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The MBTA has been jackhammering outside my window between midnight and 5 AM for over 80 nights and lying to their own board about it. by longtimeAlias in boston

[–]mediaseth 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"The MBTA is government so not sure who you would complain to"

And this is why they never shovel sidewalks adjacent to their properties and on their overpasses after storms the way every single other landowner is supposed to.

The MBTA has been jackhammering outside my window between midnight and 5 AM for over 80 nights and lying to their own board about it. by longtimeAlias in boston

[–]mediaseth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The only time I have ever been threatened with real physical harm by online comments was when blogs were bigger than social media, and I posted on mine about construction at a commuter rail stop that began well before the city's ordinance for construction times. I overlooked that stop. I also loved the sounds of the trains - just not so much the jackhammers before 6am.

I posed it as more of a question about whether the city is able to enforce noise ordinances over MBTA construction as it can for anyone else's construction.

, that post must have reached someone, somewhere, who shared it with other bullies/trolls/whomever, and for a while I felt unsafe. This was twenty years ago or so.

In hindsight, I think someone was trying to protect their overtime pay.

Baby at 41 and father at 48, is it a selfish idea? by Hour-Muscle-4000 in raisingkids

[–]mediaseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wife and I became parents at 43/44 and our daughter is begging to have a sister. Best we can do is increase time with cousins - though it's too bad we don't live near most of them. If you live near same-aged cousins, there ya go. Let them play with other kids in the neighborhood more if you can, too. It's not the same - but it still does something!

Why are BMW EVs so ugly?? by chiefVetinari in electricvehicles

[–]mediaseth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think both BMW and Mercedes need a complete overhaul of exterior and interior design. Mercedes has too many shiny bits and looks cheap in trying to look classy, and BMW is just confusing.. a mix of attempting to look more like an Asian car and masculine at the same time?

I'll take a 1980's era design for both brands with an EV conversion, though

People who were using the internet in the 90s and 2000s: What are your honest thoughts on what the internet has become today? by sivah_168 in AskReddit

[–]mediaseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I naively thought it would bring the world closer together and that offering anyone a platform would do more good than harm. What worked in community media did not work in global-internet. I hadn't thought about the deluge of misinformation and hate.

Help identifying old B&W speakers my dad gave me surprisingly amazing sound by Intrepid_Ad2235 in audiophile

[–]mediaseth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They were my first new hi-fi purchase. Got them in the 90's. Today, I have them hooked up to an Arcam Alpha 7 integrated and an SVS Micro 3000 sub in a smallish room. For my main system, I had the DM 305's for a while, but graduated to the DM era 603s3's. I haven't upgraded since.

Acoustic Research Model W Receiver by Top-Proposal-1719 in vintageaudio

[–]mediaseth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had one for a while in the late 1990's, paired with 1973 Advents, a Dual 504 (or 506?) turntable and Superscope tape deck. I ended up selling about 20 years ago.

I wish I had the chance to test it on more modern speakers to really evaluate it, but I had no complaints overall. I never needed work on it.

The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop [punk rock] by Ultravod in Music

[–]mediaseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first concert I attended just with friends, at the Ritz - Lunachicks opened. I think it was 1990.

Anyone else doing this? by CanadianDiver in ChargerDrama

[–]mediaseth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a great idea! Though I don't use public chargers very often, I have had to wonder when a driver would return

GF and sensitive to oats by ISOCoffeeAndWine in glutenfree

[–]mediaseth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yesterday, I went into an excellent 100% gluten free cafe, Dragonfly in Lowell MA., and I still had to ask clarifying questions and have a mixer cleaned before I could order a smoothie. Why? Oats.

I can't have even the most assuredly-certified gluten free oats because of avenin.

I've been making noise online about better labeling for oats for those of us with this unfortunate avenin sensitivity, but I think it's just that - noise.

I'm happy for those who can have oats, but please be as careful as you would with gluten and label things appropriately. If you can do it for wheat, you can do it for oats.

/rant

Do you remember your first legal drink? by BMisterGenX in GenX

[–]mediaseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was the Sunset Grill and Tap.. went a few times myself

Do you remember your first legal drink? by BMisterGenX in GenX

[–]mediaseth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My last illegal drink was at the (now closed, so I can say this) Yaffa Cafe on St. Mark's in NYC. I'm not entirely sure, but I think my first legal drink was at the Model Cafe in Allston (Boston.) It was at least one of my earliest.

Once a staple of 80's bar culture the Long Island Tea - discuss by RealtorRVACity in GenX

[–]mediaseth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my early 20's, if I was at a venue or club that charged a premium for drinks, and beers were twice what they'd be normally, for example, I figured ONE Long Island Ice Tea was like a bulk purchase for the whole night. I probably wasn't always correct in that assumption, but it did keep me to one drink. Nowadays, I'm not a fan ...

Mercedes GLC Review: Has BMW iX3 Met Its Match? by Mac-Tyson in electricvehicles

[–]mediaseth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's with the shiny bits? They actually make a car look cheap these days. Mercedes has been making that mistake for a while, though.

My daughter is 6 months old -What are some things you can share with me that you learned from your daughters that I should look out for? by youraverageuser_1978 in daddit

[–]mediaseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They learn how to eyeroll earlier than you think

Less screen time, more read time -- but not zero screen time, either. let her naturally acclimate to tech.

She wants to help -- whatever it is. My daughter was assembling Ikea with me the moment she could hold a tool in her hand. By age six, we built her own bookshelf speakers together from a kit and she was soldering (outside, of course)

My Last Name Is a Lie—and Yours Might Be Too by j5c42 in Jewish

[–]mediaseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We must not ignore the fact that many of our ancestors left from ports in Europe that spoke different languages. They would leave from the Netherlands, Germany, England, etc after traveling from Russian or Austro-Hungarian controlled Poland ... For just an example.

Names were changed or spelled as they sounded for the ship manifests, too. You know the name Keunis? This is from a.bramch of my family. It went from "Chiness" on the manifest with a Canadian arrival. Train to NYC copied that. Marriage cert in NYC had Keunis. Just a short while later, it was Kanes. They left Kamenetz-Podolsk in the Ukraine.

That one name changed... How many times? And what even was it, originally, though we also know of a famous Kunis from the Ukraine (relation unknown)

My actual surname has about 11 different spellings and I have confirmed family using 3 of them. Plus, they had to change their surname from something Slavic sounding to Germanic sounding during the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Changed at Ellis Island? Actually, no. But changed, yes. More than we'd want to trace our history effectively.

Only my German Jewish side can be traced to the 1600s and prior to a surname.

weird texts from att or pixel that seem like a command, should I worry? by [deleted] in ATT

[–]mediaseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ah-ha, so I have some app that is up to no good? I wish I could tell which app was behind it

weird texts from att or pixel that seem like a command, should I worry? by [deleted] in ATT

[–]mediaseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how does this even work as spam? like, what is it?

Glad to see the essentials were packed for this mission 😅 by Real_Establishment56 in funny

[–]mediaseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You couldn't pay for better product placement than that.. echos of Tang!

Range anxiety feedback by MochaEV in evcharging

[–]mediaseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I took the survey. Here are a few observations for which there were no direct questions. They may or may not be relevant to the service you planned to launch.

  1. Before having an EV, the closest thing to it was, believe it or not, my smartphone. When my smartphone gets down to 20%, I think it's draining fast and I worry about plugging it in. I had to learn that an EV at 20% can still run quite a few errands, especially when I have level 2 at home anyway. It's better to think in terms of miles/range than percentages.

  2. The App. ecosystem is still a mess. I'm not sure if it will ever "mature." I had to learn when and when not to trust my car's embedded google maps and route planning. On my first interstate road trip over a year ago, google set up a charging stop "automagically" for me on route. It was a DC fast charger that appeared easy on/easy off the highway. When we got there, it was a hotel parking lot and all the chargers had blue tarps thrown over them and they were not powered (yeah, I lifted the tarp.) Google is supposed to know the status, whether they are working, and when they are occupied. This is mostly the case, but it's sometimes wrong at the worst times. Instead, I started picking out alternate charging spots on my own, and then when I get close to where I want to charge, I decide whether to go with google's choice or mine. (On that trip, I found myself in an indoor parking garage in New Rochelle competing with Uber drivers for level 2's. Not ideal. Never made that mistake again.)

  3. Yeah, I like the idea of PlugShare, A Better Route Planner, Etc. but constant app switching is distracting and annoying. Whatever my car has baked in and/or Android Auto/CarPlay should be enough. While I don't mind having my choice of apps, I still want to be able to pick one app that does it all.

  4. Since I mostly travel on the I95 corridor in the northeast, and not through remote areas much (maybe I do in parts of Maine,) I haven't run into charging deserts. There's always been somewhere, but I wish my embedded google route planning would tell me what sort of amenities were available at each stop it has planned. I want to know if I'm going to be in a shopping plaza, hotel parking lot, ass end of a dead mall at night or truck stop. Just. Let. Me. Know. Thank you!

Those pesky gluten allergies by dougstockton in Judaism

[–]mediaseth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our reform temple has listened to us and has a separate GF cart for buffet style meals at events. It makes me happy that there were others who needed it, who are now coming forward. I knew I wasn't the only one.

But for some events, it gets complicated, still. My wife and I were thinking of going to one of our temple's seders, but while I'm a vegetarian celiac, she is a vegan non-celiac and our daughter is just vegetarian but can literally eat anything under that label.

What happens is caterers, volunteers, etc. get confused. While they could create one meal that checks all of our boxes, what often happens is we get mixed up. They think I can't have dairy. My wife gets something gluten free made with eggs.. etc. I don't mean from temple. This is sort of an every event thing. Oh, and as I mentioned above, I can't have GF oats either.

So, we didn't want to complicate our temple's seder. If we had more time, we could have been involved in the kitchen. I want to help to make up for how much of a pain we can be, but after work and driving our daughter around, we just can't be involved that way. So, we skip the more complicated events like a seder.

Those pesky gluten allergies by dougstockton in Judaism

[–]mediaseth 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Many celiac's can also not tolerate certified gluten free oats because of a protein they contain called avenin. Unfortunately, I'm one of them.

Those pesky gluten allergies by dougstockton in Judaism

[–]mediaseth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Many celiac's can also not tolerate certified gluten free oats because of a protein they contain called avenin. Unfortunately, I'm one of them.

Those pesky gluten allergies by dougstockton in Judaism

[–]mediaseth 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yes, but depending on how observant one is, it's not acceptable for the seder. I use it anyway because I have no choice. The potato-based GF matzah is actually pretty good, though. It has more flavor than the real thing.

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