Recent comments in /f/massachusetts

Current-Photo2857 t1_jdymom4 wrote

And on the flip side, having extra daylight late at night tricks your body into thinking it’s earlier than it is and you take longer to go to sleep (which is why the experts who proposed the act said people lose an average of 30 something minutes of sleep per night during DST).

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Happy_rich_mane OP t1_jdym4vd wrote

For sure. We’re definitely in the second Gilded Age but the robber barons don’t wear monocles anymore. I think a lot of it comes down to the misalignment of power where a business like Amazon is able to lobby and dictate the terms of contracts while providing very little in concrete guarantees to these local governments.

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Outrageous-Excuse229 t1_jdykjs4 wrote

Pretty much every state job is a Union, if you go to the mass careers website and click on a job you like it’ll say what bargaining unit that job is for. I’m an accountant with the NAGE Union. The state is also desperately hiring

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Taco-Maniac-4043 t1_jdyja7p wrote

Same thing in my town. They started building one in a strip mall (bought a bunch of units and demoed them, worked on the exterior and electricity inside, etc.) It was supposed to be ready over a year ago. They never finished the inside and it’s just been sitting there.

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Dizzy_De_De t1_jdyiw9v wrote

Ask him to describe the projects he loves best.

Do FB, google & Reddit searches to locate posts from people looking to have that type of work done. Make a list of the words they use to describe the work, the questions they ask in posts and Google search terms they use.

Create a FB page for his business and craft posts using the words/questions/search terms from your research including before/after images of the work - and his location. Bonus points for video clips.

If you see posts in local FB or next door groups have him answer questions or drop a link to his FB page.

Triple bonus points if you can build him a website and create posts using the same tactics.

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itsgreater9000 t1_jdyiggn wrote

right. i'm talking, some low level government official that handles building permits getting handed a bag of money with a big $ symbol on it while a corporate exec twirls his mustache type of corruption

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PakkyT t1_jdyfvzo wrote

A year or two ago I had a sharp pain in my lower leg. I went to the ER (Emerson Hospital) on a weekend told them my symptoms. They did an ultrasound on my leg that day and found I had a small blood clot. I was prescribed blood thinners and had a follow up with my primary doctor and soon after a follow up ultrasound. The clot resolved itself and was no more.

FRICKIN' how did they not order up a simple noninvasive ultrasound for this man?

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itsgreater9000 t1_jdye8y2 wrote

oh, i absolutely agree. i just think in this case it's not explicitly malice, although i could be convinced otherwise. i DO think that the way tech companies are run are somewhere between stupid and malicious, still not sure on which side of the line they're on yet. but i doubt there's any corruption happening at a large scale.

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