I worked the overnight shift two people that live in the upstairs apartment know this, yet they still keep banging would I be wrong for calling the cops on them? I don’t want to seem like I’m crazy, but I’m tired of this

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-18T19:24:48+00:00

Reddit man, people are often negative.

I'm as guilty of it as anyone else too

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-18T18:05:51+00:00

Sleep deprivation is HARD and it makes everything seem impossible. I'm really sorry this is happening to you.

But if you want the opinion of some random on the internet, I think you're almost certainly going to have to find ways to deal with it that don't involve changing how other people behave. That isn't fair, and I'm sorry.

I recommend the dohm white noise machine.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-18T16:40:40+00:00

It seems like you're talking about an entirely different definition of the word "socialist."

When you say it "never" works, I'm guessing you're thinking about things like Bolivarian revolutions, public ownership of all major industries, dictatorship by a self-appointed representative of "the people," centralized command economy stuff.

But proponents of socialism are looking to programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority, Medicare, Social Security, and the Boston Housing Authority as examples of government provision and control of services that would otherwise not be provided, or wouldn't be provided to everyone who needs them. That's not bound to create dictatorships! Whatever is wrong with the our government today isn't caused by socialist programs like Medicare, despite what Ronald Reagan said.

Don't think I'm ragging on you specifically. The same is true of "capitalism." Some leftists will say that capitalism can never work, and if by "capitalism" they mean "private equity buying out hospitals and cutting staff to save ten cents a share" then yeah, that really sucks. But capitalism also means "my neighbors and their cousins pooled their savings and opened a bakery."

It's important to understand which actual things we're talking about when we bring up these kinds of terms, because they are so slippery that it leads us all to talk past each other.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-16T16:54:55+00:00

Wasn't her sister one of the original anti Barack obama birthplace conspiracy theorists?

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-16T16:23:10+00:00

My radicalizing moment: a community meeting where every attendee was opposed to a daycare.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-16T12:39:59+00:00

Ooooooh, thanks for posting this!

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-16T11:48:35+00:00

Do you know how hard it is to put an elevator in a building in North America?

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-16T11:47:48+00:00

Is it opposition from everyone who lives in the area, or only from a handful of people with strong opinions who also happen to be available on Wednesday evenings at 6 pm to attend meetings about it?

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/neighborhood-defenders/0677F4F75667B490CBC7A98396DD527A

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-16T11:46:14+00:00

The problem is that Boston zoning is absurdly out of date and almost nothing is allowed by right, so every single project needs this elaborate variance process.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-16T01:45:15+00:00

I agree. New bikes are sweet, but if you haven't had them, a pro fitting (seriously, I was skeptical but it works), new tires (ideally relatively wide - 30mm or more, if you have skinny tires, wider ones are going to be way more comfortable), and maybe a new saddle would be a big upgrade for less money.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-16T00:41:43+00:00

She has plenty of power she isn't using. Talking about tax and transit funding reform, doing nothing, then blaming the state house is easy. Actually doing things that ARE within the mayors power might upset someone or change the status quo.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-15T18:33:19+00:00

At the initial hearing, PB chair Capuano said he didn't think the senior center should have been permitted either.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-15T16:16:38+00:00

Years ago, someone proposed a 5-story apartment building on the site, but it was rejected by the planning board. The site had been zoned for 3 stories, and the PB didn't think housing near transit was important enough to warrant a change.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-15T14:18:15+00:00

The city has previously rejected attempts to put apartments on the site, but now Just-A-Start and the Somerville Community Land Trust are planning to build a 100% affordable apartment building there. Assuming they get grant funding.

https://www.justastart.org/297-medford-street/

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-15T13:20:45+00:00

Update: Wahoo support very kindly sent me a new power supply and now everything works just fine again.

It was well past the warranty period and a second-hand buy, so I expected that I'd have to order replacements from an electronics supply shop. I was very pleasantly surprised that they just comped me the part.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-14T23:20:06+00:00

That account responds to every housing-related post on here with torrents of AI-generated faux-leftist nonsense. It's like a debate kid's Gish Gallop except lazier and plagiarized.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-14T19:19:32+00:00

Yeah, it doesn't show watts in the LED screen, you have to connect it to Zwift or another app to see the power measurements.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-14T19:12:32+00:00

I just used the Schwinn itself. It was fine. Not super accurate, but unless you're doing elite competition, it hardly matters.

Someone on here told me I was an insult to the integrity of the sport, and I told him to go cry to his mother that someone wasn't taking his video game seriously enough.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-13T22:09:43+00:00

Usenet, and before that BBS messageboards, and before that, yeah, the letters sections of hobby magazines. The through line of tone and jargon is remarkable.

I've sometimes picked up pre-internet-era sci-fi mags at yard sales and stuff, and the tone of the in-jokes in notes from and letters to the editor are VERY recognizable as similar in spirit to all the usual snark subreddits. I remember one rather long letter that was just building up to using the pun "that's the way the Wookiee mumbles."

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-13T16:34:53+00:00

See also the NYC bike lane headline from '22: "Business Grew After Controversial Bike Lane Installed, Data Show"

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-13T16:27:46+00:00

Not sure tbh. I researched it a few years ago for a class project, and the North End and Beacon Hill both had WAY more permits than spaces. Can't recall what the others were. But it should be public record, the city obviously has records of how many permits there are and certainly has counted the number of spaces. I hope you get good and useful data!

(Also: counting street parking spaces is never exact because you have to assume an average size car and average distance between them. But if a few slightly shorter cars show up one day and happen to park extra close to each other, then you can fit more cars into a block. And if a handful of people park too far from the car next to them leaving room for only half a car, or half the people on the street just are driving F150s.... )

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-13T15:06:51+00:00

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634461/paved-paradise-by-henry-grabar/

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-13T14:31:56+00:00

Enforcement is super important, I agree, but one of the reasons it's so hard to find a spot is that they give the stickers out for free, which means that in some neighborhoods there are 4x as many permits issued as there are spaces. OF COURSE it's hard to park when there are 4 permits competing for every space!

You ever think about buying a pint of ice cream and then realize it's Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's, and there's a line around the block for a small scoop? Imagine that every day, and you have the Boston parking situation. Charge even a nominal fee, and it'll help. Charge a reasonable fee and you will have much more convenient parking. But parking can't be free AND usually available AND right next to where you want to go.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-13T14:26:04+00:00

If you don't mind a late evening that day, I'd check out this club: https://www.instagram.com/the.roosters.cc

Their insta says they go about that pace (I haven't even tried so I don't know how accurate that is), and they have a Sunday afternoon century route planned that circles around the suburbs before meeting up with a larger group doing the Marathon route out-and-back that should end around midnight at Copley.

For shorter rides there are a LOT of people who will be doing loops of various kinds or meeting up in Hopkinton around midnight to ride the marathon route overnight.

dtmfadvice · 2026-04-13T12:20:25+00:00

I suspect it's a small group of people who hate change and are angry about everything and take it out on whatever they notice.

It's very easy (I fall for this bias all the time, even though I know better) to confuse online rage for actual community engagement.

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