I see this subject pop up all of the time. I think it’s important to note that this is an entirely different discussion if the traffic conditions are free flowing or congested.

TL;DR The passing lane law does not take into account congestion..letting someone by in heavy traffic vs free flowing are two very different things.

Free flowing? Sure I’m doing 80-90 most likely but if you’re feeling like a mad man, you can scoot on by.

Congested? I’m not moving because I am not the problem and generally consistently passing if there isn’t a huge backup. I would contend that in congested conditions that the left lane should be considered a travel lane. Simply that space/lane is needed to distribute flow. In this conditions I would argue that people who expect to be passing and aggressively change lanes to do so make traffic worse. Why? Because tight merges between lanes causes other people to brake, which causes other people to brake, which ultimately can have the effect of slowing down many people behind this event just so one person can get somewhere 1-2 min faster.

In these congested conditions some people need to accept that things are just going to take a little longer and there is no magic way to pass your way by the traffic.

Yeah I mean technically our housing market is ruined by out of state , but it isn’t because of people moving from Texas or Tennessee or the rest of the country. Most of the price increases in RI are a downstream effect of the housing costs in Mass and people moving to RI.

This is really more of a supply problem than a demand problem. If Mass wasn’t full of wealthy nimby suburbs located next to major cities/employment centers we wouldn’t have nearly as much of a problem in RI.

So I agree with you, but let’s be specific in pointing out that this is mostly Massachusetts’ fault. The same scale/change in price has been seen in Taunton, Fall River, Worcester, haverhill, and other old industrial cities because there is a massive mismatch between where employment is and where affordable housing is.

Some people really hate Pizza Strips and these people are wrong. Like I understand not liking something but some people get offended by them like you insulted their mother.

A lot of this hate I think come from what people expect from the word Pizza. All the haters say “it’s not pizza”. Now most of these people do like “normal” pizza. So at some level they like bread, and they like sauce, they just don’t like the combination of just the two. There are some who would think differently of pizza strips if they were called “sauced Foccacia” . Even more people would like the taste of the sauce and the crust separately but the combo does weird things to their brain . It’s especially strange considering that the sauce on a quality pizza strip is typically vastly more flavorful than that of a “Normal” pizza.

People say pizza strips aren’t pizza and I would say that this is both biased and historically inaccurate…Pizza strips have more pizza heritage than a lot of what we Americans pass off as Pizza. Pizza comes from the Naples region. Southern Italy is/was poor and does not have much of a dairy industry. Pizza strips are a practical implementation of pizza given available resources. Not having cheese is a feature (not a bug) so it has a better texture when cold and is significantly cheaper.

I wouldn’t say providence is super dog friendly. Parts of the city are very walkable. Many breweries allow dogs on the patio. There are a few dog parks. It’s not like a Burlington, VT where dogs are allowed in many cute shops. The amount of time of the year where it’s nice enough to enjoy a place with a patio is also going to be shorter than Denver

Idk if there’s a conclusive way to say how the dating scene is. It’s New England, by and large there are many more established friend groups and more of a socially closed off vibe than Some place like California or Colorado with a lot of transplants. I’m from RI and it was much easier to make friends and meet people when I lived in SoCal than in providence.

One very nice thing about providence is you can drive 10-20 min outside the city and be in a nice woodsy area to walk the dog. There’s certainly pockets of outdoorsy people , but it’s not a majority or significant chunk like I imagine Denver is.

Personally I wouldn’t determine where to live based on the dating scene, thats so random and variable. If you like the place and you’re happy in your life good things will come IMO.

I haven’t played in years and would be potentially be interested. Let me know what you find.

It ain’t always as simple as just standing up for yourself my guy. It isn’t always survival of the fittest either. I’ve been in a situation as a muscular 6ft tall dude of having an older guy try to push me around. Mainly he acted like a dick because he was intimidated by me and I pushed him and challenged him when he was using faulty engineering logic. I set him straight several times, he didn’t change his behavior. Then I escalated to my boss, he didn’t do shit. After that I successfully ignored him for over a year.

All it took was one incident where I stood up for myself and tried to set him straight for things to escalate. Instead of being reasonable the dude threatened to fight me, a fight which he very clearly would have lost. I backed away from it and reported it. The company’s HR didn’t do anything despite him having a known bad attitude. If management won’t do shit, and a douchbag never thinks their in the wrong, what recourse do you have?

For some bullies the only way to set them straight is to put them in their place, sometimes physically. If The workplace isn’t middle school though and unfortunately it’s not appropriate to teach douchebags a lesson by force. As much as I would have wanted to that, that would have been assault and would have been completely inappropriate.

So kindly go fuck off with your mightier than thou tough guy attitude, it isn’t always that simple. Clearly you haven’t had the mis fortunate of working with a real asshole.