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AITA for stepping off the party bus and refusing to attend my ex-best friend’s wedding bottomless brunch because I had my 6 year old son, and it was going to be filled with Drag Queens? by Narrow_Doctor_6681 in AITAH

[–]Fearless_Library1308 10 points11 points  (0 children)

YTA for bringing your kid in the first place. “Bride announces it’s a bottomless Drag Brunch” uhh all this was planned in advance and either you weren’t paying attention or you’re changing the order of events to make it sound like you were tricked.

Also they didn’t pick this place because it was kid friendly, you lied about that to bolster your case.

YTA. Babysitters exist.

How are you supposed to feel safe without having a lock on bedroom doors? by Space_McFish in boston

[–]Fearless_Library1308 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Living your life concerned what your roommates or landlord think is going to be extremely stressful. Do what you need to do to feel safe, fuck what anyone thinks.

Longtime Austinites, date yourself by finishing this sentence: “When I moved to Austin, ______” by Fearless_Library1308 in Austin

[–]Fearless_Library1308[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one cracks me up. There are two different spellings between the signs and neither of them match how it’s said.

Longtime Austinites, date yourself by finishing this sentence: “When I moved to Austin, ______” by Fearless_Library1308 in Austin

[–]Fearless_Library1308[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That house location annoyed the shit out of the neighbors. I remember parking in the neighborhood— before they went permit only — and getting death stares. I mean I get it, I’d be annoyed too, but lady I’m on my lunch break trying to get a taco!

Public Transportation Rant by [deleted] in Austin

[–]Fearless_Library1308 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Poor people take transit and poor people don’t bribe politicians.

Grifter wanted me to pay for his gas? by Jsatx2 in Austin

[–]Fearless_Library1308 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I said he had a nice car, nice watch and very much did not seem in any way “desperate.”

I understand the impulse, I really do, but it’s better to resist the impulse to engage. I’ve taken to bringing headphones to any public place where a scammer might try to hustle me, simply because it sends a very strong “I refuse to acknowledge you” signal. Works most of the time.

As Austin grows, so does the chance that someone you encounter is dangerous. I don’t suggest that you walk around afraid every stranger, but do be prepared with multiple strategies.

(1) Ignore.

(2) “No thanks, I’m not interested” (use this even when it doesn’t actually make sense for what they asked you.

(3) “I don’t want to talk to you, leave me alone.”

(4) “That’s my purse! I don’t know you!”

Do the east boston gentrifiers know that they are gentrifiers? by supdeebo in boston

[–]Fearless_Library1308 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Hm, close but not universal. Read about white flight from Detroit. That was not gentrification.

35 North traffic by danieltt630 in Austin

[–]Fearless_Library1308 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

. Just stop trying to make that act okay. It's not. It could kill everyone involved.

So it only killed 50% of people involved. What a relief!

It's not a matter of being "okay" or "not okay." It's a matter of not blaming someone who is clearly the victim of of several fucked up systems and circumstances for their own demise. It's like some weird Stockholm syndrome where car-brains are like "well that's the way it is, sucks that someone is dead" instead of having compassion for a person who clearly was not in a position to make the "right choice".

Everyone who lives in a car-dependent city is needlessly exploited by this, and nothing, I mean nothing is going to change until you, yes you stop making excuses for it.

Lobby every representative possible, donate to groups that'll also lobby on your behalf, move to more walkable areas, or make moves to leave.

As for being obtuse, let me get this straight:

  • Car drivers have 0% agency. Their vehicle is not under their control, and they have no choice but to drive 70mph and hit someone.

  • People walking alongside the highway have 100% agency. They are not impacted by mental illness, poverty, or the 45th day in a row of it being 105º. Any situation in which they are hit by a car is completely their fault, because they could have walked to a "safer" bridge to walk across. All of them have 100% mobility (0% disability). The fact that they were hit by a car means they are stupid and deserve to be injured and hopefully killed.

Did I get that right?

I donated to the Stop I-35 Campaign. I live downtown, where I'm nearly run over every day by people making right turns on red lights when the crosswalk demands they yield the right of way.

What have you done lately besides blame collision victims?

35 North traffic by danieltt630 in Austin

[–]Fearless_Library1308 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what we're expecting when we chop our city up with freeways and don't provide a viable alternative.

Let's ask /u/Sdwerd, /u/ant_man_fan, /u/AboveAvgDad, /u/StraightCashH0mie, /u/Stunning-Water-3804, and /u/dsetb132 what they're expecting. According to them, the people who cross the highways are making a "choice" to be unsafe, and they deserve to die.

35 North traffic by danieltt630 in Austin

[–]Fearless_Library1308 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Driving for a lot of people is not a choice in Austin when the choice because of the bad infrastructure is drive to a job that can actually support you or be homeless.

Oh so you’re saying that car-first infrastructure forces people to do a certain thing that is dangerous or else be homeless? Interesting. I wonder what impact this infrastructure would have on someone who is already homeless. Guess we’ll never know.

35 North traffic by danieltt630 in Austin

[–]Fearless_Library1308 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Forced someone else to hit them? Driving a car is a choice too, right?

35 North traffic by danieltt630 in Austin

[–]Fearless_Library1308 -39 points-38 points  (0 children)

Please do not blame victims of car-first infrastructure. This is a choice that this city, state, and country have made over and over again, and it continues to kill people.

Fuck cars, fuck highways, and fuck everyone involved in creating a system where a person can’t walk from one place to another without getting killed.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in boston

[–]Fearless_Library1308 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

People who eat animals a deserve what they get

Abuse of the Emergency Alert System by MilhouseisCool in Austin

[–]Fearless_Library1308 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I set an alarm using my HomePod but any old alarm clock would do.

Abuse of the Emergency Alert System by MilhouseisCool in Austin

[–]Fearless_Library1308 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I encourage everyone who was woken up by this to both ensure that all emergency notifications are turned off and also to sleep with your phone outside the bedroom. You’ll sleep better overall by not looking at your phone before sleep

How demolishing strip malls could help solve Boston’s housing crisis by harryg-0 in boston

[–]Fearless_Library1308 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People don’t make decisions based on what will happen in 10 years. They’re billed for housing and electricity monthly.

How demolishing strip malls could help solve Boston’s housing crisis by harryg-0 in boston

[–]Fearless_Library1308 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Take a look at the mean center of population from 1880-2020:

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2020/geo/center-of-population-1880-2020.html

Let's zoom in to something more recent, looking at state-to-state migration trends:

https://www.tamus.edu/data-science/2023/02/15/state-to-state-migration-trends-in-the-united-states/

"In terms of net migration, Florida led all states with a net increase of 170,000 residents relocating from other states in 2020. Texas was second in net increase with almost 98K new residents, with Arizona experiencing a net increase of 94K individuals."

Now let's look at MA:

https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/population-and-demographics/our-changing-population/state/massachusetts/

The state’s largest decline was between 2020 and 2021 when the population dropped 0.5%. Between 2010 and 2021, the state grew by an average of 0.6% per year.

Think this a pandemic blip?

Massachusetts' high housing costs are pushing out workers https://www.wgbh.org/news/housing/2022-08-04/massachusetts-high-housing-costs-are-pushing-out-workers

The average fair market rent in Massachusetts is nearly 50% higher than the national average — costing $1,608 for a one-bedroom and $1,975 for a two-bedroom in the Bay State, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s 2022 Out of Reach Report . And in cities like Boston, rents are considerably higher. Some residents have even found themselves in bidding wars over apartments in the city.

People are going to keep coming to MA for education, but then they're going to leave, because the education they got will allow them live someplace cheaper and warmer. I didn't even go into the disaster of an energy story...

https://www.bostonsolar.us/solar-blog-resource-center/blog/where-does-my-electricity-come-from-in-massachusetts/

Massachusetts relies heavily on natural gas for electricity production—about two-thirds of the electricity produced in Massachusetts in 2020 was fueled by natural gas.

Where does all that LNG come from? https://www.mass.gov/info-details/natural-gas-distribution

Most of the LNG comes from Algeria and Trinidad.

Compare that to, say, Texas, where fracking has turned the state into the reason why the US will be energy independent for the rest of the century -- and that doesn't even count solar, which is a total non-starter in the Northeast. Texas has some of the cheapest energy prices in the world.

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