it’s a cutesy play on “park and ride”, a common transit feature in the US where you take the prime real estate surrounding a major transit station and turn it into giant parking lots so that people can drive their cars to it.

The difference with “kiss and ride” is that there’s no parking, it’s just a drop-off area, as others have said. I guess the idea is to encourage “car-light” households where one person drives to work (or knowing the US, the idea might’ve originally been that the stay-at-home housewife did this) and their spouse takes transit, but US transit sucks so they have to drive to get to the transit

you can physically remove the valve core as well, or slash the tire, neither of which are going to be as easily solved, but yeah.

I’d love to see some practical examples of tactical urbanism that aren’t just cutesy BS that does nothing (not accusing it of all being like that I just wish it were posted about more!)

This is true. My catalytic converter was stolen a few years back and I drove on it 2-3 times (when I realized it was gone and when I took it to a friend’s garage to repair. In the intervening 6 months I just bused/biked.)

You are more likely to be harassed by the police for your loud exhaust (they don’t give a shit about the cat in most of the US) but in most places they don’t seem to care even about the noise unless its an excuse to

I still harbor some affection for the idea of a mass campaign of deflating SUV tires but honestly its lib shit and wouldn’t work

In the aggregate, rather than the acute example of a hypothetical person doing it as a visible political protest, I think it does push people away from cars (or towards white flight 2.0 depending on the persons background) but you’re right, its ofc not actually a productive strategy, just a byproduct of poverty that impacts those who least deserve it the hardest.

realistically yeah petty shit is only going to hurt the people that least deserve it as usual. That was the unserious part for sure. Not that I would do any vandalism but if I were going to it wouldn’t be to random shitboxes, and I haven’t exactly appreciated when it’s happened to me.

I’m definitely happy to see parking treated as the scarce resource that it is though, we have pretty good and rapidly expanding transit service here and I’m sick of people acting like we live in nebraska and they have zero options. If the post said “I work in 2nd/3rd ring suburb and can’t take transit” it’d be different, but this was so egregious

optimistic but I kinda doubt it. I’ll have to ask around in person, there’s plenty of people doing work on related subjects but I don’t think either org is actually directly active which is a shame

wish my city had one, there seems to be a statewide one with no discernable online presence besides a listed address, and a related anarchist org that hasn’t updated their site in 2-3 years

Here’s one in winter!

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on a desktop it might not be significant but I tried using flatpak apps on a device with very limited root emmc storage (16 GB) and ran out of space really fast. Its really common to see a couple multi-hundred-megabyte library downloads for each new app IME.

I like them for some stuff but there are glaring issues that I don’t like. I’ve posted about it before, poor integration of apps/not getting the right permissions is a big problem, the people packaging them don’t often do as good of a job as someone like a distro maintainer.

But admittedly my experience using it probably isn’t representative (pop os through their shop and arch on a mobile device). Neither were amazing, but not having to compile shit myself or install with an untrusted shell script was nice for some apps. Without some significant improvements it’s not a good replacement for a distro’s package repos but it might be a good way to broaden the available applications without having to maintain 10x more packages.