The scary thing is that it’s something that can happen to anyone. It doesn’t really mean you’re a bad driver. It’s a slip of the foot and when the car doesn’t do what you expected a switch flips in your brain, you panic, reason goes out the window, and you double down on what your panicked mind thinks will help. There’s no chance you will pick up your foot in that moment.

You’re right, a panic response like this has killed people, but vilifying the driver doesn’t help. It’s also hard to see how a law would. This kind of thing is probably already covered by reckless driving or something similar, and if you actually wanted to create a law that targeted hitting the wrong pedal how would you prove it?

Sounds like a classic panic stomp on the gas thinking it’s the brake.

Artisans asylum is now in Allston.

Artisans Asylum is no longer in Somerville, but it still has the community you’re looking for.

Drinking tea.

Sick of this meme. It’s art. Not everyone is gonna love it.

So what’s the basis for calling this police brutality?

Is anything actually known about the circumstances surrounding this shooting?

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 explicitly exempts ISPs and other online platforms like social media from being treated as publishers of the content shared on their platforms.

https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

This is literally the only reason such services are not liable for what they host. They would otherwise be treated the same as newspapers, magazines, or book publishers.

Sharing things other people wrote is just another way to say publication. The real reason is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which explicitly exempts them from being treated as a publisher: https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider”

Seems pretty close to the jetty at the mouth of the Merrimack. Is this in the reservation?

Care to expand on that? Green roofs have a lot of benefits when properly planted. Insulation, reduction of the heat island effect, absorption of rain water to slow runoff into public sewers, and just sheer beauty.

The key is “properly planted”. It looks like they wanted turf grass to support foot traffic so they could use it as habitable space. Turf grass needs a ton of water and maintenance to support that kind of use so it isn’t really an ideal choice for a green roof. Drought tolerant prairie plants and plants adapted to thin, lean soils are what you want. It’s been a while since I read up on this so I can’t speak the details, but turf grass ain’t the thing.

Found the Dough Boys fan.