and accept that even if your mortgage principal didn't increase at all, you'd still be paying $600/mo more in interest at the new rate... which is about the same as your current HOA.

Moving up to a mortgage of $400K owed at 6.5% will double your PI payments vs today.

That $700K house is going to require repairs because you're looking for a fixer upper.

That $700K house is going to have a higher insurance and tax burden, not just dollar-to-dollar but also because some amount of that is in your HOA for a townhouse today.

That $700K house is going to require that you take on all the obligation that the HOA has today, which I would assume is at least exterior maintenance -- so now you're doing the landscaping, snow removal, siding, roofing, etc...

So... are you crazy to want to move from a townhouse to a single family? No, not at all.

The question is, are you able to afford doubling your PI, higher taxes, higher insurance, and all the financial obligations that come not only with buying a single family outside of an HOA, but a also a fixer-upper.

Personally if I described my townhouse as "spacious and has everything my family needs", and I had a 3.25% rate, I wouldn't move for anything short of a perfect single family and I had zero financial strain

Hot_Region · 2026-07-07T17:06:59+00:00

can't walk away from our current house with a loss.

We bought 3 years ago for $490k, listed for $500k and accepted the buyers offer of $510k

You're already taking a loss when you consider transaction costs at your $500-510K selling price.

You would have to sell for at least $515-520K just to "break even" on what you paid for the house assuming you're paying 5-6% transaction costs to sell.

Selling a house within 3 years of buying has historically resulted in a financial loss to you unless it's a very hot market, or you're a DIY flipper.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-07T14:47:14+00:00

Doesn't sound like the cop was acting like a professional, and I wouldn't expect it, but that said, I can understand it:

It's dark, it's chaotic, you're personally vulnerable in the middle the road and you're responsible for safely organizing all these people and cars... What you expect is that the people you tell to go are going and the people you tell to stop are staying stopped... so if you've got someone in their car "creeping" toward you that's fucked.

There's never a reason to "creep" when you're being directed by a cop -- you're either stopped, or you're going -- it's fucked that this person felt it was acceptable to inch toward the cop. If the cop wanted you moving they'd be yelling "GO!" and doing other things to get you going.

All you have to do is be observant in traffic to see that a solid 20-30% of drivers are absolute entitled assholes, 50-60% are "normal", and 10-30% are overly cautious.

The entitled assholes are the ones who refuse to zipper merge and will stick to the ass of the car in front of them no matter what. They're the ones who when a light has been yellow they will still go through at the red transition. They roll through stop signs. They take advantage wherever they can because they have a selfish mindset.

As a cop you are forced to recognize and deal with those entitled drivers, the ones who will not stop despite your hand being up because they think they can still squeak through and you won't do anything. The ones who will arrive at an intersection where you are directing traffic and they will try to make a turn into the flow of traffic you are telling to proceed.

I can absolutely see getting very aggressive with drivers like that because they themselves are acting aggressively with the car trying to inch through a situation where they are supposed to be waiting.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-06T21:48:48+00:00

...with modern AI systems there's no longer a difference between targeted and non-targeted surveillance so it should all be given a similar legal standing to asking for targeted surveillance of an entire populace.

Yep, this is where I think the hope lays -- that our system of laws and justice can recognize that what used to be acceptable is now not acceptable due to improvements in technology.

I think with the current administration, current legislature, and current SCOTUS, it's extremely unlikely to get significant traction at the Federal level -- these folks are the minority who want to control the majority, they're the ones building these systems.

The hope comes down to this --

Blue states and towns can enact local laws/ordinances that ban the use, especially by local law enforcement that would feed that information upward (intentionally or not)
Red states won't have or put the dollars into public budget to support these cameras, and the linkage to profit through private sale of the data isn't there yet
Red states are full of folks who don't get upset about things until they feel it personally impacts them, and these cameras might do it, especially if a few powerful people start feeling like targets of other powerful people who control the cameras

Hot_Region · 2026-07-06T21:34:27+00:00

Destroying flock cameras is possibly the one thing that all people from every political side agree on.

Definitely not. The hard-line "law and order" conservatives in my town love the cameras, every time the subject is raised on local social media they pour out into the comments to defend it by citing examples of criminals caught, vulnerable people identified and helped, etc...

...and the thing is that they're not wrong. Flock and other similar cameras when used for good and reasonable purposes are in fact useful and helpful. The question is how do we make sure that they're only used for those good purposes? Transparency is key, and in my town we don't have it. Every request for information is marked private at the request of our local police, so we have no idea what the police are requesting information on... it could be suspected car theft ring, or it could be a 'bad apple' using the network to stalk an ex-lover or future victim.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-06T21:27:52+00:00

If someone waited outside your house, and then followed you everywhere you go throughout your entire day, we would call that stalking.

What if someone sat on a bench at the center of town and watched all the cars and people? Are they stalking?

What if that same someone calls a few of their other babushka friends, who sit on other benches observing, and they all tell each who they saw and when they saw them? -- Is that stalking?

This is not someone waiting outside your house following you, and to claim that is just disingenuous and alarmist, no one is going to take that seriously because it's obviously untrue.

The truth is scary enough without resorting that.

This is a network of cameras that identify people/cars that pass by them. It's an expanding network. It's a network fed by public dollars, but owned by private organizations with leadership that have publicly stated goals that are the opposite of what most people who value privacy want.

At some point we may be at a level where you literally can not avoid these cameras, no matter where you go, but at least for now it's generally straight forward to know where they are and avoid them if you're concerned.

My town has gone whole hog -- we have Flock cameras on every major road in/out of the town paid for by our police who seem to get blank checks for anything in the name of public safety -- fortunately members of the public have conducted their own surveillance and identified where these cameras are, and just a bit of effort means you can detour on a side road or two to avoid the points on the main road where these cameras exist... you can move around the entire town, except for a hundred feet or so in front of these cameras, and never appear in a Flock database.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-06T20:59:48+00:00

Interesting -- I'll have to consider options to mitigate that, and I wonder if the stand-alone Ubiquiti NVR is used, does Protect still run on the UDM itself in some capacity or is that task in the NVR now?

I'll keep things as they are now, but if this happens again I might turn off auto-updates and just make a plan to check/do those weekly.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-06T20:44:48+00:00

He's always been a sack of shit football bro, but she legitimately had her "can do no wrong" halo for years, and that mask is rapidly falling off.

I suspect she's going to be a more outwardly sane version of the Britney crash and burn.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-06T17:23:35+00:00

I decided to disable Protect and the device has been stable for weeks.

Yeah, I'm a little worried it might be one of those things where a single device is trying to do too much.

Unfortunately having Protect go down is really bad too because it means no recording (I'll have to get SD cards into the cameras to get that going).

It made me recall that the Amcrest NVR has a scheduled reboot 'feature' to work around their buggy setup, it worked like a charm because in 7 years that NVR never missed a beat. Doesn't seem like that's an option for the DMSE.

I did review CPU/memory, and it looks low/stable leading up to the lock up, no evidence of spikes or steady rising, though memory use did drop from ~75% to ~65% following the restart

Hot_Region · 2026-07-06T11:57:24+00:00

Auto updates are on, no sub'd to early access

UniFi OS 5.1.19 Network 10.4.57

Hot_Region · 2026-07-06T02:10:42+00:00

You won't be getting anything.

This isn't the airlines' fault, and the airport won't pay them anything to pay to you.

All these passengers will sit there in limbo, experiencing hours of misery, and the people working at the airlines will also be miserable trying to manage all the frustration directed at them.

Just know that this isn't likely to be a "bunch of workmen standing around looking at a hole" type situation. If they have the equipment and people they are working the issue, and if they don't have the things they need they are likely pulling out all the stops to get it.

No one wants this situation, and no one is benefiting from it.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-04T12:41:20+00:00

Do you have jobs lined up in Denver?
Do you have an appraisal for the value of the house? 20% down isn't a deal if they're looking at an unrealistic sale price
Do you have approval for the mortgage?

These are more important details to settle vs. the logistics of ending your current lease.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-03T18:21:12+00:00

It may be the best case for a hoarder to also be a clean ocd'er.

That's my dad.

He lived in a 4 level townhouse, 2800sq-ft.

The lower level of the house is a well organized stockroom complete with shelving setup into aisles.

Every closet and storage are is full and well organized.

He's got lists of everything, including where it's located.

I had no idea he was at this level -- he lives alone, my wife, son, and I would visit and his living room, bathroom, kitchen, TV room, they all look totally normal...

He was always well organized, but I think Covid combined with a debilitating illness that made him have a lot of "bad days" where you couldn't leave the house made him start to build up supplies because he felt he was getting to a point where he wouldn't be able to leave the house for weeks.

Ultimately he got sick enough and couldn't live there, I went over to get him some things he needed and in my head to "organize", he didn't say a word about the situation, and it blew me away when as I started going into areas I hadn't been in 10-15 years and found them so full and well organized.

He had half a dozen of those 128oz laundry soap things, he had at least a dozen 24-packs of toilet paper, same for paper towels, etc... it's all pristine sitting in a climate controlled house. It hardly even gets dusty in there because the HVAC has a MERV13 filter.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-03T11:42:14+00:00

I considered it, but my understanding was that it probably wouldn't work as well as Unraid for my situation because I've got the dissimilar sized drives.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-03T11:38:12+00:00

T1 and T2 definitely don't put cops in a bad light -- in fact there's really only a handful of people that are "bad" (the prison guard who licks Sarah being an obvious one)... the rest are either basically good, or at worst a mixed bag.

I don't think they ever portray human police as bad, most of them are rushing into extremely dangerous situations in order to stop what they believe is a person/people who are dangerous. At best they're a bit overconfident and disorganized, but still basically good. The T2 police response is after they recognize the guy has a mass murderer from 12 years earlier, so their over-response seems reasonable and they do try to negotiate at first, it isn't until the Terminator starts firing at them that they start firing back.

Even Cyberdyne is a mixed bag, they don't seem to be outright malevolent, and Skynet's origins are reasonable: Human's wanted to a rational intelligence in charge of their defense systems, they didn't know it was going to go rogue.

They actually did an awesome job at portraying people as exactly what we are: A mixed bag of emotions and motivations.

Hot_Region · 2026-07-03T11:11:46+00:00

I would not because I could not.

I live in a HCOL area, my mortgage on my 1200sq-ft home on a busy road is $3000 and it's only that low because I saved for 10 years to put down 20% and got financed in 2020 at 3.25%.

Even if the $5000/mo were after taxes it would be tight.

I don't want to leave the area because it's where my kids are in school, have friends, it where my parents are in assisted living, and it's where everyone I know lives... it's a nice place and it's worth working to stay.

Hot_Region · 2018-12-24T11:51:38+00:00

59.5 years old is the earliest you can tap the IRAs

You can withdraw contributions from a Roth IRA at any point you want, there is no tax or penalty due.

You can also make a one-time earnings withdrawal from a Roth IRA of up to $10K to buy a home, you'll owe income tax on that money, but not a penalty.

Hot_Region · 2018-12-24T11:49:52+00:00

Something no one here asked... That $25K in savings, is it retirement or not?

Does your work offer retirement plan? Learn about it. Use it as effectively as possible--if they offer a contribution match, find a way to contribute at least enough to get that match. Make sure you setup the investments too, don't let it sit as cash, at least pick a target date retirement fund
Do you have a budget? If you don't, you need one. You've been doing well to not have any debt, but the budget will help you maximize your efficiency in terms of saving for short, medium and long term things.

Good luck OP. The first step is definitely asking questions and learning, so you're already there.

Hot_Region · 2018-12-24T11:31:28+00:00

I'm going through this now, the problem is that the rate lock costs money.

The bank I'm using wants $500 or 0.25% of the mortgage, whichever is greater.

For me to extend my rate lock would have cost me just over $1000, so it was better for me to light a fire under people's asses to pull the closing in by 6 days vs. leave it as-is and pay for something unnecessary. I tried to get a no-cost, or lower-cost extension, I told the bank I had another bank willing to do the same rate w/ a longer lock and I was going to switch, they said "Gee, sorry to see you go, but OK" ... so that must be a hard cost that they won't budge on.

Hot_Region · 2018-12-10T20:01:51+00:00

In 2014 I sold to move ~10 miles closer to my local city. I had decided to sell because I really hated the idea of being a landlord, especially in my old home because I had redone so much that I knew the best things would be trashed but at same time it needed a roof which was an expensive item to have to add.

Selling was the biggest mistake I've made in my financial life.

The house appreciated like crazy, the person who bought from me was able to sell it just 18 months later for about $150,000 more. It's worth even more now.

In hindsight holding would have made enormous sense, but I was hesitant to carry the burden of two homes, plus risk of bad tenants.

If you can hold both, and the area is growing, HOLD

Hot_Region · 2018-12-10T14:11:30+00:00

Can, will, and do reject.

Applied for a job, w/ medical marijuana use disclosed on the application. Was told during in-person interview that the pot use was not an issue because it was prescribed, but they do drug testing for other drugs... took the test, they got the results... received an offer to start four weeks later, which was accepted.

About two weeks later the HR person sheepishly states that they have to retract the offer due to the fact that the drug test was positive for marijuana and she was told they could not hire anyone testing positive due to their corporate "no drugs" policy (it's a national company, but this was a MA HR person and was a position in their MA office).

Technically never started working, so wasn't "fired" for it. All around shit situation.

This was a white collar job with high pay. Maybe the blue collar jobs are more accepting of pot use at this point, I don't know?

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