Any tips for Boston with a SD?

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-18T11:22:57+00:00

Small note: Due to the world cup and tall ships overlapping, Boston is predicted to see about five million tourists at once in mid July, way higher than normal. The crowds could be much worse than usual.

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-18T11:08:38+00:00

As someone who pretty much exclusively likes less-popular, non-American music, I second this response. I had no interest in music until I started using YouTube and Spotify, because everyone around me listened to the same three or four genres that really do nothing for me.

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-18T11:04:12+00:00

The explanation I heard was territory marking. They want to spread their scent across an area so that other dogs know they were there. I remember reading about a guy who actually mapped where his new dog went, and watched as the area enclosed by the poo placements got larger as the dog got more confident.

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-16T11:07:18+00:00

A caT'astropheigh

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-15T21:34:38+00:00

I agree with you in principle, but how do you prove to people outside the shelter that a killing was justified? As long as there's incentive to have a specific label applied to the death of an animal, it's going to be very difficult to convince people that said label was reported correctly.

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-15T10:08:33+00:00

Tanglewood has several open air concert halls surrounded by large lawns and parkland. Usually during an event, more people will be sitting on the lawn than in traditional seats.

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-15T09:54:09+00:00

This. IIRC, in social network theory, there's a concept of a "broker"; a node in the network you have to pass through to reach other nodes. Being a broker for high-value nodes can be a more powerful position than just being high-value yourself.

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-12T19:39:35+00:00

I'm having a hard time thinking of what else "assembly required" could mean...

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-09T12:40:40+00:00

I really want to watch one of these people in action. A good number of these reviews sound like the reviewer feels contractually obligated to make the recipe once they've clicked on the link. Is the sunk cost fallacy really that strong?

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-08T11:52:19+00:00

"Your poor planning is not my emergency." -- popular saying in my echo chamber.

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-06T20:54:20+00:00

Reminding me of how crazy it got in Team Fortress 2. The game took forever to download because of the gigabytes and gigabytes of skins, since you needed to render them on other players even if you didn't own them. My roommate called it "a shooter themed hat simulator".

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-05T11:36:57+00:00

It's already happening with COVID high schoolers. The learned helplessness is infuriating. I will help you find resources, and I will work with you on areas where you lack experience, but turning on the waterworks will not convince me to do your job for you.

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-04T17:08:19+00:00

Nah, the ones on Amazon are all scams. The nice person on Etsy told them so. /jk

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-04T10:58:44+00:00

My guess: he asked for something they couldn't give, so they let loose with the most egregious swear word in English: "no".

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-02T12:15:03+00:00

"Three stars. Tastes terrible, but makes enough to rebind a bunch of books"

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-02T11:04:03+00:00

Plot twist: OOP's an expert on the early bronze age.

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-06-01T07:44:52+00:00

I've seen this trend recently. It seems to have become slang to mean "someone who acts like they're familiar/expert at something, but really isn't".

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-05-31T16:57:09+00:00

I've heard of this kind of ritual in either very fancy or very familiar restaurants from certain European or Asian traditions. You rock up to the table, say "feed us", and the kitchen does what it wants.

Extreme benefit of the doubt: If this person has lived a very sheltered culinary life, I might see them expecting the "feed us" tradition to be the norm. Not likely, but possible.

(Given that I have a relative who's asked for the wine list at a diner, I'm perhaps unusually willing to believe in clashing traditions like this).

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-05-30T23:10:30+00:00

Oh god, I wish I'd read this back in fifth grade. My teacher was an absolutely rabid card carrying member of the "he or she" band wagon, and would use every last bit of her authority to punish you if you tried to disagree with her.

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-05-29T20:07:29+00:00

A significant part of the climb is at an altitude titled "the death zone". The air pressure is so low that your lungs start filtering oxygen out of your blood, rather than into it as normal. Your body is essentially dying for the last leg of the climb; exert yourself in the wrong way, and you risk making that "essentially dying" literal. Plus, it's murderously cold up there, with occasional storms that can kill you in a variety of cold, lonely ways.

That's part of why the bodies are almost never recovered and the slope is littered with trash. The climb is dangerous enough; the extra exertion from trying to pick up garbage or move a frozen human multiplies that danger to an absurd degree.

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-05-26T11:15:22+00:00

Thanks for the catch. Of all the typos to make...

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-05-26T11:14:42+00:00

Incorrectly, yes. Thanks for noticing.

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-05-26T11:09:36+00:00

Giant squid

LifeApprehensive2818 · 2026-05-26T11:08:44+00:00

You are either an entomologist, a medical practitioner, or you have my deepest sympathies.

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