Notices by moggie (everydaymoggie@sfba.social)

Muni also has a free fare program if you're over 65 and have less than 100% of the area median income, which is shockingly high, over $100k for one person. It's buried in the fares section of their website, but once you find it, the application process is very easy.

@sindarina @skinnylatte

"I've heard people suggest that products that last slow economies. That isn't true. They change who gets to make money."

This right here is probably the real driver of disposability. If things last, rich parasites don't make excess profits from people continually replacing manufactured goods. Instead ordinary people keep the income from repairs in their circles. Can't allow working class people to thrive, or they won't be willing to be pawns any longer.

@futurebird

Something tells me they meant "literacy," not "literary." Who was it that needed an English test?

@georgetakei

You're not that likely to see it unless you are a target of it (or you help run an instance), because most of it occurs in DMs or as replies to specific people. It's commonplace for different groups of people to have extremely different experiences on Mastodon, and for those experiences to be largely invisible to others, just because of the way the core systems work.

So absolutely believe people who tell you they've been subjected to racist harassment, even if you have never seen that.

@wojslaw @rysiek

Yeah, poach is really the wrong word here. They've been kicked to the curb, so it's more like offering refuge.

@capnthommo @eunews

That story is wild. I knew clothes ended up as waste but the sheer scale of this is staggering.

@PC_Fluesterer

I have to disagree, I like long threads, and am very unlikely to go offsite to read someone's blog.

@dansinker

She looks like she's plotting the demise of some foolish mortal.

@skinnylatte

Belated, I know, but thank you for sharing that with me! I tried it in some muffins and it works much better than the previous mixture I had used, which for some reason used salt where this one uses starch.

I didn't have any arrowroot so I substituted cassava and that worked.

@mekkaokereke

Any type of surveillance tech should be fought, of course. I think our odds of prevailing are near zero, but still.

@scott

They could be. But license plate readers make identification a whole lot easier and more accurate. So on the whole, I think you're harder to surveil outside of a car, so long as you don't allow your phone to broadcast your location.

@scott

If we needed yet another reason to not drive a car in the city, there it is. Makes you harder to surveil.

@scott

You mean like this one?
https://www.404media.co/about/

@socprof @GottaLaff @Wileymiller

Q6. Have you seen this dual-chain redundant drive system and would you want one?
(If not, have you seen any ultra-reliable designs or other unconventional drivetrains)

The unconventional drivetrains thing reminded me of these videos. Some of these drivetrains are downright bizarre. Strings? Who would ever think of doing that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BHiZnB53pY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJYVkVfrl2Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Zyp6jX0HM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doKhd8kE0Ow

#BikeNite
@ascentale @moira

How do you find groups like this where you live? I wish I had a place like this to pass on items I'm no longer using.

@SRLevine

Oddly enough, I can't make pancakes from scratch anymore, because it appears you can no longer buy baking powder that doesn't contain corn, and I'm allergic to corn.

I can use the gluten-free pancake mix from King Arthur, so at least I can make some pancakes.

@michael_w_busch @mekkaokereke

Having seen what a huge proportion of new users create an account and then just never seem to do anything with it, I really believe Mastodon needs something like starter packs, and maybe even a little automated thing that offers a few upon signup (this part could be managed by instance admins, rather than universally). Follow lists are ok but the mechanism for importing them needs to be simplified a lot, like "click this button" simple.

The one big thing I would change is that people should have to grant permission before being included in someone's recommendations.

@mekkaokereke

"Free fares increase ridership, and more riders mean more spending. More riders plus streetcar outcomes noted earlier are associated with $2.3 million more tax revenue in 2023 than in 2019, adjusted for inflation. This excludes all other revenues, which are substantial.

The bottom line is that the $800,000 in waived streetcar fares is associated with $2.3 million in new tax revenue since 2019 for a net gain of $1.5 million.

Put differently, each $1.00 of waived fares is associated with $2.88 in new tax revenue."
https://tucson.com/opinion/column/local-opinion-streetcar-benefits-offset-free-fares/article_267a4da6-a5d9-11ef-8a86-0361b8d030a2.html

I have read that if the car is in deep water, it's more less impossible to open a door due to the immense pressure, and that breaking a window is your only viable option.

@bryanredeagle @mekkaokereke

I really don't understand why they didn't start doing this years ago.

@Andres4NY