I like that BPD is focusing on intelligence/disruption rather than street chases but it seems like this is not as urgent as it was a year or two ago when BPD was regularly:

• Using MA fire/building codes regarding "storage of gas powered vehicles near "dwellings"" to bust and cite the houses where these bikes are stored. Of course when it came time to issue the citation nobody on site was willing to declare themselves the owners of these vehicles so they were seized
• Working with other city cops like the thing they did with Dedham PD where they waited in a parking lot and busted the "mothership" cargo truck that was delivering a boxtruck full of bikes to unload at their staging area

Basically this is good news but 40 bikes is nothing. In other years they were seizing those quantities every other month during summer it seemed like

But to be honest this is an escalating race of evade and detect. Just the fact that these gangs were using box trucks as motherships to "deploy" their fleets of vehicles in out of the way staging grounds away from Boston proper kinda blew my mind as it was actually a good tactic

Starlink user here up at my cabin in Maine where I have a full remote job. Even in an uncontested area it’s expensive and unreliable if latency and persistent connectivity matters

And you have no recourse over how they manage the dish — for a year my dish pointed in a certain direction so we cleared trees, rented a boom lift and raised the dish to the highest point on our roofline ….

… then less than a week later starlink pushed out a east coast update that repointed dishes to a new direction causing me to go from 0% obstruction with perfect signal to 2% obstruction with brief outages every 2 minutes on average. I’m fucked until I can rent a lift and take down a different tree

And this is in semi rural Maine — your sky view and local cell is gonna much worse in any urban location

The basic deal is starlink is great ONLY if you literally have no other options. Any fixed line broadband option is going to be 100x better

I pay for a business grade Verizon FIOS circuit at my boston spot for a reason heh

western maine is within that portland driving zone and has snow. We've done a lot of snowshow hiking on the local trails but we've also found a number of cross-country ski places that allow snowshoe trekkers and those places have been great for long "hikes" with various elevation options

They quoted us using preprinted prices listed in a three ring binder they brought to our house. Didn’t even look at our setup or situation before giving us a fixed price. We selected a different company

2nd this. You always want a second test, *especially* if the first test was not done by you and you don't have the raw lab results in hand. Totally worth the cost.

A photo gallery of the “build” is at https://flic.kr/s/aHsiU7JDYn

Wonderful news

Thought his blowout election loss was the hilariously lowest he could go but he pulls the Christmas miracle by becoming an Elmo reply-guy. Props Shiva.

Universal Hub is a micro-local niche website run by a single person who gets by on a few ads and a set of patreon subscribers.

And you are bitching about lack of in-depth reporting?

A ton of posts on that site come from readers who send in pictures and "news" -- I've done that on more than a few occasions. It's a community-driven platform.

Reset your expectations.

And then go fuck yourself.

Insurance is for the business owners and property owner

It does not, for instance cover the employees, especially the barber and salon employees who now have no income and no place to work any more (barring the awesome nearby salons that offered chairs to affected workers ..)

Basically there are a ton of people who are gonna have a shitty time

And the organiser of the GoFundMe is legit and well known in Roslindale. I've hired his law firm before to negotiate a partnership agreement. He's solid and well invested in the local community

how far did you travel to get to your current work spot?

We were driving from western maine back to Boston yesterday down I-95 and saw the expected long caravan of electrical trucks driving north - I'm guessing a bunch of out of state resources are rolling in?

The western maine border with NH (bethel area and Gorham NH) may be worth checking out, the Bethel/Newry area has hotels, dining and lots of outdoor options beyond Sunday River resort itself. Mt Washington is an easy drive away, access to AT trails and parks etc, and Bethel is pretty decent for tourist amenities and has cool one-off resources like the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum which is awesome to check out

And bethel got a good dump of snow this week as well

We have roughly six accounts at Eastern Bank, mix of personal and small biz LLC and have been very happy with them and their service