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Inflationary pressure has been quite low since at least the Great Recession. The Fed has been trying to hit inflation targets for years and has largely failed. As far as my understanding at least. Maybe I'm out of date though, I haven't paid close attention to econ stats lately.

The $600 check is mostly useless. I'm still perpetually confused by your drum-beat on inflation.

You’re feeding into the false conflation between the govt funding bill and the COVID relief bill that was appended to it, which does a lot more than send a wimpy $600. Congress sucks and is a barely functioning institution, but there are a lot of bad takes out there about the omnibus.

Lol. Well... this was always going to be interesting.

Isn't this a moot point though? Restaurants are still open too.

It's rather easy to make social justice arguments for 'x', unfortunately it's also easy for other people make social justice arguments against the same 'x' You might remember @davem's (I think it was Dave's at least) elaborate decking plan for this corridor. It was pretty awesome. Not sure if I...

Policy is way bigger than liability. I'm talking about authoritarian use of policy to exclude non-AV's. You seem to think I don't know what policy is or how policy-making works. You're wrong. I've never said that they can't evolve within 15 years. I don't think they will evolve to accomplish...

All the stories you share are about technology. My argument has always been about policy.

I still think we're all arguing past one another here, but go off.

Great winter shots guys. DZ, love the ice!

That’s not unfinished?

Anything that wipes a golf course off the face of the earth gets a (y) from me. Sorry not sorry.

That's a really ignorant knee-jerk complaint if that's what was said. There won't be a garage built in Arlington so all the traffic will still go to Alewife. Worst comes to worst Arlington has to impose resident parking permits.

DeLeo on his way out? If so he'd be breaking the tradition of MA House Speakers leaving office due to federal indictment. If he does decide to head to academia (and what I'm sure is a big-ass windfall from NU), there will be a leadership fight. His anointed successor Ron Mariano is even more...

This should absolutely be a reform that the state makes for all zoning. Also expanding the as-of-right options for building small-scale residential. At the very least two-families should be allowed basically everywhere.

To be fair to Arlington, I'm not sure that's a modern sentiment. Maybe there's more info out there than I'm aware of, but I don't know of any data from the last thirty years that qualifies Arlington town govt or residents feelings on an RLX. They opposed it in the 1980s when Lexington (tacitly...

Definitely. What we have in the 21st century is that many important governmental, corporate, and institutional systems have been captured by the analytic group-think of logicians. There's an overreliance on "spreadsheet solutions" that dehumanize social problems. It's at least partially driven...

Congressional leaders seem to have struck a bargain on a COVID relief bill. It's relatively meager compared to our peer nation's relief responses. Nothing that would actually allow and incentivise governors to go back towards shut-downs that would stifle spread until the vaccine can be rolled...

Given the tangents elsewhere, what are people's perspectives on how Baker has handled the pandemic since the end of Summer? Walsh, Curtatone, and some other municipal leaders have struck off on their own again somewhat due to a sense in some places that Baker has been too hesitant. I think that...

Thanks for the Medford update! It's helpful to get the inside perspective given how hyperlocal we do things around here.