Mahdi Rahimi
@mahdirahimi.bsky.social
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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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Curb bulb outs.
December 17, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Curb bulb outs.
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“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.”
- Police Chief in Madison, WI
- Police Chief in Madison, WI
December 16, 2024 at 10:49 PM
“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.”
- Police Chief in Madison, WI
- Police Chief in Madison, WI
I wonder if we can incentivize delivery companies to use these in SF.
Toronto e-bike courier, Michael, shows us the things that just make sense in the Fulpra e-cargo bike.
These Dutch cargo bikes merge the cargo capacity of a van with the agility of a bicycle, facilitating direct access to urban destinations without emissions or delay www.linkedin.com/posts/fedexc...
These Dutch cargo bikes merge the cargo capacity of a van with the agility of a bicycle, facilitating direct access to urban destinations without emissions or delay www.linkedin.com/posts/fedexc...
December 15, 2024 at 10:07 AM
I wonder if we can incentivize delivery companies to use these in SF.
This could be Valencia Street.
This week, Vienna’s new Dutch-inspired cycling street officially opened.
The DCE was excited to take part in the programme:
🚲 Side workshop with Dutch experts from Artgineering and RHDHV
🎉 Festive opening with words from Dutch Ambassador Peter Potman
The DCE was excited to take part in the programme:
🚲 Side workshop with Dutch experts from Artgineering and RHDHV
🎉 Festive opening with words from Dutch Ambassador Peter Potman
December 11, 2024 at 4:15 PM
This could be Valencia Street.
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If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane.
We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵
We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵
December 10, 2024 at 6:46 PM
If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane.
We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵
We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵
We really need to do something about this type of abuse. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...
How One of the World’s Richest Men Is Avoiding $8 Billion in Taxes (Gift Article)
The chief executive of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has taken advantage of popular loopholes in the federal estate and gift taxes, which have quietly been eviscerated.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 5:26 AM
We really need to do something about this type of abuse. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...
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The solution to poor driving is rocks
Parking on the pavement? Put some big ol' rocks in the way
Are cars going too fast? Cover the road in little bumpy rocks
Street too wide? Big pile of rocks for cars to go around
Need a bike lane? Line of chunky rocks to keep cars away
Rocks 👍 🪨🌳🚶🚴♂️
Parking on the pavement? Put some big ol' rocks in the way
Are cars going too fast? Cover the road in little bumpy rocks
Street too wide? Big pile of rocks for cars to go around
Need a bike lane? Line of chunky rocks to keep cars away
Rocks 👍 🪨🌳🚶🚴♂️
December 9, 2024 at 12:45 PM
The solution to poor driving is rocks
Parking on the pavement? Put some big ol' rocks in the way
Are cars going too fast? Cover the road in little bumpy rocks
Street too wide? Big pile of rocks for cars to go around
Need a bike lane? Line of chunky rocks to keep cars away
Rocks 👍 🪨🌳🚶🚴♂️
Parking on the pavement? Put some big ol' rocks in the way
Are cars going too fast? Cover the road in little bumpy rocks
Street too wide? Big pile of rocks for cars to go around
Need a bike lane? Line of chunky rocks to keep cars away
Rocks 👍 🪨🌳🚶🚴♂️
Why don’t we have a state wide permitting office?
December 9, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Why don’t we have a state wide permitting office?
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even better, we should build infrastructure that makes bad driver behavior impossible: car free spaces, concrete protected bike lanes, BOLLARDS!! cheaper and more effective than cops or cameras. please consult the Triangle
December 9, 2024 at 5:55 AM
even better, we should build infrastructure that makes bad driver behavior impossible: car free spaces, concrete protected bike lanes, BOLLARDS!! cheaper and more effective than cops or cameras. please consult the Triangle
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Regarding insurers, this is basically true, but the problem is this:
The stuff that people get mad at them for doing is often stuff that a single public entity with monopsony power would ALSO do. Remember "death panels"? There's no universe where SOMEONE isn't making these decisions.
The stuff that people get mad at them for doing is often stuff that a single public entity with monopsony power would ALSO do. Remember "death panels"? There's no universe where SOMEONE isn't making these decisions.
There is nothing they do that couldn’t be done better by a single public entity with monospony power and they’ve long since drifted from actuarial risk management (necessary evil at worst) to shareholder value maximization (amoral at best) and turf defense.
December 7, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Regarding insurers, this is basically true, but the problem is this:
The stuff that people get mad at them for doing is often stuff that a single public entity with monopsony power would ALSO do. Remember "death panels"? There's no universe where SOMEONE isn't making these decisions.
The stuff that people get mad at them for doing is often stuff that a single public entity with monopsony power would ALSO do. Remember "death panels"? There's no universe where SOMEONE isn't making these decisions.
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I really cannot overemphasize to you enough that any alternative system of insurance would also limit care. There is no world in which you have free unlimited access to whatever health care you want.
This is a bad take. Insurers are hated because they only make money by denying care, they play ZERO useful function and can be completely eliminated and health care outcomes would go up markedly.
Their actions are dictated by one thing ironclad greed.
Their actions are dictated by one thing ironclad greed.
December 6, 2024 at 8:38 PM
I really cannot overemphasize to you enough that any alternative system of insurance would also limit care. There is no world in which you have free unlimited access to whatever health care you want.
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good piece on how Madrid built out a massive metro expansion for like 1/20th of what it costs in NYC worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...
How Madrid built its metro cheaply - Works in Progress
Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. What can its expansion teach other cities?
worksinprogress.co
December 6, 2024 at 7:21 PM
good piece on how Madrid built out a massive metro expansion for like 1/20th of what it costs in NYC worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...
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Dear Perro Sanxes,
I am 26 year old American Citizen. My people and my country yearn the freedom and justice you enjoy in Spain. please send Eurofighter Typhoons, a collection of spanish wine, and a buch of civil servants who work in metro construction agencies
I am 26 year old American Citizen. My people and my country yearn the freedom and justice you enjoy in Spain. please send Eurofighter Typhoons, a collection of spanish wine, and a buch of civil servants who work in metro construction agencies
BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”
Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so 'they cannot be undone in the future' - Olive Press News Spain
PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain's constitution so they 'can never be undone'. The left-wing PSOE
www.theolivepress.es
December 7, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Dear Perro Sanxes,
I am 26 year old American Citizen. My people and my country yearn the freedom and justice you enjoy in Spain. please send Eurofighter Typhoons, a collection of spanish wine, and a buch of civil servants who work in metro construction agencies
I am 26 year old American Citizen. My people and my country yearn the freedom and justice you enjoy in Spain. please send Eurofighter Typhoons, a collection of spanish wine, and a buch of civil servants who work in metro construction agencies
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Dallas' minimum parking requirements mandate that bars must have one parking space per 100 square feet of floor area.
Literally government-mandated drunk driving.
Literally government-mandated drunk driving.
December 6, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Dallas' minimum parking requirements mandate that bars must have one parking space per 100 square feet of floor area.
Literally government-mandated drunk driving.
Literally government-mandated drunk driving.
What does it take for @sfmta.bsky.social to be like the Spaniards? worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...
How Madrid built its metro cheaply - Works in Progress
Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. What can its expansion teach other cities?
worksinprogress.co
December 6, 2024 at 4:03 PM
What does it take for @sfmta.bsky.social to be like the Spaniards? worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...
Do you want to rent a mansion in Sea Cliff or stay at a parking lot in your vehicle in Bayview? Because the latter costs San Francisco taxpayers more in subsidies. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...
After a tumultuous run, San Francisco set to close exorbitantly expensive homeless site
San Francisco's only safe parking site for homeless people living in vehicles will close after three years of legal disputes, code violations and complaints.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Do you want to rent a mansion in Sea Cliff or stay at a parking lot in your vehicle in Bayview? Because the latter costs San Francisco taxpayers more in subsidies. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...
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The FTA just released October US transit ridership data, so I want to highlight the results of 3 big recent transit expansions
First is the Bay Area's Caltrain, where ridership is up 78% year-on-year in the wake of the line's recent electrification!
First is the Bay Area's Caltrain, where ridership is up 78% year-on-year in the wake of the line's recent electrification!
December 5, 2024 at 11:22 PM
The FTA just released October US transit ridership data, so I want to highlight the results of 3 big recent transit expansions
First is the Bay Area's Caltrain, where ridership is up 78% year-on-year in the wake of the line's recent electrification!
First is the Bay Area's Caltrain, where ridership is up 78% year-on-year in the wake of the line's recent electrification!
NIMBYs warned us about dangers of a tsunami and we didn’t listen.
December 5, 2024 at 9:37 PM
NIMBYs warned us about dangers of a tsunami and we didn’t listen.
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"Slower is safer. Injury collisions on SF’s 18 Slow Streets decreased 45 percent": Great piece from @thefrisc.bsky.social :
thefrisc.com/san-francisc...
thefrisc.com/san-francisc...
San Francisco’s Upcoming Bike Plan Got Its Backbone During COVID
Slow Streets have cut injury crashes nearly in half. Planners will roll out a new bike network soon. Have they learned that slower is safer?
thefrisc.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:31 AM
"Slower is safer. Injury collisions on SF’s 18 Slow Streets decreased 45 percent": Great piece from @thefrisc.bsky.social :
thefrisc.com/san-francisc...
thefrisc.com/san-francisc...
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The thing about YIMBYism is that it actually does work.
So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.
December 3, 2024 at 7:26 PM
The thing about YIMBYism is that it actually does work.
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If you've got a housing shortage, you really do just need to make it easier to build housing. Too many Dem politicians think the way forward is to make homebuilding easier in some ways while layering on new requirements to make sure it doesn't get *too* easy.
December 3, 2024 at 6:31 PM
If you've got a housing shortage, you really do just need to make it easier to build housing. Too many Dem politicians think the way forward is to make homebuilding easier in some ways while layering on new requirements to make sure it doesn't get *too* easy.
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I think we should charge for parking in commercial areas
December 3, 2024 at 5:18 AM
I think we should charge for parking in commercial areas
Valencia St when.
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
December 3, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Valencia St when.
This is one of the grossest articles I have read from @sfstandard.com
They’re lamenting that killing zero kids from traffic accidents is just too much to ask from speeding drivers. sfstandard.com/2024/11/28/r...
They’re lamenting that killing zero kids from traffic accidents is just too much to ask from speeding drivers. sfstandard.com/2024/11/28/r...
These San Franciscans blame pedestrians for traffic deaths
San Francisco’s Vision Zero data suggest that in recent years, motorists were at fault in most pedestrian deaths by car. Still, some readers think city safety measures do more to inconvenience drivers...
sfstandard.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:59 PM
This is one of the grossest articles I have read from @sfstandard.com
They’re lamenting that killing zero kids from traffic accidents is just too much to ask from speeding drivers. sfstandard.com/2024/11/28/r...
They’re lamenting that killing zero kids from traffic accidents is just too much to ask from speeding drivers. sfstandard.com/2024/11/28/r...