Yet we are in desperate need for federal receivership of the MBTA, please!

It's killing people and causing literally all of our traffic problems.

No one can rely on it to get to work on time so everyone drives.

How many more people will be killed until the incompetence is stopped?!

Porter Sq is is worse shape than Harvard and has been for years!

Federal receivership for the MBTA now!

Unfortunately, not soon enough.

(It was you. Respect and treat yourself well.)

Also, just be grateful for yourself when there's no one else. You're going to make this happen. You need to respect what you do for you.

Sometimes you gotta be your own hypeman!

Sorry! Had chipotle last night. This won't happen again... for a while.

Eric Berne. Transactional Analysis.

You're not afraid of making mistakes, but I wonder if you're interested in the slightest, in learning from them.

"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn." -Ray Bradbury

Nietzsche loved Emerson because Emerson lived the "overman" when Nietzsche felt forced to only tell the tale, (and tell it explosively well). (Not sure I've read any more "dynamite" philosophy than our man Freddy.)

Emerson "cut to the quick of it" and revealed all for those with eyes to see it. For all the teenagers championing Thoreau's Walden of 222 days, most never discover he was squatting on Emerson's land. Emerson came full circle where HDT was content just to see the other side from the Gap.

Nietzsche admired Emerson because the heights these two were able to rest in, most of our more celebrated minds haven't arrived to witness for moments.

Freud said if Nietzsche, “that he had a more penetrating knowledge of himself than any other man who ever lived or was likely to live.”

Now before you think what we're all thinking: "Sure, but what would Jung have said (to greater effect)?", just consider what his love, admiration and excitement of and for Emerson says. Dude's so good, he's quarantined from high school and undergrad teaching after only an essay called "Self Reliance". You have to be a grad student, genius, or just another incognito poet to even access the vast majority of what Emerson has given us.

Sure Nietzsche is famous for the smear campaign that has the popular consciousness believing he's some arch villain advocating Nihilism. Consider then the grandeur of Emerson that he's almost wholly covered up. None but these few phenoms and pyramid-scheme higher-Ed-heads get him and perhaps so much sweeter is this forbidden fruit for it.

So few finish Philosophy. Most give up on some branch or best-efforted concoction of system. Fewer still who've finished come back to tell us about it. Plato, Nietzsche (even for all his "faults"), Wittgenstein, Emerson. These are heights which have not only been achieved by the Humanity "us", but heights which have had their trails blazed by these paragons for the travel we too may tred.

What if they did end up in the same direction? "Society" is a phantom. Necessity however remains true for each individual as well as families, communities, entire cultures and species. Perhaps a release from the phantom and subsequent acknowledgement of an objective standard can guide people toward the same place-- morally speaking?

The Boston Medical Center, Faster Paths Program is in the Yawkey building at Harrison and Massachusetts Avenue. They deal directly with people living on the street and battling to fight addiction. They'd appreciate the donations.

This market will never satisfy demand for housing well enough to lower costs.

I often outwalk the bus on a 3 mile walk to/from work.

Parking minimums are .5 spaces per unit. No one is being forced to buy parking. There just isn't enough.

Sales selling for higher amounts raises area cost of square footage, not construction cost.

Selling more condos raises the costs, not removing necessary parking minimums.

More sales of increasingly priced luxury condos = raised costs of housing, not cost of construction. So clearly eliminating parking and adding 6-12 more "luxury" condos acts to raise housing costs. That increase of availability in no way lowers the forever demand so doesn't stem, but increases housing values.

ANYONE living in Boston or Cambridge with a job they need to be at reliably knows you can in NO WAY rely on the MBTA. The MBTA as an organization is one of the greatest amalgams of incompetency and corruption that anyone can point to. I mean come on. They are currently under federal direction for turning their act around because they couldn't stop actually killing their ridership.

Anyone arguing against parking minimums either walks to work or works from home, doesn't have kids and is not elderly or disabled.

Take a look at how property values work smart guy. Removing parking is a ply so developers can sell more luxury condos. Cars aren't going anywhere, they'll just get greener. I'm a cyclist and I've been hit twice. It'd be nice with fewer cars but removing parking minimums doesn't change their necessity for the population, it just makes it harder for the disabled to have accommodating housing and jacks up housing costs that much faster (meaning fewer less-socioenomocially-advantaged kids will have access to decent education).

Every child with a parent who can no longer afford to give them public education in a decent system is a child that has a harder shot at realizing their potential, you flippant, ignorant simpleton. Go back to chatting about super smash brothers with the other speaking apes.

You are either woefully misinformed or an intentional agent of evil. Educate yourself on insulin costs over the last 30 years and find out. People are dying for the inability to pay for a life-necessary drug whose patent was sold for a dollar because of the benefit human beings were intended to gain by its discovery.

This is a joke right?

This city is so owned by private interests that rent control has not only been dead for decades, but the masses just celebrated eliminating parking minimums in new construction to spite the children and elderly so as to afford six more luxury condo sales per each foreign developer, per each ground-level parking level eliminated.

You want community insulin in the home of Eli Lilly? In the land of: balls so big: We will Crispr humanity's self-labeled elite faster than you can outbreed our paying subscribers?!

Share with me what Knowledge can persuade this golden golem of more is more and quality is secondary to number.

What a shame that half of it is now broken and it hasn't been fixed in years.

At least they're in a bike lane!

Unless you're on Harvard or MIT campus or on portions of Mem Drive, there's no reason to be riding on the sidewalk. This includes the Mass Ave Bridge.

Okay, thanks for coming to my Cambridge Ted Talk.

What data is that? Can you cite some references please?

This is so dumb. There are greater margins for luxury condo sales. If more housing could be constructed in an indemand market such as this, you'll have more overpriced luxury condos-- unless it's gov mandated. Car dealers aren't even close to the situation Cambridge is in. Dealerships have allllll types of buyers. Your analogy isn't even remotely close. Quit spamming.

This is an obvious ploy by developers to increase their return on investment by enabling themselves to build more overpriced "luxury condos". No one here seems to be thinking this through.

Every vehicle that is parked onsite is a vehicle that doesn't sideswipe a cyclist or kill them opening their door while parking everyday instead on the street. Removing minimums is guaranteed to injure and kill people who wouldn't have otherwise been at risk. It's that simple. Cars are not going to vanish as much as cyclists like myself would wish for. They will only become greener.

This is clearly a plot by developers. They don't want the parking minimums (which are logical and necessary for so many reasons) because it eats into their return on investment. 1/2 parking space per unit means fewer overpriced "luxury" condo sales. It's that simple.

The minimums are required because developers are incentivized to use that space for more luxury condos (greater return on investment) rather than building in the vehicle storage and in-so-doing remove the pressure on street parking which is already limited. Anyone with friends or family who've lived in Southie during the past ten years, for example, understands the value of these minimums and why municipalities institute them. Attempting to park the car you must have due to the constant unreliability of public transportation, for example, may now regularly add on significantly to your workday. If you're scoffing, add up the extra 20-30-40 minutes over time and each day depending on where you live.)

So is the idea to choke out car usage by removing the spaces which store them? I didn't understand that before. Wicked classist, (in that working-class families who need vehicles would be forced to spend a disproportionate amount of income in order to store them), but I think it would work. I mean, it's guaranteed to work. It's just remarkably prejudiced and short sighted.

#Vehicles will not disappear. They will only become greener.