By adamg on Mon., 12/2/2019 - 1:20 pm
WBUR explains why San Francisco city employees will no longer be allowed to take work trips here - and the city will stop considering Massachusetts companies for contracts - next year.
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I don't know about everyone else
By Michael
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 1:27pm
But I for one can't wait to hear the opinions of a bunch of angry men about this
Massachusetts restrictive on abortion?
By Robert David Su...
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 1:38pm
This seems like overreach, since Massachusetts adding restrictions after 24 weeks still makes it more more liberal than most of Western Europe.
https://www.france24.com/en/20180525-abortion-laws...
Last I checked San Francisco
By anon
Tue, 12/03/2019 - 6:11pm
Last I checked San Francisco wasn't in Western Europe.
OK I'll start
By anon
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 1:38pm
I would imagine they don't allow their employees to travel for work to many cities, states/provinces, and countries in the world.
I need some quality material here
By Coyote137
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 1:45pm
from Roman, Fish, and Cape. Something about slutty sluts having slutty sex, and getting the deserved consequences.
Hey Guys....
By Sitting Bull
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 1:57pm
The Great and Powerful Oz called. He is looking for an argument and wants his straw man back.
Deframe
By capecoddah
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 4:11pm
I go with pointing out the Eugenics angle when it comes to those who partake in the baby killing industry.
If it was about "slutty sluts having slutty sex" then abortion mills would be in different neighborhoods.
Baby killing industry and
By anon
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 4:38pm
Baby killing industry and abortion mills? LOLOLOL... another uneducated pro-fetus type pontificating on things they will never understand nor do anything to help except spew made up shit.
Please tell us what neighborhoods would have all the awesome abortion mills if it was just about us slutty sluts having sex...I need another laugh.
Oh
By erik g
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 6:14pm
Like Harvard Ave near Coolidge Corner? Or Comm Ave right in the middle of BU’s campus? Or maybe you mean all the hospitals in Longwood. All notorious dens of sin and depravity, those.
You’re not even trying any more, ace. Might be time to hang up the cleats.
These anons
By Don't Panic
Tue, 12/03/2019 - 1:11am
What are they hiding?
Speaking of Roman...
By boo_urns
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 4:16pm
Did I miss something?
https://www.universalhub.com/users/roman
Was that self-implosion or did Adam swing the banhammer?
Nah
By MostlyHarmless
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 4:57pm
It was the Goths.
Crisis of conscience, sudden discovery of a sense
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 12/03/2019 - 12:49am
of human empathy and/or shame, or merely trading one garrulous, self-important "alt-right" persona for another? You make the call.
I know a few former Neanderthals who had their road-to-Damascus moments -- emerged from the right-wing propaganda bubble to come to grips with science and actual journalistic reporting, maybe made a friend or two from different backgrounds who somehow dislodged their idiot prejudices -- but they rarely turn up in online forums.
My best guess: Roman finally turned 14, figured out that most of the bright young women he fancies find that shtick repugnant, and decided to focus his energies on the Nintendo Switch.
Against all evidence these days, I still like to believe there's hope for everyone. Kids like Roman aren't stupid: they've just lived too much of their lives online in the wrong places, haven't seen enough of the world. With any luck, he'll someday be as embarrassed for admiring glib, hateful assholes like PewDiePie as I am now by my Laibach records.
Laibach
By The Beer Guy
Tue, 12/03/2019 - 3:39am
Not Nazis! Maybe you meant Death in June?
My embarrassment about Laibach stems not from
By MC Slim JB
Tue, 12/03/2019 - 11:07am
their politics (they seemed like deliberate poseurs / would-be satirists), but their music. Most industrial rock has not aged well. I actually saw them live at Axis maybe 20 years ago: they were comically awful, and not in an intentional way, more like an art-house project mounted by musicians of limited talent that went way off the rails. Still: maybe the biggest act to ever come out of Slovenia?
Must we start this sh*t right away?
By Jeff F
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 1:59pm
Could we maybe all try to not be the one who starts off a comment thread with a provocation for yet another ad hominem free-for-all?
turns out it was something something
By anon
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 2:44pm
about "the plague", I guess?
though he'd never respond directly to you due to his pathological need for attention centered only on himself.
What metric is SF using?
By Jeff F
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 1:50pm
I am confused. The first two sentences in this part of the article seem to contradict one another:
I thought the age of viability was widely held to be about 24 weeks (at this point in history). Does SF use a different standard?
I'm asking sincerely, not trying to bait anyone, so please don't bite my head off if I've missed something obvious.
Just guessing
By mg
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 2:01pm
Maybe it's because minors need parental consent?
I don't believe you missed
By Rob
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 2:21pm
I don't believe you missed anything. The statement does seem odd. Perhaps they view the reported cases of survival for premature births in that range as statistically insignificant?
Maybe because ...
By CT
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 5:10pm
Anencephaly and some other conditions not compatible with life may not be detected before 24 weeks. Massachusetts law forces parents to go out of state for a legal abortion if such a cruel thing happens.
They’re using legality past 24 weeks
By erik g
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 6:21pm
I’m not sure it’s the best of metrics—viability at 24 weeks is a coin-flip, with either outcome costing hundreds of thousands of dollars—but it’s the hill the city has decided they want to die on.
If Massachusetts is on the blacklist
By Waquiot
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 2:29pm
How many states are not on the blacklist?
per the article, which was linked in the original post:
By tape
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 3:09pm
28
Better eyes than me
By Waquiot
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 4:56pm
Thanks.
Still, that's a lot of states. I would imagine that there are a lot of blacklisted states that provide services hard to easily locate elsewhere.
On the brink of plague, San Francisco frets not enough abortion
By O-FISH-L
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 2:46pm
Mayor Walsh should return the favor with a scientifically based ban on Boston city workers traveling to San Francisco due to the public health emergency. Of course he's a fellow Democrat, so he will probably work to increase abortion in Boston instead.
It's a long walk from San Fran to Boston. No doubt city workers are already banned from superfluous carbon generating travel modes like airplane, bus, car. GoToMeeting and other platforms have eliminated the need for most cross country executive travel anyway. Thus, the "travel ban" on city workers traveling to Boston has little significance aside from this being the home to some of the best business and technical minds, much needed in San Fran right now. With San Fran on the brink of an infectious disease superstorm, they worry there aren't enough abortions? Don't forget, Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Wow
By fungwah
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 2:47pm
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU36pkH7c[/youtube]
Incidentally
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 6:28pm
Capecoddah touched upon the My Wife the Tramp bit in his comment above.
There you are!
By Coyote137
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 2:48pm
N/t
UHub Comments
By BostonDog
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 4:07pm
Comments like this make me think they are transcripts of the perpetually drunk guy at the corner of a bar who spends his afternoon arguing with the bar's TV.
My theory..
By anon
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 5:36pm
all this time Fish has just been a long-term study by MIT refining an Internet Bigot Algorithm.
An AI in Cambridge produces him by sampling from the Herald, Stormfront, Pax Centurion and occasionally, a thesaurus.
Sometimes it goes a little off track.
Nah
By erik g
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 6:17pm
FISH is a Markov chain, trained on the collected transcripts of Rush Limbaugh and Maude Flanders.
lol
By anon
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 4:14pm
"never underestimate the predictability of stupidity"
Massachusetts should cut ties with SF
By StillFromDorchester
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 2:56pm
For being represented by lunatics.
I had no idea
By anon
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 3:59pm
SF's shit list (poop map) extended this far east.
Who cares, San Francisco
By anon
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 4:25pm
Who cares, San Francisco needs Massachusetts more than Massachusetts needs San Francisco.
Does this mean
By anon
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 4:38pm
That MBTA and BART employees can't take junkets to study each other and decide which transit system is the most inept and unsafe.
Most inept?
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 8:28pm
I'll give that to San Fran for needing four cops to arrest a guy for eating a sandwich on the platform.
San Fran is a shit hole. Add
By thomas
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 5:48pm
San Fran is a shit hole. Add Seattle to that list.
It’s an absolute neoliberal nightmare. It’s what every other rising coastal city should strive not to be.
Newsflash, Tommy boy, Boston
By anon
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 6:07pm
Newsflash, Tommy boy, Boston is just as neoliberal. You must be crawling in your skin.
Well no kidding. But it hasn
By thomas
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 7:11pm
Well no kidding. But it hasn’t quite reached that Frisco flavor. Say Were you the one with the ponytail on the electric scooter riding into Kendall Square?
Are you quite sure...
By lbb
Tue, 12/03/2019 - 9:43am
...that you know what "neoliberal" means?
That must be why
By erik g
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 6:18pm
no one wants to live in either place, thus explaining their notoriously low housing prices.
Yeah it’s a great place to
By thomas
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 6:52pm
Yeah it’s a great place to live if you make six figures and like to compost Your latte cup
Raises hand
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 7:27pm
Why is composting your latte cup a problem?
You just throw it in the "compost" hole instead of the "trash" hole.
Is that really beyond your understanding?
“F*cking A.sholes don’t get
By thomas
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 7:47pm
“F*cking A.sholes don’t get itâ€
Why is latte even a thing?
By Don't Panic
Tue, 12/03/2019 - 1:19am
Coffee, Regular please.
What the heck are they smoking out there and does NETA have any?
Calling Massachusetts restrictive on abortion is just crazy talk.
Oooh looky here!
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 6:39pm
I found the guy who gets all his news from Sinclair "News" outlets looking to incarcerate more people in DeVos(tm) for-profit camps, rather than, um, actually travelling to the cities in question?
BZZZZT
The Qoolaid is strong with this one!
Haha what ? Have you been to
By thomas
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 6:46pm
Haha what ? Have you been to the Bay Area in the last um, I don’t know, 10 years?
It’s a lovely place for a homeless camp
Parked next to a Maserati.
I was there about 3 months ago
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 7:25pm
I suspect you haven't been there like, um, ever?
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