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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Except for “visitors to the zone”, they literally only measured the things that could be positive. There was no world where congestion pricing was going to increase number of cars. Actually yellow taxis are up, which they portrayed as “green” but I think most people would argue is actually “red” - i.e. we want to lower the number of taxis (and rideshare).

    The controversial questions: restaurants/businesses, effect on low-income commuters, are all in the “Too soon to say” category. They’re not even measuring the all-encompassing commute-time question which is “average commute time for all commuters”, not “average commute time for X category”. It’s entirely possible that commute times for both cars and transit could go down while the commute time for an average person goes up because more people are being pushed to longer-time commutes.









  • God this is such a tired and lazy narrative. We just got out of one of the most effective administrations the world has seen and you’re still pulling this bullshit. Biden managed to steer us out of a global pandemic and avoid a recession everyone was actively rooting for while managing inflation to lower rates than any other nation globally. Without legislative control, he managed to pass two major domestic investments including one investing billionsin high tech manufacturing. He canceled billions in student loan debt, had the strongest FTC we’ve seen in decades that started up antitrust for the first time in a century, and effectively halted a geopolitical enemy without losing a single American soldier. You want to call that all symbolic? Democrats are the definition of “if you do things right, they’ll think you’ve done nothing at all” and we’re currently seeing all the things they’ve done disappear in front of our eyes.



  • If you’re on Proton to be privacy-oriented and stop governments or corporations from accessing your data, do you really trust the company when their CEO is cozying up to an authoritarian regime? I just don’t see Proton fighting any information requests from Trump right now, and just from a utilitarian perspective that makes them a bad choice for me as a user.