DC YIMBY

I’m just trying to help you out with your bad methodology. Fine, put your fingers in your ears and I’m happy for this discussion to be over. You won’t hear more from me.

No, you are still thinking about it wrong. Example: An American drives 10 miles to the store and has a 1 in 20 chance of dying. A German drives 2 miles to the store and has a 1 in 100 chance of dying. With your stat, both are equally safe, which is nonsense. More driving = more danger.

But if Americans drive more, that in and of itself is NOT safer. Part of the reason the US is not safe is the fact that people drive everywhere. You can’t separate the two. Just like you can’t separate the number of guns and gun violence, you can’t separate the ubiquity of cars and road violence.

Actually, no. Per miles driven is NOT a relevant metric. Americans drive a SHIT TON of miles and generate a SHiT TON of road deaths per person. That’s precisely the problem. That’s like saying Americans have a reasonable amount of gun deaths per bullets fired. It’s a bad metric.

Chart showing road deaths per 100K inhabitants by select country since the mid-90s. Every country with sharp declines except the US, which is the highest (passing Russia recently) and 2x-4x higher than peers like UK, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Australia, and Canada.

Maybe. But Germany still far, far better than the US for road safety.

Three speeding tickets and your license should be revoked and car impounded.

Pic of Pontevedra from the air.

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

Photo of a truck with Virginia license plate TJA 1553 parked directly next to the curb in front of Tryst on 18th street in Adams Morgan, in the space that held their outdoor dining patio until recently

Different angle perpendicular to the pickup truck showing it is directly in front of Tryst

Screenshot of the DC parking ticket website showing that the truck has $2200 in unpaid tickets, mostly for illegal parking on 18th street, but also three for speeding and one for running a red light.

So glad we tore down the Adams Morgan streateries so we have plenty of space for this guy who owes $2,200 in unpaid tickets so he can park directly in front of tryst!!!

Über comfortable with them, why do you ask?

Brought to you by the Wingdings of governments.

I’d give up Florida in a heartbeat :)

Trying to make a list of all the bike projects that DDOT planned and then seriously watered down over the last year or two...

--CT Ave (obviously)
--KS Ave (described below)
--11th street NW
--K Street NW transitway

not to mention downgrading AZ ave which was already protected but isn't anymore

Greenhouse Gaslighting?

It’s almost as if an empty slogan with no political spine to enforce real change doesn’t have an impact. Shocking!

Chart showing an enormous July spike in ICE arrests in DC of people without criminal records

File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR

Kershbaum is a despicable human being. She also ripped up the Arizona Ave protected bike lanes to please one of the administration’s developer buddies. So much corruption and evil, and it starts at the top.

It’s not an impossible situation. Refuse illegal and immoral orders. It’s quite simple, actually.

Report: It Pretty Incredible That Americans Entrusted With Driving Cars WASHINGTON—Citing that a majority of Americans are irresponsible, easily distracted people who have little regard for other human beings, a new Department of Transportation report revealed Wednesday t...

“WASHINGTON—Citing that a majority of Americans are irresponsible, easily distracted people who have little regard for other human beings, a new Dept of Transportation report revealed that it’s ‘actually kind of crazy’ that U.S. citizens are allowed to drive automobiles.”

The Onion strikes again.

And crime! Americans “feel” like it keeps going up, though it’s been decreasing for many decades (with a slight bump post the heights of the pandemic). And they typically report their personal feeling of safety much higher “elsewhere.”

the SEC should have a law that just says any CEO who uses the term "infinite money glitch" just has to go straight to prison, right away

Good take = Lack of accesses an important issue, and one should work towards inclusion and equity to make a bike bus accessible for as many people as possible.

Bad take = Bike buses do more harm than good (which is absurdity inwas responding to)

Haha. Did you describe something as seriously goofy? That might have done it.

Wow, horrible take.

The fact that he made sure to get into the bike line? Absolute king.

So if being anti-fascist is considered domestic terrorism, that means the Federal government just openly admitted to being fully Fascist, correct?

What on earth are you talking about? Wilders is an awful human, but he has no power and doesn’t control shit.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.

Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

Yeah it’s that. But it’s also the advertising playing to the fragile egos of the buyers and US carmakers pushing these monstrosities because they have higher profit margins.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

Guard your lemon trees closely!