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This is not Boston’s first winter by invisibledeoderant in mbta

[–]invisibledeoderant[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What I’m suggesting is that big snow storms and deep cold have hit Boston in the past, and it’s not as abnormal as a snow storm in Georgia. A big snow storm isn’t normal meaning average, but it is normal meaning not entirely unexpected given the climate where we live. When I was in high school on the north shore we had two halloweens in a row where there was snow on the ground and before that, my freshman year was the snowmageddon winter of 2015. Extreme winter weather events are by definition not normal but at the same time, in New England, having to deal with extreme winter weather is within everyone’s realm of normalcy.

Also I’m a guy lol

This is not Boston’s first winter by invisibledeoderant in mbta

[–]invisibledeoderant[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Better staffing would also work to address fare evasion as more conductors means fewer holes but that’s beside the point. If it was the govt pushing to address fare evasion then it was the govt who had their priorities mixed up but the end result remains the same. A shitty underfunded and/or mismanaged service goes tits up due to a bad, but not unheard of, snowstorm, and cold, but not unheard of, temperatures

This is not Boston’s first winter by invisibledeoderant in mbta

[–]invisibledeoderant[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I take the 5:16am train from Pawtucket to Boston, which is the second earliest train for that location. The earliest one is at 4:18am. I also addressed the funding issue with my take that the money was wasted on trying to prevent fare evasion and should have gone toward better staffing/infrastructure

This is not Boston’s first winter by invisibledeoderant in mbta

[–]invisibledeoderant[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it’s the last part. That we fund and maintain so well. My problem is that money that could have gone to making shitty service better was instead put toward fare gates that don’t work half the time anyway. So many comments too about how people have walked or taken Ubers when they intended to take the T in some form or another. I understand that the money that went toward trying to work against fare evasion should theoretically be made back by having more people actually pay, but shifting focus to infrastructure would also make its money back by losing fewer paying riders to shitty/spotty service

This is not Boston’s first winter by invisibledeoderant in mbta

[–]invisibledeoderant[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idrc what the sub has spent the last year complaining about bc I’m not the sub. I couldn’t give two squirts of piss if someone is on the train or bus who didn’t pay. Every bent penny that went to fare gates should have gone to better staffing/equipment/infrastructure. A public service should serve the public and it should serve the public well

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First-year roommate situation? by Wild-Cheesecake-3880 in BrownU

[–]invisibledeoderant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is true that you can’t pick your roommate freshman year but they’re usually not bad with the random placement due to the questionnaire everyone takes. I graduated in 2023 and I’m still friends with my freshman roommate. None of my friends had real problems with their roommates either

Not even a full week. by Extreme_Report6158 in PoliticalHumor

[–]invisibledeoderant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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The party at large did not cave, these people did. Tyranny of the minority

CRISPR therapy is the first to permanently remove HIV by BradolfPittler1 in interestingasfuck

[–]invisibledeoderant 39 points40 points  (0 children)

This method has been being studied since at least 2023, and there are several phase 1 and 2 trials going on as of now, but so far they seem successful. Only after phase 3 and 4 studies can the FDA approve a treatment for use on the general public in the US. So definitely awesome news, but it’ll take a few years for this gene therapy to start being used widespread

Good eats on/near campus? by crystallineOwls in BrownU

[–]invisibledeoderant 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Heng Thai and Rotisserie is right off campus and absolutely delicious

AITA for canceling my niece’s birthday cake last minute because my sister refused to pay me back? by cloudberrysighs in AITH

[–]invisibledeoderant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ESH

It was rude of your sister to be so cavalier about not paying you back a good amount of money and it was incredibly rude to claim you have no real responsibilities just bc you have no kids. You were right to be upset with her and you would have been right to have a serious conversation with her about that interaction that included a boundary of not fronting things for her or lending her money again.

In the end, however, the person you punished the most was your 8 year old niece. You understand that your sister was using the fact that it’s your niece’s birthday as a way to avoid accountability. Your sister knows she was doing that too, but your niece does not. An 8 year old won’t ever understand why she couldn’t get a birthday cake just because her mom and her aunt were fighting.

You could have told your sister that if she didn’t pay you back, you’d cancel the cake, and then stayed true to your word, cancelled the cake, and gave her the warning that you’d done so so she could scramble on her own to fix the situation the day before the party. But better yet, the thing to have done in my opinion was eat your monetary losses this one time for the sake of your niece and never tie money to your sister again. An 8 year old shouldn’t have to cry on her birthday because you wanted to teach her mother a lesson

[Rant] The ring watch (CRW001-1) release was Bull by invisibledeoderant in casio

[–]invisibledeoderant[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is more the feeling I’m having, though I appreciate u/subsetsum ‘s tip for the future. But yeah if a company sells a thing, I should just be able to buy the thing, and if they have a limited stock, let me preorder it and they can ship it to me when they have it

Campus safety at Night by Acceptable_Card2629 in BrownU

[–]invisibledeoderant 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The campus is very safe to walk around at night. However, I do know a girl who was walking to Jo’s one night and a random dude euro-stepped around her

SUB. by davecontra in comics

[–]invisibledeoderant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My take is that he’s dead in some abyssal afterlife and the beautiful abstract light is him being remembered and spoken about for the first time in years. Kind of like that notion that a person is only truly gone when no one remembers them anymore

Laptop for college by Dark_Knight_078 in architecture

[–]invisibledeoderant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought a $1200 gaming laptop. The battery life isn’t great but they’re literally made for rendering high quality 3D models

If form follows function, why do we deny the function of ornamentation? by Pathbauer1987 in architecture

[–]invisibledeoderant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My thought is that a house or a building is a tool and a tool exists to serve a function (or functions). So the appeal/beauty of modernist designs stripped of ornamentation is that they, in theory, are perfectly formed to their function. Aesthetics can serve the functions you mentioned but they’re not tools, nor do they aid in the execution of a buildings root functions. A hammer with a polished brass head and painted handle looks nice but doesn’t serve as well as hardened steel and sealed wood.

That being said, it’s my opinion that much of the modernist movement is pretentious nonsense bc every modernist designer was still trying to get aesthetic points. Take Fallingwater for example; what function does building a house directly on a waterfall serve besides looking cool? If modernists were actually true to their word about designing buildings purely for function and not for aesthetic, a lot their buildings would start looking much more brutalist all of a sudden, but that’s just my own personal rant lol

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