@David_E_Jimenez Ok? And we need government programs to be sustainable and fiscally responsible.
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Those taxpayers put up with a heck of a lot less traffic and congestion because of an imperfect reformable but fairly decent transit system. It’s called living in society.
Dominic Pino@DominicJPino
D.C. transit ridership has recovered from the pandemic better than most U.S. transit systems, after falling further. Yet taxpayers who don’t take the train or bus are increasingly subsidizing those who do, and it’s not sustainable. 🧵
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I usually agree with women when they have takes like this—men shouldn't be pretending to be friends with women purely for sex or romance... But c'mon! In what culture is it normal for a man to send a woman flowers weekly where it's NOT considered a romantic gesture?
Ryan Duff@ryancduff
Alternate headline— Local woman sets boundary, man honors it. Woman left confused.
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@sam_d_1995 When you love process more than results, you end up with lots of process and no results
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I sincerely wonder if any of the boomer faux progressive NIMBYs will ever have an epiphany that they’re the ones responsible for our housing crisis, worsening sprawl, and increased carbon emissions
or will they just keep ranting about how we can only build “affordable housing”
(((Deborah Glick)))@DeborahJGlick
Of course we want to build more AFFORDABLE HOUSING & more quickly But not without assurance it isn’t contaminated land - Think Love Canal- SEQRA IS important- developers don’t always do the right thing @GovKathyHochul @NYSA_Majority @riverkeeper
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@sam_d_1995 @DeborahJGlick This is so hilarious. Thanks Sam.
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@DeborahJGlick people are getting displaced every single day because not enough housing is being built and demand is outstripping supply, driving up rents!
the west village has built almost no housing for decades and is turbogentrified. seriously, what on earth are you talking about?
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@YtianYtian @juan_dla_mancha @PeterMoskos What we haven’t been able to do in is break the gang/drug trade grip on poor black and Hispanic youth that generates a lot of this crime. Arguably it’s as large and violent as ever unfortunately.
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@YtianYtian @juan_dla_mancha @PeterMoskos It’s funny because you sound like a lot of black leaders that have been blasting the “criminal youth” and lack of care in the community FOR YEARS. What you are saying isn’t even new. Black people are obviously constantly also caught in the crossfire
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The % of shooting victims in NYC who are Black or Hispanic is 96%, and it has varied very little—even as total numbers have changed. This racial disparity exists year after year. It’s amazing how few are aware (or purposefully ignored it, in related public policy discussions).
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@YtianYtian @juan_dla_mancha @PeterMoskos You aren’t sure of anything lol. Just say “I’m not part of that community, but here are my assumptions based on what I see” it would be more honest than pretending you know.
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@juan_dla_mancha @Gablacktus @PeterMoskos I’m sure they talk about every possible non practical solution possible
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Massachusetts AP Exam scores just dropped.
Top Performers:
Lexington – 94.6% pass rate
Belmont – 95.9%
Hopkinton – 95.7%
Wellesley – 95.5%
Needham – 95.5%
Boston: 68.7%
Worcester: 50.9%
Springfield: 41.2%
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@ANickGames @OnlyInBOS My brother purposely moved to a town that doesn’t have a sewer system because they couldn’t put in affordable housing. And you were right about the parenting issue. Teachers are not babysitters and learning continues at home.
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@YtianYtian @PeterMoskos You obviously haven’t been around for these discussions between black people. Its long discussed
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@PeterMoskos The reality is Black people don't truly care that much about the numbers at all. They'd much rather blame someone else (spiritually). There are black people who do care about that, but just the amount of antisocial hoodlums produced makes it hard for them to solve it communally
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@BostonGlobe Do white men get government jobs here in Massachusetts anymore? Asking for a friend.
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Rodney Marshall, the Boston Fire Department official set to be sworn as its new fire commissioner, does not live in the city as required under Boston’s municipal rules, according to public records. It was unclear when he intends to move from Canton. trib.al/sftxQCe
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@HarryCaulBurner @adatta02 @TechFocused @agupta They started offf communicating so well and I feel like that has completely dropped off
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@adatta02 @TechFocused @agupta Granted Eng did have a few minor improvements to the Red Line’s speed times (Braintree & Ashmont branches before you actually get into the city are still a disaster). Have overall been disappointed with how well he started out to how mediocre/stagnant improvements have become
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really important for Boston that this becomes the norm (or at least a 3 days / week)
Can’t have empty city centers if we want a growing restaurant / cultural scene
The Boston Globe@BostonGlobe
Fidelity Investments told thousands of employees at its Boston headquarters that they’ll need to come to the office five days a week starting in September, a significant shift from its current hybrid schedule. trib.al/kfqgZMo
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Unpopular opinion: historic preservation as we know it should be scrapped entirely, and cities should be required to acquire properties they wish to preserve at full market value through eminent domain (or otherwise compensate the owner). Landmarking abuse is rampant in CA.
Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️@PacificLegal
BREAKING: Los Angeles approved a couple's permits to redevelop a deteriorating home where Marilyn Monroe once lived— then revoked them a day later, declared the property a historic monument, and stuck the owners with the bill. PLF joined the federal suit to stop it.
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@EdforBoston You block housing so no one should listen to you
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Commercial property will cost between $1.7-$2.1B in annual revenue. We’re over $100M in debt after 2 years of 10+% tax increases. MBTA - $30B in repair, BPS buses late. Congestion pricing harms workers who don’t have luxury of remote work. We should welcome any/all back Downtown!
The Boston Globe@BostonGlobe
Parking fees? Congestion pricing? Mayor Wu’s new climate plan will study ways to discourage driving into Boston. trib.al/WcZ0xrX
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@NotCosta0711 @AdamDavis I miss that old big east tournament SO MUCH 😩😩😩
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@AdamDavis I think you could argue MSG is more notable as a college basketball arena than an NBA one since the end of the Ewing-era Knicks. Big East tourney, NIT, Jimmy V Classic, NCAA regionals next year, etc.
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Genuinely asking, do recent draftee’s have any reverence for Madison Square Garden at all? Like if you’re a 19 or 20 year old kid you have basically no memories of anything actually significant happening there in your time as an NBA fan lmao
Ashley Nicole Moss@AshNicoleMoss
aht aht THE Garden is in New York. you’re going to TD Garden.
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Lawyers who have attended USCIS interivews for resident status this week, have been told by officers that adjudications (final decisions) are put on hold "becuase of the shooting on Saturday night."
This is @USCISJoe and the farce that has become of @USCIS. Any excuse to deprive folks of the benefits they paid for. Classic Nativist, Know-Nothing stupidity.
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@TrollyP71 @jimfoley Young people are being driven out of MA now. The only way to avoid this is more housing. What are you suggesting?
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@jimfoley This will make it even more expensive. The construction costs in Cambridge are insanely high due to gov. mandates. More people will be driven out.
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Amazing, now watch single family prices skyrocket. Developers will tear them down and build 4-6 story properties everywhere. It will be an abomination. Congratulations to the commies, they win again.
Only In Boston@OnlyInBOS
Cambridge officially ended single-family zoning citywide. The City Council voted 8–1 to allow four-story residential buildings by right across the city, with six stories allowed for certain affordable housing projects.
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@falkemil_ @parthingle_x You don’t see a difference between software production and hardware production. Really?
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@parthingle_x Most AI companies are currently operating at negative margins with the cutthroat competition from Anthropic.
I don't see the difference lmao
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everyone wants to copy Shenzen into America, no one wants to run a 5% margin business with constant cutthroat competition
Y Combinator@ycombinator
Hardware Supply Chain @dessaigne In Shenzhen, a team can go from design to a new physical part in a day. In the US, that same loop often takes weeks, and that gap compounds. The overall stack for rapid hardware iteration still doesn't exist in America, and we want to fund the startups building it.
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@Gablacktus @That1Darman @fawfulfan "I don't see any Whites picking cotton or harvesting sugar cane. They're just lazy and don't want to work."
Actually, slavery is just bad. Even if your slaves are Mexican or Chinese.
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If you want to see how badly the GOP has been overtaken by Nazis, just read the replies to Vivek Ramaswamy making *literally the exact same point* about what it means to be an American that Ronald Reagan did over 40 years ago.
Vivek Ramaswamy@VivekGRamaswamy
You can travel to Italy, but you’ll never be an Italian. You can travel to France but you’ll never be a Frenchman. You can live in Germany but you’ll never be a German. You can pack your bags and live the rest of your life in China or Japan, but you’ll never be Chinese or Japanese. Yet you can come from any one of those countries to the United States of America, and you can still be an American – so long as you work hard, you play by the rules, you make your contributions, wait your turn, pledge allegiance to the flag, and obtain your citizenship.
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@Gablacktus @That1Darman @fawfulfan "I don't see Whites doing construction, just the foreigners that come to their community and undercut the wages for said jobs."
You seem too stupid to understand cause and effect so I'll just let you post into the void.
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