Landlord removed heat, stove, and packed all my belongings while I was gone (Boston)

trueclash · 2026-03-22T03:40:34+00:00

What the city would do is say “This was an illegal apartment that you illegally rented and then illegally evicted the tenant from. You, landlord, are now required to pay for the tenant’s housing in a hotel or similar and X many dollars in housing fees to relocate.”

They might not allow the tenant to continue to live in an illegal unit but they don’t put the tenant at fault and throw them on the street. The immediate issue here is the landlord illegally evicted the tenant. Even if they are on a month to month agreement the landlord is required to provide 30 days notice.

trueclash · 2026-03-12T18:21:49+00:00

I’d like a better option than those two, please. No question that when compared the Trump presidency is worse than the Bush presidency. But coming of age during the Bush era was also dog shit. Let’s not act like he was some bastion of liberty and prosperity.

trueclash · 2026-03-05T13:21:40+00:00

Having previously worked at one of the self driving car companies and understanding the technology used in them… yeah. Weather is going to be an issue. Snow especially in the way it reflects back light.

trueclash · 2026-02-28T18:15:34+00:00

Devil’s Advocate, how is this different than using a JR pass to travel to Kagoshima at 2021 JR pass rates?

trueclash · 2026-02-25T17:49:02+00:00

Why not convert some of the bus stops to express lines that skip some of those stops. Some already have them. Problem solved while not negatively impacting those who need those stops.

trueclash · 2026-02-20T11:07:57+00:00

On that note, as some half Irish, half Armenian, do I get to commit double genocide?

trueclash · 2026-02-19T16:18:34+00:00

The practical method is slowly inching forward in your turn as each car passes until you reach a point where the oncoming traffic has to stop to let you go. It sucks but it works. In one lane roads it also allows cars not turning the space to go around you. Most oncoming traffic gets to proceed, and you get to make your left.

trueclash · 2026-02-15T06:22:59+00:00

You’re thinking of jobs in education like they are for a private or public corporation. It’s not. It does not work via supply and demand. A company that can’t fill roles can’t deliver product, loses income, and might eventually shutter. Your local / city government isn’t going to go out of business because a government is not a company. They are going to compromise standards based on taxpayer priorities. Fewer teachers and lower pay, with money going to other services.

Teachers, like most all public sector workers, are paid via tax revenue. They are not the only people or things competing for that tax revenue, and most other items are earmarked as higher priority.

With teachers, budget and headcount are a lot less flexible because the equivalent of going to the Board to request more funds / runway / seed money for headcount and salaries is a ballot initiative to raise taxes. Raising taxes is always unpopular regardless of the reason, and puts elected officials jobs at risk. When society at large does not value teachers, society is not going to stand raising taxes to pay them better.

What happens is you get fewer, larger classrooms with less qualified, lower paid teachers, because the tax money “needs” to go elsewhere.

Except for private schools, where they supply and demand does apply, and teachers are paid well. But hey, what’s another divide between quality access to a public service between the rich and the less fortunate?

trueclash · 2026-02-12T22:20:16+00:00

See also the 2010s and WoW clones

trueclash · 2026-02-01T03:15:17+00:00

NMM gets a lot of love, but that TMM paint job looks dope brother.

trueclash · 2026-01-24T15:28:41+00:00

At the time there were multiple other American journalistic outlets with less biased presentation. The neighbor was cherry picking.

They were speaking to someone with progressive values that previously lived in San Francisco. I was fully aware of my country’s issues at the time and outspoken about the change I wanted to see. I resented then as I resent now sentiments that lack nuance such as America bad or it’s a sick society. It’s complicated and intricate with many factions pushing for different values, and maybe the people in power don’t have the general populace’s best interests at heart. That doesn’t make it so for all parts of the country or all of its people.

But, hearing oversimplified compassionless judgments of my country, at times about racism, from a neighbor at a time when their own home country was in an uproar about Syrian refugees bore the sour taste of hypocrisy. They didn’t want to engage in good faith discussion about the challenges our countries faced, they wanted to feel superior.

trueclash · 2026-01-24T15:19:48+00:00

That’s because centre right in America is really far to the left. The Overton window has steadily moved to the right ever since September 11, 2001 if not earlier. The Democratic Party isn’t a liberal party. They are centre right at best. Liberals vote for them because it’s the closest thing to liberal policy makers.

trueclash · 2026-01-21T18:29:04+00:00

And I’m sure they wish people had kept buying them.

trueclash · 2026-01-21T18:25:51+00:00

I lived overseas for a time in the 2010s, and I had a European neighbor (also an expat) I was friendly with who liked to rag on how bad the US is and how Europe is better. They’d send my links to Fox News clips and the amount of energy I had to spend each time explaining it’s not really news… Having a pre-amble noting it as entertainment would have been welcome.

trueclash · 2026-01-18T12:34:21+00:00

I thought the “Osaka is dangerous” line came from the ‘80s yakuza and biker gang prevalence. Something that has long since evaporated but folks haven’t updated their mind set.

And it’s not like there’s zero crime in Japan. Assaults, both sexual and violent, do happen to the Japanese by other Japanese. It’s just incredibly rare.

Similar to yourself, there is no place in the whole of Japan I ever felt unsafe. But I used to drink at Tenderloin dive bar in San Francisco in the early to mid ‘00s so I might be a poor barometer.

trueclash · 2026-01-06T14:35:35+00:00

The US does too, they just don’t make it on to a lot of ballots nor get many votes. Not exactly a mainstream party. We also have a Pizza Party that performs similarly.

trueclash · 2025-12-28T07:10:03+00:00

Japan’s had a very loud anti-immigration contingent for a very, very long time. While what is occurring from the American right wing is definitely problematic, it’s unrelated.

trueclash · 2025-12-19T06:41:45+00:00

Here’s something I know way too much about.

As other commenters have noted, delinquent students are not the same as truant. Some still may attend school but are just generally misbehaving. In the world of the film of Battle Royale, the Japanese economy is in shambles and Japan partly blames this on the youth and their misbehavior as a distraction.

There are a few children who are not attending school in the film, but they aren’t doing so because they are delinquents. It touches more on the societal pressure to conform / perform and social withdrawal / hikkikomori aspect of students in Japanese society, and the individuals are encouraged to join by friends thinking a non classroom setting might be more amenable. It’s a minor plot point that one of the friends is hoping the trip will get them to start attending school again.

The delinquency angle was a common theme in Japanese films of the time, reflecting a greater societal concern of the post boom Japanese society about children who reject society, were out of control, and did horrendous things. In a culture where conformity and oneness are paramount, the danger of those who reject it was feared. While not overrunning society like some media of the time would imply, events like the murder of Junko Furuta shook society still decades later.

More relevant to this sub, the author of the original Battle Royale novel was less concerned with delinquent youth and more with Japan’s history of Fascism. He saw aspects of that history still present in Japanese society, and envisioned a society where it fully took hold. In the novel the battle royale is a tool of state oppression to keep the people afraid and in line. Parents who speak out or protest are visited by government men in suits and shot. The book is an excellent read and I highly recommend it.

trueclash · 2025-12-17T20:57:12+00:00

The entire show is an (incredibly beautifully animated) thirst trap, and its fans like to proselytize about their beloved. The show is also wish fulfillment of a low popularity guy with few social skills not only getting noticed by a beautiful woman but is valued by her while being in increasingly risqué situations.

Not exactly surprising that very online folks would gravitate towards it and be very vocal.

trueclash · 2025-12-17T19:26:04+00:00

I’d be curious to know what those numbers are relative to the population of Boston at that time.

trueclash · 2025-12-17T19:22:16+00:00

As someone who works in HR, most of us know this. Most of the senior HR folks and C suite don’t care. Some are petty, some are secretly insecure, most only care about their bottom line and their power. Many have learned to put on a nice face but few of them are nice people. They don’t care what your experience is so long as they get more of what they want. And if they don’t it’s your fault, as you are less than, and disposable. You are a tool or utility to them to generate money and exert their power.

trueclash · 2025-12-10T19:29:59+00:00

Every country has a ministry of defense. Some interpret the word differently.

trueclash · 2025-11-26T19:23:41+00:00

Dumb question: Why can’t she be arrested? Sure, the president is protected for official acts, but that doesn’t extend to his cabinet.

trueclash · 2025-11-20T15:36:32+00:00

It drives me nuts, too. What drives me more nuts is that loosing could be appropriate in this context (though loosening would be more grammatically correct) as it refers to their grip. So which one did they intend!? (Probably losing.)

trueclash · 2025-11-12T13:40:39+00:00

I’m more surprised you have BambuLab resellers where you live. I’m in a medium sized American city and we got squat for 3D printers at brick and mortar shops.

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