As someone who used to live in places with very limited places to park, that shouldn’t be a deal breaker. Some do have driveways and there are side streets. It’s not the end of the world to have to park around the corner. (Assuming the side streets are less crowded than downtown Boston)

You don’t have to be religious to support people who are, just like you don’t have to cycle to support people who do. Both are community needs

I was actually going to jump on their side: that area is still very car centric and you need to be able to handle that while taking steps toward safe cycling and walkability. …… then the video was showing a mostly empty street where many of the houses had driveways, so no. They can suck it up and park in their driveway or around the corner like the rest of us

Or heck, that street is really wide. We have narrower streets with both a protected bike lane and parking

The church should have accomodations though, even if it means closing part of the bike lane sundays

It’s survival on the plains. You didn’t loose the race, you got eaten by a lion

Yeah, I stopped buying anything Welch’s for just this reason. Actually I’m not sure I ever started. When I bought juice, I always looked for some that had juice. Now that juice has entered a new phase of enshittication, it’s just not worth it, even for special occasions

I’ve been wondering that too. There are always co-workers but none I really connect to. Lots of parents but now that kids are grown there’s nothing in common.

Now I’ve really gotten into cooking but my kids are in college and I have no one to cook for. I have a smoker that can ditn30+ pounds of meat or 6 racks of ribs. Who’s hungry?

The is healthcare system is clearly a disaster but …. Since those drugs are not approved treatment for a health issue you have (your diabetes is under control), they have. Bit of an excuse. The real reason of course is that most of the population is overweight so they can’t afford to pay for everyone who needs it.

Can I suggest other strategies that may help you lose weight?

When I was planning to have kids I successfully lost over 100 pounds and kept it off for a decade! For me the key factors were doing it with my wife so we kept each other on track and food tracking. We joined weight watchers but it was the food tracking that made the difference for me and there’s many ways to do that. Even when you think you’re doing well you probably consume a lot more calories than you think, and it adds up. Food tracking can highlight this, identify where to make more effort. On the other side of things, losing weight requires following good habits over time: food tracking also helps you stay on track over time but this is also where peer pressure from someone else can really help.

Of course I’ve gained it all back now that my kids are in college but I did pretty well for their entire childhood, which was my motivation. I currently may have better nutritional habits than I did back then but I’m clearly way off in portion size and calories consumed

Maybe not as much as you think, but they’d have to reorganize for sure. Every tiny village could have a walkable center if they wanted to, so even in rural areas, you might have a decent part of the population living where cars are less necessary

On the other hand, Yosemite is an example where I believe they banned cars

Effing Pennsylvania is a state to avoid then. I don’t know whether they’ve changed anything but I did that a few years back and they said they weren’t allowed to sell me more than two sixpacks. While I don’t actually drink much, beer stores well for weeks to months and I had found a brewery I liked but haven’t been to since

There is no plausible situation where over 50% of people willingly decide to: … 2) live in a suburb or rural area

I’ve seen urbanism streamers claim that even in the US, we’re above 70% living in urban and suburban areas dense enough that transit makes sense. It is possible we could make transit useful for most of the population. We won’t. But we could

NL’s national rail company became essentially non-operational

Don’t forget the Internet and ability for some of us to work from home, which is a relatively recent change. If I depended on rail service and there was an outage, it would be no big deal since I can work from home

Highly depend on where you live. In the US especially, we had a lot of post-wwii growth designed around cars so a lot of places make anything else a challenge.

Cars may represent freedom and self determination, but can seem awfully limiting in a city with good walkability and transit, even in the US. When I lived in Boston, it was so much more freeing to walk out my front door and have the entire city accessible. More than that, since Acela and the airport were also accessible.

I never gave up my car though, between things like shopping and visiting people outside the city. But now that we have options like delivery, ride share, e-bikes, and hourly car rentals, those would be much easier.

But now I live in a suburb, and even here I walk a lot more than typical Americans. The key is older towns built out before cars. I live in the first ring of single family houses less than a mile from the town center. We have a “Main Street” shopping and restaurant area, a common, and train station. There’s also a trail Along the River and a rail trail through town that are easily accessible. Over pandemic my family started a tradition where every weekend we walked down to our favorite Pakistani restaurant, grabbed takeout, and ate dinner on benches on the town common.

From events over the last few weeks, I can definitively state that owning a dog large enough to drag you down icy steps is NOT conducive to longer life and can be quite painful

Hope you like potatoes

Watching this might help raise your anxiety

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)

I had a local cop admit that as a strategy. When they want to make a point regardless whether there are valid charges, sometimes they can time it so you’re stuck in jail over a weekend or holiday

Admittedly I did similar. At one point I had a non-working detector and noticed it was long expired when I tried to replace the battery. I realized I had been in my house more than ten years and the detectors had been installed by a previous owner, probably in the early 2000’s. Those did NOT beep when they expired

When I replaced those, the new ones were all configured to beep when expired and they were starting to push the sealed detectors with ten year non-replaceable battery. Sure enough, ten years later they all started beeping that they were expired.

I guess I assumed that it’s been 20 years and most people will have replaced detectors at least once. In my state, there’s a required inspection that all detectors are up to date before a house can be sold

(Which is really annoying because mine are all battery but the current standard is they must interconnect so I’ll need some electrical work if I want to sell my house)

Could easily be better weatherproofing

One of the reasons I never worried about radon is I live in an older house that leaks lots of air.

Don’t they all do that now? Tell you when they’ve expired?