So my dream about getting to an airport turned into a dream about justifying myself for shitty standardized testing. I’m 37.

Pedestrian/cyclist death denialism and homeless survey denial often have a similar conspiratorial tone. As if the status quo is fine, but is being imposed upon and made dangerous by Them.

Virginians who hate this, you can always just move to West Virginia… oh, wait, you don’t want to? Why is that?

we are seeing the results of letting the rurals run everything and it’s Pretty Shit

At what point has someone born and raised somewhere else become your neighbor? At what point are they your community’s responsibility?

What, are you gonna make someone who’s otherwise been here three years, five years, a decade, a quarter century move back to their hometown because they’re homeless?

“Where were you last stably housed” is in fact a pretty good measure if what you want to prove is if people move here while homeless.

Christ, are people still doing the “did you go to high school here” test on the stats that say most homeless people are functionally from the regions they are in?

Ok but what if high cost of living can also be because we don’t spend *enough* public money?

Cont’d: Including ones we opened with a lot of hype all of 8 months ago?

What's your vibe?

1. jaded retail clerk
2. underemployed rock bassist
3. witch of the wine aisle
4. sleepy old bear

oh no, I'm getting flashbacks to 2014.

Curtis Yarvin got his winning tech startup ticket around age 40, started weebing out on historical documents etc, & concluded "men of the 17th-19th century Enlightenment evolved the most sophisticated rhetoric ever: therefore it's okay they owned slaves & we should RETVRN in their footsteps" 🤡💩

I mean, I def understand people who criticized his plans feeling vindicated.

...do they think people are that nostalgic about Tonya Harding's skating practices from the early 90s? Or about landmark supreme court cases?

I hate saying this but I would absolutely put money down on internal folks saying “This is contra to Vision Zero“ and folks in department management telling them Not To Get Political while vetoing things in favor of… well, political demands

m'hm. when I interviewed at king county, i was interviewed out of the snoqualmie office. IIRC, Island county also has an annex on camano. makes sense to have mulitple offices if you have a big county with a lot of different needs!

dude's big thing was opening as much overnight shelter as possible, and now to see him walk away from it is def something.

lol wow

Me, looking at new urbanisty subdivisions in the western portland metro: ok, preserving farmland and being dense and having parks and even school is great, but what else is there to walk to?

I wonder if the advent of MAHA has made any folks examine their attitudes toward other peoples' health and their beliefs about what makes for healthy people.

Our days can be tiring, so save some energy for the important stuff, like reading books, brewing tea, and shapeshifting into a were-bear to protect the old forest.

RFK Jr. just said HHS is "cleaning up the risk pool" (i.e., people who are unhealthy) to bring down healthcare costs.

It's everywhere in mormon/evangelical circles. Anyone joined up with an MLM selling "aromatherapy" oils, faith healers, "food is medicine" types, that whole culture is soaked in "bad things don't happen to good people", so it can never be a matter of an unthinking, amoral vector.

Suspicion and outright rejection of the germ theory of disease is a major pillar of "anti-Cathedral" thinking (to use a largely discarded term). Manosphere stoicism, MAHA quackery, and seed oil panic pseudo-nutrition all ideologically require ill health to be the result of moral inferiority.

The Green New Deal has evolved. Now it's all about 'affordability.' A new "working class climate agenda" seeks to provide economic relief and tackle global warming at the same time.

Thrilled to be quoted in Grist, on Green Economic Populism:

"Fossil fuels are unreliable. They drive up your cost of living. They cause wars and people die. And if we make a green transition, that will make everyday life better for working people who are struggling."

grist.org/politics/gre...

ah, looking forward to the gen x cope on this

(when gen x is good, they're amazing, but when they're bad, they're worse than any boomer)

This is the fundamental problem, Minneapolis needs to proritize livability for the people who live here. Prorities in order:
1) Make things better for people already here
2) Do so in a way that encourages more people to move here
X) Cater to people living in Wayzata who hate cities

US DOT's new "Freedom to Drive Initiative" focuses on addressing congestion by:
—"Building new roadway capacity"
—"Recover[ing] roadway capacity from other purposes [e.g., biking & transit] to support driving"

[There is no evidence that either of these strategies work to address congestion.]

wait, so like, italian soda but with a base of regular sodas instead of plain sodawater?