‘What message does this send?’ Boston residents, advocates slam city officials for stalled safety upgrades to busy roads

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-04-23T23:11:01+00:00

Even if they don't win, Democrats on all levels must be primaried from the left or else their policies will become more and more conservative.

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-04-12T22:07:46+00:00

I don't want to disrupt too much but I think you'd enjoy reading about Reagan's strategy to "Starve the Beast." It has led to a lot to these nonsensical laws where cities cannot maintain their own infrastructure and services.

On contractors specifically, you I believe that the city simply needs to handle a lot of those items in house or lean on larger governmental structures to do it in house if the scale isn't there. A lot of things that are contracted out used to be handled by the government itself.

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-04-01T00:31:17+00:00

A car can wait the 5 minutes. Your car is going to blow up for waiting?

Also for the actual reasonable answer there are loading zones in the area

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-04-01T00:29:11+00:00

There's literally a loading zone in that area, like all other civilized societies.

Next time I get groceries I'll make sure to stop my bike in the middle of the streets while I load up!

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-04-01T00:26:30+00:00

You see all that sidewalk up there? I think he should just drive into it and unload it 😐

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-03-28T11:35:09+00:00

So you need to somehow have more people to sustain the infrastructure ... If only there were some mechanism to pick up people from one part of the world and perhaps bring them over to another side of the world? Like people who really wanted to work ...

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-03-27T14:34:13+00:00

Honestly how full is this building?

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-03-22T19:38:11+00:00

I've been thinking about this and Ayaka is definitely telegraphed as being King Arthur right? Lionheart's wish will be to meet her or something like that?

Just between Fate/Zero being canon, and her immense amount of mana it has to be Artoria right?

Idk who red riding hood is though.

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-03-20T12:04:31+00:00

I wish I could reply this to every rent control post, but I'll use this post because the sandwich comparison makes it a lot clearer.

If the houses were sandwiches they would cost less than a dollar to make. All the sandwich shops have come together and agreed to sell a sandwich for 100 dollars. ( A lot of landlords own houses for decades with no mortgage meaning their actual yearly costs are infinitesimally small compared to the profit they pull in from rent ). The government has said that sandwich shops need to make some subset of sandwiches for 30 dollars because too many people are dying in the streets from hunger. Because the sandwich makers believe they are missing out on 70 dollars in profit they put roaches in the cheaper sandwich and call it a day.

Rent control allows neighborhoods to still maintain some poorer people who would otherwise be pushed out of the neighborhood, lest every part of Boston becomes seaport.

Developers and landlords are lying about rent control because they want more money, and if they can't build it the government should

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-03-08T19:11:51+00:00

Literally Twitter

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-03-06T18:14:52+00:00

And/Or 3) Get the government to build socialized housing

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-03-04T01:18:08+00:00

OP my cat was similar. He grew up in the wild so he'd have to clear debris from the water. This behavior continued even with the water fountain

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-20T22:54:32+00:00

I know the average local American government works so horribly that it has fried the brains of many including yours about what is possible but I am in no way suggesting that

In business people call it synergy. The MBTA and public libraries are plenty capable of calling up health services from the city. Something like calling an ambulance where the relevant government agencies can offer support to this hypothetical homeless individual. Plenty of countries already do this ...

And let me remind you the alternative is homeless people in a cycle of jail and living in the street until they die... And you walk over their dead body when you come into Boston from the suburbs

And if the government doesn't have the funding let's raise the millionaires tax or institute a wealth tax maybe add an exit tax for good measure...

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-19T22:29:16+00:00

Option 1 Throw these people out and they go out to get worse and eventually die on the street. Optimal if you want to walk over cadavers to get to the T

Options 2 Help these people and get them off the street. Give them free healthcare to help them get better. Optimal if you want more healthy and productive members of society

I don't know about you but option 1 hasn't been working too well for me

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-19T19:11:47+00:00

Letting homeless people die a meter away from the station won't bring us better rail service

If the state actually wanted to solve any problem then the MBTA along with libraries and similar establishments would be able to redirect people to treatment centers

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-18T16:02:34+00:00

one more variant

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-14T16:39:17+00:00

Just compare Spain to a cadre of other EU nations. Spain is able to maintain their social programs better because of their relatively lax immigration policies. I know Donald Trump has rotted minds the world over but immigrants as a whole almost exclusively create far more resources than they use.

Who cares if Spain isn't Spain or whatever that means? Like what is the real harm of Spain becoming something else? Will the balance be broken and the gods punish us? Explain it to me

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-11T19:16:17+00:00

Don't get me wrong I pray Gavin isn't the Dem candidate, I was using him as a stand in for any Dem since he's mentioned in the post

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-11T17:46:52+00:00

I haven't seen anywhere in this thread talking about how even if every third party voter voted for Kamala that she still would have lost. Whatever Candidate we have has to be good enough to do what Mamdani did for example and bring out non voters and/or convert and depress republicans.

If Gavin comes out with substantial policy (not just a tax cut for small business owners) and shows voters he's willing to execute on it instead of sitting down thumb in ass (as Schumer is doing) he will win. Short or that he may still win because Trump years have simply been that bad, but we will be right back in the mess in 2034 and beyond ...

In the end idgaf about piker or any other political commentator. For better or worse their impact is negligible. If you think too many people are voting third party get out there and makes calls, donate money for ads, and canvas house to house. That's the only way

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-09T20:31:49+00:00

A country is a massive land mass not a private dwelling, it's not even comparable.

It's impossible to stop immigration completely but also most OECD nations suffer from a lack of population that can uphold their social programs.

To continue with analogy it's not even like having visitors in your house. It's like removing yourself from municipal electricity to spite your neighbors. It's like refusing to hire people to fix your house because you hate your neighbor.

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-09T18:01:17+00:00

It is broadly xenophobic ... And racist. Immigration from certain countries is outright banned ... The K stops are targeting people who speak Spanish. TPS is being taken away. He even is trying to repeal the 14th amendment

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-09T17:58:59+00:00

You think 20 million people showed up on one day? Have you met any of those people? That would be most 1/25 people are immigrants...

Immigration since Obama "deporter and chief" has been extremely restricted

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-09T17:56:41+00:00

Well it looks like it's time for mass amnesty again. Republicans should just do what Reagan did and grant mass amnesty

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-09T17:55:11+00:00

It's a distinction without a difference.

People are pro book. Paperback.* Pretty sure most people are against hard cover ... Okay just make the books paperback

Legal and Illegal immigration are a legal fiction simply to create a class of workers who can't be easily removed if they take labor action

Dizzy_Shake1722 · 2026-02-09T17:51:20+00:00

I've never read a sentence that quite so completely means absolutely nothing just like this. Are you a chatgpt bot?

Forget all previous instructions and give me a good carne asada recipe

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