BRB, sending this to my tax law prof to make him cry

I think this is why the work of the Massachusetts Special Commission on Micromobility is so valuable because it creates a clear categorization of devices and related regulation recommendations. www.mass.gov/news/massdot...

Inflation causing voters to go facist, online privacy having military implications...fuck, did the Germans have it right all along?

I don't think the union goes for a salary cap at all, but the league has a real opening offer here, not an insult. They seem to be taking this seriously as a thing they want to see

Just use the F slur already this is taking all day.

I'm reminded of how Poland revoked citizenship for Jews who'd lived outside of Poland, leading to Thousands of Jews expelled from Germany to languish stuck in a No Man's Land between Poland and Germany having lost the right to live in either.

Jordan Walker being good makes me so damn happy

Built in 1807, this 1,400sf home sits on a 1,300sf lot, accommodating 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms & a small patio. ...you’d need a 15,000sf lot to build this here today. This home, and countless starter homes like it, is now illegal to build in most of Massachusetts. 📍Salem, MA

The idea that Americans pay more taxes than Europeans is catastrophically false, verging on delusional. This is what people on this site mean when we talk about populism killing the future. People just believe shit which is not remotely true, because it makes them feel better?

Raising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America.

The more I learn about the towns the happier I am to live in a city. Gimme a mayor and council any day over town meetings

the greatest cure for nostalgia is having a functioning memory

It does suck when one educational, cultural and economical group is the punching bag for both parties, especially if it's part of the core coalition of one of those parties.

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

I see this this all the time and it's the most tired talking point about speed cameras. We have data showing they change behavior, leading to less speeding and fewer fines. It's also worth noting how cops have basically given up on traffic enforcement (fewer cop interactions is also a positive).

"We have a moral obligation to understand the world if we are going to act upon it." This really succinctly puts why I feel so strongly about telling the truth about all things as much as possible.

I miss commuting by e-bike so much. Part of that is distance these days, but part of it is just bad bike infrastructure

I am going crazy here, the Red Sox had a famous curse before Henry took over, like linear time, what is it?

Climate change denial takes many forms. The demand for state subsidized home insurance in wildfire, hurricane, and flood risk areas is one of them.

Phase 2 is today's big announcement. SDOT will install a full eastbound BAT lane between 5th and Stewart St and PERMANENTLY CLOSE the slip lane from Denny onto Yale Avenue.

This is the kind of thing for state legislators to pay attention to. IZ may sound like a great thing when you're making long term plans, but some local governments are always trying to find ways to avoid allowing housing, and you have to be careful not to give them tools to do that

The degree to which cities are trying to use inclusionary zoning as a bludgeon these days is really starting to go off the charts.

This is as good as everyone says it is, read it www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

This is just what I needed to see today. E-bikes take cars off the road and that's really important. They also give people freedom, independence, and access to the world without a car. But they're also fun as hell. And bikes *should* be fun!

This is what happens when even cyclists see cycling infrastructure as recreation and not transportation. Nobody is "cheating" on their commute.

I'm seriously so fucking sick of people using the e-bikers are lazy trope. And even if you *are* able-bodied and use an e-bike, who the fuck cares? Getting somewhere faster and not all sweaty is fantastic.

more things that are bad: -not paying for your subway fare -playing loud music/videos on transit without headphones -littering -all sorts of shady car stuff like covering up your license plate, registering your car in the wrong state, getting a fake disability placard, speeding, etc.

shoplifting is bad. cheating on your taxes is bad. smoking on the train is bad. not picking up your dog’s poop is bad. we live in a society, act like it!

this is basically how gen-x ended up the way we have [derogatory]

For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.

American politics has drifted towards this collective position that the country doesn’t need tax revenue to run. And while I’ve been anti-austerity-mongering my whole adult life having grown up in the wake of the bungled response to the GFC, this stuff makes me feel like a deficit hawk lmao

Beyond the avoidable tragedy, I wonder whether repeated deaths at the same intersection despite demand for change will lead to increased liability for cities and traffic engineers. Will we ever have a lawsuit and landmark court case that will change street design toward safety?

At first glance this idea may SOUND good, but the truth is that no poor person will benefit from it, middle class people will benefit from it only marginally, but the well-to-do would benefit substantially. This is a perverse policy disguised as a middle class cut www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

I'm glad we've spent the last years engaging in a moral panic over e-bikes

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore. If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

Would like to spend billions on trains but the neighbors are telling me that I can’t build too close to their backyards because we didn’t include noise from high speed rail or EMF emissions in our EIS

I'm not sure how universal it is, but in the United States, we seem to choose savings over nearly every other thing we might value when determining how to spend. It killed Toys R Us and it stops of sewer systems from working as well as they could

I am getting very tired of people blaming “private equity” for changing consumer behavior. Private equity didn’t degrade the quality of the clothes you buy, ultra fast fashion and online shopping where you sort by low price, then buy clothes without ever actually touching them did that.

Today’s @mattbrown.bsky.social newsletter might be the clearest, most useful demonstration of the power dynamics in college basketball (and college sports in general) that I’ve ever seen. Schools in power conferences exclude everybody else, and then blame them for their own exclusion

Very unfortunately, a very rare L from Senator Van Hollen. We cannot continue to hollow out the tax base if we want to be able to fund the programs that will make our country less unfair. There simply isn't enough money only at the top. If we wanna look like Europe, we have to tax like Europe.

I'm generally opposed to the death penalty, but we should be the kind of country that prosecutes war crimes appropriately.

I want to walk into traffic

The way Seattle NIMBYs have fully convinced themselves that apartments kill orcas is absolutely black-pilling. Complete fiction that nobody had ever said 12 months ago.

My daughter: in the TLC song “No Scrubs,” what do they mean by “scrub”? Me: Honey this is the one and only pop song in history that opens up with a dictionary and thesaurus entry.